Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Indigenous People’s Justice

In honor of Indigenous Peoples' Day and Anti-Thanksgiving, the Interference Archive and Wikimedia NYC are holding a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on the theme of Indigenous peoples’ movement histories. Across settler-colonial geographies, Indigenous peoples’ histories have largely been misrepresented. This misrepresentation has enabled and concealed acts of violence against Indigenous peoples in many forms – from environmental contamination to forced relocation.

In an effort to learn from and support the myriad movements that have arisen in response to this violence, we will glean relevant information from the collection at Interference Archive to share through Wikipedia. Our objective is to make information and documentation related to Indigenous peoples’ movement histories more accessible for current and future movement makers, educators, and learners.

Snacks will be provided. Childcare is available if requested in by October 9, 2018.

No experience editing Wikipedia is required but please bring a laptop! Experienced Wikipedians will be around to help out, and we’ll be starting the edit-a-thon at 2pm with a brief tutorial to cover the basics.

Articles to Create/Edit
Interference Resources: Subject Files - Zapatista
 * Shawn Brant
 * John Graham (Canadian activist) -- sources at Interference Archive contest the wikipedia article narrative re: his guilt in the murder of Anne Mae Aquash
 * Indigenous decolonization
 * Chiapas Media Project
 * Zapatista Army of National Liberation

Interference Resources: Political Pamphlets - Indigenous Resistance
 * Oka Crisis
 * Joe David
 * American Indian Movement
 * Leonard Peltier
 * Nez Perce people
 * Concerns and Controversies at the 2010 Winter Olympics
 * Vancouver Organizing Committee/ VANOC
 * Akwesasne Notes (Subsection of Akwasasne page)

Articles to Create

Interference Resources: Political Pamphlets - Indigenous Resistance / Serials - Native American Indigenous - Akwesasne Notes 1974-1977 (Big Mountain News)
 * Decolonize this Place
 * Native Youth Movement
 * Vancouver Anti-Poverty Committee
 * Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation (Australia)

Interference Resources: Serial - Native American Indigenous - Akwesasne Notes 1974-1977 (Black Hills Papa Sapa Report & Akwasasne Notes) / Native American Indigenous - Akwesasne Notes 1979-1981 / Political Pamphlets - Indigenous Resistance
 * Oyate Wicaho
 * Big Mountain Relocation

Interference Resources: Climate Justice Flat-files
 * Sadie Red-Wing (Info about Sadie’s work: http://www.aiga.org/globalassets/migrated-pdfs/sadieredwing_bio)

For context and more ideas, also see:
 * Classification of indigenous peoples of the Americas

Participants



 * Megs (talk) 14:52, 10 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Napplicable (talk) 16:50, 14 October 2018 (UTC)


 * Draav (talk) 05:38, 15 October 2018 (UTC)