{"id":18881,"date":"2020-02-28T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.cinemapolitica.org\/?p=18881"},"modified":"2021-06-02T10:45:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T14:45:59","slug":"colonialism-indigenous-resistance-on-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinemapolitica.org\/fr\/colonialism-indigenous-resistance-on-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonialism & Indigenous Resistance on Film"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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As Indigenous-organized blockades continue to disrupt the colonial status quo across Canada, many groups and individuals across the country are responding to the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en call for action, support and solidarity. In an effort to respond to the values and concerns of much of its contemporary audiences, corporate and mainstream media has attempted a tone shift away from the days of reporting on Mohawk \u201cterrorists\u201d during the Oka crisis. Yet the news media is still a deeply colonial franchise mandated to uphold the dominant cultural narrative.<\/p>

As such, the ways in which mainstream media frame blockades, sit-ins and other \u201cillegal\u201d actions tend to oscillate between \u201cwe care about the plight of Indigenous peoples\u201d and \u201cradical activists are wreaking havoc.\u201d Media framing analysis is concerned with what is omitted or excluded from the frame, as well as the composition of what is included inside the frame. In the case of the countrywide actions in support of the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en peoples\u2019 right to sovereignty, misrepresentations and negative stereotyping of direct action activists and Indigenous leaders is only part of the problem. Outside of that frame lies the historical context of colonization, imperialism and the formation of the liberal settler nation-state known today as Canada.<\/p>

With that in mind, and in service of the larger project occurring around settler-to-settler education on Indigenous history, culture and liberation, here is a handy playlist of videos to not only fill in the blanks mainstream media leaves open, but to redress many of the inaccuracies, inconsistencies and harms they regularly serve up. Most of these videos are free, while others require a small rental charge.<\/p>

First up: a very short primer on autonomy, and in particular, collective autonomy as a weapon to be used against colonialism and capitalism.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Next, a brief primer on the history and context of the Unist\u2019ot\u2019en camp, where the voices and perspectives of Indigenous land and water protectors\u2014those who sparked what is now nation-wide moment of defiance\u2014are foregrounded.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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