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Taiwan Music and Taiwan Scenery. I've already gotten a few messages asking for the name of the artist/CD. And I don't know. And if I did know it'd be in Chinese and I wouldn't be able to type it. I put   more...the song onto my computer from a CD my girlfriend owns....and the artist lives in the same small town as her friend and that's where she bought the CD.  less

National Aboriginal Day.....Respect ..... God Bless Everyone

Inside a tipi at the Harvest Festival

Native people from the Ottawa area gave a dance and craft demonstration at the Harvest Festival. Saturday September 20, 2007

Aboriginal Perspectives Project

Aboriginal Dancers at a Pow wow in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada

This is the video I took of an aboriginal dance in Taiwan Hualien, they are the Amis. Interesting and exciting dress and costume, some carring "Qing Ren Dai". You can find out the more...aboriginal   more...culture in this video, even you never been to Taiwan before, you still can have a look in my <a href="http://www.jadeewadeewooaussie.blogspot.com/"
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... at the Harvest Festival, Wakefield, Quebec, Sept. 29, 2007

Jeremey Donovan and Ryka Ali improvise a 7 min long didgeridoo duet in the tiki hut at L.A.Outback. Visit the website for more about these aboriginal fellas, or to inquire about owning the didgeridoos   more...they are playing  less

I wrote this song in Australia at a time when there was a lot of discussion about Aboriginal land rights. Although written with the Australian situation in mind, the theme of displaced native inhabitants   more...is a universal one.

Lyrics:

The dark-skinned man in the forest
Is singing the song of his freedom
A song of the land that is lent him
To hunt and to live and to breathe in.

He sings of the good and the hard times
And the ancient unchanging past
And the land that will nourish his people,
The land that will claim him at last.

The white man rides up to the black man:
"If you've got a camp here, then move it.
This land belongs to me now
And I've got the papers to prove it."

The dark-skinned man in the forest
Of houses and shops without cease
Sings of the loss of his freedom,
And is jailed for disturbing the peace.  less

Beautiful "Art" by Henry Peter and Music by Walela ~ I have no Indian name

Aboriginal Perspectives Project

Joey Stylez - Kool Runnin at Aboriginal Day 2009 in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada

The Legendary Buffy Sainte Marie at Aboriginal Day 2009 in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada

yogis didge

eucalyptus didgeridoo by Yogi aka Tjamme or "Magic White Fella"

Thousands of Delegates Tackle Climate Change Issues at UN Forum on Indigenous Issues
Representatives of the world's 370 million indigenous people are gathered at the United Nations this week to demand   more...that their voices be included in future talks on climate change. Over 3,000 delegates are attending the seventh session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. We speak with Casey Camp-Horinek, a member of the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma. [includes rush transcript]  less

Mohawk Singer/Actress Cheri Maracle Live at Aboriginal Day 2008 in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada

Formal Apology to Residential School
Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a historic apology for more than a century of abuse and cultural loss involving Indian residential schools.
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The Prime Minister acknowledged the government's role in removing and isolating children from their homes, families and culture.

Speaking in the House of Commons Harper acknowledged, "The treatment of children in Indian residential schools is a sad chapter of our history," "Some sought, as was infamously said, to kill the Indian in the child."

Harper continued, "This policy was wrong, caused great harm and has no place in our country,"

Residential school survivors from across Canada -- many wearing traditional clothing -- filled the House of Commons, which postponed other business for the day, to hear the Government of Canada's official apology, which began at 3 o'clock.

Close to 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and M?tis children were removed from their communities throughout most of the last century and forced to attend residential schools.  less

Another Australian song about transportation, originally known as "The Convict's Lament on the Death of Captain Logan."

For those who don't know Australia's history, it began as a penal settlement   more...for English (and Irish) criminals whose crimes were so petty that they managed to avoid being hanged. For example they may have stolen a loaf of bread to feed their family.

Moreton Bay, in Queensland, was one of the worst penal colonies. Between 1825 and 1830 it was run by Captain Patrick Logan, notorious for his cruel and sadistic treatment of the prisoners. Records kept by one of the prison clerks show that, from February to October in 1828, Logan ordered 200 floggings with over 11,000 lashes. He was killed by Aborigines in 1830 while he was surveying the Upper Brisbane river. When his body was brought back to Moreton Bay, it is reported that the convicts "manifested insane joy at the news of his murder, and sang and hoorayed all night, in defiance of the warders."

The origins of the song are unclear but it may well date back to the time of Logan's death. Bushranger Ned Kelly quoted some of the lines in his "Jerilderie Letter" of 1879. A bushranger, Jack Bradshaw, who wrote a "True History of the Australian Bushrangers" (1911) and "Twenty Years of Prison Life in the Gaols of NSW" attributed the song to Francis MacNamara (Frank the Poet), who spent years in various Australian penal settlements.

Like many Australian songs, this one uses a traditional Irish tune. It is a variation on "Boolavogue", a ballad written by Patrick Joseph McCall (1898) for the centenary of the Irish Rebellion of 1798.

This song is on my first CD: "AXIS OF EVIL and other True Stories."  less

Tracks to and from the Bush Plum, with the small circle in the centre representing the tree. Mosquito Bore Utopia, N E of Alice Springs.
Subjects Akaye (Bush Plum), Atwelkarr (Button Quail / Bush Hen),   more...Goanna and Awely (woman's ceremony)  less

Today Australia said sorry for 100 years of abuse to the aboriginal people.

The Grand Entry of Dancers (usually led by Veterans or honoring veterans of wars) and demonstration of two categories of Powwow dancers - Men's Traditional (sometimes called Men's Northern Traditional)   more...and Women's Fancy Shawl Dance. There are usually divisions as well for boys and girls, as well. Sometimes even for tots, as well. Children take their dancing VERY seriously and are very proud to have participated in comeptitions at Powwows. Each category has a specific costume style and you can easily figure out who dances what type from their costume.  less