Medicine for the Resistance

Building community takes a lot of different forms. This episode, recorded live at the Fort Erie Friendship Center features the Strong Water Women, a hand drum group in the Niagara Region. The group has been active for approximately 5 years, has performed at events throughout the community, including the Celebration of Nations at First Ontario Place in St. Catharines as well as vigils and smaller community events.

This episode does have a lot of background noise, because it is recorded during a normal drum night, giving you the experience of being right in the midst of the activity. Featuring some conversations, introductions, songs, and a lot of laughter.

This is also the second time that Sabrina Shawana has joined the podcast, she is the heart of the group.

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Public schools are hard on racialized children. History isn't taught correctly, social norms favour white eurocentric ideals, and we often wind up having to undo the damage done.

Following up on our discussion with Dr. Grande about Ghosting the system we talk with Krista Flute, Lakota/Cajun mom who has chosen to teach her children in a homeschool community instead of sending them to the white supremacist system. Something an increasing number of racialized parents are choosing to do.

Some links from a mom in Krista's group:

General decolonial/reindigenize content
https://tuul.tv/es/canal/tlacaelel (it's in Spanish, but you can use Google translate )

https://sixthsunridaz.com

Mexico Profundo by Guillermo Bonfil Batalla

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/huicholesfilm

The Chichimeca NationsFacebook group

More closely related to: homeschooling/parenting

https://indigenousmotherhood.wordpress.com/blog/

https://akilahsrichards.com/podcast/

http://ancestralschooling.blogspot.com/?m=1.

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S**t is complicated.

In November 2018 Dr. Grande gave a keynote on the academy and the struggles that Black and Indigenous academics face in this space and she made a remark, what if we ghosted the system?

What if? What if we just left? What if we spent our time now building relationships and communities of relationships, alternatives and then just left?

Because if we are going to resist, if we're going to try and save anything. We need to be a people worth saving.

resources: Mohawk Interruptus – by Audra Simpson

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective- edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Standing Rock Syllabus, editing with assistance from Dr. Grande.
https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/standingrocksyllabus/

And don't forget, s**t is complicated.

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Black and Indigenous people have a parallel and shared history in colonization. Displaced, displanted, forcibily relocated again and again. We weren't allowed to gather in our own groups, let alone gathering as communities. Colonialism has left deep scars of Indigenous erasure and anti-black racism in both of us. Conversations like this have power to push back against colonialism.

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In our first ever tea episode, Actress and dancer Premika Leo shakes things up from a speech about women in the arts, to cultural appropriation. The assumptions that people make about Caribbean people and the movie Aladdin. This episode goes everywhere, but you're used to that by now.

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Superheroes fight monsters, vanquishing them in some way. But what do we lose when we've destroyed all the monsters? This conversation with Jay Odjick, author of the graphic novel Kagagi and children's book Bear for Breakfast, joins us to talk about heroes and monsters and what we lose as a people when we've destroyed our monsters.

Transcript here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZjmN26q4ywB_2LSiys2rNyi2jk1aLcha/view?usp=sharing

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Maori Teacher Vicky Young joins us to talk about their creation narrative, the Maori experience of colonization, and some intriguing possibilities when Indigenous people are treated as equals and the court adjudicating treaty obligations has real power.

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From the colonized west, to Africa, to Palestine, settler colonialism uses the same strategies with the same brutal effectiveness. Using 21st century tools, Israel enacts the same horrors that the French, English, and Spanish did before them.

But we have 21st century tools too. And no matter where they go, they have not been able to eradicate the original people.

Colonization can be survived. We are still here. Listen to Terry Monture and Audrey Huntley talk about what it means to organize and build relationships across an ocean. And the lessons we can learn from each other.

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We often forget that both north and south Americas were colonized and we think differently about the states that are south of Mexico. We forget that the majority of enslaved Africans did not go to the United States.

This conversation with Marina Nabão brings home the realities of living as a black woman in Brazil, what that means for her, for queer people, and for the Indigenous people of Brazil.

Because it wasn't always Brazil.

You can find Marina here: https://www.instagram.com/marinacoachingontologico/

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Who are you? Are you really who you think you are? How did you become that person? What is your purpose.

From Wikwemikong to the slave dungeons of Ghana, Tanika talks about the importance of knowing who you are. And of claiming it all. The trauma, the beauty, all of it. Our ancestors know us, the places where their feet walked remember us.

You can find Tanika at http://www.poramor.ca/tanika-riley-aka-insight.html

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