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🗓️ 3 February 2025
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A livestream conversation between TRN podcast host Nick Estes and Native comic artist and writer Gord Hill.
Gord Hill is an Indigenous writer, artist and activist from the Kwakwaka'wakw nation. He is the author and illustrator of The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance and The Anti-Capitalist Resistance.
Check out his piece, "Statement on Leonard Peltier’s Clemency and the Case of Annie Mae Aquash"
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0:00.0 | I'm a talk Gapi. This is Nick Gustus with the co-host of the Red Nation podcast, calling in live from Minneapolis, |
0:41.2 | the homeland of the Dakota people. |
0:43.3 | We are joined by a special guest, somebody whose work I've followed over the years, |
0:50.5 | Gord Hill, who's joining us to talk a little bit about his own work, but also this article |
0:56.3 | that he's written for Warrior Publications. |
0:59.1 | It should be posted in the chat if you want to check it out. |
1:02.0 | It involves the assassination of Anime Akwash and Leonard Peltier's recent commutation of his sentence under the former president Biden. |
1:15.8 | But I just want to take this moment to welcome our guest, Gord Hill. |
1:20.2 | Gord, if you want to maybe introduce yourself and talk a little bit about your own work. |
1:24.8 | Sure, yeah. |
1:26.8 | Thanks for having me on your show. |
1:28.4 | Yeah, I'm from the Kwokwav Nation and our territories on Northern Vancouver Island in so-called British Columbia. |
1:36.3 | And I'm currently residing on the Numbgis Reservation and Alert Bay, also known as Yalis. |
1:43.3 | I've been involved in indigenous resistance movements |
1:47.0 | since around 1990. |
1:50.0 | Traveled a lot across Canada and United States |
1:53.0 | to different gatherings and events and actions and whatnot. |
1:57.0 | And I do a lot of artwork, so I've always used my art for the movement and making logos and t-shirts and posters and stuff. |
2:06.6 | And around 2010, I think, is when I had my first graphic novel, this one here, |
2:14.6 | it's when I had my first graphic novel published 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance with Arsenal Pulp Press in Vancouver. |
2:25.3 | And I published a few other graphic novels, an Antifa comic book. |
2:30.3 | And then we did an anti-capitalist resistance comic book and then did a revision of the 500 years of indigenous resistance. |
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