Jackson and Rudy join Mike Gouldhawke, a Métis and Cree writer whose family is from kistahpinanihk (City of Prince Albert) and nêwo-nâkîwin (Mont Nebo) in Treaty 6 territory in Saskatchewan, for a discussion on indigenous issues in Canada with a focus on the Métis. We talk about the history of the Métis, through ethnogenesis, the Red River Resistance and the North-West Resistance. The conversation continues with cross-border organizing, the similarities and differences between Canadian and US Indian populations, the red power movement in the 60s and the origin of the Land Back demand and how that demand has become popular again. We also discuss the different meanings of Land Back in the present, solidarity across Indigenous Nations, and the recent small bouts of solidarity between unions and indigenous struggle, the George Williams affair and alliances between Canadian diasporic communities and indigenous nations, indigenous thinkers who have tried to bridge Marxism and Indigenous thought. We finish by discussing the relationships to the Quebec sovereignty movement and the new relationships between the Canadian state and indigenous nations.
Further reading
Books:
Prison of Grass – Howard Adams
Bobbi Lee, Indian Rebel – Lee Maracle
Roots of Oppression – Steve Talbot
Articles:
Marxism from a Native Perspective – John Mohawk
The Red Path and Socialism – ᐊᓯᓂ Vern Harper
Marxism and Native Americans – Reviewed by Howard Adams
Below the Barricades: On Infrastructure, Self-Determination, and Defense – Cam Scott
