Solidarity with Ukraine: An Indigenous View
The story of kokum scarves has long connected Ukrainian refugees and Indigenous peoples of North America. The relationships they represent are an essential kind of solidarity today.
Patty Krawec is an Anishnaabe Ukranian activist, co-host of the podcast Medicine for the Resistance, and host of the online book club Ambe: A year of Indigenous reading. Patty is a writer and speaker and for 16 years was an active union member and social worker. Her work now centers on examining and disrupting social and political narratives of power. Her first book, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future, deals with the untangling of Christian colonialism and is available for preorder and other writings have been published by Rampant Magazine and Sojourners. You can find her on twitter @gindaanis and her website daanis.ca.
The story of kokum scarves has long connected Ukrainian refugees and Indigenous peoples of North America. The relationships they represent are an essential kind of solidarity today.
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