About Urban Raven
Urban Raven is now this blog. In 2007 it was a forum owned by Simon [*] at worldcrossing.com for the discussion of current events having to do with the Kanonhstaton land reclamation at Six Nations of the Grand River, reclamation of languages and culture by Indigenous peoples, and discussion and comments on news articles having to do with those topics.
It was probably the second forum with such topical discussions, I can't recall off-hand what was the name of the first one, but we did come up with the name Urban Raven; first because our perspective at that time was an urban one, second because of the screenname Simon was using there at the time, which was Simon~Raven.
While it had started off as a public forum, it was closed (made private) and many forum members moved elsewhere to venues more conducive to civil, public discussions, and less likely to give free reign to trolls and internet abusers. To explain that last statement, worldcrossing.com (which has been announced as due to close 15 Apr 2011) has an ignore and 'no access' feature accessible by forum owners; however, those features worked only by user's screenname, a user could not be banned by IP. Nor was there a 'log out' feature; in fact a user could use pretty much unlimited alternate screennames and easily switch from one to the other.
Written by former Moderator of Urban Raven forum
(28 Mar 2011)
* Update: 6 Dec 2012 Simon of kisikew.org [EricLnu twitter] announced publicly that he no longer wishes to be known by that name, but by the "whiteman name" Eric Côté (121206)
