Oh, and Barnaby, it's pretty funny when he claims you are a "hippy."
If this is the best he can do, we sure don't have anything to worry about.
As a former member of the CKY ( actually a time period of 72 hrs). My family and I were subjected to explotations, by posting on the beginners list with photos of all of us from my yahoo 360. I invited two members to view it, and then the following day it was posted on their site. If this is not a means of explotation then I must be a total idiot.
So I posted emails between he and I showing what he was saying was not the truth, that he was compromising my case by changing his story of what the truth was. He deleted many of them shortly after I posted them.
It was also at that time he was attacking Scarlet Kinney. She and I had come to an understanding of each other through mutual respect. I had read her site and in communication understood what she was trying to accomplish and that perhaps I could share some stories with her and some personal insight
Which is leading me to believe the Moma Porcupine is actually a man pretending to be a woman, or perhaps a man that is like a woman.
I wonder how Annika feels about having her picture posted in Lekay's magazine ? I remember how upset Raven was when someone
in the CKY showed a picture she had posted of herself online and how unsafe she said that made her feel . So why is Raven supporting John lekay doing this to Annika ( who has never done anything except be REALLY REALLY NICE ) . Did anyone ask Annika's permission ?
When it comes to confronting Al when he is wrong, there is no objectivity there within the group. It is a matter if you read the many posts he makes, you will not find any in the group that will voice or posts anything that might be in disagreement with what he says.
And if one does, the pattern is Moma Porcupine will come in and attack the person, then Al may come in with passiveness,.
I did feel some undertone attacks with Moma Porcupine at times, which I found somewhat puzzling. Because most of the time it was based on unimportant and unrelated issues that were borderline paranoia. Other than Al Carroll and Moma Porcupine there were no others that attacked me, yet no one made any attempts to defend me either.
The essence of commodification is the transformation of communal and localized rituals into amoral and abstracted vehicles for self-development. It strips these rituals of their ethical, social, and often political content.
Consider the difference in the uses of the term "healing" as it's used by First Nations and non-First Nations people. For most First Nations people, the term seems to imply a collective process by individuals which heal as part of the healing of their communities. For most non-First Nations people, the term seems to have purely individual connotations.
There are several dangers here, given the onslaught First Nations cultures are experiencing and the challenge of cultural ransmission under a brutal occupation. First, by appropriating these rituals the colonial society may well alter them significantly, such that First Nations youth--many of whom are alienated from their own cultures--will mistake these corrupted practices with their own cultural legacies. Second, since non-Aboriginal control of media and educational institutions is so entrenched, these corrupted practices may have a competitive edge, such that they may flourish while the original practices die out. Third, these practices perpetuate romanticized stereotypes about First Nations people, and thereby supplant the actual voices of Indigenous cultures.