Do you have racists in your family who think DRIPA or landback means Indigenous people are stealing white people's homes?

Well good news the government has put together a handy easy to use website to explain why that's silly

dripafacts.ca

Rob Shaw: Eby takes his sixth position on DRIPA after weekend backpedalling B.C. premier has reversed course once again after the First Nations Leadership Council threatened legal action, protests

"The Eby government is now in its sixth position on DRIPA in 2026."

The BC NDP's commitment to shooting themselves in the foot on this completely unmatched.

www.biv.com/news/comment... #bcpoli

B.C. to suspend Indigenous rights law, First Nations sources say First Nations sources say British Columbia Premier David Eby’s government will introduce legislation to suspend parts of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act on Monday.

B.C. to suspend Indigenous rights law, First Nations sources say

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Instead of acknowledging that making women literally pay for threats & harm caused by men, & deliberately profiting off of the vile "r@pe academy" news is despicable, they decided to send an unsolicited DM to a woman, to sarcastically mansplain how business & capitalism work.

They blocked me. 2/2

A screenshot of an unsolicited direct message from a self-defense business, "Victoria Professional Self Defence," responding to a comment on their ad regarding paid self-defense courses for women. The semi-serious comment was about how they should have a class where they charge men to learn how not to be r@pists and use that money to find free self-defense classes for women. Instead of acknowledging the continued inequity of making women pay for the harms caused by men and how deliberately profiting off of the news of the "rapist academy" is ironically despicable, they decided to (I ironically) send an unsolicited direct message to a woman, mansplaining how businesses and capitalism works.

I kept getting targeted ads from a self-defense business for women to pay men to learn to defend themselves from men, right after the 62 million views thing came out.

I commented that they should charge men to learn how not to be r@pists & use that $ to fund free self-defense classes for women. 1/

A screenshot of a post by James L. Sutter, joking about leaving things for the pollinators. Text of post: James L. Sutter @jameslsutter *gestures to my unmown yard* "I'm choosing to let my yard grow wild, to help the pollinators." *waves at a stack of dirty dishes* "This, too, is for the pollinators." *trips over a pile of dirty laundry* "Pollinators."

This has "for the pollinators!" energy 😂

Amnesty International concerned Canada 'rolling back' support for Indigenous rights | CBC News Amnesty International is concerned Canada is backsliding on Indigenous rights under Prime Minister Mark Carney. The organization warns in its annual global human rights report that new laws passed las...

These reports should always include a reminder that Mark Carney's father was first a principal, later a regional administrator, for Canada's residential schools.

PM Carney sat with his father every breakfast and supper.

What values do people think that his father imparted on the current PM?

A text-heavy screenshot of a post by residential school denialist Dallas Brodie, commenting on a Global BC news article about the Sinixt People being granted a role in a legal fight over a Kootenay mine. Brodie states that it's "nonsense" that a "foreign Indian Band has more rights in B.C. than regular British Columbians," when over 80% of the Sinixt People's traditional territory is in the land now claimed by British Columbia and many Sinixt people are also British Columbians. While Brodie says they were declared extinct by Canada in 1956, Brodie also notes they were "re-recognized by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2021," which begs the question of how Brodie came to the conclusion the Sinixt are "foreign."

A screenshot of the Sinixt Wikipedia page that explains what the legal "extinction" means, including a 1995 quote from the Minister of Indian Affairs at the time, Ron Irwin, who Clarke's that "The Arrow Lakes Band ceased to exist as a band for the purpose of the Indian Act... It does not, however, mean that the Sinixt ceased to exist as a tribal group." (August 9, 1995) The page further states that "about 80% of their ancestral territory lies" in British Columbia.

A screenshot from a page on Sinixt.com of the Desautel Decision (the 2021 re-recognition that Brodie was referring to). The page states "Declared extinct by the Canadian federal government in 1956, Sinixt people fought for and won the restoration of our rights as an Aboriginal People of Canada, proving that the international boundary cannot divide and change Indigenous identity and culture." The Desautel Decision means the Sinixt are now federally recognized as a First Nation in Canada and confirms their Aboriginal Rights.

