By INM Collective
Posted in - Actions on November 5th, 2013
On November 2, 2013, members of Elsipogtog First Nation began staking claims to unoccupied ‘Crown’ lands, as part of a Reclamation Day campaign to reclaim “all unoccupied reserved native lands” to be put it in …
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By INM Collective
Posted in - Actions on November 5th, 2013
On May 22, 2013, Chiefs of the WSANEC (Saanich) and Lekwungen (Songhees) First Nations, joined by an estimated 700-800 supporters from neighbouring First Nations and non-indigenous communities, participated in a joint action to Reclaim PKOLS, …
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By Renee Holt
Posted in - Reflections on November 5th, 2013
With events happening throughout Turtle Island, the reclaiming of Indigenous homelands is a relevant and conscious movement towards Indigenous nationhood. [...]
Supported by the Indigenous Nationhood Movement, PKOLS is one example …
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By Sakej Ward
Posted in - Reflections on November 5th, 2013
True Indigenous resistance power comes from the ability to confront raw colonial power with direct action.
We know that the governments’ agenda is to promote, support and protect corporations at the expense …
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By Lesley Belleau
Posted in - Reflections on November 5th, 2013
We must not be content to live a life that holds us down in restless corners, that writes our stories for us, that continues to belittle our cultures and languages, that offers our …
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By Corey Snelgrove
Posted in - Reflections on November 5th, 2013
As long as Canada is seen as benevolent/progressive, while Indigenous peoples are seen as violent/primitive, the Canadian state and its supporting forces will continue to criminalize resistance to the ongoing settler colonial occupation, …
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By Leanne Simpson
Posted in - Reflections on November 4th, 2013
The story here, the real story, is virtually the same story in every Indigenous nation: Over the past several centuries we have been violently dispossessed of most of our land to make room …
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