cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/13018

An excerpt from “We Survived The Night” by Julian Brave NoiseCat

Though his father is a famous carver, it’s not lost on writer Julian Brave NoiseCat that their Secwépemc and St’at’imc ancestors were best-known for their intricate weaving. In his new book We Survived the Night, he pays tribute to their traditions by braiding memoir and on-the-ground reporting into the arc of a Coyote Story — legends of the trickster forefather of the Interior Salish peoples. In his 2024 documentary Sugarcane, co-directed with Emily Kassie, NoiseCat investigated the history of the St. Joseph’s Mission, a residential school near Williams Lake, B.C. where his father was rescued from an incinerator as a newborn baby, and mapped the intergenerational impacts of residential school on his family and community of Canim Lake.

We Survived the Night widens the lens, looking at the ways colonialism has disrupted Indigenous lives, pushing many nations to the brink of annihilation and erasure — as well as the resilience and power of people who continue, like Coyote, to persist in survival, mischief and resistance. His reporting takes him to communities across the continent, from the unrecognized Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina to the Nuxalk Nation in coastal B.C. to the Tlingit waters in Sitka, Alaska, where he reported the excerpt below

From The Narwhal via This RSS Feed.