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Quaker Indian Residential/Boarding Schools
For the past five or six years I’ve searched for and found opportunities to be engaged with and learn from Indigenous peoples. This grew out of working together to bring attention to the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) in Indianapolis, beginning … Continue reading
Indigenous Youth, Leadership and Suicide
Yesterday I wrote about children as sacred beings. And how moved I have been by the eloquence of Indigenous youth. Below is an example, where Kolin Sutherland-Wilson discusses the history of colonialism and the struggle of the Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en. … Continue reading
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Solidarity in a pandemic. Digital week of action.
Solidarity in a pandemic We see you out you there participating in mutual aid and keeping your communities, your Elders and your immunocompromised loved ones fed and safe. We know that we cannot rely on the state to keep us safe. … Continue reading
Sacred, Holy Beings
One thing I’ve learned from these years of writing is I never know what I’m going to say when I center myself before the computer. I’ve heard people say they could not not do…. I can not not write. It … Continue reading
Affirmation of traditional territories
Wet’suwet’en Access Point on Gidimt’en Territory March 14 at 5:09 PM · The Wet’suwet’en started the preliminary work on the affirmation of our traditional territories, in 1974 – for Delgamuukw & Gisday’wa v the Queen. 23 years later, the Supreme Court … Continue reading
Physical isolation does not–and cannot–mean we let up the pressure to get the RCMP OFF Wet’swet’en land!
Keitha Keeshig-Tobias is with Tyler Bryan and 18 others.2 hrs 🖤❤💛♡ALL EYES ON WET’SUWET’EN♡💛❤🖤 #Repost @leapuoft ・・・STARTING NOW UNTIL 3PM TOMORROW:Physical isolation does not–and cannot–mean we let up the pressure to get the RCMP OFF Wet’swet’en land!NOW, and sometime over the next 24 hours, post a … Continue reading
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Lands, colonialism and disasters
These are perilous times for many reasons. The health and economic dangers of the coronavirus pandemic have upended our societies and our lives. As the message below from Sovereign Likhts’amisyu warns, “during disasters, colonial and imperialist states use the chaos … Continue reading
Unist’ot’en Solidarity Brigade Action Update 3/12/2020
Much has happened this week as actions have continued through the week supporting the demands of the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary chiefs that Coastal GasLink and RCMP leave the territory and people are gearing up to mobilize further. The callout for solidarity … Continue reading
Canada and U.S. – Banks, Corporations and Railroads
The following stories show the variety of ways being used to try to stop fossil fuel projects in both the U.S. and Canada. A federal appeals court affirmed on Wednesday a lower court ruling that held it could order a … Continue reading
Wet’suwet’en Land Re-occupations and Likhts’amisyu
Wet’suwet’en Land Re-occupations: Several Wet’suwet’en clans have re-occupied their traditional territories (outside of the reservations alloted by alloted by Canada), in order to revitalize their culture, traditional harvesting practices, and generations of storytelling embedded in the land. These re-occupations include: … Continue reading
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Quakers, social justice and revolution 