February
26
ELA B10: Feb 26 Finish viewing of movie…
- We continued viewing the movie A Time To Kill with the major themes of injustice and prejudice.
- Once finished, I read to the students a piece of Hate Literature that was circulated around Northern Saskatchewan in the 1990s by someone employed with the Provincial Government in the Department of Parks and Renewable Resources. It is a mock memo that discusses “Open Season on Indians” intended to “weed out” the number of Indians in the province every three years. This literature was found to be Hate Literature. We had a lengthy discussion over it.
- Also, we began reading through a political pamphlet circulated by Liberal Member of Parliament, Jim Pankiw. The front page of the pamphlet says “Stop Indian Crime”. The basis of the information given is to mislead the general public into believing inacurrate assumptions Pankiw makes based on the statistics he has found, such as the majority percentage of people in Saskatchewan jails are Native therefore Natives perpetuate more crimes than others. The fact that the population of Aboriginal to non-Aboriginal is uneven may have something to do with this but Pankiw ignores this fact.