the future should always look to the past.

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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

http://suprememastertv.com/ - The Beauty of Formosan Aboriginal Cultures(in Bunum), Episode: 612, Air Date: 18 - May - 2008

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/"
Blog</a>

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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

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

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

"Man belongs to the earth,
Earth does not belong to man"

Native Indians (aboriginals) in photo's dancing in thier Regalia at Pow Wow's, and beautiful graphic art done by Denton Lund, Music by Keith Secola - Indian Car, and animation

Treaty performed by Yothu Yindi.

<b>Read on for a link to pt 1</b>
UNREPENTANT: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide
(Awarded Best Director of an International Documentary Film at the New York Independent Film and Video Festival,   more...November 2006)
<A HREF="http://www.livevideo.com/video/ConspiracyCentral/AAD4C645C71A4D06ACBD4043A654D29A/unrepentant-kevin-annett-and-canada-s-genocide-pt-1-6.aspx">Click Here for pt 1</A>

...a powerful tool to expose the genocidal racism that lies behind the liberal smiley-face facade of Canadian society ... a veritable kick in the groin.
Larry Gambone, review of UNREPENTANT, Any Time Now, February 2007

UNREPENTANT chronicles Canada's dirty secret - the planned extermination of aboriginal people in church-run Indian Residential Schools and a clergyman's struggle to document and make public these crimes. For the first time since its release in New York last November, this ground-breaking film will be screened before audiences in central Canada.

UNREPENTANT is an intensely human story based on the first-hand testimonies of aboriginal survivors of Canada's residential schools, where more than 50,000 children died between 1890 and 1984. Their passionate accounts are interwoven with former United Church minister Kevin Annett's own story of how he faced firing, defrocking, and the loss of his family, livelihood and reputation because of his efforts to help residential school survivors and bring out the full truth of the murder and torture that occurred in these schools.

UNREPENTANT is not only about a terrible past, but how the legacy of legal genocide in Canada continues to destroy aboriginal people and the land all Canadians occupy. Despite the continual efforts by Canadian church and state to impede this film through a campaign of harrassment, misinformation, blacklisting and death threats, Kevin Annett will be bringing UNREPENTANT for public showing in Ontario and Quebec between March 6 and 18, 2007.

Kevin will be speaking publicly and showing UNREPENTANT on these dates:

Sudbury: Tuesday, March 6 2007
Ottawa: Thursday and Friday, March 8 and 9 2007
Toronto-London area: Saturday and Sunday, March 10 and 11 2007
Peterborough: Monday and Tuesday, March 12 and 13 2007
Montreal: Thursday March 15 through to Sunday March 18 2007

For more information on these showings, contact Kevin Annett at:
hiddenfromhistory@yahoo.ca
ph: 250-753-3345 or 1-888-265-1007 (messages)
and see this website: www.hiddenfromhistory.org  less

<b>Read on for a link to pt 6</b>
UNREPENTANT: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide
(Awarded Best Director of an International Documentary Film at the New York Independent Film and Video Festival,   more...November 2006)
<A HREF="http://www.livevideo.com/video/ConspiracyCentral/CEB18084AC6B494D89069586461C96D0/unrepentant-kevin-annett-and-canada-s-genocide-pt-6-6.aspx">Click Here for pt 6</A>

...a powerful tool to expose the genocidal racism that lies behind the liberal smiley-face facade of Canadian society ... a veritable kick in the groin.
Larry Gambone, review of UNREPENTANT, Any Time Now, February 2007

UNREPENTANT chronicles Canada's dirty secret - the planned extermination of aboriginal people in church-run Indian Residential Schools and a clergyman's struggle to document and make public these crimes. For the first time since its release in New York last November, this ground-breaking film will be screened before audiences in central Canada.

UNREPENTANT is an intensely human story based on the first-hand testimonies of aboriginal survivors of Canada's residential schools, where more than 50,000 children died between 1890 and 1984. Their passionate accounts are interwoven with former United Church minister Kevin Annett's own story of how he faced firing, defrocking, and the loss of his family, livelihood and reputation because of his efforts to help residential school survivors and bring out the full truth of the murder and torture that occurred in these schools.

UNREPENTANT is not only about a terrible past, but how the legacy of legal genocide in Canada continues to destroy aboriginal people and the land all Canadians occupy. Despite the continual efforts by Canadian church and state to impede this film through a campaign of harrassment, misinformation, blacklisting and death threats, Kevin Annett will be bringing UNREPENTANT for public showing in Ontario and Quebec between March 6 and 18, 2007.

Kevin will be speaking publicly and showing UNREPENTANT on these dates:

Sudbury: Tuesday, March 6 2007
Ottawa: Thursday and Friday, March 8 and 9 2007
Toronto-London area: Saturday and Sunday, March 10 and 11 2007
Peterborough: Monday and Tuesday, March 12 and 13 2007
Montreal: Thursday March 15 through to Sunday March 18 2007

For more information on these showings, contact Kevin Annett at:
hiddenfromhistory@yahoo.ca
ph: 250-753-3345 or 1-888-265-1007 (messages)
and see this website: www.hiddenfromhistory.org  less