Tags – Colonization
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Calling all our superheroes
Success, sacrifice, and Indigenous education
I am often conflicted as an educator. As a Native woman, I consider the current system of education in Canada to be inherently colonial, and I hate my role in perpetuating it.
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compass/check/pulse point
Book review
Cynthia Dewi Oka’s first collection of poetry, nomad of salt and hard water (Dinah Press), drops anchor in the transoceanic struggle of bodies against borders
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Letter from the editor
Settler treaty card redux
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Speaking truth to power
Creative non-fiction winner
George was a stocky, whisker-faced, 48-year-old Cree man who covered his wiry black hair with a purple “Native Pride” trucker hat. He spent his entire life incarcerated – in residential schools, foster homes, mental wards, provincial jails, and federal prisons – and learned one thing: how to fight.
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No force more powerful
The Idle No More movement in photos
Nothing can really convey the power of moments where people come together to realize their collective strength, but we thought we’d try anyway
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Voices of resistance
Women on the front lines of a continental struggle
Across the Americas, Indigenous women are working to restore values of harmony, co-operation, balance, and respect within their communities.
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A steady lens and a dangerous weapon
Film review
“Healing is a challenge in life. It is a victim’s sole obligation,” he says. “Forgotten wounds cannot be healed. So I film to heal.”
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Defining who is Métis
The Métis registry and politics of state recognition
“I will never know exactly why and when my own family’s Métis history was buried; I only know that it was.”
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The olive grove
A graphic narrative
The annual olive harvest is a key economic, social, and cultural event for Palestinians. The olive oil produced makes up 14% of agricultural income in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and helps support 80,000 families.
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Conversations on ecological justice, healing, and decolonization
Book review
If those of us who care about the earth are to have a chance at actually stopping its destruction, we need to expand environmentalism way beyond its conventional boundaries.
