Infoshop.io: Indigenous

Archives relevant to the struggles of indigenous populations against the forces of colonialism, capitalism, and democracy.


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500 Years of Indigenous Resistance

This article is intended as a basic history of the colonization of the Americas since 1492, and the Indigenous resistance to this colonization continuing into 1992.

Topics: colonialism, history, indigenous
Authors: Gord Hill


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500 Years of Indigenous Resistance

A history of the colonization of the Americas and resistance to it

Topics: anarchism, colonialism, history, indigenous
Authors: Arm the Spirit, Solidarity
Publisher: Kersplebedeb Distribution
Date: 1992


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Accomplices Not Allies - Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex, An Indigenous Perspective

The ally industrial complex has been established by activists whose careers depend on the 'issues' they work to address. These nonprofit capitalists advance their careers off the struggles they ostensibly support. While the exploitation of solidarity and support is nothing new, the commodification and exploitation of allyship is a growing trend in the activism industry.

Don't wait around for anyone to proclaim you to be an accomplice, you certainly cannot proclaim it yourself. You just are or you are not. The lines of oppression are already drawn.

Topics: capitalism, colonialism, direct-action, indigenous
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Indigenous Action Media
Date: 5/02/2014
Sources: http://www.indigenousaction.org/


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Documents Regarding the Struggle at Six Nations

The most enduring and effective resistance against Canadaís colonial rule has been the traditional Longhouse Peoplesí refusal to participate in Canadian imposed governance sys- tems, and to actively participate in their own governance and laws of the Kanianeraíko:wa of the Iroquois Confederacy.

Topics: anarchism, colonialism, history, indigenous
Authors: Anonymous
Date: June 2006
Sources: http://www.lefrigovert.ca


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Essentialism and the Problem of Identity Politics

Essentialism is the idea that there exists some detectible and objective core quality of particular groups of people that is inherent, eternal, and unalterable; groupings can be categorized according to these qualities of essence, which are based on such problematic criteria as gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, and class. Racism, sexism, classism, and most other forms of historical oppression are ideologies and policies maintained and justiÀed by essentialism.

Topics: anarchism, fascism, gender, indigenous, lgbtiq, privilege, race, theory
Authors: Some Delinquents


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Privilege, Oppression, and Resistance

A chart summarizing the relationships between a variety of types of privilege

Topics: anarchism, capitalism, class, feminism, gender, indigenous, lgbtiq, parenting, posters, privilege, race, relationships
Authors: Anonymous


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Rumble in the Jungle

Fighting for freedom in West Papua

Topics: anarchism, colonialism, history, indigenous
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: West Papua Soliarity Group


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The New Face of Liberation

Indigenous Rebellion, State Repression, and the Reality of the Fourth World

Topics: capitalism, colonialism, indigenous
Authors: Ward Churchill
Publisher: Ocotillo Anarchist Press
Date: 2004


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The Real Resistance to Slavery in North America

Topics: colonialism, history, indigenous, race
Authors: Russell 'Maroon' Shoatz
Publisher: Families & Community United
Date: 2001


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To Gaza And Back

Encounters and wanderings in a world full of love and hate

Topics: colonialism, history, indigenous
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Firestarter press
Date: April, 2003


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Washington's Landless Tribes

Our quest for federal tribal recognition: Cowlitz, Snohomish, Duwamish, Snoqualmie, Steilacoom, Samish, Chinook

Topics: indigenous
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Small Tribes Organization of Western Washington