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Interview with Billie Pierre

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Length: 0:26:56
Uploaded: 10 Jan, 2009

Recording Date: 21 Dec, 2008
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Language: English
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Program Title: Interview with Billie Pierre
Description: Billie Pierre is a Nlaka’Pamux/Saulteaux woman based in Vancouver. She was part of the Native Youth Movement, a founder member of the Redwire magazine and engaged in others Native struggles on Coast Salish Territories. She's talking about the necessity to defend the lands and the Native people and also about her involvement in some of those fights.

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Featured Speakers/Guests: Billie Pierre

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Politics
Environment
Type: Interview

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Comments: In this first part of the interview, she's talking about Gustafsen Lake Standoff, the history of the Native Youth Movement, the foundation of Redwire magazine and about matriarchy in West coast Native struggles.

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Comments: In this second part, she talks about the impacts of the 2010 Olympics on Coast Salish Territories and about how the people, especially Natives, organize to protect the land and their people by, particularly, re-occupation camps like at Sutikalh, Coquihalla, etc. She also talks about her travel to a Native gathering in Philippines to learn, to meet other Indigenous people and other ways of organizing...

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