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May Day & the Haymarket Martyrs

“Does this rising generation know that those who inaugurated the eight-hour day were put to death at the command of capital?”

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Unnatural System

History keeps getting older. But sometimes to preserve is to destroy.

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No More! On the blockade at Grassy Narrows – Chrissy Swain (2004)

“I remember an elder once told me on my healing journey that I should start with myself, my family, my community, and then our nation. I never understood that until the day my sister, another young man and I went to lay logs over the road.”

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The Six Nation Iroquois Confederacy stands in support of our brothers at Wounded Knee (1973)

“This is the greatest gift we gave to you, the concept of freedom. You did not have this. Now that you have taken it and built a constitution and country around it, you deny freedom to us.”

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Tecumseh’s speech to Governor Harrison at Vincennes, Indiana Territory (August 12, 1810)

“The way, and the only way, to check and to stop this evil, is for all the Redmen to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet; for it was never divided, but belongs to all for the use of each.”

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Colonial Problems rebranded as ‘Indigenous Issues’ – Mbwaach’idiwag Podcast

“Métis scholar and writer Mike Gouldhawke visits with Sara Mai to unpack his take on The Globe and Mail front page news story on the ‘Water Crisis’ in Indigenous communities”