Author: historyiswhat

An overview of Indigenous resistance history in Ecuador, from the 1530s to 2006, in light of the 2019 uprising

When people can’t afford to live anymore

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.