Welcome to the seventh episode of Armed Love, the Anti-Fot-side Project about the Revolutionary Countercultures of the 60s and let's just say 70s at this point.

Today we're talking about the subject of the new book from PM Press, The Mohawk Warrior Society,

a handbook for survival, with three of its editors.

Philippe Bloughin, a translator and political anthropologist in Montreal,

filmmaker and anthropologist Malik Rassamni, and filmmaker and my colleague at the Woodbine autonomous space in Queens

Matt Peterson. You might know the Mohawk Warrior Society best from their

red and yellow warrior unity flag which became somewhat ubiquitous in circles and

blockades around the AIM and Red Power Movements, and we'll be talking today

about the history and perspectives of the Mohawk people, their land occupations in Ganiyaway and Oka,

and what decolonization means in practice and how leftist can understand it and take part.

Oh, and since its armed love, we'll also be talking somehow about

MK Ultra and Leonard Cohen. Enjoy the episode. Hi I'm Philip Bluin. I'm a PhD, Can Bedman, anthropology at McGill University, and I've been

working with Guinea-Gihaga Mohawk Traditions for about eight years now, since I first met

them in the company of Matt and Malik here.

And since then I devoted all my time and energy and spiritual capacities to

to understanding their worldview which just fascinates, and that is a worldview in struggle, and that has a very important message for the whole world.

I'm mad, I'm Beatt, I'm a filmmaker and archivist and documentarian and since 2014 Malik and I have been

collaborating on a project called the Native and the Refugee which is a multimedia documentary

project looking at American Indian reservations in the United States. a multimedia part of the project was for us to travel to Agwasazane, which is a Mohawk territory, which spans the United

States and Canada across the border and spans the states of New York and the provinces of

on Teck and, excuse me me the provinces of Quebec and Ontario and you know that was a really fascinating case study you know thinking about sovereignty and jurisdiction and these colonial borders which which came on to this territory which existed before Europeans arrived and on that territory is the Mohawk War society and we've kind of started a collaboration with them

to understand this place and also think about these histories and kind of different forms of

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