Native Opinion Podcast An American Indian Perspective

Native Opinion Episode 26 “Dis-enrolment: The Disappearance Of a Nation” To Reach our show: hosts@nativeopinion.com Twitter: @nativeopinion Facebook Leave us voice mail: https://www.speakpipe.com/nativeopinion   CONTENT SEGMENTS 1.) Title: De Beers’ Colonial Plunder in Attawapiskat Article Author: Jay Watts, Rebel Youth, Date: April 15, 2016 Source: Warrior Publications Summary: Attawapiskat are not simply a generalized response to decades and decades of Canadian colonialism – the specifics of it in Attawapiskat are damning, too… Attawapiskat is 90km from the open-pit Victor Diamond Mine, where multinational diamond company De Beers, founded by the British imperialist and white supremacist Cecil Rhodes, has managed to work out an astonishingly preferential agreement to plunder the resource wealth of the Attawapiskat First Nation with the complicity of the Ontario and Canadian governments. The mine itself is on lands taken from Attawapiskat First Nation through an extension of Treaty 9 in 1930. Read Full Stor