Accountability and Financial Reporting

I have requested with other band members a band meeting with Chief and Council as to date we have not been accommodated. This is a philosophy I believe in: our members should have input into our financial and mental health as a whole. How can this be done when we haven't had a general meeting for 3 or more years? There is confusion and infighting due to this. It is time to use our ancestral talking stick and meet, listen, and come to a consensus. I do not believe in the Indian Act election system. It has killed our spirit and has divided us as a whole: A strong nation of Anishinaabeg. I believe in clan responsibilities and I am from the Bear Clan and these are the responsibilities I respect.

It has came for us to use the Canadian Government and Study groups research and its legal protocols to change our governmental system because they are not helping their own peoples. I am angry and hurt that people are getting abused and hurt, and our children see this; as well.  They see unhealthy behaviours: greed and it power abuses. It effects us all.

It is seen in the high suicidal rate in First Nations communities. This is a sickness that needs to stop and we all need to accept responsibility and change things.

Our ancestors are here helping us, as well, so don't be scared because in the end we will see our people and they will not turn there backs to us. This is respect and trust.

Just because I do not speak the language doesn't mean I can't understand them.

Its going to suck for the people who are going to have to talk to them when they pass on. Did you forget they can see what's going on? This is not a threat it is the soulful and spiritual truth!

ACCOUNTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY RELATIONSHIPS For this report, the Study Group chose to use the definition of accountability provided by the Office of the Auditor General of Canada.3 Accountability is a relationship based on obligations to demonstrate, review, and take responsibility for performance, both the results achieved in light of agreed expectations and the means used.
The Auditor General’s definition of accountability is linked with an accountability framework that consists of four elements:4 (1) roles and responsibilities; (2) expected performance; (3) reporting requirements; and (4) mechanisms for review and adjustment.
The first element refers to the roles and responsibilities of the parties in an accountability relationship. There needs to be a clear understanding of the duties, obligations and related authorities of each party. Accountability is a two-way street and all parties to the accountability relationship have roles and responsibilities. As accountability relationships are not static, these roles and responsibilities will adapt to suit changes in social, economic and political circumstances.
The primary accountability relationship is the relationship between a First Nation government and its members. Both government and members have important roles to play in the accountability relationship. The members have a duty to engage: they select their government and are also responsible for any changes in that government. Therefore, they need to hold their government accountable by reviewing government performance and ensuring that their government will make any required adjustments to its performance. Otherwise, there will be no accountability and the government will have no legitimacy. The First Nation government has a responsibility to provide services and ensure the well-being of its members. The chosen government needs to make sure that the members of the First Nation understand the activities their government has undertaken and that they have an opportunity for input (The Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, Financial Reporting by First Nations, 2008: 44).

Hittoral

Hittoral is
about globalization and its effects on the indigenous peoples of the world and its’
continuous appropriating of their lands and its’ genocidal effects.

H-value

This video is about the genocidal and hurtful affects that the Church has had on the Anishinaabeg, and Indigenous peoples. It is about the "Doctrine of Discovery" that the Church forces onto Indigenous people. This is how our land got stolen from us. If you care to find out research the "Doctrine of Discovery" and the affects from past to present. This still has it affects now and that is why you see some of our people on the streets. The effects of residential school has put some of our people on the streets and unhealthy. I hope to cause some understanding from the Euro-Canadians in Kenora and elsewhere how this has happened. This is happening everywhere. This is why I am here at school and this is my journey to help our people. So stop calling our people dirty, lazy, drunken bums, and derelicts. This just proves Kenora and others are racists and ignorant. 

Four Stanza Stop's

Fighting the Police State

I thought by fighting against Police Abuse and telling the truth in the Court of Law in Kenora was the best thing to do. It was a fight that did not go unanswered by the Police and the Court System.

I was warned if I wanted to go all the way by a lecturer at CopWatch International in Winnipeg that I would be fighting a very hard battle. I did care and heeded his warnings as well as others lecturing there, and I was an unwilling warrior at times, but I could not let myself and others down. I needed to go through this fight.

I did a complaint against the male officer who assaulted me at the Lakeside Mini Mart to the Kenora Police Detachment. They directed me to make a complaint to the Office of the Independent Police Review Director... They sent a very nice man down to investigate the complaint against Officer M. Barclay and then directed it back to the Kenora Detachment for more investigation. The final report was so eloquently done and made the Officer look like he was doing his job by assaulting a Anishinabe women for a HTA, and made it look like that I was a criminal in the Kenora Court System by finally charging me with Obstruction of a Police Officer and HTA (Driving While Under Suspension - for unpaid fines).

Please note, that if you have any kind of criminal charge or have made a complaint to the police about an abusive boyfriend they will use that against you to make it look like the assault by the police officer was all your fault.

Please note, my circumstances are different and if you have a clean record or have not been charged with anything you will have a better chance than I. Please be safe you are fighting against the Police and Court System that is built on colonialism. Meaning it is just another racist and abstract/oppressive system that is not good for us Anishinabeg here in Kenora, or the poor.

In the court system in Kenora, Judge Frazer told me he was thinking of putting me in jail, but because of my Lawyers excellent representation (He is and still is a lawyer who I admire and respect: here in Kenora) and my daughter who was witness on my behalf showed good and moral character must of said something good about me as a mother. Therefore I have six months probation and 20 hours of community work, and a thousand dollar fine.

So I have to be good for another four months, but I do have a conviction of Obstructing a Police Officer. Therefore I have to be a good and moral and very civilised "Indian."

You will here from me again. I am scared but not alone.

CopWatch Winnipeg Manitoba lecture at the Nonviolent Gathering "Stop Police Abuse"

Winnipeg, Manitoba lecture and workshop in what you can do to stop Police Abuse and Brutality in our communities. I thank both lectures from Copwatch for taking the time to come down to let us know our rights in documenting and videoing police who are abusing our community members and what we can do to change things in our community against Police Abuse and Brutality.

meegwich (thank you) CopWatch, your support and lecture to us have helped so much.

Intro at Nonviolent Gathering "Stop Police Abuse"

Diane McLeod, local activist in Kenora against Police Abuse is doing the Intro and, why she is fighting against police abuse. Additionally people and my family have been harassed by police with scare tactics and intimidation. While at the gathering we were blasted by sirens, Policeman, Sargent Wiebe came uninvited to the gathering and mentioned we could make our complaints to the Police detachment, and Diane McLeod said, "I already did." Then asked Diane to go aside from the others to issue a statement, but she declined and walked away. Also while at the gathering a white Ford Truck drove 20 feet near the people attending and pointed fingers and laughed at the attendees. We all ignored them and continued with our presentations and gathering against "Police Abuse." The two men in the truck left. Please watch the videos 1 and 2 for uncut version of the Nonviolent Gathering "Stop Police Abuse" on Anishinabe scared land at Anishinabe Park in Kenora, Ontario. I thank the people who attended and who supported the cause and understand  that people were worried and scared to come out, but our fight is not over. There are so many others than myself and my family and our community who have been beaten, coerced, and frightened  into not complaining against the police who have abused them. I, Diane McLeod is starting this stand against Police Abuse and will continue to do it in the court system and hope you will come out and support the cause in the future!