- The place of inhabitation for Indigenous Peace Education. The Peace Cafés are most fantastic environments to sit (or stand) and discuss (or sit quietly and think) about ideas, passions, motivations, ways of being or just about whatever.
- Working with so many amazing people, there are bound to be amazing ideas. Rob Porter orchestrates www.noadversary.org as a means to celebrate information sharing with the masses. He has found that mainstream media creates an adversarial mentality to ..... yes, sell more papers. This site intends to remove adversaries as a selling point.
- Understanding the complex history of Indigenous peoples in Canada/United States/ Turtle Island is just that .... complex. Indigenous peoples have resisted colonial/imperial presences in their lives since time immemmorial. www.dickshovel.com/500.html Read for a non-exhaustive comprehension of over 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance
- I was at school today (McMaster University) and I was perusing the bulletin boards and came across the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address as printed from www.homeplanet.org/thanksgiving.html and was fascinated that this was in cybertron world. I guess anything is possible. The entire site is well configured and offers a lot of information about a broad culture of peace. www.homeplanet.org Indigenous specific information is located under the FNTI button
- Working in Hamilton, Ontario affords me the awesome opportunities to surround myself with many like minded individuals working towards the same goals using means of empowerment as their vehicle. One great means of empowerment is free knowledge sharing and reciprocal ways of learning. www.hamiltonfreeskool.org
- Independent news forums are so important. Check www.dominionpaper.ca
- LANGUAGE, Languge, language. An oh so important facet of working in Peace Education is understanding the connotations of language. kanienkeha.blogspot.com/ is a spot to find Kanienkeha / Mohawk language resources. www.anishinaabemdaa.com/ is a spot to find Anishnaabek / Ojibwe language resources *** Indigenous languages have always existed to speak about how we relate to each other and the earth, not how we own each other / the earth ***
- The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/DRIPS_en.pdf This declaration has not been ratified by Canada, the United States and New Zealand.
*** this is a non exhaustive list of links and will be continually updated in order to use skennen.org as a means of Peace Education. contact danielle@peace-education.ca if you have suggestions or comments ***