The 500 Years of Resistance by Gord Hill is a historical comic that showcases the documentation of radical activism, which enables individual citizens to question their government, and critique how history is built by media (the Internet) and on the pages of textbooks. The graphic novel challenges the representation of events from the Spanish colonization of the Americas (1492) to the Six Nations land reclamation (2006) focusing on how the European Invasion and colonization of the Americas violated Indigenous culture. Without a doubt, storytelling is an important element of Indigenous political activism, and in 500 Years of Resistance artfully articulates an anti-capitalist and pro-activist challenge to audiences.
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Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace
Elizabeth LaPensée, is an award-winning designer, writer, artist, and researcher who creates and studies Indigenous-led media such as games and comics and has develop and lead an amazing initiative called ABTEC. ABTEC (Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace), is an Aboriginally determined research-creation network whose goal is to ensure an Indigenous presence in the web pages, online environments, video games, and virtual worlds that comprise cyberspace.