#OtD 3 Apr 1948 a left-wing uprising began on the Korean island of Jeju in protest to violent US-backed police and fears of the election reinforcing division. Thousands were killed by US troops and US-backed South Korean authorities stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1014...

On this day in 1885, Cree warriors retaliated at Frog Lake (in what's now Alberta) after a cruel April Fools' Day prank in which government official Thomas Quinn had promised rations to starving Cree people but then withheld them. anticolonialhistory.com/event/38/

Born on this day in 1946, Cherokee Nation linguist, ᏫᎵ ᏚᎥᎢᏅ (Wili Duvinv), also known as Durbin Duran Feeling, who wrote the primary Cherokee–English dictionary in 1975. anticolonialhistory.com/event/163/

On this day in 1922, longtime fighter for treaty fishing rights in the Pacific Northwest, Pah-pleup-tid Alvin (Al) Bridges is born. anticolonialhistory.com/event/162/

On this day in 2007, Carrie Dann (Shoshone), actor Martin Sheen and others are cited for trespassing for protesting the Nevada Test Site. anticolonialhistory.com/event/270/

🧵In 2026, Palestinians around the world mark 78 years since the Nakba, and remember the anniversary of Plan Dalet, a decisive moment in the events that led to mass displacement and dispossession: www.palquest.org/en/overallch...

#OtD 30 Mar 1919 the Transvaal Native Congress launched a campaign against the racist pass laws in South Africa. It lasted 3 months, and around 700 Africans were arrested and charged until conservatives within the movement shut it down stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1030...

Land Day: What happened in Palestine on March 30, 1976? https://aje.news/qvwinz

Happy Birthday to Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, who is currently raising money for dental work, which you can donate to here. He’s had three bad teeth pulled in the past month. fundrazr.com/campaigns/52...

🧵50 years after the commemoration of the first Land Day, Palestinians continue to confront a reality that echoes the conditions that gave rise to that historic mobilization: www.palquest.org/en/highlight...

#OtD 30 Mar 1976 a general strike and mass protests began in Palestine/Israel in protest at the Israeli govt seizing land owned by Arabs in Galilee to build Jewish settlements and IDF facilities. The date is now commemorated annually as Land Day stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1031...

On this day in 1947, Black anarchist and community organizer Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin is born. anticolonialhistory.com/event/161/

On this day in 1934, Yet-si-blue (Janet McCloud) is born. She was a community organizer and editor of the newsletter Survival News which documented Fish Wars from the Native side. anticolonialhistory.com/event/160/

On this day in 1885, Cree forces loot the town of Battleford after Indian agent J. M. Rae refuses to meet with them. North West Mounted Police simply hide, being too weak to confront the Cree warriors. The Canadian government had been withholding provisions. anticolonialhistory.com/event/37/

On this day in 1854, Apache and Ute forces led by Apache war chief Flechas Rayadas or Striped Arrows lay a successful ambush for US Army dragoons. anticolonialhistory.com/event/36/

On this day in 2005, the US Supreme Court hands down its decision against the Oneida Indian Nation in City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of N. Y., referencing the Doctrine of Discovery. anticolonialhistory.com/event/217/

On this day in 1900, British colonizers begin the ‘Golden Stool’ War (Yaa Asantewaa War) with the Ashanti Tribe in what's today's Ghana. anticolonialhistory.com/event/352/

Jack Patten also was involved in at least two campaigns against militarism on Aboriginal territory: He "established the Australian Aboriginal Elders Council of Victoria, to oppose the British atomic testing at Maralinga in South Australia." www.firstpeoplesrelations.vic.gov.au/jack-patten

and "The APA split in 1938 with Jack Patten and Bill Ferguson leading separate factions but, by 1946, they were working together again, this time opposing federal government plans to establish a rocket range on Pitjantjatjara lands." www.indigenousrights.net.au/people/pagin...

you can find text of one of his Day of Mourning speeches here speakola.com/ideas/jack-p...

#tdih 1961 In Jackson, Mississippi, 9 Tougaloo College students & members of the local NAACP Youth Council staged a READ-IN to protest lack of access to Jackson Public Library. #CivilDisobedience They paid taxes for a "public" library they could not use. ⬇️ 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ja...

