Category: Reprint

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Toronto is an Iroquois Word

By Suzanne Methot of Dragonfly Consulting Services Canada TORONTO – At many gatherings in Toronto, people acknowledge that they are on “Mississauga territory.” That didn’t happen 20 years ago, and that makes it a good...

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Indigenize or die: reclaiming cities and traditional lands

By Fernando Arce The concrete buildings and streets that surround our Canadian cities hide a history of colonialism as well as vast swaths of green spaces and traditional lands that once flourished. That’s why...

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Chican@ Libearation and Indigenous Self-Determination

by Joaquin Cienfuegos Intro This was written for the people in the movement Chicano identified and beyond. It is also a reflection. We need to continue to build, but in order to do that...

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Amai Kuda “We can do it!”

https://youtu.be/00rR6iOhd-Y ‘We Can Do It’ is a call to action! It is a call to revolution! Created by Amai Kuda to promote the Decolonize NOW! movement and the Divest to Decolonize campaign, the song...

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(re)occupied: #OccupyINAC and British Columbia’s 1975 Militant May

By Sarah Nickel When approximately thirty members of the Idle No More and Black Lives Matter movements entered the Indigenous and Northern Affairs (INAC) office in Toronto on April 13, 2016 to protest government...

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Every Mohawk a suspect

WHY DRUGS RAIDS IN KANEHSATAKE FEEL LIKE POLICE INVASIONS  by DAN DAVID (originally published in 2011 in The Dominion) KANEHSATAKE — “You didn’t see anything?” my neighbour asks. Apparently, another big police raid is taking place....

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May Day and the Woodland Epoch of History

THE INCOMPLETE, TRUE, AUTHENTIC AND WONDERFUL HISTORY OF MAY DAY by the Midnight Notes Collective. THE GREEN Once upon a time, long before Weinberger bombed north Africans, before the Bank of Boston laundered money,...

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Operation MYGALE and the criminalization of the Indigenous tobacco industry

When trade is treated as a crime against the state: A backgrounder on the largest raids on the Indigenous tobacco industry in history. (First published by Ricochet Media.) By Tom Keefer The largest police crackdown...

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The colonial flight of the honey bee

By Jaydene Lavallie The honeybee is any of seven species that fall under the genus Apis, all characterized by their propensity to build hives made of wax in which to store honey. They exist...

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Earthship to be built for Six Nations woman

Eco-friendly home built free of charge for Six Nations woman JULIEN GIGNAC | The Globe and Mail | Sunday, Apr. 03, 2016 9:51PM EDT Foot-wide holes are punched clean through the skirting of the baby blue,...