A screenshot of a news article from Tribal Tribune (https://www.tribaltribune.com/news/article_8afb0444-e933-46ef-860d-802a85fcf43a.html) dated April 16, 2026 "Courts Reject Attempt to Exclude the Sinixt from Defending Ancestral Lands This week courts in British Columbia ('B.C.') rejected an attempt by WHY Resources to exclude the Sinixt, an aboriginal people of Canada, from a court case concerning the company’s proposal to build a mine on Record Ridge near Rossland, B.C.. These decisions affirmed the right of the Sinixt to meaningfully participate in decisions that affect their ancestral homelands. Record Ridge lies within traditional territory of the Sinixt and includes sensitive ecosystems, old-growth forests, and critical watershed and archaeological values. In August 2025, B.C. allowed the proposed mine to go forward without any study of its potential environmental impacts under B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Act. That ruling was challenged in court by the Sinixt and by the Save Record Ridge Action Committee, a coalition of local residents, businesses, and advocates working to protect the environment in their community. A court hearing will be conducted in May, 2026. WHY Resources moved to the court to remove the Sinixt from the litigation and ignore the Sinixt perspective. The Supreme Court of B.C. in Rossland ruled against the company on April 14, 2026, recognizing that the Sinixt have a direct and meaningful interest in the outcome of the case and that Sinixt participation would assist judicial review. A judge of the B.C. Court of Appeal, on a different application, on April 15 confirmed the right of the Sinixt to be heard on this important decision involving Sinixt territory. These rulings come nearly five years after the Supreme Court of Canada’s landmark decision in R. v. Desautel It held that the Sinixt were wrongly declared extinct by Canada and remain an aboriginal people of Canada..."

The #Sinixt are not a "foreign Indian Band."

An invisible border that was only settled 180 years ago doesn't suddenly make a People that are #Indigenous to the land somehow "foreign" & no longer Indigenous.

They didn't stop existing the moment Canada declared them "extinct," either.

A portrait-oriented photo of a blue plastic wheel barrow (foreground) and a large raised weathered wood garden bed (background), both filled with hand sifted soil.

A portrait-oriented photo with a large raised weathered wood garden bed in the foreground with a cedar hedge in the background. A round metal soil sifter with a fine-medium and small wood-handled trowel sit on top of freshly sifted soil in the bed.

I worked in the garden all day today, prepping garden beds. It has been an unusually cool spring here, with a few very late frosts (for this climate), so I've been holding off jumping into getting the garden ready.

It was so nice to work outside, even if I pushed myself a little too hard. 🌱🤲🏼💚

In March, attendees of a Salish Fire Keepers Society gathered in Kamloops, B.C. (Tk’emlúps) to learn about decolonizing fire management, how to work with blazes to protect the land, and more.

#TRU #WilliamsLake #Secwépemc #CeciliaDeRose #InMemoriam

Thompson Rivers University acknowledges the passing of Secwépemc knowledge keeper - Kye7e Cecilia Dick DeRose

For more info: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Lq8...

(Re)storying Relationships Between Humans, k̓ʷak̓aƛ (Sea Otters) & Shellfish to Support Nuu-chah-nulth Food Sovereignty | Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions This case study explores First Nations’ visions of food sovereignty in the context of sea otter recovery and climate change.

📘 New Knowledge Highlight: Dylan Hillis, UVic

This case study explores First Nations’ visions of food sovereignty amid sea otter recovery and climate change, drawing on archaeological and ecological evidence alongside Indigenous knowledge.

Read more: climatesolutions.ca/knowledge-hi...

Rural access concerns raised over TRU's plan to close Williams Lake campus Some First Nations leaders in the Williams Lake region have mixed opinions on Thompson Rivers University's proposal to close its satellite campus, some saying they're focused on coming up with suitabl

#TRU #WilliamsLake #CaribooRD #XatsullFN #WLFN #bced #bcpoli

Local Indigenous leaders in the Williams Lake area raise concerns about the potential closure of Thompson Rivers University's Williams Lake Campus

www.castanetkamloops.net/news/Kamloop...

