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  • Over 30 years of Indigenous resistance with Mohawk land defender Ellen Gabriel Hexbear post kkkanada

    Colonial-rooted poverty will not be solved by more colonial solutions’

    Thirty-four years ago, Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel was thrust into the spotlight when she was chosen as the spokesperson for the Kanienʼkehá:ka (Mohawk) communities of Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawà:ke, as they resisted the planned expansion of a golf course on into their sacred lands and burial grounds in southern Quebec and police and military attempted to subdue them by force.

    In a new book, When the Pine Needles Fall, Gabriel and settler historian Sean Carleton chart a course from the events of 1990 to the present, while extending into a generous and expansive vision of the future. The book, which they began writing in 2019, evolved during the pandemic, taking shape as a series of conversations that articulate the urgency and necessity of Indigenous resistance. Centring Gabriel’s own words through dialogue, Carleton writes, was a way to “divest my power and authority as an academic to create space for Ellen’s brilliance … to hold space and amplify Ellen’s voice, while also co-creating through conversation.”







  • on my class we were talking about the drama between mexico and spain over not inviting the king to the inauguration of sheinbaum, and while most of it was the standard, the king of spain doesnt matter and so on, one of my classmates said “there werent any bad guys during colonization, only grey” and i just had to stare bulborb-stare and say they literally did genocide, then i just ignore them