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#someone find me that political cartoon of the edmontonian at stampede with cans strapped to his shoes and a fake hat munching on a kubasa

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Ds9 doodles for your soul

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#2

Dunno who this NoJay person on SpaceTube is or how they got this footage but we aren't complaining

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I posted 236 times in 2022

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September 30th marks Orange Shirt Day and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. At the time of writing, the province of Alberta recognizes the event but has not declared it as a statutory holiday. This is a time of reflection, of mourning, and of education about the ongoing genocide of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples, culturally, physically, spiritually, past and present, in Canada.

This blog is based in Treaty 6 Territory and also references areas covered by Treaty 7 and Treaty 8, all of which represent an area which has been continuously inhabited by humans stretching back ten thousand years, some of the oldest evidence of human occupation in North America.

I am a settler here in amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (”Beaver Hills House”, “Edmonton”), which means my perspective and portrayal of this place carries that bias. However, I believe it is also important to use whatever little platform I have to acknowledge and amplify indigenous voices where I can, and I want to highlight a few resources that have helped me in my own personal journey with reconciliation (or conciliation, as I believe David Garneau wrote).

Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action

Indigenous Canada A Free Online Course by the University of Alberta

Native Land An interactive map showing traditional territories and languages of indigenous peoples

Miskamowin A one episode (so far!) series documenting significant sites and sacred spaces in the history of Treaty Six Territory.

For donations, I suggest Bent Arrow in the Edmonton area (and welcome suggestions for other organizations around the province). Also check out Indigenous Tourism Alberta to experience and support some awesome communities.

More about the art follows.

There is a statue of Chief Crowfoot of the Blackfoot in the Alberta legislature.

In the legislative building of a province where most people know his name only as a road in Calgary, Crowfoot occupies a small niche to symbolize... what, exactly? A monument to “peace” and “good” conduct that signed Treaty 7 and continued to honour it while other leaders were executed for resisting colonization? Is his presence in the Alberta legislature supposed to legitimize its presence?

This ironic tension is the subject of this art.

There was a controversy recently about a textbook that suggested indigenous people “agreed” to move off their lands and make way for settlers. This gross oversimplification is still ever present. It, and the Alberta government’s new “curriculum” that erases the colonization and genocide our institutions are built upon, are symptoms of a much older, much deeper problem that continues to harm people to this day.

Today is not about guilt and self flagellating. Today is about learning and understanding. I want to encourage everyone, but particularly those of us who live, work, study, play, and grow on the land represented by Treaties 6, 7 and 8 (which includes Alberta and Saskatchewan as well as B.C. and the Northwest Territories), to understand why those treaties were signed and what those responsibilities mean for us today. This is only a small part of thousands of years of indigenous history, but a significant one, and it is not all “in the past”.

27 notes - Posted September 30, 2022

#4

trying to draw again because i’ve been so wiped

27 notes - Posted June 26, 2022

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#2

Draws my enemy bridge

I was supposed to be practicing flattening my brush but this might have been too small a workspace, oh well.

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How do Albertans see the rest of Canada?

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that’s right alberta its one of the premiere events of the summer!! so come on down to whyte ave, did i mention the japanese souffle pancake franchise fuwa fuwa just opened?