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30 years of the Oka resistance

To mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Indigenous resistance by the Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) Nation at Oka, Quebec, People’s Voice is reprinting this analysis from our predecessor, Canadian Tribune, in October 1990. We note that, while current PV [...]

Red River and white supremacy on the prairies

July 15 marked the 150th anniversary of Manitoba’s entry into Confederation as the fifth province of Canada, part of a sordid exercise in white supremacist control and violent ethnic cleansing. Manitoba is not unique in this regard – the [...]

Demand accountability for the ethnic cleansing of Manitoba

150 years of the Red River Resistance As we watch protests across the US against the racist cop murder of George Floyd, it's important to remember that racist repression is not "an American thing." It is true that the US had a much longer history [...]

“We have to decide, are we for the people or are we imperialist?”

By Evo Morales President, Plurinational State of Bolivia I want to talk to you a little bit about the Indigenous movement from Abiayala, also known as the Americas. It was on October 12, 1492 that we were thought of as being “discovered.” But [...]

Sweeping history of the Métis Nation

The North-West Is Our Mother 2019 Jean Teillet Harper Collins Review by Kimball Cariou The development of nations often takes millennia, or at least centuries, a complicated process of forging a common language, culture, history and [...]

BC Indigenous leaders call to halt CGL Pipeline

The Canadian economy is slowing during the COVID-19 outbreak, and global energy prices keep falling, but both federal and provincial governments continue to support fossil fuel extraction and export projects. One organization strongly opposed to [...]

East coast Indigenous nation asserts right to harvest wood

The second-largest Indigenous nation in New Brunswick is suing the provincial government for depriving it of a treaty right to harvest timber. The Wolastoqey Nation, which occupies the watershed of the Wolastoq (Saint John) River in western New [...]

From smallpox to COVID-19 – epidemics and Indigenous peoples

Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation and the Loss of Aboriginal Life (2013) Author: James Daschuk Publisher: University of Regina Press Review by Kimball Cariou What economic system extends its reach across entire [...]

Wet’suwet’en solidarity in BC shuts down legislature

On February 11, in support of Wet'suwet'en, around 1,000 people surrounded the British Columbia legislature building in Victoria, on the traditional territory of the Coast Salish Lekwungen nation. This shutdown of the legislative session was in [...]

From RCMP raids to NATO wars: capitalist crisis and oil

By Ryan Abbott Despite having some of the largest energy reserves in the world, despite an almost universal support for pipeline projects among its major political parties, and despite a bloated lobby of energy executives who dictate its domestic [...]