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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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When sex workers go missing, who responds?
In 2017, Alloura Wells went missing. When police refused to file a missing persons report, sex workers stepped up to search for their friend. This is the story of the search for Alloura, and sex workers’ calls to abolish the police.
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physics lessons for settlers
nowhere is a prison / is a psych ward / is a suicide / is a death / from ‘natural causes’ is a mass grave
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Sask Dispatch
When Board Meetings Are Not Enough: A Poem for Abolition
At a recent city council meeting where Saskatoon approved millions more in funding for the Saskatoon Police Service, Erica Violet Lee was the only one who spoke against the increase. Rather than trying to convince those whose minds had already been made, she read a poem she had written in honour of Neil Stonechild, Kimberly Squirrel, and all the others whose lives have been stolen by colonial and carceral violence in Saskatoon.
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COVID and sexism in a women’s prison
Women have struggled to get what little we have in prison – but the COVID pandemic has stripped even that away.
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Guilty until proven innocent
Living on remand, it’s important to know how to fight for your rights when the justice system breaks its own rules.
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Finding kin and connection through “Halfbreed”
This year, I read Maria Campbell’s foundational memoir in a book club of Métis women. Nearly 50 years since it was published, “Halfbreed” still holds important teachings for those of us on the journey of understanding what it means to be Métis.
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In Canada’s federal women’s prisons, reproductive rights are under threat
In a new report, people inside women’s prisons explain how incarceration has impacted their reproductive health – from limiting health care access, to verbal and physical abuse, to destroying family connections.
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What is Gender-Based Environmental Violence?
When humans degrade the land, Indigenous women, girls, and trans and Two-Spirit people are the most severely affected. This isn’t an accident; it’s an integral part of settler-colonialism.
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Sask Dispatch
A fair day in – and out of – court
In Saskatchewan, what resources exist to help defendants navigate – and avoid getting trapped in – our complex and high-stakes court system?
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The space to tell stories
Since the Sask Party cut a key film tax credit in 2012, a lot of ink has been spilled about the film industry’s decline. But after the tax credit was cut, there’s been a groundswell of cinema by Indigenous women in Saskatchewan. How did this happen, and what can we learn about building a strong and just film industry?
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Magazine
Whose land is it, anyways?
An interview with Ginnifer Menominee on treaty holders, ceremonial jurisdiction, and Land Back in Guelph.
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A community response to COVID-19
As lockdown eases, a group providing assistance to Elders and seniors during COVID-19 is rethinking what community support looks like during the long arc of the pandemic.
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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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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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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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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 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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Magazine
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.