When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance

About Katsitsakwas Ellen GabrielSean Carleton

Katsitsakwas Ellen Gabriel is a Kanienkehá:ka Wakeniáhton (Turtle Clan) artist documentarian and Indigenous human rights and environmental rights activist living in Kanehsatà:ke Kanienkehá:ka Homelands.Sean Carleton is a settler historian and professor of history and Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg Manitoba Treaty 1 Territory.Pamela Palmater is a Mikmaw lawyer and Indigenous rights activist from Eel River Bar First Nation in New Brunswick. She has four university degrees including a doctor of law degree focusing on Indigenous rights and currently serves as professor and Chair in Indigenous Governance at Toronto Metropolitan University. An award-winning podcaster and documentary filmmaker Pam has harnessed the power of digital and social media platforms to help educate the public on important Indigenous issues. Her determined advocacy has earned her many awards including Top 25 Movers and Shakers Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers Most Inspiring Women and more.Audra Simpson is a professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (Duke University Press 2014) winner of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Associations Best First Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize the Laura Romero Prize from the American Studies Association the Sharon Stephens Prize from the American Ethnological Society (2015) and CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title in 2014. She has published articles and book chapters spanning various fields. She is a Kahnawà:ke Mohawk.