Sacheen Pointe and Joe James Rampanen of Ancestral Pride discuss indigenous land defense in Nuu-chah-nulth and Coast Salish territories, tracing colonial resource extraction from sea otter pelts to logging, mining, and fish farms. They describe the limits of litigation and legislation, criminalization of land defenders, and call for settler support, decolonization, and non-appropriative allyship, referencing zines Pointe wrote on the subject.
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