Indigenous activism put small-town northern Ontario on the map in the
1960s and early 1970s. Kenora, Ontario, was home to a
four-hundred-person march, popularly called "Canada's First Civil
Rights March," and a two-month-long armed occupation of a small
lakefront park. Canada's Other Red Scare shows how important it is to
link the local and the global to broaden narratives of resistance in
the 1960s; it is a history not of isolated events closed off from the
present but of decolonization as a continuing process. Scott
Rutherford explores with rigour and sensitivity the Indigenous
political protest and social struggle that took place in Northwestern
Ontario and Treaty 3 territory from 1965 to 1974. Drawing on archival
documents, media coverage, published interviews, memoirs, and social
movement literature, as well as his own lived experience as a settler
growing up in Kenora, he reconstructs a period of turbulent protest
and the responses it provoked, from support to disbelief to outright
hostility. Indigenous organizers advocated for a wide range of issues,
from better employment opportunities to the recognition of nationhood,
by using such tactics as marches, cultural production, community
organizing, journalism, and armed occupation. They drew inspiration
from global currents - from black American freedom movements to Third
World decolonization - to challenge the inequalities and racial logics
that shaped settler-colonialism and daily life in Kenora. Accessible
and wide-reaching, Canada's Other Red Scare makes the case that
Indigenous political protest during this period should be thought of
as both local and transnational, an urgent exercise in confronting the
experience of settler-colonialism in places and moments of protest,
when its logic and acts of dispossession are held up like a mirror.
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Indigenous Protest and Colonial Encounters during the Global Sixties
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780228005124
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
ACP - McGill Queen's University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter