By Nicole Willis The Standing Rock movement was a unique uprising in many ways. It had many facets and moving parts, each with a voice of its own. It must be remembered though that at the heart of the movement… Continue Reading
By Julian Brave NoiseCat In 2016, as Donald Trump ascended to the highest office in the land with the revanchist slogan, “Make America Great Again,” Indigenous peoples gathered on the banks of the Mni Sose, or Missouri River, just north of… Continue Reading
By Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Indigenous peoples have been engaged in over 4 centuries of resistance against a violent backdrop of conquest, genocide, expansive dispossession, unfettered capitalist exploitation, heteropatriarchy, white supremacy and environmental apocalypse. Indigenous presence is a direct result of generations… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt The Standing Rock protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline during 2016-2017 built on decades, or rather centuries, of resistance to ongoing colonial dispossession and dehumanization—or, in the judicious words of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, to four centuries… Continue Reading