Real Peoples Media In this speech, Sakej Ward talks about decolonization in relationship to the original people of the land you are living in. He argues that a central aspect of any process of change requires the correct identification of the terms we use to describe ourselves. Ward seeks to dispel the illusions and resulting…
Category: Indigenist Resistance Movements
Towards Unsettling Paths
“If non-indigenous anarchists are to develop ways of interacting with indigenous peoples that are different from those of political organizations they must begin from direct communication, solidarity and trust. Anyone who really wants to act in solidarity with others does not stumble around inside their homes, uninvited, stinking of arrogance and ignorance, and taking up…
500 Years of Indigenous Resistance
By *Anonymous Introduction Throughout the year 1992, the various states which have profited from the colonization of the Americas will be conducting lavish celebrations of the “Discovery of the Americas”. Spain has spent billion of dollars for celebrations in conjunction with Expo ‘92 in Seville. In Columbus, Ohio, a $100 million quincentennial celebration plans on…
500 Years of Indigenous Resistance by Gord Hill
500 Years of Indigenous Resistance by Gord Hill Indigenous Resistance and Anarchism with Gord Hill
Indigenous Resistance and Anarchism with Gord Hill
Gord Hill’s website is Warrior Publications. It contains a wealth of resources.
Revolutionary Women: Zapatista and YPJ-STAR Embrace New Gender Politics
By Charlotte Maria Sáenz “…revolutionary struggles cannot achieve collective liberation for all people without addressing patriarchy, nor can women’s freedom be disentangled from racial, economic, and social justice.” “Zapatista women have participated at all levels of the movement to fight for justice and dignity for the indigenous people of Chiapas and, at the same time,…
The Zapatista Women’s Revolutionary Law
Zapatista Women: The Struggle Within the Struggle The still water in the vessel overflows and turns itself into a wild river of movement …. The women are the spiritual and material support of this army; if we can survive in large numbers, it is thanks to them ….Tomorrow, if there is to be one, will…
Dennis Banks: ‘We AIM not to please’
Dennis Banks Native American activists occupy of the Bureau of Indian Affairs building in Washington, D.C., in 1972. The birth of a radical Native movement [Editor: The American Indian Movement was started in Minneapolis in 1968, by co-founders Dennis Banks and Clyde Bellecourt. In the sixth chapter of his book “Ojibwa Warrior,” Banks recounts the…
Towards An Indigenous Egoism
Cante Waste (Good Heart) Introduction I am an Indigenous person of the Oglala Lakota nation. My ancestors are from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in western South Dakota. Before then, they were nomadic and traveled freely across the entire area known as the Great Plains. I am also an individualist anarchist and, for better or…
A Place Called Chiapas
Documentary about the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico.
I Am Indigenist | Notes on the Ideology of the Fourth World by Ward Churchill
The growth of ethnic consciousness and the consequent mobilization of Indian communities in the Western hemisphere since the early 1960s have been welcomed neither by government forces nor by opposition parties and revolutionary movements. The “Indian Question” has been an almost forbidden subject of debate throughout the entire political spectrum, although racism, discrimination and exploitation…
