Native Movement newsletter
Native Movement or Native Movement Today was a Red Power newsletter published in Vancouver, British Columbia (BC), in 1970. It contains news items; essays and opinion pieces; excerpts from speeches; photographs; poetry; and artwork. One copy each of three editions of the newsletter are stored in the Special Collections unit of the Bennett Library of Simon Fraser University's Burnaby, BC campus. The digital archive Independent Voices offers online access to those three editions and refers to them as "1 1970[1]," "2 1970[2]," and "3 1970[3]." The first two of those editions bear the name Native Movement while the third bears the name Native Movement Today.
There is no masthead, date of publication, volume number or issue number listed in any of those editions. 2 1970 contains a short editorial attributed to Ray Bobb . Another editorial in 1 1970 is unattributed.
Publishers and affiliated individuals[edit]
The newsletter was published “by members of B.C. Native Indian Youth Association, Native Women’s Liberation Front, and Native Alliance for Red Power[4].” On page 16 of 2 1970, there is a small stamp reading “printed by THE LEFT PRESS, volunteer labour.”
A poem, a speech, and an essay in 1 1970[1] are attributed to a Sister Lee Carter, who was interviewed[5] on CBC Radio's Native Magazine program about a protest occupation of the Sechelt Indian Residential School. A separate essay in 1 1970 titled "R.C. Dictator Sparks Boycott[1]" discusses this protest occupation.
B.C. Native Indian Youth Association, or B.C. Native Youth Association[edit]
The B.C. Native Indian Youth Association's formation is described in an article in 1 1970 titled "Youth Organize" which reads: “We are in the process of forming a youth organization” that will go by the name “BC Native Youth Association[1].” In the summer of 1970 the B.C. Native Indian Youth Association was involved in a conference of Native youth at Sardis, BC, that ended in a “fish-in” affirming Indigenous rights to fish[6]. In an article in the Chilliwack Progress about the conference and fish-in, Henry Jack was named as "spokesman for the group[6]." Jack was also named in the "Youth Organize" article as a target of police harassment.
Native Women's Liberation Front[edit]
The Native Women's Liberation Front is described as "the sisters in our group[7]" in one edition of the Native Movement.
Native Alliance for Red Power[edit]
The Native Alliance for Red Power (N.A.R.P.) was a grassroots Indigenous activist group. Reporter Angela Sterritt identifies Cleo Reece, a Cree filmmaker and activist from Fort McMurray band, as one of the founders of NARP in "The Fight for Indigenous Canada," a chapter in The Canadian History of Social Change: Social movements that shaped our lives.
Author Lee Maracle describes her involvement in NARP in her book Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel.
Opportunities for Youth community projects[edit]
The edition known as 3 1970 contains reports from a series of community projects described as being supported by a federal grant program known as Opportunities for Youth. In that edition, an author by the name of Larry Seymour writes about becoming one of the co-ordinators of the branch of the projects that was focused on BC Indigenous youth.[3]. Four of the projects proposed by Seymour and those he contacted to work with him were accepted, and at the time of publication 70 people were employed[3]
The Fisheries Education Project originated in talks Seymour had with others in which they reported Department of Fisheries and Oceans officials taking their fishing gear, and “how we were tired of running every time the damn ass warden came down to the river[3].” The project’s mandate was to “compile facts[3]” and to “put together a booklet with some direction as to how to deal with the authorities in regards to our disregarded rights[3].”
The Community Work Project was originally intended to repair homes on reserves and investigate possible “grave digging by archaeologists, anthropologists, museum people, hippies and all other scavengers of our sacred buriel [sic] places.[3].” This project evolved into a plan to develop youth community centres in Chilcotin, Peace River, and the West Kootenays[3]
The objective of the Cultural, Educational, Recreational Project was “to establish cultural and educational ties between the very young and the very old and all people and recreational activities.[3].” The fourth project, the Social Uplift and Emergency Youth Center Project, focused on patrolling the area of Vancouver then known as "Skid Road," setting up housing, and setting up communication between agencies focused on the area[3]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Native Movement 1 1970." Independent Voices: An Open Access Collection of an Alternative Press, Reveal Digital, Saline, MI, http://voices.revealdigital.com.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/cgi-bin/independentvoices?a=d&d=CEDFFGJFC19700001&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------------1
- ↑ "Native Movement 2 1970." Independent Voices: An Open Access Collection of an Alternative Press, Reveal Digital, Saline, MI, http://voices.revealdigital.com.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/cgi-bin/independentvoices?a=d&d=CEDFFGJFC19700002&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------------1
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 "Native Movement 3 1970." Independent Voices: An Open Access Collection of an Alternative Press, Reveal Digital, Saline, MI, http://voices.revealdigital.com.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/cgi-bin/independentvoices?a=d&d=CEDFFGJFC19700003&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------------1
- ↑ Indian Education Resources Center. “Indian Education Newsletter (Vol. 1, No. 1).” Indian Education Resources Center, University of British Columbia Xwi7xwa Library, 23 October 1970, https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/32618/items/1.0103172
- ↑ Carter, Lee, interviewed by Bob Hall. “Native Students Lobby for Better Conditions.” Indian Magazine, prod. George Rich and Johnny Yesno, CBC Radio, 23 May 1970, http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/native-students-lobby-for-better-conditions
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 “Young Indians Occupy Coqualeetza Hospital.” The Chilliwack Progress, 8 July 1970, p. 10, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2664375/young_indians_occupy_coqualeetza/
- ↑ “Native Movement.” Independent Voices: An Open Access Collection of an Alternative Press, Reveal Digital, Saline, MI, http://voices.revealdigital.com.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/cgi-bin/independentvoices?a=cl&cl=CL1&sp=CEDFFGJFC&ai=1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------------1
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