500 Hundred Years of Resistance Comic Book, The, paper ed

GoodMinds.com native resource

Title:	500 Hundred Years of Resistance Comic Book, The, paper ed	Author:	Gord Hill
Number Of Pages:	87	Subject:	Children - Non-Fiction, History, Literature
Grade Level:	Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Adult Education	Publication Date:	2010
ISBN:	978-1-55152-360-6	Publisher:	Arsenal Pulp Press

order in Canadian funds click here	Book Description
The 500 Hundred Years of Resistance Comic Book by Kwakwaka'wakw artist and activist Gord Hill offers students an 80-page perspective on Indigenous Peoples resistance movements to European colonization of the Americas. This graphic novel takes a large chunk of history and breaks it into three sections: Invasion, Assimilation and Resistance. Events covered in this sweeping saga include the 1680 Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico; the Inca insurgency in Peru from the 1500s to the 1780s; Pontiac and the 1763 Royal Proclamation; Geronimo and the 1860s Seminole Wars; Crazy Horse and the 1877 War on the Plains; the rise of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s; Wounded Knee; the Kanehsatà:ke Mohawk resistance in 1990; and the 1995 Aazhoodena Stoney Point (Ipperwash) resistance. The story also includes a one page spread on treaties; and residential schools. The book also contains a preface by Ward Churchill which most students will likely overlook. This new approach to Indigenous Peoples' history in the form of a graphic novel is an exciting development. Recommended.