The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book: Revised and Expanded
Revised and Expanded
- Publisher
- Arsenal Pulp Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2021
- Category
- Native American, Nonfiction, Americas, NON-CLASSIFIABLE
-
Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781551528526
- Publish Date
- Oct 2021
- List Price
- $21.95
Add it to your shelf
Where to buy it
Description
A new and expanded version of Gord Hill's seminal illustrated history of Indigenous struggles in the Americas.
When it was first published in 2010, The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book was heralded as a groundbreaking illustrated history of Indigenous activism and resistance in the Americas over the previous 500 years, from contact to present day. Eleven years later, author and artist Gord Hill has revised and expanded the book, which is now available in colour for the first time.
The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book powerfully portrays flashpoints in history when Indigenous peoples have risen up and fought back against colonizers and other oppressors. Events depicted include the the Spanish conquest of the Aztec, Mayan and Inca empires; the 1680 Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico; the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890; the resistance of the Great Plains peoples in the 19th century; and more recently, the Idle No More protests supporting Indigenous sovereignty and rights in 2012 and 2013, and the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016. Canadian events depicted include the Oka crisis in 1990, the Grand River land dispute between Six Nations and the Government of Canada in 2006, and the Wet'suwet'en anti-pipeline protests in 2020.
With strong, plain language and evocative illustrations, this revised and expanded edition of The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book reveals the tenacity and perseverance of Indigenous peoples as they endured 500-plus years of genocide, massacre, torture, rape, displacement, and assimilation: a necessary antidote to conventional histories of the Americas.
The book includes a foreword by Pamela Palmater, a Mi'kmaq lawyer, professor, and political commentator.
About the authors
Gord Hill is an Indigenous writer, artist and activist of the Kwakwaka'wakw nation. He is the author and illustrator of The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book, The Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book, and The Antifa Comic Book (all published by Arsenal Pulp Press in Vancouver, Canada), as well as the author of the book 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance, published by PM Press in Oakland, California. His art and writings have also been published in numerous periodicals, including Briarpatch, Canadian Dimension, Redwire, Red Rising Magazine, The Dominion, Recherches Amerindiennes au Quebec, Intotemak, Seattle Weekly, and Broken Pencil.
River Bar First Nation in northern New Brunswick. She has two children, Mitchell and Jeremy, and a large extended family. Currently, she holds the position of Associate Professor and Chair in Indigenous Governance in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University. Pamela has worked for the federal government on Indigenous legal and governance issues, and has held several director positions at Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. She completed her doctorate in the Science of Law at Dalhousie University Law School, and holds a Master of Laws from Dalhousie University in Aboriginal Law, a Bachelor of Laws from the University of New Brunswick, and a BA with a double major in Native Studies and History from St. Thomas University in New Brunswick. She has specialized in Indigenous identity issues, which include Indian status, band membership, and self-government citizenship, and traditional Indigenous citizenship.
Editorial Reviews
The scope and ambition of this work are impressive, ranging over the thousands of years of Indigenous history from one end of the Americas to the other ... Hill\'s masterful use of a comic book format to present this people\'s history of Indigenous resistance will make his years of research and reflection accessible to many readers. -Vancouver Sun
Flipping Eurocentric history on its head, Kwakwaka'wakw artist Hill expands and updates his righteous 2010 chronicle of indigenous resistance to conquistadors and colonizers. Rather than limiting the focus to current national borders, Hill depicts revolts, rebellions, and riots from peoples across North and South America in fierce full-color. -Publishers Weekly
Other titles by
We Go Where They Go
The Story of Anti-Racist Action
The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book
Revised and Expanded
Direct Action Gets the Goods
A Graphic History of the Strike in Canada
The Antifa Comic Book
100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements
The Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book
From the WTO to the G20
The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book
500 Years of Indigenous Resistance
Other titles by
When the Pine Needles Fall
Indigenous Acts of Resistance
It's All about the Land
Collected Talks and Interviews on Indigenous Resurgence
We Were Not The Savages, First Nations History, 4th edition
Collision Between European and Native American Civilizations
The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book
Revised and Expanded
Warrior Life
Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence
Brotherhood to Nationhood
George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement