Indigenous Solidarity An (Un)Settler's Place

This is a resource page dedicated to collecting and presenting new socialist magazines issues and articles on Indigenous struggles and settler solidarity.

The New Socialist Magazine website can be accessed here: http://www.newsocialist.org/

Listed Articles:

New Socialist Special Issue on Indigenous Resurgence (58-2006)
This is a PDF of the full Issue 58 that focuses on the rising rebellion by Indigenous peoples in North America. Included are articles by Taiaiake Alfred, Richard Day, Andrea Smith, and our close friend Adam Barker.

Socialism, Solidarity, and Indigenous Liberation By Deborah Simmons
This article deals largely with a response to Richard Day's assumptions and assessments of how to perform a relation of solidarity.

Friends of Grassy Narrows: Becoming allies: working in solidarity with the Anishinaabe by Dave Brophy
This article is a description and assessment of the group - Friends of Grassy Narrows, written by their fallen settler comrade Dave Brophy.

Socialism, Solidarity, and Indigenous Liberation
By Deborah Simmons
Read the rest of the article here:
http://www.newsocialist.org/index.php?id=1323

In Canada, a new radical movement of indigenous people is emerging that refuses to be co-opted by the “aboriginalist” policies of the state. This movement aims to resist the destructive, corrupting and oppressive aspects of the system that has been imposed on indigenous peoples since the arrival of the Europeans. At the same time, the new radical indigenism reaffirms and renews the positive aspects of the sovereign societies that existed on this continent before colonization. Inherent in this strategy is a strong sense of autonomy. Indigenous people are responsible for making their own revolution, in their own way.

Friends of Grassy Narrows:
Becoming allies: working in solidarity with the Anishinaabe
http://newsocialist.org/newsite/index.php?id=334
by Dave Brophy

This is the last part of a three-part series of articles about Indigenous struggle in what is now known as Northwestern Ontario. The first article, in the Feb/March/April 2005 issue of NS, provided some history of the relationship between the Anishinaabe and the Canadian state during the years leading up to and following the signing of Treaty 3 in 1873, including the Canadian state’s violations of the agreement and the state-led campaign to destroy the Anishinaabe’s indigenous economy. The second article, in the May/June 2005 issue of NS, examined how the Canadian state continues to undermine the livelihoods of the Anishinaabe and the political factors that are shaping Grassy Narrows’ present fight for their lands.

This article will look at the Friends of Grassy Narrows, a group which works in solidarity with the Anishinaabe.

New Socialist published a special Issue on indigenous struggles, here is an example article and link to the full issue: http://www.newsocialist.org/index.php?id=1005

Anarchist-Indigenous solidarity at the Six Nations’ barricade

BY RICHARD DAY AND SEAN HABERLE

http://newsocialist.org/newsite/index.php?id=1018

Indigenous peoples and settler societies have a long and complex history of interaction in the Americas. While unequal colonial relationships have always been — and continue to be — the norm, there have also been situations in which settlers and indigenous people have worked together to resist state domination, corporate exploitation, racism, patriarchy and wanton destruction of the land. Anarchists in particular, since at least the time of Kropotkin, have noted commonalities between their values and practices and those of some indigenous communities and nations. They have found common ground in the rejection of arbitrary authority, a preference for direct action and local, consensus-based decision-making processes, and the use of non-statist federations to link communities and nations.