“The railways got very wealthy on our land;” How Canada’s colonial past made railways a target of blockades

(Source: Globe and Mail, March 3, 2020)

TORONTO — The blockades have been a response to RCMP arrests on Wet’suwet’en territory in northern B.C., where protesters have been trying to stop the Coastal GasLink pipeline. But for many Indigenous demonstrators from Tyendinaga to Gitxsan territory, the rails have taken on a symbolic as well as tactical meaning, and their occupation has been cheered as a strike against one of the most effective tools in the colonization of Canada.

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