"For the Long Haul: What We Can Learn from Long-Term Indigenous-Settler Alliances" Community Engaged Research uri icon

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  • For the Long Haul is a research project about long-term alliances between Indigenous peoples and settler/non-Indigenous groups who support Indigenous struggles. Three case studies will document peoples' experiences of working for change: (i) The Right to Belong: Indigenous Women's Organizing and the Struggle Against the Indian Act; (ii) Shoal Lake 40 and the Freedom Road Campaign; (iii) KAIROS Canada and Indigenous Solidarity Activism. By examining these three cases, we seek a better understanding of how alliances form, develop, and change over time; the principles that guide them; how they negotiate questions of power, difference, and voice; how they shift and face challenges; and what they learn along the way.