[NEWS] Some First Nations links: bigotries, Montréal plaques, High Arctic yarn, Abenaki

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• The startling anti-native racism demonstrated in a series of tweets by retired Brock University professor Garth Stevenson may see him stripped of any continuing affiliation with that university. CBC reports.


• SBS notes how Canadians Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern, visiting Sydney, set to engaging in racist slander against Australian Aborigines.


• The Bank of Montreal has just replaced plaques, on its headquarters at the Place d'Armes, commemorating the death in battle there of an Iroquois chief. I actually saw these in place on my recent visit, just days before these went. CBC reports.


• New findings suggest that, if yarn technology did diffuse in the High Arctic in the Norse period, it came from the Inuit to the Norse and not the other way around. Global News has it.


• Ici Radio-Canada reports on a new dictionary of Abenaki that might yet help save that indigenous language.