‘Complete Farce’: Ottawa Defers to Alberta on Impact Assessment Despite Overwhelming Indigenous Rejection Defying significant Indigenous opposition, Ottawa quietly handed Alberta control over environmental impact assessments in a new cooperation agreement.

‘Complete Farce’: Ottawa Defers to Alberta on Impact Assessment Despite Overwhelming Indigenous Rejection www.theenergymix.com/complete-far...

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Indian Act 150: An Introduction By Katie Carson, Sarah Kittilsen, and Sean Carleton Canada 150—the sesquicentennial celebration of the country’s confederation—was marked with pomp and circumstance, as the Federal Government encou…

Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Indian Act. Over on @activehist.bsky.social, we’re running a year-long series examining its controversial history. Here’s the series introduction I contributed to: activehistory.ca/blog/2026/01...

Indigenous firekeepers gather in Interior B.C. to share knowledge A recent gathering of the Salish Fire Keepers Society brought together over 100 experts and community members to discuss the role of fire on Indigenous territories in Interior B.C. Over a century of fire suppression practices have left Interior B.C. vulnerable to catastrophic wildfires, like the one that destroyed Lytton in 2021. Indigenous firekeepers advocate for the use of cultural and prescribed fire to manage risks and restore balance to ecosystems. In 2022, one year after wildfire tore through the Village of Lytton, a blaze broke out at the nearby Stein Valley Nlaka’pamux Heritage Provincial Park. The site, co-managed by Lytton First Nation and the B.C. government, contains pictographs, petroglyphs and culturally modified trees, along with more important cultural sites. So the BC Wildfire Service called in Sheresa Brown, a 31-year-old Lytton First Nation member who works as a field technician and archaeology monitor with the Nlaka’pamux Nation Tribal Council. When fires happen near registered archaeological sites, Brown works with BC Wildfire Service crews and structural protection specialists to safeguard cultural heritage. “I was all for it,” Brown says. “But I wanted to do it in the right way.” To avoid the pictographs washing away from firefighting efforts, Brown outlined...

Indigenous firekeepers gather in Interior B.C. to share knowledge
->The Narwhal | More on "Indigenous fire stewardship Interior BC" at BigEarthData.ai | #Indigenous

I took an extended break from social media since I left Secwépemcul'ecw again to return to the Coast. I hit some road blocks with chronic health issues, and it's consumed all of my time and energy.

I'm slowly returning to the land of the living and hoping to have more of a presence here again. 🙏🏼🤲🏼

Indigenous woman reading large didactic sign at Kamloops Indian Residential School. Green and Yellow sign is in front of a brick wall. Sign Text: The school was built in 1890, then re-built in 1923 due to a fire and remained open until 1977. In the 1920's, Native children aged 4-15 years were forcibly taken and prohibited from seeing their families, practicing their languages, cultures, and traditions. Children attending K.I.R.S experienced extreme isolation and segregation.

PODCAST UP! Sean Carleton of the University of Manitoba on the OneBC documentary Making a Killing and the growth of residential school denialism in B.C. and Canada .
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@seancarleton.bsky.social @ubcic.bsky.social @canadiandimension.bsky.social @aptninvestigates.bsky.social

A screenshot of a post by Peter Boghossian, quoting Tweets by Frances Widdowson. Widdowson called out specific University of Victoria Indigenous faculty and staff (Robina Thomas, Tracy Underwood, Darcy Lindberg, Carey Newman, Jeff Corntassel, and Ry Moran, and Mique'l Dangeli) over the shutting down of a planned Residential School denialism event by Widdowson regarding the 215 unmarked graves found through ground-penetrating radar on the former Kamloops Indian Residential School grounds. Boghossian offers $1000 to people to find "definitive proof of plagiarism" in the dissertations of the Indigenous individuals Widdowson calls out.

