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1.4 History as a Beaker of Mustard Seed 4 – Deciphering the parable
Dr. Morton and the Parable of the Mustard Seeds The parable of Samuel George Morton—as suggested in the story told in the previous three parts of this essay—shows how theory can shape data. There is no evidence that Dr. Morton consciously fudged the truth. In the opinion of Stephen J. Gould, Morton published his raw […]
1.3 History as a Beaker of Mustard Seed 3 — A hall of great skulls
January 31, 2011
He set himself the job of measuring the interiors of skulls. You would think it was straight-forward. Yet somehow Samuel George Morton, rising with a bullet on the hit-parade of nineteenth century American scientists, messed it up utterly. As noted previously. And, looked at forensically, his data had the fingerprints of his own peculiar brand […]
21 Climate Scientists Debunk Lord Monckton’s Congressional Testimony
January 29, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CLIMATE SCIENTISTS DEBUNK PROMINENT CONTRARIAN CHRISTOPHER MONCKTON’S CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY A group of five scientists solicited responses from more than twenty world-class climate scientists to the May 6th testimony by Christopher Monckton to the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. These climate scientists “…have thoroughly refuted all of Mr. Monckton’s […]
Weighing the climate change dilemma: denial or hope
January 28, 2011
You are in a theatre and a fire inspector shouts “Fire.” The guy at the concession stand and the theatre owner say, “Hey, no problem.” Fortunately, that very day there are forty fire inspectors in the building to help you make up your mind. Thirty-nine say “Run.” One–coincidentally the cousin of the theatre owner–says, “Hey, […]
KUBLA KHAN by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
January 27, 2011
KUBLA KHAN In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. 5 So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing […]
The Royal Proclamation, 1763
January 27, 2011
At the time this proclamation was issued, the New World colonies to which it applied were colonies of Great Britain, and this proclamation had the force of law. The Aboriginal provisions contained in the proclamation were the result of the particular circumstances of the time. Pontiac’s War was ongoing, one of the most effective of […]
US Steel & the Reinvention of Slavery
January 24, 2011
The year was 1908. Green Cottenham had just been arrested for vagrancy in Shelby County, Alabama. But in that era of the American South, when unemployment among Euro-American males was endemic, the application of the so-called vagrancy law was reserved exclusively for African American males. The reason went beyond racism. The law represented the reintroduction […]
A flask of wine, a book of verse, and thou
January 20, 2011
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse–and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness– And Wilderness is Paradise enow. By Omar Kayyam as translated by Edward Fitzgerald
History of Aboriginal America 7: The Birth of Aboriginal Rights
January 20, 2011
Plato, Aristotle & the School of Athens 10. The Father of International Law & the Rights of Indigenous Americans In 1532, forty years after Columbus first voyage, we hear for the first time some philosophic and legal objection to what had being occurring in the Americas. A cleric and academic by the name of Francisco […]
The Laws of Burgos, 1512-13
January 18, 2011
The Laws of Burgos made official what Columbus had launched as an institution, the encomienda, whereby grants of land came with the free labour and enslavement of the Aboriginal people living on that land. The Laws of Burgos begin with a justification—the need to Christianize—but little attempt was made in this era to actively Christianize […]
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An Informal Chronology of the Aboriginal Land Question in BC
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January 31, 2011
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