Accomplices: Special Episode with Alex Zahara

About this episode

Alex Zahara discusses how non-Indigenous individuals can effectively support Indigenous peoples in Canada.

Accomplices: Special Episode with Alex Zahara Episode highlight In this episode, Alex Zahara talks about how a non-Indigenous person can be a good ally and accomplice to Indigenous peoples in Canada. Resources Alex Zahara UR Pride Center Case Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex Pollution is Colonialism Mohawk Interruptus We Are Fire Natasha Caverley Breathing Fire into Landscapes that Burn: Wildfire Management in a Time of Alterlife Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness by Tiffany Lethabo King Treaty Land Sharing Network Centering Indigenous voices: The role of fire in the Boreal Forest of North America Sponsors The Canadian Partnership for Wildland Fire Science Indigenous Leadership Initiative Quotes  17.44 – 17.52: “This is actually the first time in Canadian history when the Notwithstanding Clause was used to suppress the charter rights of children.”  22.42 - 22.48: “These attacks… on trans rights are also an attack on Indigenous rights.”  1.14.54 - 1.15.10: “When I’m thinking about how do I be a settler and how do I… settle, I do think that there are ways of… living together in a way that doesn’t emphasize…

People in this episode

Hosts: Amy Cardinal Christianson, Matthew Kristoff

Guest: Alex Zahara

Topics covered

• Indigenous rights
• allyship
• colonialism
• wildfire management
• settler colonialism

Keywords

• allyship
• Indigenous peoples
• Canada
• wildfire
• colonialism
• settler
• rights

Sponsors

Canadian Partnership for Wildland Fire Science, Indigenous Leadership Initiative

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UR Pride Center, Treaty Land Sharing Network

Books & works: Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex, Pollution is Colonialism, Mohawk Interruptus, We Are Fire, Breathing Fire into Landscapes that Burn: Wildfire Management in a Time of Alterlife, Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness by Tiffany Lethabo King

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