The Canadian whitestream press has been abuzz lately with the meeting between Canada’s good Indians (aka the neocolonial band council and AFN sellouts) and Canada’s white power establishment, currently headed by Prime Minister Stephan Harper. Mohawk Nation News shines the light of truth on this meeting and what it means for Canada’s Native people. Mohawk [...]
A new article by Johnny Hawke of the northern Ontario based Anishinabek Confederacy to Invoke our Nationhood (ACTION). In this article he examines the indigenous response to the situation in the Cree community of Attiwapiskat that has been in the mainstream Canadian media so much lately and consequently and driving White people into a fury again [...]
Once again, the organizers of the National Day of Mourning dedicated the day to Native political prisoner Leonard Peltier. Peltier was framed up by the FBI and has been wrongfully imprisoned since 1976. Tiokasin Ghosthorse spoke and read an update from the Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee: In September, as you know, Leonard was transferred [...]
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By Moonanum James and Mahtowin Munro. Mahtowin Munro (Lakota) and Moonanum James (Wampanoag) are co-leaders of United American Indians of New England. Every year since 1970, United American Indians of New England have organized the National Day of Mourning observance in Plymouth at noon on Thanksgiving Day. Every year, hundreds of Native people and our supporters from [...]
For the third year in a row Defenders of the Land (DoL) has issued a call to First Nations / Indigenous communities and supporters across Canada to host a week of events celebrating Indigenous Sovereignty. The purpose of Indigenous Sovereignty Week is to gather with the intention of building local relationships among groups and individuals [...]
An important and insightful article by Johnny Hawke of the northern Ontario based Anishinabek Confederacy to Invoke our Nationhood (ACTION). On a similar theme check out Jimmie Durham’s classic essay American Indian Culture: Traditionalism and Spiritualism in a Revolutionary Struggle. “Traditionalism, the movement to restore the social, cultural, and political integrity of our communities by restoring [...]
Props for this two part short film have to go to Mike Barber, a comrade Toronto for doing the camera and editing work on this video. More importantly, props to Krysta Nyshn a good friend of mine. She a hard working indigenous feminist and is involved with the Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN). Also featured Erin [...]
On October 12, 1492 the real war against terror, waged by the indigenous people of the continent now called the Americas, began. It has not ended in the 519 years since. On that day some European named Christopher Columbus washed up on the shores of our Taíno brothers and sisters in the Bahamas. However, unlike the European [...]
By Jessica Yee The “OCCUPY WALL STREET” slogan has gone viral and international now. From the protests on the streets of WALL STREET in the name of “ending capitalism” – organizers, protestors, and activists have been encouraged to “occupy” different places that symbolize greed and power. There’s just one problem: THE UNITED STATES IS ALREADY BEING OCCUPIED. [...]
This is a series of excerpts from an essay written in 1974 by Jimmie Durham. It is one of the most influential pieces of work on my political thought, both as a revolutionary communist and as a revolutionary Native nationalist. In this piece Durham, critically addresses the colonial attitudes of white “leftists” that have historically caused [...]
The government wants me to die in here, but I’m not going to…I believe in the Spirit of Crazy Horse. They have imprisoned my body, but my spirit soars like an eagle. I will never give up, despite the threats to my health and life from this long imprisonment. I am an innocent man and [...]
In the last while many comrades and other people in the so-called “United States” have been passing around the results of a recent survey which has demonstrated the (obvious to us here at POCO!) huge gulf in wealth between the white oppressor nation and the colonized African nation and so-called “Hispanics.” According to the study, [...]
Algonquins of Barriere Lake are celebrating the suspension of mining exploration in their territory by Cartier Resources Inc. — a Val d’Or based corporation – after it had begun line-cutting in preparation for its mining exploration earlier this year. On the company’s request, the government of Quebec has now suspended the term of Cartier Resource’s 1,052 mineral [...]
By Zainab Amadahy. She is a mother, writer and activist. Her publications include the novel Moons of Palmares as well as an essay in the anthology Strong Women’s Stories: Native Vision & Community Activism. Most recently Amadahy has contributed to In Breach of the Colonial Contract by co-authoring “Indigenous Peoples and Black People in Canada: Settlers or Allies?”
The Chief Uncle Tomahawk in Canada and his imperialist white power settler colonist masters have launched an all out assault on what remains of our sovereignty. From the Indigenous Anticapitalist Network Assembly of First Nations Chief Shawn Atleo tries to convince First Nations chiefs to”support his blueprint for radically altering, structurally and politically, the relationship [...]
This is what it sounds like when Jaguars cry. This is what it feels like when the Eagles fly. This is what it looks like to watch them all die. This is what it tastes like everytime you lie. – Los Nativos, “An Eagle Named Chango” To borrow a phrase from the great African revolutionary [...]
Yesterday and today marks 135 years since that settler murderer Custer and the rest of his horde were cut down by the brave and victorious warriors of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho nations. In remembrance of them and their sacrifices I have put together this short piece. It first appeared on my personal site. [...]
Yesterday the Ignite Collective in NYC posted an article for Father’s Day called Fathers Day in Amerikkka. It’s a short but good article on the low graduation and employment rates, and subsequent mass incarceration rates, of Afrikan and “Latino” men in the United States, and it got me to thinking about the relative invisibility of Native [...]
Greetings to all my friends and compatriots, Everyone it seems knows something about Geronimo Pratt. To all of us, to every human being on the planet, he was a beacon of principle that we should all aspire to emulate. To those directly involved in the struggle, he was one of those gifted, tough as nails warriors who not only [...]
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