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Road Closed - This is Indian Land - Indian Power

 

"Whenever a tribal people have come under the the domination of a European power, there has been the common experience of colonialism."

-George Manuel, The Fourth World (1974)

 

"Black Power spoke not only to blacks but also to a longing within the other racial minorities to express the dignity and sovereignty of their own communities."

-Vine Deloria Jr., We Talk, You Listen (1970)

 

What's Fascism? What's Democracy? [on Second Sons and anti-Indigenous racism] (2026)

 

Anti-Colonial History

Warrior Publications

Ganienkeh

Unist’ot’en

Saltwater Underground Railroad

Free West Papua Campaign

Zines

Alcatraz Is Not An Island (1965-2019)

No One’s Illegal on Stolen Land (1988-2026)

Back From Hell (and other writings), by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin (1993-2019)

Autonomous Resistance to Slavery and Colonization, by Russell Maroon Shoatz (2005-2006)

Anarchist Charges and the Politics of Hawaiian Indigeneity and Sovereignty, by J. Kēhaulani Kauanui (2019)

Anarchism, May Day and Colonialism, by K. C. Sinclair (2026)

Little Tel Aviv: How Portland Got Progressive Through Ethnic Cleansing, by K. C. Sinclair (2026)

See also the Palestine section of this blog

Articles

The Haitian Declaration of Independence (1804)

Tecumseh’s speech to Governor Harrison at Vincennes, Indiana Territory (1810)

The Indians, from The Liberator (1838)

Half-Breed Queries to the Governor of the Red River Settlement (1845)

Interviews with Ona Judge Staines (1845-46)

A Warning Voice, from Voice of the Fugitive (1851)

Negrophobia on Canadian Steamboats, from The Provincial Freeman (1854)

The Narrative of Sophia Pooley (1856)

A Page in the History of Civilization, by F. Girard (1860)

Declaration of the People of Rupert’s Land and the North-West, by the Provisional Government (1869)

An Appeal for Justice, by Louis Riel (1885)

A Martyr [Louis Riel], from The Alarm (1885)

Notes on Colonialism, by Freedom (1887)

American Notes: The Klondike and The Native, by Voltairine de Cleyre (1897)

The Annexation of Hawaii, by Andrew Klemenčič (1898)

Our New Medicine Man, by Emily G. Taylor (1902)

Which Makes the Greater Savage, the Blanket or the Uniform?, by Emily G. Taylor (1902)

Our Indians, by Manuel González Prada (1904)

The Sea-Serpent, by Tekahionwake & Sa7plek Joe Capilano (1911)

The Mexican People are Suited to Communism, by Ricardo Flores Magón (1911)

Will this Struggle be Drowned in Blood?, by Voltairine de Cleyre (1911)

Letter from Chief Star Blanket to the Governor General (1912)

The Attitude of Anarchists in the Face of the Mexican Revolution, by Voltairine de Cleyre (1912)

The Social Revolution in Sonora, by Ricardo Flores Magón (1914)

Concerning Atrocities, by James Peter Warbasse (1915)

The Irish Flag, by James Connolly (1916)

The Pacification of the Yaqui, by Librado Rivera (1927)

Murderous Humanitarianism, by some surrealists (1934)

Rampant Fascism in America / Lynching and Law and Order, by Marcus Graham (1935)

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Eight Point Program, by the Native Alliance for Red Power (1969)

‘A Right to Walk Like Men’ – The Dispatcher interviews Stella Leach (1970)

Viewpoint of People Living on Puyallup River, by Ramona Bennett (1970)

Proclamation of the Puyallup Tribe on the Repossession of the Cushman Indian Hospital Lands (1976)

Chronology of Oppression at Pine Ridge, from Victims of Progress (1977)

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Traditional Indian Government: Of the People, by the People, for the People, by Marie Smallface-Marule (1984)

Anti-Imperialism, Nationhood and National Liberation, by Kuwasi Balagoon (1984)

Innu Campaign Against the Militarization of Ntesinan, by Ben Michel (1986)

NATO Fighter Planes Invade Innu Territory, from Open Road (1987)

Decolonising Feminism, by Susanna Ounei-Small (1995)

Beyond Nationalism But Not Without It, by Ashanti Alston (2002)

"Indigenous Status" for the Crimean Tatars in Ukraine: A History of a Political Debate, by Natalya Belitser (2002)

The Real Resistance to Slavery in North America, by Russell Maroon Shoatz (2005)

The Dragon and the Hydra, by Russell Maroon Shoatz (2006)

Discrimination Faced By Crimean Tatars In Ukraine, by the Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization (2013)

Don't Cry for Us [Crimean Tatars] Ukraina!, by Mubeyyin B. Altan (2016)

Louis Riel Day is Reminder of Shared History of Resistance by Indigenous Peoples and South Asians, by Gurpreet Singh (2018)

Anarchist Charges and the Politics of Hawaiian Indigeneity and Sovereignty, by J. Kēhaulani Kauanui (2019)

A Colonizing Anarchism, by JJ (2020)

White Supremacy, Terrorism, and the Failure of Reconstruction in the United States, by Daniel Byman (2021)

‘Extermination of Entire Nations’: Scientist Maria Vyushkova Counts Russia’s Indigenous War Dead, by Leyla Latypova (2025)

Treaty responsibilities to Palestine, by Jessica Johns (2025)

DHS defends social media post of ‘American Progress’ painting amid backlash over Manifest Destiny, by Anusha Fathepure (2025)

Indigenous Women: Letter of Solidarity with Humanitarian Flotilla (2025)

With Wounded Knee Medals, Admin Suggests There’s Valor in Genocide, by Johnnie Jae (2025)

At the UN, Over 100 Organizations Call for the Immediate Release of Indigenous Rights Activists from Russian Jail (2026)

Anarchism, May Day and Colonialism, by K. C. Sinclair (2026)

‘We will not survive’: jailing of Daria Egereva highlights plight of Russia’s Indigenous people, by Damien Gayle (2026)

Little Tel Aviv: How Portland Got Progressive Through Ethnic Cleansing, by K. C. Sinclair (2026)

Saddle Lake Cree Nation asserts treaty rights over access to gender-affirming care, by Jason Hills (2026)