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Bucking Conservatism: Part I: Indigenous Activism and Resistance

Bucking Conservatism
Part I: Indigenous Activism and Resistance
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“Part I: Indigenous Activism and Resistance” in “Bucking Conservatism”

PART I
Indigenous Activism and Resistance

A black-and-white photograph shows a group of Calgary Urban Treaty Indian Alliance members seated in a circle.

Calgary Urban Treaty Indian Alliance members occupy the Calgary office of the Department of Indian Affairs, 20 August 1974, demanding assistance for a self-help agency in the city. Courtesy of Calgary Herald Photograph Collection, Glenbow Archives, Calgary, NA-2864-25985-15

The members of the alliance sit around a drum and beat on it with sticks. The other members of the group including several women stand in a semicircle behind them holding up flags.

“His station did not run any FOREIGN language broadcasts”

A group of chiefs, meeting in the city, was addressed by a provincial government official. […]

[One chief] explained the difficulty encountered in attempting to communicate with the white man.

He said he and another Indian approached the operators of a radio station in the province with the view of having a 15-minute radio program in CREE broadcast every week.

The radio station official, he said, was very kind but explained that his station did not run any FOREIGN language broadcasts.

Later they went back, explained the proposition to a HIGHER official of the station. Now the Cree program is on the air.

“Frank Hutton’s Notebook,” Edmonton Journal, 12 January 1967, p. 3

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