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Ice Cores and Past Climates
Paleoclimate topics: Calibrating climate models. Drilling ice cores in Antarctica. Antarctic ice core data, etc. Like some sap in a sentimental song, Sam, the planet Earth has gone through changes. And that’s because, as you might expect, lots can happen in 4.5 billion years. Continents float about, join, unjoin, oceans realign, natural levels of greenhouse […]
Race & the Rule of Law in British Columbia – A Chronology
September 18, 2010
British Colonist, 8 March 1861: “Locate reservations for them on which to earn their own living, and if they trespass on white settlers punish them severely. A few lessons would soon enable them to form a correct estimation of their own inferiority, and settle the Indian title too.” Land Ordinance, 1865, ends the First Nations […]
History of Aboriginal America 2 – Myths of the Traveler
September 17, 2010
3. Travelers’ Tales The Nuu-chah-nulth traditionally harvested dentalia shells off the northwest coast of Vancouver Island. Considering how deep the shells were to be found, the weight and unwieldiness of the tools with which they did the harvesting, and the fact of ocean swells continuously pushing them and their canoes off from the harvesting grounds, […]
1.2 History as a Beaker of Mustard Seed 2 – Of Skulls & Glass Slippers
September 16, 2010
From Featherfolk, a work in progress. “How could sentimentalists and egalitarians stand against the dictates of nature? Morton had provided clean, objective data based on the largest collection of skulls in the world.” –Stephen Jay Gould Samuel George Morton had put together a chart which appeared to prove that persons of his own ethnicity had […]
1.1 History as a Beaker of Mustard Seed
September 16, 2010
From Featherfolk, a work in progress. Part I: Historical Parables: Beginning a Discussion of Aboriginal History A. History as a Beaker of Mustard Seed This book is about Aboriginal people, about Aboriginal history, spoken from the point of view of someone who is himself Aboriginal. Its argument is two-fold. One, that what is commonly […]
0.2 Feather Folk Tale 2 – To Be Aboriginal Is to Be Political
September 16, 2010
From Featherfolk, a work in progress. Feather Folk Tale – continued The book will be seen as political. And it is, in the sense that it is an attempt to influence people. It is also partly directed at the educational system of Canada, an arena already supercharged with cultural politics. The intention of this […]
0.1 – Feather Folktale Pt. 1 – Introducing Featherfolk
September 15, 2010
Featherfolk, a commentary on Aboriginal history, is a work in progress. Feather Folktale This is a personal book. In a world where a dry tone and an impersonal style is often superficially equated with scholastic objectivity, for me to write personally might seem to risk not being taken seriously. Well, I’ll accept that risk, because […]
History of Aboriginal America 1 – 300 Spartans Fought to Protect It
September 12, 2010
1. The Standard Model Modern history begins in 1492. That part of history which Europeans like to emphasize has been told and retold for more than 500 years. It has formed the core of our school curricula. It has become folklore. It has become Hollywood product. Disney has a version. Three hundred Spartans fought to […]
Re Featherfolk reposts
September 12, 2010
Anyone who has been following me for long knows I have another blog, Featherfolk Notes, which I haven’t really been keeping up. The purpose of that blog is and was to talk about Aboriginal and First Nations issues. I have decided that I really don’t have the time to keep two blogs active, and I […]
Grandpa Theo
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An Informal Chronology of the Aboriginal Land Question in BC
Father Theo's Blog 
September 30, 2010
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