“Real changes and improvements for our people can not be obtained through parliament. It is a mistake and misleading to think that the white man’s government will ever bring any real freedom and equality to us.”
“Decolonization never takes place unnoticed. It happens under the glare of history’s floodlights. It is a complete calling into question of the total colonial situation.”
An overview of Indigenous resistance history in Ecuador, from the 1530s to 2006, in light of the 2019 uprising
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Cost of Living
When people can’t afford to live anymore
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Settler Saturday
Every day is Settler Day in a settler state
And when the land gets reclaimed, like at Unist’ot’en, some claim shock, surprise and outrage over laws supposedly being broken. “Whose laws” somehow isn’t the important question. Settlers assume Indigenous laws don’t matter, just like they assume the land is theirs just because they say so, just because they want it.
