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metismuseum.ca- New breed Magazine Winter 2006- Harry Daniels - order of Gabriel Dumont Gold- in the early 1980's as the president of NCC - He was the person responsible for putting Metis into the repatriated constitution. @Occamsfork @simon_gabe @ArnallLabrador @CrownIndigenous

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Letter from Harry Daniels to Kirby Lethbridge of the Labrador Metis Nation. - explaining who he considered Metis constituents of the Native Council of Canada when Metis were inserted into the 1982 Constitution.
Metis social-political movement-by Lusty, Terry,1973- publisher- Calgary Metis Historical Society-Metis Associations- UNSI. - Union of Nova Scotia Indians
Volume 17 Issue 2 February - March 1975- Indian News - Native Women confront UNSI Board - Mr. Denny suggested that the Metis and Non-Status Indians set up their own organization.
Micmac News 1975 - Metis - Nova Scotia- Changes may be made to the constitution of the union depending on the outcome of a conference to be 2 weeks earlier when NS Indians and Metis will decide whether or not to form their own organization divorced from UNSI.
Union of Nova Scotia Indian Society Act/ bylaws Union of Nova Scotia Indians - Micmac News 1973 -03 - Membership in UNSI.
"MicmacNews-1973-03.- Constitution and By-Laws Union of Nova Scotia Indians - Sec3.10 "Indian" means, sec3.12 "A Metis". @CrownIndigenous seems there were some Metis around before Marshall after all .. 🥰😉
MicmacNews-1975-02 - NON-STATUS INDIANS AND METIS - Moving to gain rights and recognition-women lead the way - "Metis are the offspring of an Indian mother or father but only recognized by the Indian Act where the father is Indian". "The group, many living below the poverty level
,find themselves caught between the white society and the Union of NS Indians. /Darryl Leroux + peace and friendship treaties. I am #EasternMetis, My nan self identified as Eastern Metis, my Mius uncles signed peace and friendship treaties, their brother is my grandfather.
MicmacNews-1981-05b - NCNS - Prayers - Leadership - Accomplishments - Dwight Dorey - Viola Robinson- Harry Daniels - "The Metis and Non-Status Indians of Canada want to be strengthening thread in the fiber that makes up the Mosiacic of Canada", Mr Daniels said.
Harry Daniels - Gary Gould - Commission hears Maritime Indians - MicmacNews-1980-12.png
Harry Daniels represents three quarter of a million metis and non status Micmac News 1980 01.
Harry Daniels - MicmacNews-1980-07 - Gary Gould - Mr Gould is co-author of a book "Our Land: The Maritimes," which forms the basis aboriginal claims by Metis and nonStatus Indians in the Maritime provinces.@CrownIndigenous @MNC_tweets
Our land the Maritimes - New Breed Feb-March https://t.co/NTzn50DwYe
THE HISTORY AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE NATIVE COUNCIL OF NOVA SCOTIA - 1987 - Native Council of Nova Scotia - Our Land - The Maritimes.
THE HISTORY AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE NATIVE COUNCIL OF NOVA SCOTIA - 1987 - Native Council of Nova Scotia - Our Land - Political Achievements2 - Metis of New Brunswick .@CrownIndigenous @MNC_tweets
THE HISTORY AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE NATIVE COUNCIL OF NOVA SCOTIA - 1987 - Native Council of Nova Scotia - Our Land - Other Achievements. - special needs of NonStatus and Metis in Nova Scotia. @CrownIndigenous
THE HISTORY AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE NATIVE COUNCIL OF NOVA SCOTIA-1987 Native Council of Nova Scotia-Our Land-Political Achievements- 1978- The liberal gov of the day, grants a meeting with cabinet and NCNS executive to discuss the concerns and problems @CrownIndigenous
of the NonStatus Indians and Metis of Nova Scotia. @CrownIndigenous / Our Land the Maritimes - MicmacNews-1980-05. - gov has created classes of Indian people.
The Non-Status Scene - Native Women's Association of Canada - Canada has divided the Native Indian Nation into three classes- Status Indians, Non-Status Indians, and Metis- MicmacNews-1977-12./
Talking about the gov has divided the native into 3 different classes - the nonStatus Scene - MicmacNews-1977-12 - 3. Metis - children of NonStatus parents.
Micmac News June 1979 - NO THREAT TO COUNCIL - (talking about the Metis Association created by Rheal Plourde to deal with Metis issues he didn't think were getting represented by NCNS - The Metis Cultural and Development Association of Nova Scotia.) President Viola Robinson says
"75 percent of its membership is Metis because all children of a nonStatus Indian woman are classified as Metis".
MicmacNews-1977-12s - Viola Robinson did not want Metis and Non Status to be lumped with every other ethnic group in the province.
