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Christi Belcourt Profile picture
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Dec 7, 2017 • 24 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
These three young men all cousins aged out of child welfare after 8-9 years. Tonight we made banners for tomorrow’s #BringOurChildrenHome day of action in Winnipeg, Vancouver, Kelowna, a William’s Lake and Toronto.
These is Tamara’s son Lee and his two cousins. All are lovely intelligent young men. They spoke to me at length about their experiences as wards of CFS and the trauma it caused. They talked about being moved around from hotels to foster homes. Each on average 9 times.

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Aug 5, 2018
I am seriously hoping that the National Indigenous orgs, and specifically the MNC is not the granting body for all Metis looking to access Indigenous Languages funding. That would be an absolute disaster for so many reasons. @HeritageCanada I hope you are paying attention.
To that end, Heritage Canada should not be the one heading up the language legislation either. An independent body of language experts who have been working for decades on language revitalization and retention should be at the helm of this.
So far what I have seen is the national Indigenous orgs and Heritage Canada doing this and language experts I know have not been contacted or been asked to lead. The Canadian Government always takes the lazy route. They keep going to orgs as "one-stop-Indigenous-shopping."
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Aug 4, 2018
Traditional tattoos are deeply personal. @Alethea_Aggiuq made a film about the revitalization of Inuit tattoo and expressss her concern that non natives will misuse Inuit designs...and then @HeritageCanada uses a picture of the artist’s tattoos without her permission. Ffs.
Just another reason in a long list of why @CanadianHeritage is the wrong department for handling Indigenous languages. We need our own granting department similar to the Canada Council for the Arts model, which despite limitations as a gov department, serves Arts & artists well.
So let’s explore the idea of a Canada Council for the Arts model which is used to promote & distribute grants to artists and arts organizations, being used for Indigenous Languages.

What if we had a Canada Council for Indigenous Languages with budget equal or more than French?
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Jul 28, 2018
Climate change isn’t hard to understand. I think most people don’t prioritize it because there is a certain amount of powerlessness we feel as individuals that it’s not within our control. ie. that individual consumer choices we make won’t change the trajectory.
I agree. The power of individual choice is made moot by a world monetary system and corporations who are shadow governments. The transition to green tech could happen sooner, swifter, and at a fever pitch if governments, like Canada, didn’t kowtow to the will of big oil and gas.
Consumers want affordable options. Why aren’t green tech, hemp products or sustainable products subsidized to the rate that oil and gas are, or more so than oil and gas?
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Jul 25, 2018
At a motel in Minnesota. East Indian couple owners with their little baby. The man checks me in. The mom is speaking her language to her little baby as they watch a cartoon in her language. I feel happy for her but sad because in our own lands Indigenous people don’t have this.
I am in Anishinaabeg territory. Like almost everywhere on Turtle Island the kids aren’t spoken to in the language. The adults speak English to the kids. Many communities have only a few speakers left. Two generations is all it takes to lose a language.
The good news is that two generations is all it take for a language to be restored.
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Jul 22, 2018
My prediction on this “historic” agreement btwn the MNS and Canada: the issue of actual land will be tabled but money will be made available right away & increased for education, training and conferences for health...

As it has been with every new government since the 80’s...
And let’s correct that headline shall we?

“The non profit registered corporation known as the Metis Nation of Saskatchewan has signed an MOU framework agreement to talk further with the Trudeau government putting any progress that may be made at jeopardy in the next election”
The Metis/Michif/Halfbreeds were 100% screwed out of all our land, excluded by British and Canadian Treaty Commissions (Britain did this not First Nations) and systematically excluded from land claims. Except in AB, we have NO LAND.
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Jul 7, 2018
For anyone who has been following @TamaraMStory, Tamara asked me to let everyone know that her youngest boy has FINALLY come home after 10 years. CFS has not yet relinquished “crown ward” status on either of her two middle children. So the fight with the lawyers continues.
If anyone wants to see an an example of criminal abuse of power by the child welfare system towards Indigenous families, go read @TamaraMStory about her 10 year fight to get her kids back.

Tens of thousands of dollars in debt in lawyers fees and untold anguish. Unbelievable.
She will update her twitter later. Right now she wants to just focus on her children and their needs. She is letting her lawyers handle the legal stuff to get the crown ward status removed. Her legal fees are still mounting. I will post the go fund me link on this next tweet.
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