March 17, 2015 Kwey Kwey, Wow, thank you so much for the milestone. I now have over 1600 supporter signatures on this petition. It has been 5 months since I was in court in October 2014. During this time I have been keeping myself busy. One of my projects has included the organization and indexing of my court case files for the purpose of donating them to a university archive. I have pretty much completed this process. I have also reached out and contacted the archive of my choice asking if they are interested. Fortunately, they are and I will be sending out the collection in the next month or so. I have decided to send it prior to the completion of my court case as I know I can add additional materials once the judge renders her decision. I am of the thought that the preservation of this knowledge is important and I am happy to have it completed. On January 25, 2015 my work challenging Aboriginal Affairs’ Unstated Paternity Policy through the court system, and my work on the Algonquin land claims process was featured in Talking Radical Radio with Scott Neigh. I have completed several such interviews but I must say this podcast production is the best I have completed thus far. If you are interested in listening here is the direct link: http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/talking-radical-radio/2015/01/%EF%BB%BFlynn-gehl-centring-indigenous-knowledge On March 2, 2015 I also published an article in Briarpatch Magazine. This article offers a two part analysis. The first part is about the legislative amendment process regarding the sex discrimination in the status provisions of the Indian Act. I demonstrate and argue that although the Indian Act has been amended several times to eliminate the sex discrimination, new forms of sex discrimination have been created. This includes the matter of unknown and unstated paternity. The second part of the article focuses on the history of the treaty and land claims process where I demonstrate and argue that the process of federal policy change has resulted in no meaningful change for Indigenous people. Essentially my goal in this article is to walk the reader through two concrete colonial processes pointing out that nothing has really change despite numerous favourable Supreme Court of Canada decisions, the advent of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the addition of section 35 on Aboriginal Rights in the Constitution. I argue these two processes of continued denial is in fact an intentional act on the part of Canada and their policy analysts. In this way, the apology offered on June 11, 2008 by Stephen Harper in the House of Commons was really a non-apology. Here is a direct link to this article. Please and kindly take the time to read it and share it with friends and family as I need your help with this: http://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/canadas-indian-policy-is-a-process-of-deception The last thing I wanted to offer in this petition update is a reminder about my fundraiser book titled “Mkadengwe: Learning Canada’s Colonial Process through Black Face Methodology”. As a mechanism to generate some funding for my work I opted to publish this book myself. This book offers several short chapters and a collection of photographs in two interludes. The first highlights the 2005 twenty year anniversary protest of Bill C-31 and includes Jeannette Corbiere-Lavell and Sandra Lovelace. The second interlude highlights the 2010 Marche AMUN protest of Bill C-3 and includes Michèle Audette and Sharon McIvor. It is purposely written for a broader audience and community members such as Indigenous people, Canadian citizens, settlers, descendants of settlers, new immigrants, and allies to Indigenous people. In it I address common textual barriers for new readers and persons with disabilities offering clear, concise short chapters, a larger font size, many visuals, and greater white space. This book sells for $17.95. Here is the link: http://www.lynngehl.com/3-mkadengwe.html Miigwetch for standing with me. Lynn