Aug 3-9, 2020By Bruce McIvor This week's edition includes Treaty rights, self-government, injunctions, enfranchisement, systemic racism, colonial monuments and more. IN THE NEWS
Land defence, injunctions and Indigenous sovereignty were front and centre in Six Nations territory In Treaty 8 territory, a longstanding legal battle over the Site C dam project came to an end Treaty negotiations are ongoing in Secwepemc territory Environmental monitoring remains a hot topic in Alberta In New Brunswick, systemic racism returned to the spotlight Self-government and custom land codes were back in NWT news FROM THE COURTS
The BC Court of Appeal weighed in on the relationship between modern treaty rights and asserted Aboriginal rights The Superior Court of Quebec weighed in on Indian Act enfranchisement QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“We’ve got these serious problems, so why concentrate on these monuments? It’s important because monuments form the culture and the habits of thought, not only of what history is, but also what current circumstances are. What has value and what does not. What is acknowledged and what is not." Dr. Linc Kesler OFF THE BOOKSHELF
“... recently people had come to understand that forgetting was more difficult and complicated than remembering.” Ismail Kadare, The Traitor’s Niche (1978) | 
