The Red Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s

The Red Power Movement of the 1960s and 1970s

Sunday, November 1 - 2pm eastern | 12pm pacific

Resistance Bookroom
427 Bloor St W. Tkaranto and on zoom

Part of  Resistance and rebellion: A people’s history of the Canadian state study series 

What does liberation mean when the promise of equal citizenship threatens to dissolve collective rights? Join us on November 1 to explore Red Power in Canada, focusing on Indigenous struggles over land and self-determination in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Drawing on the Native Alliance for Red Power’s Eight Point Programme and selections from Citizens Plus (the 1970 Red Paper), we will examine distinct visions of Indigenous control and resistance to assimilation. The film You Are on Indian Land and a contemporaneous socialist intervention by Dick Fidler will inform a 30-minute opening presentation, followed by discussion.
Together, we will ask what these struggles demanded, and what solidarity requires of socialists committed to supporting Indigenous movements’ authority to determine their own aims.

Readings and supplementary text: NARP’s Eight Point Programme and Citizens Plus, sections B.1, B.2 and B.6; supplemented by Dick Fidler’s Red Power in Canada.
Watch You Are on Indian Land (1969) — supplementary viewing.
Advance reading is encouraged, but no prior knowledge is required.