Let me extrapolate more...
Mathew Mius - ratified 1725 treaty - 1726. - Mathew was a Mi'kmaq
"Janet Chute - A Good Day On The Aboiteau 2004- study of the Acadian-metis of Eel Brook and Quinan area- metis - Louis Muise was certainly of metis extraction - His uncle Francois Muis was a Mi'kmaq chief." "pt3art4 - Francois Mius who held the chiefdom of LaHave." "Copy of the
Brevet de Commission of the Indian Chief-Francois Miouce-Mikmak de Mirligueche en l'Acadie." "Francois Muis-copy by Abbe Sigogne."/Francis Muis-novascotia.ca- Francis Muis for myself the Tribe of La Heve Indians of what i am chief-Copy of "Treaty of Peace and Friendship" between
Jonathon Belcher and Francis Muis, 1761/ "Francis Mius - 1761 Treaty-produced by the Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat 1999.\ "The Mi'kmaq Nation and the Embodient of Political Ideologies- Ni'kmaq, Protocol and Treaty Negotiations of the Eighteenth
Century.-Francis Muis-Chief of La Have- A very well respected man."
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Darryl Leroux saying Eastern Metis are not indigenous. - Is he saying my ancestors are not real Mi'kmaw people? Let's explore that further !!
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Chelsea vowel and agent ndn (cute pseudonym huh, apparently scared to show their real identity) saying Darryl is working in collaboration. - Just in case it isn't real clear yet.
Darryl saying Mathew Mius is not mi'kmaq, there are no lines he will not cross to try to twist facts.
Mi'kmaq Treaties on Trial- History, Land and Donald Marshall Junior - By William Wicken - Mathew Muse. - PHD William Wicken is the expert court witness and historian for the Marshall case.
The M i’kmaq Nation and the Embodiment of Political Ideologies- Ni’kmaq, Protocol and Treaty Negotiations of the Eighteenth Century- October 2003- Rosalie Marie Francis, 2003- Mathieu Meuse lived at the Mi'kmaq community of Cape Sable. - remember what Darryl said about the
Cape Sable community./ The Mi'kmaq Nation and the Embodient of Political Ideologies- Ni'kmaq, Protocol and Treaty Negotiations of the Eighteenth Century. - Mathieu Meuse who lived in the Cape Sable Community.
Mathieu Muis. - Nova Scotia Archives - Mikmak of Cape Sable
My grandfather Joseph D'Azy Mius -Une colonie féodale en Amérique - l'Acadie (1604-1881)-by Rameau, E. (Edme) 1889 - Joseph Mius D'Entremont./ brother to Francois/Francis Mius and Mathew Mius. He married outside of the Mi'kmaw Nation.
Louisbourg, from its foundation to its fall, 1713-1758- by McLennan, John Stewart- 1918- Relations with the aborigines - Welcomes by Mons Tarranguer and Joseph Muess - Boston Sept 15 - 1715.
Joseph Mius - son of Philippe Mius Jr and Mare - a Mi'kmaq.- Acadian footprints- the roots & reflections of - by Doucet, Ge´rald- 2004.
If you can not see the collaboration of what is happening here, to deny a people of it's existence, I don't know how to show it any clearer ... @CrownIndigenous @DarrylLeroux
A tortured people- the politics of colonization - Howard Adams - 1995-Metis History From Native Reality - Metis formed the largest racial-cultural group in New France and the Red River region in the 17th and 18th centuries.
"Louis Riel, Justice, and Metis Self-Identification- Literary Politics for Survival in the Evolution of Canadian Nationhood - Robin White - Goldsmiths College - The instance of using the lower case m, for those groups outside the MNC" "Louis Riel, Justice, and Metis Self-
Identification- Literary Politics for Survival in the Evolution of Canadian Nationhood - in 1885 at Batoche, at Louis Riels defeat, the Metis were once again broadly referred to as metis.."
Behind the Scene of the Send First Ministers Conference on Aboriginal Constitutional Affairs-05190.vol15-3 Mar 1984 NewBreed- MNC trying to convince NCC on Metis Definition. NCC declined to use their definition for Metis in the Constitution.
Constitutional meeting not a complete failure - March 1984 - New Breed. "...because there is no definition of who is a Metis..." - "The definition proposed by MNC did not receive approval by the Native Council of Canada (NCC)"
Dwight Dorey - Senate - CAP fought to ensure that the word -Metis- was included in the constitution in 1982- Harry Daniels wildly accredited for getting Metis in the Constitution. - "The Metis and nonStatus Aboriginal people are Indians under section 91, class 24 of the
Constitution Act of 1867."
Metis 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀 of Canada.
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Aboriginal self-government - legal and constitutional issues 1995 Ottawa, Canada- Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples #Metis


