This Land is Our Land (ep 173)

<p>In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, and it's been downhill for New World peoples ever since.  Today we look at residential schools, the occupation of Alcatraz by Indians of All Tribes, the Oka crisis (aka the Mohawk resistance), and Sacheen Littlefeather's Oscar speech.</p> <p><a href="http://www.yourbrainonfacts.com/book" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YBOF Book</a>; <a href= "https://www.chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/your-brain-on-facts-by-moxie-labouche">Audiobook</a> (basically everywhere but Audible); <a href= "https://www.teepublic.com/stores/your-brain-on-facts?ref_id=11890">Merch!</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.yourbrainonfacts.com/social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hang out</a> with your fellow Brainiacs  .Reach out and touch Moxie on <a href= "http://yourbrainonfacts.libsyn.com/content/facebook.com/yourbrainonfacts">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://yourbrainonfacts.libsyn.com/content/twitter.com/moxielabouche">Twitter</a>,  or <a href= "http://yourbrainonfacts.libsyn.com/content/instagram.com/yourbrainonfacts">Instagram.</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.patreon.com/yourbrainonfacts">Support the show</a></p> <p>Music by <a href="http://www.incompetech.com/">Kevin MacLeod,</a> <a href="../../../content/FesliyanStudios.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Steve Oxen</a>, <a href= "../../../content/FesliyanStudios.com" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">David Fesliyan</a>.  </p> <p>Links to all the research resources are on our <a href= "http://www.yourbrainonfacts.com/">website</a>.<br /> <br /></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Late summer, 1990.  The protest had been going on for two months; tensions were escalating.  Soldiers had been dispatched to enforce the government’s will, but the Kahnawake Mohawk weren’t going to give up another inch of their land.  14 year old Waneek and her 4 year old sister Kaniehtiio were there with their activist mother when the violence started.  Waneek tried to get little Tio to safety when she saw a soldier who had taken her school books from her weeks prior...and he