E88: Indigenous resistance since 1992, part 1
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🗓️ 7 August 2024
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This part covers protests against the 500th anniversary of the European invasion of the Americas by Christopher Columbus, the Zapatista uprising, the Gustafsen Lake stand-off, the Ipperwash Park occupation, Enbridge and Keystone XL pipeline resistance, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and more.
More information
- Gord Hill, 500 Years Of Indigenous Resistance – get hold of Gord’s book here in our online store.
- WCH timeline of people’s history stories about Indigenous resistance
- E88-89: Indigenous resistance episode webpage with full show notes
- Thanks to our patreon supporters for making this podcast possible. Special thanks to Jazz Hands, Jamison D. Saltsman, Fernando López Ojeda and Jeremy Cusimano.
- Produced and edited by Tyler Hill. Tyler also hosts Congratulations FM.
- Episode graphic: Dakota access protest 2016. Courtesy Rob87438/Wikimedia Commons CC SA 4.0
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | 1992 marked 500 years since colonizers first invaded what is now known as the Americas, |
| 0:07.0 | and waged a campaign of genocide, displacement, and extraction against the people's indigenous to those lands. |
| 0:13.0 | Though this history is often taught to American children as some sort of mutually beneficial cultural exchange, |
| 0:18.0 | it has in fact been among the most violent and disenfranchising processes |
| 0:21.8 | in human history. Overlooked along with this historical revisionism is the fact that those |
| 0:26.9 | centuries of violence have also been centuries of indigenous resistance. And contrary to what many |
| 0:32.0 | of those in power would have us believe, the indigenous peoples of this land are still here and still |
| 0:36.8 | fighting. |
| 0:39.5 | This is working class history. |
| 0:42.0 | All the matina, |
| 0:47.0 | just upen alzata. |
| 0:56.0 | Oh, bella, chow, bella, chow, bella, chow, chow, chow, all the matthino. |
| 1:00.0 | Before we get started, if you're wondering who I am and why I don't have a British accent, I apologize. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Tyler Hill, and I've been helping John and Matt produce this podcast since it first started in 2018. |
| 1:12.8 | Going forward, I'll occasionally be hosting episodes too. And just a reminder that our podcast |
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| 1:22.3 | get exclusive early access to podcast episodes without ads, bonus episodes, free and discounted merchandise, and other |
| 1:28.9 | content. For example, our Patreon supporters can listen to both parts of this double episode |
| 1:33.3 | without ads now. Join us or find out more at patreon.com slash working class history. Link in the show |
| 1:40.3 | notes. First published in 1992, Gord Hill's 500 years of indigenous resistance has long served |
| 1:47.7 | as an accessible account of an often overlooked but vitally important resistance movement. |
| 1:52.7 | It is one of the most popular titles in our online store with good reason. |
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