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Sustainer profile #64: Eden Robinson
An interview with Haisla/Heiltsuk author Eden Robinson about her relationship to land, the importance of independent journalism in covering Indigenous movements, and why she donates monthly to Briarpatch.
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To Wood Buffalo National Park, with love
After a long legacy of power and control by Parks Canada, this story imagines how Lands and Peoples could once again live in healthy reciprocity.
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Manufacturing Wet’suwet’en consent
Why the Canadian government and industry are doing everything they can to avoid consulting with hereditary leadership on Wet’suwet’en yintah
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Land Back means protecting Black and Indigenous trans women
Historically, Black and Indigenous trans women were honoured within our communities. Today, Land Back means undoing transmisogyny in our movements and restoring the cultural importance of non-colonial gender identities.
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This Prairie city is land, too
I wonder what it would mean to walk freely on my own lands without fear of surveillance by white prairie settlers and criminalization by the institutions that serve their interests.
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Sexual sovereignty
Indigenous sex workers continue to pave the way for sexual liberation. How is this fundamental to Land Back?
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Becoming intimate with the land
To make the link between hunting, land use, and Land Back, Alex Wilson spoke to three Indigenous women hunters about patriarchy, spirituality, and the joys of being on the land.
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Reconnecting to the spirit of the language
In all of our interviews with nêhiyawêwin-speaking Elders, learners, and teachers across Treaty 6, we learned that the land is integral to Indigenous language revitalization, as the land and the language are inherently and intrinsically connected.
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mâmawiwikowin
European political traditions would have us believe that being sovereign means asserting exclusive control over a territory, whereas Prairie NDN political traditions teach us that it is through our relationship with others that we are sovereign.
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Four case studies of Land Back in action
From land trusts to mushroom permitting, here are some examples of what Land Back looks like on the ground
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Land as a social relationship
The land has always been here and Indigenous Peoples have always been reclaiming parts of it. So Canada’s challenge is how to keep us off of it, and how to keep us from holding onto the idea that it’s right for us to reclaim it.
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What is Land Back? A Settler FAQ
Settlers have a lot of questions about Land Back: What does it mean? Who will the land be given back to? How will it be governed? Will settlers be forced to leave the continent? Brooks Arcand-Paul and Nickita Longman help clear up some of the frequently asked questions about the Land Back movement.
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“Land Back” is more than the sum of its parts
When we say “Land Back” we want the system that is land to be alive so that it can perpetuate itself, and perpetuate us as an extension of itself. That’s what we want back: our place in keeping land alive and spiritually connected.
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Back 2 the Land: 2Land 2Furious
Molly Swain and Chelsea Vowel of Métis in Space discuss Métis futurisms and how they started their Land Back project.
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Invested in crisis
Pension funds control billions of dollars of workers’ money. But when pension funds are invested in real estate, are they really working for workers?
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Decolonizing ecology
From traditional fishing technologies to bringing back the bison, Indigenous ecological practices are our best bet to save the planet – and ourselves
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Prison unionism
How a public-sector union became the leading advocate of jail-building in Manitoba – and laid the foundation for the province’s incarceration disaster.
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What do we do when humanitarians are the disaster?
#AidToo is exposing abuses of power at aid organizations. Two stories from Canadian NGOs show what it takes to blow the whistle, and how the industry responds to accusations.
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Breaking the cycle of harm
To avoid police and prisons, more leftists are turning to accountability processes to repair harm. But fractious accountability processes are tearing communities apart. How might returning to transformative justice’s Black feminist roots help break the cycle?