Queenmarsi - Life Has Killed The Dream

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TODAY, THIS EXACT DAY: NOVEMBER 2, 2018

HECTOR RIVERA RETURNS TO THE LAND OF THE LIVING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 97 YEARS.

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Welcome back Hector

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i’ve just come across one of my favourite videos on the internet

Meet the N.S. teenager who sang Blackbird by The Beatles entirely in Mi'kmaq

"Our language is such a beautiful thing and not a lot of people hear it," says Emma Stevens of Eskasoni in Cape Breton.

“The teenage girl who recorded a cover of Blackbird by The Beatles entirely in Mi'kmaq says she hopes to one day release a full album in her people’s language.

“Those lyrics kind of make me feel more hopeful, more inspired to, like, learn my language more than I already know, and to show non-Mi'kmaq people the beauty of the song in our language,” Emma Stevens, 16, of Eskasoni, N.S., told As It Happens host Carol Off.

The cover was produced by the school’s music teacher Carter Chiasson using translated lyrics from Mi'kmaq language teacher Katani Julian and her father. 

There was plenty there to sink her teeth into, she said, noting that lyrics like “Take these broken wings and learn to fly” really resonate with Indigenous experiences in Canada.

“The song is just like the type of gentle advice that we get from our elders when we feel defeated and when we feel down,” she said.

While researching the song, she learned that it has frequently been associated with the U.S. civil rights movement.

“We have something in common with the civil rights movement because, to some extent, our people have been oppressed in this country, you know, by the Indian Act and, you know, by the federal government and, you know, the whole residential school thing and attempts at assimilation,” Julian said.”

Read the full piece and listen to the interview here

name one native american intellectual off the top of your head, name one native american actor or actress off the top of your head, name one native american senator, one native american news anchor, or an author or a tv personality or a singer or a poet or a comedian, name a single native american teacher you’ve had, can you? probably not 

ok so now think of one native american cartoon character you know of or a sports team relating to native americans whether it’s their actual name or their team logo, or a town you live in or near with a “native” name bet a lot of these things came to you right away i bet you didn’t even have to think 

needing native representation in media, education and government are not decoy issues, the commercialization and appropriation of native cultures are not decoy issues, the lack of native representation is institutional oppression at work