Indigenous Sovereignty Week videos

This is an archive of videos from ISW events between 2009-2011. They are mostly from Ottawa, but I also managed to find one set of videos from each year from other locations.

Indigenous Sovereignty Week was based on a call by the Defenders of the Land network.

I wrote an article introducing ISW in the lead-up to the first year’s events; the article featured quotes from an interview with Arthur Manuel, who had a planned multi-city ISW speaking tour that year.

There are also archives of the call from DOTL here: for 2009; for 2010; and, for 2011.
(The formatting is a bit off in the first two pages, so just scroll down a bit to get to the content)

Here are the videos (from back when many Youtube videos had a length limit of 10- or 15-minutes)

2009 ISW – Ottawa (link to full schedule)

Indigenous Perspectives on the Environment
Clayton Thomas-Muller, Gitz Crazy Boy, Darryl Sainnawap, Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, Marylynn Poucachiche: Playlist of 15 videos
Beaver Lake Cree First Nation and the Tar Sands
Lawyer Jack Woodward: Two videos
Remembering Residential Schools
Video was published on the now-defunct blip.tv, but re-publishing is planned soon

2009 ISW – Vancouver

Resistance without Reservation – The Indigenous in Canada
Dustin Rivers – Kat Dennis – David Dennis

2010 ISW – Ottawa (link to full schedule)

Seeking Justice for Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women
Maria Jocko – Sharon McIvor – Yasmin Jiwani
Defending the Land
Tony Wawatie – Russell Diabo – Clement Chartier
Climate Justice
Marcelo Saavadra-Vargas, Bob Lovelace, Ben Powless: Playlist of 6 videos
An Oral History of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake
Tony Wawatie: Playlist of 3 videos (part of larger ABL playlist)
Films screened at 2010 ISW – Ottawa:
A Windigo Tale – Link to full film
Schooling the World: The White Man’s Last Burden – Link to trailer and full film
Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian – Link to trailer and more info (NFB)

2010 ISW – Lhe Lin Liyin

Grassroots Wet’suwet’en: A Growing Resistance …
Toghestiy (Warner Naziel), Freda Huson, Tsalik (Mel Bazil), Maskibu (Helen Mitchell), Wileh’ (Katherine Michell): Playlist of 4 videos

2011 ISW – Toronto