[van-announce] Free Public Forum and Film > Resisting Colonialism in North America: The Western Shoshone Struggle for Sovereignty

[Mike Krebs]

*Mobilization Against War and Occupation Presents:* 

 *Resisting Colonialism in North America:* 

*The Western Shoshone Struggle for Sovereignty* 

 *Free Public Forum and Film Event*

 Featuring:

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*Carrie Dann*, *Western Shoshone Elder*

 *'Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain'* 

*The award-winning documentary about the struggle of the Shoshone people of 
Nevada to claim some twenty-four million acres of land ceded to them in an 
1863 treaty with the US Federal government. *

 *Wednesday April 27th at 7:30 PM*

*Aboriginal Friendship Centre*

*1607 East Hastings St.*

*KAYA Office (Lower Floor)*

 *What is the Western Shoshone Defense Project?*
The Western Shoshone Defense Project's (WSDP) mission is to affirm Newe 
(Western Shoshone) jurisdiction over Newe Sogobia (Western Shoshone 
homelands in Nevada). The W.S.D.P. was established in 1991 by the Western 
Shoshone National Council to provide support to Mary and Carrie Dann, 
Western Shoshone grandmothers who were facing the confiscation of the 
livestock which they graze on Western Shoshone lands. 
 Since then, the Western Shoshone Defense Project has been involved with 
many other struggles against the continued theft of Western Shoshone land 
and resources, including a campaign against the 'Western Shoshone 
Distribution Bill.' Under this bill, which was ratified by George W. Bush in 
July 2004, Western Shoshone claims to 24 million acres of their traditional 
territory were subsumed in exchange for a forced payment of 15 cents per 
acre, a payment which was refused by the majority of Western Shoshone 
people. 
 Currently the major campaign of the Western Shoshone Defense Project is 
against the expansion of the Cortez Gold Mines, located on traditional 
Western Shoshone Territory. The Cortez Gold Mines expansion is a joint 
venture involving Placer Dome, a Canadian multi-national corporation, and 
involves the theft of Western Shoshone resources. 
 
Carrie Dann's visit to Vancouver is an important occasion to share the 
lessons, persistence and victories of the fifteen year campaign of the WSPD 
within the hundreds of years old struggle of Indigenous nations against 
American and Canadian colonialism. Carrie Dann's experience as a veteran 
Indigenous sovereignty fighter and leader is significant for all people 
opposed to colonialist and imperialist war and occupation from Newe Sogobia 
to Skwelkwek'welt to Palestine and Iraq. 

 Endorsed by: Knowledgeable Aboriginal Youth Advocates, Redwire Native Youth 
Media, UBC Indigenous Students Society, International Indigenous Youth 
Conference Secretariat 

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*For more information contact:*

*Mobilization Against War and Occupation* 

*www.mawovancouver.org <http://www.mawovancouver.org/>* 

*info at mawovancouver.org* 
*(604) 322-1764*
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