New Archive Photo of the Week: People fighting for their land. Their sovereignty. Their right to exist.
This week’s Photograph of the week: Commemorating the Siege on Kanehsata:ke, Mohawk Territory, 3 years later (1993)
The Siege on Kanehsata:ke (often referred to as the Oka Crisis) was a 78-day standoff in 1990, sparked by plans to expand a golf course onto sacred Mohawk land in Kanehsatà:ke. Mohawk land defenders stood to protect sacred pines and burial grounds, facing off against heavily armed police and the Canadian military. The crisis exposed Canada’s deep-rooted colonialism and became a defining moment in the Indigenous land rights movement. – From Indigenous Climate Action
Photo: Orin Langelle/GJEP
In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the US on October 12
One photograph. Five decades of struggle, resistance and memory.
Each week, as hundreds of photographs are digitized from Orin Langelle’s five-decade archive, one image is selected, newly edited, and brought back into public view.
Archive Photo of the Week revisits moments of social, ecological and economic struggle that might otherwise disappear from collective memory—along with the people, places and stories behind them.
From the archive, back into history.