If you are in #montreal on March 21 this is the place to be, your chance to listen to a living legend speak. Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel is a Kanien'kehá:ka activist and human rights activist. She became known to the general public as a spokesperson for the Kanien'kehàka of Kanehsatà:ke during the #OkaCrisis. This event is for the launch of the french version of her memoir When the Pine Needles Fall. A Story of Indigenous Resistance

https://www.concordia.ca/cuevents/artsci/social-justice-centre/2025/03/Ellen_Gabriel_Livre.html

Beans (2020 film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beans_(2020_film)

Watched this last evening:
* historically important
* 2020 Canadian drama film directed by Mohawk-Canadian filmmaker Tracey Deer
* explores 1990 Oka Crisis at Kanesatake
* well acted (strong emotions); good screenplay, score, filmography
* Rotten Tomatoes: 91% of 54 critics' reviews positive; avg rating 7.6/10

#Canada #Indigenous #Mohawk #Oka #OkaCrisis #Kanesatake #TraceyDeer

Online book launch

#WhenThePineNeedlesFall: #Indigenous Acts of Resistance with authors #KatsitsakwasEllenGabriel and #SeanCarleton

Hosted by #PamPalmater (who wrote the forward)

audio: https://soundcloud.com/pampalmater/when-the-pine-needles-fall-book-launch
video: https://youtu.be/B7fp3NxTAl8

#EllenGabriel #Autochtones #Landback #Kanehsatake #Kahnawake #Oka #OkaCrisis #CriseDOka #PremièresNations #FirstNations #LandDefenders #DéfenseursDeLaTerre #StateRepression #RépressionDÉtat #books #livres #memoirs #mémoires

#WarriorLifePodcast

This happened while I was a second year university student. I was studying military history and went to CFB Gagetown to watch the firepower demonstration. The officer apologized that they were missing troops and engineers. They’d been sent to Kanesatake to fight Land Defenders. A teenaged girl got bayoneted while holding her little baby sister. https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/oka-crisis-4-generations-kanesatake-kahnawake-1.4743129? #LandBack #OkaCrisis #SystemicRacism #Indigedon #CanadianHistory #Indigenous #Kanesatake