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News and Reflections: "Reis Education Canoe: Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine: The first handmade canoe built by members of the Passamaquoddy in over a century." -- November 16, 2022

11/16/2022

 
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Link to Maine Office of Tourism (Sponsor). (2022, July 7). "Reis Education Canoe: Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine: The first handmade canoe built by members of the Passamaquoddy in over a century." Posted on the Atlas Obscura Website. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/reis-education-canoe

News and Reflections: "Listen to the wind" -- November 12, 2022

11/12/2022

 
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News and Reflections: "The odd, complicated history of Canadian Thanksgiving"  -- November 6, 2022

11/6/2022

 
With Canadian Thanksgiving just passed, and American Thanksgiving just ahead, it seemed like a good time to share the article, ""The odd, complicated history of Canadian Thanksgiving: Canada and America may argue over who was the first to hold a harvest festival, but both countries' approaches to the national holiday are similar."
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Link to: Sismondo, C. (2017, October 5). Maclean's. Canadian Moments. "The odd, complicated history of Canadian Thanksgiving: Canada and America may argue over who was the first to hold a harvest festival, but both countries' approaches to the national holiday are similar."
https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-odd-complicated-history-of-canadian-thanksgiving/

News and Reflections: Ancient place-names close to home: "Meteghan" -- October 26, 2022

10/26/2022

 
"Meteghan"
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"Meteghan - La Vieille Maison. The Old House built soon after 1768. Now a museum." Contributed by Marcel Jean d'Entremont
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"Meteghan Wharf in Lobster Season." Contributed by Jocelyne Comeau
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"Meteghan Wharf." Contributed by Jocelyne Comeau
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"Meteghan Lobster Cars." Contributed by Jocelyne Comeau
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"Meteghan - Meteghan Wharf - Lobster boat on dry dock for repairs or maintenance." Contributed by Marcel Jean d'Entremont
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"Meteghan Centre is a way of life in Southwest Nova Scotia. No one can resist the lure of Frenchy's - a popular clothing store." Contributed by Marcel Jean d'Entremont
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"Meteghan - Meteghan Wharf - lobster boats tied up in the shelter of the wharf and beakwater." Contributed by Marcel Jean d'Entremont
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"Meteghan Centre Evangeline Trail - Highway 1 through Clare, Nova Scotia." Contributed by Marcel Jean d'Entremont
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"Meteghan Villa Acadien Home for Special Care." Contributed by Marcel Jean d'Entremont
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"Meteghan Shore Road - Meteghan Wharf with Acadian Shores Interpretive Tour panel featuring history, story, and pictures of the past." Contributed by Marcel Jean d'Entremont
Thank you, Marcel Jean d'Entremont, President, AAMS and AAMS Director Jocelyne Comeau, for so graciously contributing these photos!
"Muntoogun"
"Meteghan" is a variation of the Indian name, "Muntoogun," meaning "wooden fence, weir," or " a chunk (of pipestone) broken off.'' To read the story of Meteghan, and its original name "Muntoogun," visit the Nova Scotia Archives, https://archives.novascotia.ca/places/page/?ID=430

Brown, T. J. (1922). Place Names of the Province of Nova Scotia (visit) https://archive.org/details/placenamesofprov00browrich/mode/2upis is another go-to source for ancient place-names close to home.  From this source we find, on page 93, "METEGHAN (D.)— The Indian "Mitihikan" meaning "wood- en fence" — weir. The village was first settled by Prudent Robicheaud in the year 1785. The Geographic Board of Canada states that it is a descriptive Indian name meaning "blue stone."
Comment: Jocelyne Comeau, AAMS, grew up in Meteghan.  She always heard that the name "Meteghan" meant "blue rocks."

News and Reflections: Ruling: British Columbia (Child, Family and Community Service) v. W. and H. 2022 BCPC 216 -- October 21, 2022

10/21/2022

 
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Excerpt: British Columbia (Child, Family and Community Service) v. W. and H. 2022 BCPC 216
Link to: https://www.provincialcourt.bc.ca/judgments.php?link=https://www.canlii.org/en/bc/bcpc/doc/2022/2022bcpc216/2022bcpc216.html
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"This is a very important ruling that recognizes the existence of Eastern Métis culture, and the right of other Métis (non-MNC) to defend and pass on that culture, and crucially: outside of the Powley framework that governs community-type rights that must be localized, but a framework which does not apply to other Eastern Métis cultural rights that must be protected from discrimination and inequity.

"This is a major victory for all Métis in Eastern Canada and the government must now roll up its sleeves and ensure that parity is secured for Métis in the East.

"For the lateral violence demonstrated in this decision that threatens even Métis children in the East, the Canadian government is partly responsible; it is well aware of the smear campaigns in the media and universities, and has done nothing to protect the Métis of the East, for instance by providing the equivalencies that the Métis of Red River yet enjoy under the MMF banner.

"This ruling also demonstrates the serious damage and harm that is being done to Eastern Métis more generally, damage that can be attributed to the dissemination of denialist academic works that openly negate the cultural reality of the Eastern Métis.

"These are in fact full blown attacks on an Aboriginal minority (and therefore a recognizable ethnic group) now recognized by the courts (in addition to the Daniels decision) that operate under the guise of academia, and in this sense, overstep the bounds of academic freedom by engaging in public calls to denigrate the Eastern Métis. Perhaps a class action suit by the Eastern Métis should be considered against those responsible for this damage.

"Now that Canadian justice recognizes the right of the Eastern Métis to identify and defend their culture outside of the Powley interpretive framework that is limited to some, but not all, Aboriginal rights, it is time to demand apologies and reparations from some institutions and the media, which, under the guise of public policy issues, have been openly conducting smear campaigns against a segment of the Aboriginal population that the Commission of Inquiry on Aboriginal Peoples already in 1996 referred to as vulnerable minorities: the Eastern Métis."

-- Sebastien Malette, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. Associate Professor, Carlton University

"There are several good things in here. The upshot; this case is about a child born to parents in BC; the mother is Native and the father belongs to the Eastern Woodlands Metis in NS. The child has to go into the care of BC child and family services, and this case deals with whether or not the child is entitled to special services specifically because of their Acadian Metis ancestry.

"This judge recognizes the child's self-identification and ancestral connections (things we've been arguing for, ourselves), and, importantly, she also does away with the need for Powley conditions in attributing cultural rights for a child going into care (which is a big step forward for us).

"You'll notice in the court case that "the Band" (that is, the mother's First Nations community) argues that there have never been Metis in the Maritimes, but the judge just ignores this argument and focuses on the child's actual background and the father's cultural practices.

-- Jo-Anne Muise Lawless, Contract Instructor, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University
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