Arbutus<p>Leafing through this beautiful revised and expanded edition of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/The500YearsOfIndigenousResistenceComicBook" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>The500YearsOfIndigenousResistenceComicBook</span></a> by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GordHill" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GordHill</span></a> has my branches just quivering… </p><p>When he updates this again, I hope he adds the story of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Garifuna" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Garifuna</span></a> resistance to French and English rule on so-called <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StVincent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StVincent</span></a> which was so fierce that they kept the island free of colonizers for appx 100 years and the fort eventually built had its canons facing inland, rather than the usual out to sea, because the true threat was indigenous resistance that than other European war mongers. Mad respect to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Satuye" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Satuye</span></a>/ <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JosephChatoyer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JosephChatoyer</span></a>, the Garifuna chief who was killed due to betrayal just before a decisive battle 1795, at which point the resistance collapsed. The Garifuna were eventually rounded up and largely forced off the island, endured horrific conditions of forced displacement for several years on a series of essentially desert islands before finally arriving on Honduras coast where they are still found today and from which they have spread in diaspora along the coast, and to the US and Canada, mostly in large cities on the east coast.</p>