Aboriginal self-government - legal and constitutional issues 1995 Ottawa, Canada- Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples- pg141. - papers argues that it is logical and sensible to consider persons of mixed ancestry of all kinds to be within sec. 91(24) jurisdiction and that the


Metis are included within the fiduciary relationship owed by the crown to the Aboriginal peoples. (pg142) The recognition of Metis as one of the "aboriginal peoples of Canada" in section 35 of the Constitution Act 1982, reinforces this federal practice. "It is concluded that


sec 91(24) includes persons of mixed ancestry." pg143- "the Guerin case suggests that the federal gov. may be breaching its fiduciary obligations if it refuses to initiate legislation needed to acknowledge the existence of certain Aboriginal peoples or to meet basic economic


or social needs." https://t.co/90gG3LeCFC -
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@malone_j71
Oh Josh , Seb does not need to be a citizen of the Metis Nation to be Metis, we both know it and for those who don't, I will do my best to help them understand.


For starters Josh, MNC who represents the Red River Metis Nation is only 1 of the 2 National Metis organizations in Canada. The other one, until it says otherwise is the 2nd but was the first original one, who got Metis repatriated into the Canadian Constitution.

The 2 National organizations, even though only one of them is truly national are MNC and CAP. CAP who previously was known as NCC. When NCC was repatriating Metis into the 1982 Constitution, MNC was not even an organization at that time. MNC was incorporated as a non-profit


society in 1984. / Canadian Metis Society - formed in 1968 - it ended with the formation of the NCC in 1971. The NCC and MNC have 2 very different definitions of what it means to be a Metis person. Although MNC only changed to that contemporary definition in 2002. In 1978, you


didn't even need to be Aboriginal to join that organization. The History of the Manitoba Metis Federation - Tony Lussier writing in 1978 states - Today a Metis is defined by the MMF as: / MNC had constantly changing goalposts over the years as to who could join their
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@steph_pettigrew I identify as EasternMetis , can you tell me exactly how I am hurting Indigenous groups? Oh please, this should be interesting.


I feel sorry for you that you believe @DarrylLeroux, have you done any independent research into "The Other Metis" at all ? LAC - Metis Circle Special Consultation -- Rock Matte, Claude Aubin, Frank Palmater etc.


Have you read the RCAP reports, specifically RCAP 432 and RCAP 433 ?

CBC - RCAP - Viola Robinson sat on the commission. https://t.co/3cD8CA8tu6


Métis Circle Special Consultation- Viola Robinson , asking if the Metis Nation Accord would be a vehicle that the Metis in the East could use.
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@malone_j71
https://t.co/8olbAV8azB - Tamara Bell said she wants those who misrepresent their identity to face fines and even prison time. What nation would claim Louis Riel? @CBCIndigenous

" is primarily French Canadian, Irish and Scottish." -- so are most Metis people. There is no blood quantum, per the Powley case in the Supreme Court of Canada.


Rotten to the core - The Politics of the MMF - Sheila Jones Morrison ©1995 - Michif French was kept alive by in St Boniface by the Methis who identified themselves publicly as French-Canadians. @CBCIndigenous


Rotten To The Core- The MNC said the Metis were impossible to define anyway. We defy definitions of race-Our blood can be many origins. @CBCIndigenous


Supreme Court of Canada - Powley - blood quantum . So @CBCIndigenous may I ask why a Haida is policing the identity of a Metis person? As you well know Metis is a complex issue and there are several definitions of a Metis person, which whether you are a nonStatus person or
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@malone_j71
@MistahiSakhikan - I am pretty sure you know your Metis history well enough to know about Martin Dunn and "The Other Metis" - people are starting to be educated and seeing through your crap. I will continue to make sure everyone fully understands what is happening here Josh.


LAC - Metis Circle Special Consultation -- Rock Matte, Claude Aubin, Frank Palmater etc.


Resources for Metis Researchers - Lawrence J Barkwell -Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research- Individuals from a variety of Metis communities, particularly in Atlantic and Central Canada, submitted reports to RCAP.


