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Blood memory.

When the colonizers imagine a criminal, do they picture Cedar hats,

button blankets, that Indian with her hunting rifle, that Indian with his fish

net, that Indian with their eagle feather, that Indian with their drum. During the police raid on Wetsowden

territories in February 2020, approximately 70 tactical officers descended on a makeshift watchtower to rest myself and three other indigenous land defenders.

They brought dogs, automatic weapons, snipers, helicopters, snowmobiles, heavy machinery.

They pointed their guns at us.

They read the civil injunction over the sound of our drums. They removed us from the tower. They removed us from the territory. They brought us to jail. Here I dwell in the carceral geographies created for indigenous people through the collusion of the state and extractive industry.

The spaces of unfreatum on unseated indigenous territories, the bureaucratic

criminalization of traditional activities through environmental permits, civil

injunctions, industrial allowances.

State activities that some experiences new expressions of fascism are for us timeless colonial techniques.

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