E89: Indigenous resistance since 1992, part 2

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🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Following on from his excellent book, 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance, Gord Hill of the Kwakwaka’wakw nation gives us an overview of over three decades of Indigenous resistance in the Americas since 1992. A podcast in two parts.
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This part covers Indigenous land defenders in Ecuador, Venezuela and elsewhere in Latin America, Mi’kmaq fishing rights, fossil fuel resistance, cultural resistance including language revitalisation, land acknowledgements 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

Acknowledgements

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Produced and edited by Tyler Hill. Tyler also hosts Congratulations FM.
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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to part two of our double episode on Indigenous Resistance in the Americas since 1992.
0:07.3	If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, then I recommend you go back and listen to that first.
0:11.2	At the morning,
0:16.5	Apenn alzata,
0:20.8	Oh, Bella, Oh, Bella,
0:22.6	Ciao, Bella,
0:24.6	Ciao, and in return
0:26.6	To get
0:28.6	Before we get started, just a reminder
0:33.6	that our podcast is brought to you by our Patreon supporters.
0:36.6	Our supporters fund our work, and in return, our podcast is brought to you by our Patreon supporters. Our supporters
0:38.1	fund our work, and in return get exclusive early access to podcast episodes without ads,
0:43.2	bonus episodes, free and discounted merch, and other content. Join us or find out more at
0:48.2	patreon.com slash working class history. Link in the show notes. At the end of part one, we left off in the early 2010s.
0:55.9	As in the previous decade, a key site of indigenous struggles has been over environmentally
1:00.0	destructive energy projects on native lands. Especially in Latin America, these have often turned
1:05.3	deadly, as settler corporations and governments both left and right wing have used extrajudicial
1:10.5	violence and terror
1:11.5	against land defenders. Bertha Casaris of Honduras was one of the most prominent organizers
1:16.7	for environmental rights in Central America and a co-founder of the National Council of
1:21.1	Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras. She was involved in countless land and water
1:26.2	protests across the country, including a
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