My Cousin Ray Sixkiller is back for his weekly scamper though the news from an American Indian point of view.
As usual, I appreciate likes from those who in fact like it and forwards to people who have an appropriately warped sense of humor.
Once more this week, there is a substantial sound track--too many tunes to embed all the videos, so you will have to follow the links to get all the music there is to be gotten.
Friday’s First Look broadcast über-cute video of a polar bear cub recently birthed at the Toronto Zoo. My Cousin Ray Sixkiller complained “a bear cub is a lame excuse for lack of Rob Ford news. Toronto has standards, you know?”
In US news that turned into Canadian news, Rolling Stone critic Andy Greene opined that Canadian ex-pat Neil Young’s four-night stand at Carnegie Hall was “spellbinding,” an opinion shared by Bruce Handy in Vanity Fair. Young is in the middle of a four show “Honour the Treaties” tour with Diana Krall to benefit the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Legal Defense Fund. The First Nations benefit is the other bookend around Carnegie Hall, the first being Farm Aid. Cousin Ray’s remark that “the oil companies have the power, but we have the music” reminded me of another Canadian, Leonard Cohen, because oil companies can become as ugly as the scars they leave.
Young has made an issue of the cancer rates among First Nations people living near the tar sands developments, provoking a response from the Prime Minister’s office trying to drive a wedge between Young the “rock star” and “hard working Canadians.”
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