thelastaxolotl [he/him]

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  • thelastaxolotl [he/him]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Bulletins and News Discussion from September 23rd to September 29th, 2024 - The War In The NorthEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    Over 30 years of Indigenous resistance with Mohawk land defender Ellen Gabriel Hexbear post kkkanada

    Colonial-rooted poverty will not be solved by more colonial solutions’

    Thirty-four years ago, Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel was thrust into the spotlight when she was chosen as the spokesperson for the Kanienʼkehá:ka (Mohawk) communities of Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawà:ke, as they resisted the planned expansion of a golf course on into their sacred lands and burial grounds in southern Quebec and police and military attempted to subdue them by force.

    In a new book, When the Pine Needles Fall, Gabriel and settler historian Sean Carleton chart a course from the events of 1990 to the present, while extending into a generous and expansive vision of the future. The book, which they began writing in 2019, evolved during the pandemic, taking shape as a series of conversations that articulate the urgency and necessity of Indigenous resistance. Centring Gabriel’s own words through dialogue, Carleton writes, was a way to “divest my power and authority as an academic to create space for Ellen’s brilliance … to hold space and amplify Ellen’s voice, while also co-creating through conversation.”

  • thelastaxolotl [he/him]@hexbear.netMtoindigenous@hexbear.net•Headbanging aunties and punk rock rez shows? An archive puts Indigenous punks in the spotlightEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Kristy Martinez has loved punk music since she was in high school 20 years ago. Then, the fashion and the rebellious ideology felt like “armour,” she says.

    But when Martinez — an Azusa, Calif., resident who is of Chicana and Yaqui descent — realized that Indigenous people have been making punk music since around when the scene emerged in the mid 1970s, it opened a world she didn’t know existed.

    “It just was like … ‘Where are these shows? Why doesn’t [mainstream] punk talk about these?’” said Martinez. She remembers feeling a mix of joy at discovering the cultural connection, and anger that this part of the music’s history was so hidden.

    That discovery inspired Martinez to focus her ongoing PhD research at UCLA on the lost history of Indigenous involvement in punk rock.

    She shares her research on Instagram, as well, so that the history she worked so hard to uncover doesn’t get forgotten again: The Indigenous Punks Archive account features headbanging aunties, backyard rez shows and lots of mohawks. Martinez says she hopes to uplift Indigenous artists in the genre and remind hard rock listeners that Indigenous people and ideas have always been part of punk.

    Really cool

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