The movements of colonial invasion forces during the Northwest Resistance of 1885
History is What’s Happening
This site is currently under (re)construction. If you find a broken link, you may still be able to find the article by using the search button or bar at the top and bottom of each page. However, at this point, most if not all the links in the menu sections should be functional, and hopefully those sections also make it easier to find the type of thing you’re looking for.
This site serves as an online archive focusing on first hand accounts of social movements, but also including some secondary histories and analysis. As the saying goes, “listen to voices”, only this time, really listen, learn, and think for yourself. The republishing of an article here should not be taken as an endorsement of each and all of its author’s arguments by the site Editor.
The name of this site is copied from that of an early album by the Dutch punk rock band The Ex, of which some other rockers have been appreciators for a good long while.
But as the Vancouver classic rock band Trooper once so poignantly reminded us, “We’re here for a good time, not a long time.”
Or as Anna Strunsky long ago put it, “Life must never become a habit… It must be a triumph, it must be a consecration.”
The point of this archive site is to make various historical texts more accessible in a simple, collated and searchable text format, and to attach as editorial addendum relevant links to texts and videos on other sites, in order to provide greater context and scope for each text republished here.
For example, there is not yet any comprehensive online archive or library where one can find together in a single place every article that Emma Goldman ever wrote. Articles by various writers are dispersed throughout many different magazines, newspapers, books and online archives without being collected all in some handy location. That said, let one hundred archives bloom!
With regard to this particular archive site, for the most part, redundancy has been avoided. If a text is already available in a simple and accessible text format elsewhere, usually a link will be provided instead of the full article being republished here. In the past, a few texts were republished here despite already being accessible elsewhere simply because they were particularly interesting and not getting enough attention, or because certain information had been left out by other republishers. Sometimes it has also happened that an editor was unaware that a text was already available in an accessible format online, so the redundancy was just a mistake.
Please note that the images added on this site to the different texts are not necessarily from the original source publications.
-Ed