Masterclass with A/Professor Glen Coulthard

Global Red Power

Diving deeper into the theme of my lecture, this seminar will explore - through radical press outlets, print media, material from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and state obtained through Freedom of Information (FOI), secondary literature, and oral historical accounts - a history of Red Power radicalization and Indigenous-Marxist cross-fertilization in Canada from 1967-1982. We will examine the political work undertaken by several dedicated Native organizations and activists active at the time, including; the Lee Maracle, Gerry Ambers, and Ray Bobb of the Native Alliance for Red Power (NARP), George Manuel, Marie Smallface Marule and the National Indian Brotherhood, Gina Blondin and Georges Erasmus of the Indian Brotherhood of the Northwest Territories, etc. It will show that the political organizing and theory-building of these people and groups borrowed substantively and productively from a Third World-adapted Marxism which provided an appealing international language of political contestation that they not only inherited but sought to radically transform through a critical engagement with their own cultural traditions and land-based struggles. Linkages will be made with similar efforts and intellectual exchanges in anti-colonial movements in Aotearoa and Australia. Readings may include selections from Mao Zedong, Micheal Hardt, Stuart Hall, Robbie Shilliam, Lee Maracle, the Native Study Group, the IBNWT, George Manuel and myself.

Info: Please arrive by 8.30 am to settle in to start by 9 .00 am.

Info: Please note there will be breaks for morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea. All meals will be catered for.

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