Walking Our Spirits Home
Emotional first leg of ‘Walking Our Spirits Home’, honouring residential school survivors
TK’EMLUPS – With plenty of orange and purple shirts, drumming and songs, it was hard to miss the large group w…
Chruches Burned
Two Catholic churches destroyed by fire on First Nations reserves in Canada
Blazes occurred hours apart on National Indigenous Peoples Day nearly a month after graves found at former Christian residential school
Punk and indigenous activism
A great podcast featuring punk musician and indigenous activist Klee Benally
Episode 6 – The Future Is Our Relative: Klee Benally
“Colonization is and always has been war” What better time than the week of so-called Thanksgiving to highlight Indigenous power and culture – to look to the future through a decolonizing lens that demands nothing less than the abolition of all oppressive systems? Klee Benally is an Indigenous anarchist, artist and agitator.
Seniors taking a stand
Saul Arbess, 82, said when the officers saw more than 100 seniors marching up the road, they just rolled up their police tape that marks the exclusion zone at Road 2000 and left.
Alison Acker, 92, was there on Tuesday, as she had been in Clayoquot Sound during the famed War in the Woods in the early 1990s. She was arrested there and was prepared to be arrested now.
Seniors overwhelm RCMP barrier past Fairy Creek blockade
About 100 elderly hikers swarmed the RCMP exclusion zone, no arrests were made
Indigenous women fight back
Enbridge, the Canadian energy company behind Line 3, claims it is merely replacing a 60-year-old pipeline that is likely to corrode and leak if it isn’t updated. But opponents see the plan as an expansion of it, because it will carry twice the amount of oil. Houska says Line 3 violates Anishinaabe rights granted under the 1837 White Pine Treaty by endangering wild rice, a plant unique to the region and sacred to her tribe. The pipeline faces legal challenges from tribes, environmental groups, and even the Minnesota Department of Commerce, all of which say the environmental risks far exceed the need for additional oil.
A pipeline is threatening their homeland. Indigenous women are fighting back.
To tribal attorney Tara Houska, the fight against the Line 3 pipeline is a fight for future generations.
Stop Line 3
Exterminate All the Brutes
Red Dress
How Red Dresses Became a Symbol for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Artist Jaime Black’s “The REDress Project” uses fashion to make a powerful statement.
