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Résister au colonialisme « elbows up » (agressif) du Canada - Presse-toi à gauche !
Tiré de Canadian dimension. Ellen Gabriel et Sean Carleton 18 septembre 2025 S’il existe de bonnes raisons de résister à l’expansionnisme américain et de rejeter le rêve de Trump d’annexer le Canada comme 51ᵉ État, ce nationalisme « agressif » risque de raviver une nostalgie superficielle qui dissimule la propre histoire coloniale du Canada.
Resisting Canada’s ‘elbows up’ colonialism
In response to the re-election of Donald Trump, the United States’ on-again, off-again tariff war with Canada, and America’s slide into authoritarianism, many Canadians are adopting an “elbows up” attitude. From boycotting US products to booing the American national anthem at hockey games, people are being encouraged to brace for the future defensively, with their arms raised high.
Sharing Our Stories: Foundation of our strength / Onkwa’shatsténhsera’ ionitskwaken’seráhkwen
The impacts of the colonial genocidal project have created divisions and dysfunction within our communities. Centuries of hurt and trauma take time and often the oppression turns within, causing the divisions. In order to create reconciliation within ourselves, Indigenous people must understand their past, their stories of survival and life.
Sharing Our Stories: Foundation of our strength / Onkwa'shatsténhsera' ionitskwaken'seráhkwen
The impacts of the colonial genocidal project have created divisions and dysfunction within our communities. Centuries of hurt and trauma take time and often the oppression turns within, causing the divisions. In order to create reconciliation within ourselves, Indigenous people must understand their past, their stories of survival and life.
Sharing Our Stories: Foundation of our strength / Onkwa’shatsténhsera’ ionitskwaken’seráhkwen
The impacts of the colonial genocidal project have created divisions and dysfunction within our communities. Centuries of hurt and trauma take time and often the oppression turns within, causing the divisions. In order to create reconciliation within ourselves, Indigenous people must understand their past, their stories of survival and life.
Sharing Our Stories: Where I feel at home / Tho nón:we niwakanatonnihón:we Original
My father, Archie Gabriel, had a horse ranch here in the Pines during the 60s and 70s. It was right where the Kanehsatà:ke elementary school is now. We used to bring the horses through the Pines from our home every morning and return them home at night. We had up to 35 horses at one time, some of them boarded at our barn but my father owned most of them.
Sharing Our Stories: Where I feel at home / Tho nón:we niwakanatonnihón:we
My father, Archie Gabriel, had a horse ranch here in the Pines during the 60s and 70s. It was right where the Kanehsatà:ke elementary school is now. We used to bring the horses through the Pines from our home every morning and return them home at night. We had up to 35 horses at one time, some of them boarded at our barn but my father owned most of them.
Ellen Gabriel: a better world is impossible without challenging colonialism
Anyone who has seen news footage from the 1990 standoff between Canada’s military and the Mohawk nation will remember Ellen Gabriel—amidst the heightened tensions, she radiated a quiet and calm strength.
Sharing Our Stories: Forcibly removed / Tahonnónhton’ é:ren sahshakotiia’tenhá:wihte’ Original
The people of Kanehsatà:ke were brutalized by the Seminary of St. Sulpice. The sulpicians were a society of priests from France, rich blue bloods filled with evil and greed. They were so rich that they could hire their own security forces to go in to violate and harass our people. Their goal was to get our people to leave our land. They would enter people’s homes, threaten families and often arrest the men.
Sharing Our Stories: Forcibly removed / Tahonnónhton’ é:ren sahshakotiia’tenhá:wihte’
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Sharing Our Stories: Pivotal moment in Indigenous history / Kwah tokèn:’en tsi wa’karihwaierón:nitste’ Onkwehón:we tsi nihotiia’tawénhseron Original
To say it was okay to extend the Oka golf course over our ancestral cemetery in 1990 was just another way to dehumanize us. Thirty-four years ago was a different time. Canadian society knew nothing about us. The norm was to do whatever they wanted with us, without any consequences, with impunity. At that time, if someone were to beat up a Mohawk man or rape a Mohawk woman, they’d say, “It’s just a dirty Indian.” We were considered less than, inferior to. They didn’t care.
Sharing Our Stories: Pivotal moment in Indigenous history / Kwah tokèn:’en tsi wa’karihwaierón:nitste’ Onkwehón:we tsi nihotiia'tawénhseron
To say it was okay to extend the Oka golf course over our ancestral cemetery in 1990 was just another way to dehumanize us. Thirty-four years ago was a different time. Canadian society knew nothing about us. The norm was to do whatever they wanted with us, without any consequences, with impunity. At that time, if someone were to beat up a Mohawk man or rape a Mohawk woman, they’d say, “It’s just a dirty Indian.” We were considered less than, inferior to. They didn’t care.
Ellen Gabriel: Bill C-15 is chance ‘to actually break with the colonial status quo’
Changing the relationship between Indigenous Peoples and Canadians has fallen backwards once again, as Canada slips back into the comfortable, foggy colonial amnesia of its genocidal history. There’s no denying that Canada has committed genocide against Indigenous Peoples. It has stolen our lands and our children. It has suppressed our languages and our laws. It has turned its back on the safety of our women and girls.
Ellen Gabriel on the 30th anniversary of the 1990 ‘Oka Crisis’
Kanien’kehá:ka human rights and environmental rights activist Ellen Gabriel during the police and military siege of Kanehsatake, commonly know as the “Oka Crisis”, summer 1990. Today marks the 30th anniversary of the 1990 Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawake Siege where the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation were denied their fundamental human rights without any just recourse.
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