Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel is well known for her role as a spokesperson during the Oka Crisis – or the Mohawk crisis, as she calls it – and her many years of advocacy for Indigenous rights to land and culture.
Now, she’s sharing lessons from that work in When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance, written as a conversation between her and historian Sean Carleton.
Much of this advocacy work has taken place in Montreal, where Gabriel is often a speaker at rallies and vigils that honour Indigenous life.
CKUT spoke with Gabriel and Carleton about that advocacy and other lessons from the book.
