“We are proud that the Métis Society of Saskatchewan was one of the few organization that supported the Native people of Kenora as they fight for justice.”
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“We are a collective of community members, prisoner advocates, and penal abolitionists who stand in solidarity with prisoners at the Saskatoon Correctional Centre (SCC), where 130 people (107 prisoners; 23 staff) or roughly 20% of the population have tested positive for COVID-19 as of November 30, 2020.”
A short outtake from my interview with the Flash Forward Podcast (in reference to the Briarpatch Magazine LandBack issue), and a link to the full episode of the podcast.
“The white power structure has used every possible method to destroy our spirit, and the will to resist. They have divided us into status and nonstatus, American and Canadian, Métis and Indian. We are fully aware of their ‘divide and rule’ tactic, and its effect on our people.”
“The ‘nation’ among the white people is a recent concept. The U.S.A. was the first white nation as all the other countries were kingdoms.”
“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.
“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.”
“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.”
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.