First thing I saw on social media this morning was this guy calling for a witch-hunt against specific #Indigenous faculty & staff @uvic.ca, calling for people to attack their academic integrity over the university shutting down a #ResidentialSchoolDenialism event.

Dear White / Non-Native Journalists: Sacheen Littlefeather Is Not Yours Not even a month after the death of Sacheen Littlefeather, biased claims about her Native heritage being a lie emerged with full force among white and Non-Native journalists. Even in death a Native…

In light of the Thomas King fiasco, I wrote this when Sacheen Littlefeather passed away.

Non Natives, THIS is why you do not engage in the Pretendian conversation.

You make it WORSE.

Found the savings in the Liberal government budget - they have just removed nearly all First Nations programs. #canadianpoli

Bethel Community Services Foundation Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

"Public gift list for YK Delta communities recovering from Typhoon Halong. Items ship directly to Bethel Community Services Foundation for regional distribution. Items are for current and immediate needs"

Western Alaska Disaster Relief 2025 Fund donation link: alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

A screenshot of a turquoise and teal digital poster for the Western Alaska Disaster Relief Fund. A QR code directs people to a website (https://alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/fund?funit_id=14833) to donate to the fund. People can contact Michelle DeWitt (BCSF) at 907-545-6052, Megan Cacciola (ACF) at 907-249-6617, or Lilah Walker (Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation) at 907-729-5651 or lcwalker@anthc.org.

A screenshot of a turquoise, teal and yellow digital poster for Western Alaska Disaster Relief. One QR code directs people to an online fundraiser, and a second QR code directs people to an Amazon Wishlist for Bethel Community Services Foundation. There will be a donation drive at the AFN Convention on Friday, October 17th from 1-5pm and Saturday, October 18th, from 8am-2pm at the Dena'ina Center, room 6 on the 2nd floor. Items needed include cases of water, non-perishable foods, diapers, wipes, toilet paper, personal hygiene items, cleaning supplies, phone chargers, blankets, sleeping bags, cots, flashlights, and hand wipes.

#TyphoonHalong hit the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta coast on Sunday. #Kipnuk #Kwigillingok #Napakiak

#Alaska Public Media | Here's how you can help survivors of the Western Alaska storm:

www.kyuk.org/alaska-state...

See posters for other ways to help.

#AlaskaStorm #BethelCommunityServicesFoundation

Screen shot of the ACF Western Alaska Disaster Relief 2025 Fund: "In response to recent severe storms, including Typhoon Halong, that devastated Alaska's western coast, local community organizations and regional partners have come together to establish the Western Alaska Disaster Relief Fund, housed at the Alaska Community Foundation. Two major storm systems struck western Alaska in rapid succession, bringing record flooding, extreme winds, and extensive damage from Kwigillingok to Kotzebue. Homes have been damaged and destroyed, critical infrastructure compromised, and subsistence resources disrupted. The Western Alaska Disaster Relief Fund will provide support to affected communities for immediate relief, recovery support, and long-term resilience, including disaster preparedness initiatives. Distribution decisions will be guided by advisors including regional leaders and stakeholders, ensuring resources reach affected communities based on locally identified needs. The Western Alaska Disaster Relief Fund brings together a growing list of local, regional, and statewide partners endorsing the fund, including: Association of Village Council Presidents Alaska Federation of Natives Alaska Native Heritage Center Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Bethel Community Services Foundation Calista Corporation Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation First Alaskans Institute Kawerak, Inc. Native Peoples Action Maniilaq Association Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation"

If you're able, please consider a donation to the Alaska Community Fund to help people in western Alaska impacted by ex-typhoon Halong even as winter is bearing down. All the money donated goes to the region. Quyana. #Alaska #AlaskaSky

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

Mainstream media not covering this news. #alaska #hurricane

Photo of a dark stage, lit up with blue and peach-toned spotlights, with stylized white linework artwork of Shane Koyczan's face, with his beard as tentacles breaking a ship in half, with hearts falling out of the broken hull.

@shanekoyczan.bsky.social tonight!

Glad I happened to be in town for this. 🤲🏼💜