Indigenous narratives, sovereignty and narrative sovereignty – thelinknewspaper
January 28, 2025
Sovereignty over Indigenous stories is equally as important as sovereignty over Indigenous lands
On a frigid February day in 2020, when Nicolas Renaud heard the news of an injunction to clear a rail blockade in Kahnawake, he was angry.
The Mohawk people had been protesting in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en communities in British Columbia, opposing the construction of a gas pipeline in their territory for over two weeks.
His anger, though, was directed at the media coverage.
The grand chief of Kahnawake at the time, Joseph Tokwiro Norton, had issued a statement asserting that the Kahnawake Peacekeepers—the only police agency with jurisdiction over the territory—would not carry out the injunction.
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