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Očhéthi Šakówiŋ: A History of the Lakota and Dakota People

🕑 Added 2019-11-27 22:57:11 +0000 UTC

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Kollontai

Building off this in South Western Ontario there is a continuing struggle over land. One example is a former army base and provincial park called Ipperwash. There was an indigenous land defender killed there in the mid 90s and although it is seldom reported on. I worked at a park close to there and the older employees talked about the SWAT team of the Ontario Provincial Police who killed the land defender living in the park bunkhouse during the standoff. The land has been returned via an agreement to my knowledge but it has only been finalized in the last decade.

Kollontai

I am just coming to this late and as I listen in the time context of the genocide in Palestine and the space context of South Western Ontario I think Mors is really on to something. Hostility if viewed only through the perspective of the settler treats only resistance as hostility where as displacement acknowledges any act of further colonization means that in fact the matter is not settled. Settler colonialism until elimination is in fact an ongoing project even in a place where like South Western Ontario it is treated as a "done deal".