Royal Commission On Aboriginal Peoples Final Report Vol. 4 - Perspectives and Realities-by Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP)-1996-


Royal Commission On Aboriginal Peoples Final Report Vol. 4 - Perspectives and Realities- by Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples 1996 - Harry Daniels correspondence to Kirby Lethbridge. - Labrador Metis Nation - You know Todd Russel isn't from the RR Metis Nation either right?
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There's a particular kind of romantic partnership, with a certain sort of person, that I've wanted since I became a self-aware, directed agent at around age 15.

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And this sometimes leaves me wondering if my standards are unreasonable.

In years past that desire was often very alive.

These days, I'm rarely directly or viscerally in contact with it.

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The common understanding of propaganda is that it is intended to brainwash the masses. Supposedly, people get exposed to the same message repeatedly and over time come to believe in whatever nonsense authoritarians want them to believe /1

And yet authoritarians often broadcast silly, unpersuasive propaganda.

Political scientist Haifeng Huang writes that the purpose of propaganda is not to brainwash people, but to instill fear in them /2


When people are bombarded with propaganda everywhere they look, they are reminded of the strength of the regime.

The vast amount of resources authoritarians spend to display their message in every corner of the public square is a costly demonstration of their power /3

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Propaganda is intended to instill fear in people, not brainwash them.

The message is: You might not believe in pro-regime values or attitudes. But we will make sure you are too frightened to do anything about it.
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(PART 3) Angels - Izingelosi | Izithunywa of the 1st Sphere 🕯

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On Part 1 and 2, you will notice that we covered Angels that somehow also resemble human physical/ manifested features.

Part of the classic examples of how we as humans always depict these Celestial Beings through our works of art.

As we move up to the 1st Sphere of the Christian Angelology Hierarchy we get introduced to another breed of Izithunywa.

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THRONES:

Also known as the Elders, they are a class of Celestial Beings mentioned by Paul the Apostle in Colossians 1:16, and they are also mentioned in the Book of Revelations as the 24 Elders.

They are the living symbols of God's justice and authority, symbolised as Thrones.

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Also refer to Elijah's ascension.
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While main deity is Shiva as Kapartheeswarar, the kshetram is famous for Ganesha, known as Swetha/Vellai Vinayagar (white Vinayak)

During samudra manthan, Vasuki snake (used as rope) started spewing venom.


Unable to bear the intense heat, Devas rushed to Siva. He told them that this was because the task was started without getting Ganesha’s approval.
So the Devas created a Ganesha murti from white sea foam and worshipped it.
It was later taken by Indra to Indralok.
@GunduHuDuGa


But once Indra had to come to Earth to pray to Shiva to seek relief from a curse inflicted on him. So he brought the murti of Ganesha with him. When he came here, he wanted to take bath before puja. So he gave the murti to a boy to hold for sometime. The boy was actually Shiva.


He kept the murti down and vanished. Indra could not lift it again and a divine voice told him to let Vinayagar stay there and visit every Ganesh Chaturthi to pray.
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Sri Sanjeevi Rayar Temple located in Ayyangar Kulam,near Kanchipuram,TN

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Ancient but beautiful temple dedicated to Hanuman. This temple is a legendary one. According to the Sthala Puranam of Sanjeevi Rayar temple,it is associated with an episode from Ramayana.


Legend story -Hanuman was flying from Himalayas to Lanka bearing Sanjeevi hill to revive Lakshmana during battle between Rama& Ravana, a piece of the Sanjeevi Parvat fell at this place.Many believe this legendary story & even today that no one here dies of any kind of poisoning.

From historical background of the temple it is known that temple was originally built by a great scholar &administrator Kotikanyadanam Lakshmikumara Tatacharya. Temple itself&village were named following name of great scholar Tatacharya, who was then popularly known as Ayyangar.

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At first, I resisted believing this because it is illogical and dumb and frankly, doesn't reflect well on the human race of which I am a member (and thus have long been hopeful that it is more of a distinction than it actually turns out to be.)

But if you actually are interested in facts you begin to notice how little most people care for them. Sometimes it is because they are heard to learn and bullshit is so much more widely and easily available. Sometimes it is because facts make them uncomfortable about themselves.

Sometimes it is because just one tiny fact will upset a whole worldview that has grown as comfortable as an overstuffed chair. (Settling into such worldviews is a lot like settling into chairs like that because the longer you're there and the deeper you sink...

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