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Pushing pipeline ownership onto First Nations
How industry and governments hatched plans to pass the most contentious pieces of resource industry infrastructure onto First Nations
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The People Who Own Themselves
A grassroots collective is putting forward a different vision of a Métis future – one based on reciprocity, good governance, and anti-colonialism.
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Indigenous persistence reading list
These books and films represent an unflinching critique of colonialism from a perspective where the personal and the political cannot be separated.
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“We have our footsteps everywhere”
In 2018 the Kaska Dena created their own hunting permit system, to protect their land and the animals that share it. In doing so, they amplified a complex dispute between the Kaska and settler governments about who has authority over the land.
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Celebrating two magazine awards
The Land Back issue’s National Magazine Award is a testament to the activists behind the Land Back movement, who have worked tirelessly to force the Canadian state and Canadian media to reckon with the literal and figurative foundations of this country.
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Against all nationalisms
Nandita Sharma responds to Phil Henderson’s review of her new book, “Home Rule.” She argues that instead of providing us with freedom and justice, national liberation struggles have delivered us to capital and to sovereign power. As a result, rejecting nationalism – all nationalisms, including indigenous nationalisms “from below” – is critical to anti-colonial struggle.
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Land Back beyond borders
What does it mean for Indigenous people to be good guests on each other’s land?
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Land Back Camp: Our Voices
Portraits of the Indigenous people and settlers of O:se Kenhionhata:tie, the camp that reclaimed land in Victoria Park and Waterloo Park for six months of 2020.
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Leaked draft of federal UNDRIP legislation fails to inspire on first look
Is UNDRIP legislation just another way for settler governments to delay action and maintain the status quo, or can this legislation truly transform relationships for the better?
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Whose land is it, anyways?
An interview with Ginnifer Menominee on treaty holders, ceremonial jurisdiction, and Land Back in Guelph.
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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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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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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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A world of many worlds
Is the idea of Indigenous sovereignty really in conflict with the well-being of migrant communities? A review of “Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants.”
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Reviving Indigenous authorities in Guatemala
In Guatemala, traditional Indigenous governments are battling municipalities and transnational corporations for control of their land
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Tarsands vs. treaty
The Beaver Lake Cree Nation is taking on the tarsands, arguing that they represent too much industrial development in the face of constitutionally protected treaty rights.
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“Indigenizing” child apprehension
In Ontario’s Indigenous child welfare agencies, the superficial trappings of culture take the place of policies that would grant jurisdiction over Indigenous children to Indigenous families, individuals, and communities.