A new graphic novel on the history of colonization in the Americas, by Artist and activist Gord Hill. of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nation.
“500 Years of Resistance” presents an alternate view of colonial history in the Americas. It built on his earlier book 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance.
You can listen to an interview with Gord Hill on rabble.ca.
The history of the colonization of the Americas by Europeans is often portrayed as a mutually beneficial process, in which ‘”civilization” was brought to the Natives, who in return shared their land and cultures. A more critical history might present it as a genocide in which Indigenous peoples were helpless victims, overwhelmed and awed by European military power. In reality, neither of these views is correct.
500 Years of Indigenous Resistance is more than a history of European colonization of the Americas. In this slim volume, Gord Hill chronicles the resistance by Indigenous peoples, which limited and shaped the forms and extent of colonialism. This history encompasses North and South America.