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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:53:35 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [First_Nations_Skyvillage] "Completely Acceptable"
a forthcoming book by Chief Ahenakew?
POC
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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:55:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Franklin Wayne Poley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: "Michael (Mickey) Posluns, Ph.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [INGRAM] Re: Canadian Influences on Ahenakew's Attitude?
Hi Michael:
"Completely Unacceptable" said Prime Minister Jean Chretien (CTV News) I
think the best thing Chief Ahenakew could do to make amends is to turn all
of his statements into those which are "Completely Acceptable". Don't you
agree?
FWP
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Michael (Mickey) Posluns, Ph.D. wrote:
> Dear Ms. Wente,
>
> Your rant of December 17, �Hate-speak: an Aborignal�s rant� left
> me wondering whether, perhaps you had been saving up ammunition
> waiting for the day when a First Nations leader would embarrass
> himself and his people as Dave Ahenakew so plainly did. I, too,
> was greatly disappointed that the present leadership of the FSIN
> appeared not to understand what was so deeply offensive about
> Ahenakew�s remarks.
>
> However, when you try to tar Matthew Coon Come with the brush of
> anti-Semitism that covered the Durban conference, I wonder where
> your own sense of journalistic balance has been mislaid. No
> report coming out of Durban, to my knowledge, identified Mr. Coon
> Come with the anti-Jewish venom that pervaded much of that
> conference.
>
> You also misrepresented Ahenakew�s position on equal rights for
> Indian women. Ahenakew was the national chief during the Penner
> Committee studies on �Indian Women and the Indian Act� in 1982
> and Indian Self-Government in 1983. Roberta Jamieson was the ex
> officio Member representing the AFN on that committee. Both
> those reports follow a position staked out by Ahenakew�s
> predecessor, Noel Starblanket who called for the reinstatement of
> Indian women together with a proportionate increase in the
> reserve land base and funding for social programs.
>
> You repeat the allegation of Ahenakew getting the AFN into
> financial trouble but you fail to mention that when he and other
> First Nations leaders faced criminal charges over their financial
> administration, the judge, after hearing Crown testimony for six
> months threw the case out without ever needing to hear defence
> testimony. Neither the absence of evidence to support the
> charges against Ahenakew nor the suit for malicious prosecution
> brought by those leaders is mentioned anywhere in your screed.
>
> You allege that there was only "one person whose instincts
> correctly rose to the occasion." Yet you go on to quote Ms.
> Opekokew when she says that Ahenakew's outrage is "embarrassing
> to all First Nations people." There is nothing in Ms. Opekokew's
> open letter to support your suggestion that she is the only
> aboriginal leader who was outraged at David Ahenakew's foul
> talk. If you really wish to identify with Delia Opekokew's
> indictment of David Ahenakew you will also need to identify with
> her commitment to the rights of First Nations to build their own
> institutions within Confederation.
>
> David Ahenakew spent most of his formative years totally in the
> hands of Canadian institutions: church, school and army.
> Perhaps you would consider doing a column on the role played by
> Canadian institutions in shaping David Ahenakew's attitudes.
>
>
> Michael Posluns.
>
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