![]() In 2012, the “Idle No More” movement briefly drew attention to government inaction on such crucial issues as education and housing, but for most Canadians, and the governments representing them, Aboriginal issues remain a low priority, and Aboriginal people return to being invisible when the marches and hunger strikes end. Today, a large percentage when asked will claim to support Aboriginal rights, yet this support has not produced action at the political level. Haudenosaunee leader Ellen Gabriel states in the collection’s “Epilogue”: “The issue that sparked the Crisis of 1990 was the blatant theft of our homelands, the Mohawk peoples’ sovereignty over those lands and the continued efforts by governments to undermine and defraud us of our international human rights to our homelands.” 2 Prior to 1990, Canadians were generally ignorant of Aboriginal issues. Ladner, that it would “honour the resistance and resurgence of Kanien’kehaka, and its influence on the resistance and resurgence movements of other Indigenous nations and its influence on Canada.” 1 The resistance at Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnwà:ke brought national and international attention to the struggle of Aboriginal people for recognition, a struggle that had been going on for at least four hundred years. ![]() In 2010, This Is an Honour Song: Twenty Years since the Blockades marked the anniversary of the “Oka Crisis” with the hope of its editors, Leanne Simpson and Kiera L. ![]()
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