Some fab free book scores.

Calling My Spirit Back by Elaine Alec
Elaine Alec, is a #Syilx & #Secwepemc author, based in Kamloops, BC.
https://www.elainealec.com/books

Whose Land Is It Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization provides a variety of Indigenous perspectives on the history of colonialism, current Indigenous activism and resistance, and outlines the path forward to reconciliation.

Originally released as a free e-book, the audio version features renowned Indigenous writers Taiaiake Alfred, Glen Coulthard, Russell Diabo, Beverly Jacobs, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Kanahus Manuel, Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour, Pamela Palmater, Shiri Pasternak, Nicole Schabus, Senator Murray Sinclair, and Sharon Venne. The late Arthur Manuel’s writings are read by his grandson, Mahekan Anderson. FPSE has been proud to partner with Nuxalk Radio to produce the audio version of this essential work.
https://fpse.ca/resources/whose-land-is-it-anyway/

My Indian Summer by Joseph Kakwinokanasum
A novel about survival, reconciliation and identity set during the summer of 1979.
https://www.strongnations.com/store/10103/my-indian-summer
Joseph Kakwinokanasum is a member of James Smith #Cree Nation. Kakwinokanasum's work has been published in the 2022 anthology Resonance: Essays on the Craft and Life of Writing, the Humber Literary Journal and Emerge.
Kakwinokanasum was shortlisted for the 2020 CBC Nonfiction Prize.

The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, by Michael Ondaatje, won the 1970 Governor General's Literary Award. Ondaatje's hauntingly disturbing evocation of the life and death of the 19th-century American outlaw placed him in the forefront of the new generation of Canadian poets emerging in the 1970s. The Collected Works commences with a list of 20 men killed by Billy the Kid and a foreshadowing of his own death. Using a highly visual, visceral poetic style featuring violent surreal images of madness and men killed in gun fights, shifts in time and perspective, and impressionistic fragments of Billy's existence, Ondaatje traces his capture, escape and eventual death at the hands of Pat Garrett, the "ideal assassin." Following the publication of The Collected Works by House of Anansi in 1970, a dozen major productions of a stage adaptation were held across Canada.(from The Canadian Encyclopedia)
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-collected-works-of-billy-the-kid

#books #bookstodon #ReadMoreBooks #Decolonization #Booklovers #Paperbacks #Literarature #DecolonialReading #DecolonizeYourMind #FreeBooks

Proposed mine in the TNRD still years away; fast-tracking will depend on First Nation consultation - Kamloops News

A new mine could one day support hundreds of jobs in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD) is still years away, and any potential fast-tracking under new federal and provincial initiatives rema

Coast #Salish #FreedomFighters: From Alberta #TarSands to the #SalishSea

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews Nov. 7, 2024

SEATTLE -- "The dead birds floating in the #AlbertATarSands #TailingPonds, the #ManCamps linked to missing and murdered Indigenous girls, and the increased #OilTankers in the Salish Sea -- are all parts of the dirty oil of the #TransMountainPipeline pouring out of Alberta's dirty tar sands, bound for oil tankers in the Salish Sea.

"'We are not just #activists, we are #revolutionaries and we're radical and militant and we want to keep it that way, we don't want to get soft in our older years,' said #KanahusManuel, #Secwepemc and #Ktunaxa, describing her family's struggle to protect their land and stop the Trans Mountain pipeline.

"Speaking at the State of Emergency for The Salish Sea in #SeattleWashington on Thursday, Kanahus said, 'We are the title holders to the land.'"

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11/coast-salish-freedom-fighters-from.html

#LandBack #DefendTheSacred #BigOilAndGas #CorporateColonialism #ReaderSupportedNews #IndigenousActivists #IndigenousActivism #IndigenousNews #Resistance #MotherEarth #PacificNorthwest

Coast Salish Freedom Fighters: From Alberta Tar Sands to the Salish Sea: Live in Seattle

Censored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.

Of all the places the BCNDP government can dump #carcinogenic torn-up #asphalt, they are choosing to dump it on the Reserves of the #Neskonlith Band.

Open letter regarding this heinous plan:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_dy2NAaQEZHkBNxAAjWCVRG4PllX7ZvOduVI7UhzVp0/edit?usp=sharing

#secwepemc #shuswap #Indigenouspeoples

Open letter regarding asphalt dumping on Neskonlith IRs.

Google Docs

Stitched pano of White Pyramid Mountain reflected in Waterfowl Lake, Icefields Parkway, Alberta, Canada (#Ktunaxa, #Secwepemc)

#WhitePyramid #WaterfowlLake #IcefieldsParkway #Alberta #Canada

Stitched panorama of #Crowfoot #Glacier and Crowfoot #Mountain, near #BowLake, #Alberta, #Canada. #Ktunaxa, #Secwepemc.
Glacier National Park, Trans-Canada Highway east of Revelstoke, #BC, #Canada. (#Ktunaxa, #Secwepemc). #GlacierNationalPark
'This is our Vatican': Trans Mountain route change will 'desecrate' sacred site: Secwépemc knowledge keeper

Times Colonist

This is what the current situation is here with the fires. Air quality is off the charts, multiple communities in the interior are on evacuation orders and alerts.

#Squilax has been partially burned down (there's been mixed reports and gossip, but as of this morning the band office, and #Quaaout lodge still standing, but the gas station and some homes burnt down). There's been an extreme lag with news and updates about the #Shuswap area, as the focus has been on #Kelowna, and evacuation orders for reserves weren't posted on the #BCWildfire map until up to half a day later.

Many other #Secwepemc reserves are on evacuation orders, and while #ChaseBC is on alert, it's surrounded by orders and road closures. People are stealing and moving firefighting equipment, including the sprinklers protecting the few bridges in and out of communities.

I can't keep up with everything right now.