Revolution, Resistance, Resurgance
I would like to meet other people whose minds and hearts combine with the collective strength of spirit that is this struggle for freedom, justice and land.
TELEVISION FREE FOR 8 YEARS AND STANDING FREE FROM CONSUMER GUILT RIDDEN, TWISTED UP SELF-ESTEEM AND MIND SUCKING ANTICS
Books, books, books. I am currently writing a thesis proposal for my master's degree in Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria so reading takes up a huge chunk of my time. My mother, Carol, an avid reader died 3 ears ago,leaving my 3 brothers and I little over 500 books to share.Sheinspired me to fill my shelves with great books, inspiring and though not always happy stories, they all embody truth.Some of my favorites over the years have been the following and always looking for more to read: Wasase: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom by Taiaiake Alfred, Wretched do the Earth by Franz Fanon, Autobigraphy of Malcolm X by Alex Haley, I am Woman by Sto:lo wild woman Lee Maracle, Empire by Hardt and Negri, Trinity by Leon Uris, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Native Science by Gregory Cajete, Power and Place in Indian Education, Vine Deloria (in fact anything Vine wrote or said I'd recommend), anything by Eduardo Galeano, Power in Movement by Sydney Tarrow, The Journey of Crazy Horse by Joseph Marshall, Revielle for Radicals by Saul Alinsky, No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa, Speaking for the Generations: Native Writers on writing edited by Simon Ortiz, The Zapatista Reader by Tom Hayden, Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements by Richard Day...Brotherhood to Nationhood: George Manuel and the Making of a Modern Indian Movement by Peter Macfarlane and many, many more.....
My mother Enoc who gave me life and my mother Carol who raised me, my great, great, great, great great grandfather Too-tah, grandfather Cha chin sun up and my grandmothers, Mary, Mabel, Agnus, Ruth T., Josephine, my aunties, my uncles, my sisters and my brothers (everylast one of you!) late Philip and Fran Paul, Lee Maracle, Joan and Stuart Philip, Taiaiake Alfred, Jeff Corntassel, Dovie Thomason-Sickles,Crazy Horse, Geronimo, Commandante Ramona, Malcolm X, Leonard Peltier, the late Hyuushistulth, Hutsa (who gave me my name), Vine Deloria Jr., Leroy Little Bear, and the list of names go on backwards and forwards through time...my other heroes are comrades who continue to support each other in the struggle for freedom, land, justice and truth...you know who you are and I am always with you...