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The Sea-Serpent – Tekahionwake (1911)

“All red races are born Socialists, and most tribes carry out their communistic ideas to the letter. Amongst the Iroquois it is considered disgraceful to have food if your neighbour has none.”

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Land as a social relationship

Since Canada can’t hide our Peoples’ lands, it seeks to remove our consciousness itself and break our mode of social relations.

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Indigenous Resistance, 1960s to 2007 – Warrior Publications

“Then, in the 1950s, inspired by the Black Civil Rights struggle in the southern US, Natives also began organizing for civil & treaty rights. In the southwest, Native students began organizing. In the Northwest, coastal Natives began asserting their treaty rights to fish.”

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An Exchange Between Sam Greenlee and Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite (2007)

“What many people miss is that the book and film [The Spook Who Sat By The Door] are based on the solid foundation of African American folklore that were the bedtime stories told to my brother and me by my southern maternal grandparents; the Brer Rabbit tales, in particular.”

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Canadian Imperialism and Institutional Racism: Connections between Black and Métis resistance movements

2019 marked the 50th anniversary of the occupation of Sir George Williams University in Montreal in 1969 by Black and Caribbean students who were protesting racist treatment by professors at the institution, as well as the 150th anniversary of the Métis Nation’s re-occupation of Fort Garry at Red River (Winnipeg) in 1869.

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The Brave-Hearted Women: The Struggle at Wounded Knee – Shirley Hill Witt (1976)

“The established media focused their attention on who they judged to be the leaders and organizers — that is, Native American males. Their cameras and tape recorders only grazed the faces of Martha Grass from Oklahoma or Ann Jock from Akwesasne or the many strong women who like Anna Mae Pictou breathed life into an idea.”