The Trail of Broken Treaties reaches Washington

After a lengthy trial, all nine defendants were acquitted of the principal charge of incitement to riot. Four received suspended sentences for lesser offences. Their defence exposed weaknesses in...

Four Aboriginal activists set up an embassy opposite Parliament House to demand land rights. Calling their protest an embassy exposed the contradiction of being treated as outsiders on their own land....

A jury acquitted Angela Davis of charges arising from the 1970 Marin County courthouse incident. An international campaign had mobilized for her release and defence. Her case brought attention to...

A convention opened at Edendale near Pietermaritzburg, continuing until 10 July, to organize Black solidarity beyond university campuses. It brought Black Consciousness into a wider political...

Activists presented a petition calling for the teaching of te reo Māori in schools. Ngā Tamatoa and the Te Reo Māori Society helped organize the campaign. It challenged educational practices that...

Workers at Coronation Brick and Tile stopped work to demand higher wages. The action helped trigger a wave of strikes across Durban. Black workers used collective withdrawal of labour despite legal...

The Supreme Court delivered its judgment in the Nisga'a land case. Six judges recognized that Aboriginal title existed before colonization, but divided over whether it had been extinguished; the...

Oglala Lakota activists and American Indian Movement supporters began occupying Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation. They challenged local abuses and demanded that the federal government honour...

Dalit Panthers marched on the anniversary of Indian independence to question freedom that had left caste oppression intact. Their use of Black Power language connected struggles across different...

An assembly in territory controlled by the liberation movement proclaimed independence from Portugal. Years of armed struggle and political organization had established institutions outside colonial...