Later that day, students from Jackson State College students organized a prayer vigil to support the Tougaloo 9. Police attacked students with clubs & dogs. Three students, including Dorie Ladner (1942-2024), were expelled by Jackson State. Read ⬇️ www.civilrightsteaching.org/resource/fre...

Born on this day in 1945, skilled Mi'kmaq warrior, community organizer and one of the most prominent leaders of the American Indian Movement, Anna Mae Pictou Aquash. anticolonialhistory.com/event/159/

Born on this day in 1905, Aboriginal Australian civil rights activist and journalist, John Thomas Patten. anticolonialhistory.com/event/275/

Highly recommend this book for all archaeologists working with Native communities in the US!! 🏺

#OtD 26 Mar 1953 Mau Mau guerrillas fighting British colonialism in Kenya attacked the Naivasha police station. They inflicted a humiliating defeat on the police and released 173 prisoners, many of them Mau Mau, from an adjoining detention camp stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

Lemme translate this real quick. Here was fought the Battle of Duck Lake, Saskatchewan. It was here on the twenty sixth of Goose Moon (March), 1885, that soldiers and police led by Major L.N.F Crozier fought Métis and Cree led by Gabriel Dumont.

On this day in 1885, Métis forces prevail over the North West Mounted Police (now named the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) at the Battle of Duck Lake, in what's now known as Saskatchewan. anticolonialhistory.com/event/35/

Born on this day in 1933, Vine Victor Deloria Jr., Standing Rock Sioux / Dakota author, historian, and activist, widely known for his 1969 book, 'Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto' anticolonialhistory.com/event/289/

Born on this day in 1920, Newe / Western Shoshone spiritual leader, Corbin Harney, who was active in the fight against nuclear weapons testing on his people's land, especially against the Nevada Test Site and the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site. anticolonialhistory.com/event/307/

Between Che, Fanon, and Rodney, that's why my analysis is so sharp

Born on this day in 1942, Guyanese historian, political activist and academic, Walter Rodney, known for his important book 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa' anticolonialhistory.com/event/322/

On this day in 1622, Powhatan people attack English settlers at several locations in the Colony of Virginia, in the so-called Indian massacre of 1622, part of the Second Anglo-Powhatan War. About a third of the colonists are wiped out. anticolonialhistory.com/event/34/

On this day in 1968, combined Palestinian and Jordanian forces defeat Israeli forces at the Battle of al-Karama in Jordan, providing a major morale boost to the Palestinian freedom movement. anticolonialhistory.com/event/344/

On this day in 1784, a combined force of Apache and Najavo people successfully raid a Spanish fort, capturing 13 horses and leaving five soldiers dead and one wounded, in what's known as the Fourth Battle of Tucson. anticolonialhistory.com/event/251/

#tdih 1969 Mexican-American students in Denver walked out to demand: - more bilingual classes, - Chicano history & literature in curriculum, - smaller class sizes, & - an end to advising students to fight in Vietnam. They were brutally attacked by police. ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/me...

Born on this day in 1923, Martin Ramirez Sostre, who went on to be, in the words of the Martin Sostre Institute, "a revolutionary anarchist political prisoner and one of the most successful jailhouse lawyers of the twentieth century." anticolonialhistory.com/event/158/

#tdih 1968, Howard University students took over the Admin Building with demands around discipline policies & African American history courses. One of many stories left out when textbooks end Civil Rights Movement in 1965. More + ‘68 doc, ”Color Us Black”⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ho... 🧵

#OtD 19 Mar 1935 the 1935 Harlem Uprising took place in NYC when Black people rebelled against police after rumours of brutality. Police banned a demo, and protests escalated, causing $200 million in damages, while three Black people were killed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9121...

lesser known Indigenous wildlife management and maintaining a way of life during one of the toughest times in N American history.

On this day in 1877, Nʉmʉnʉʉ (Comanche) and Apache forces prevail over an American militia at the Battle of Yellow House Canyon. anticolonialhistory.com/event/33/

On this day in 1831, the US Supreme Court hands down its decision in the Cherokee Nation v. Georgia case, part of the Marshall Trilogy. Marshall describes Indigenous peoples as wards and "domestic dependent nations." anticolonialhistory.com/event/32/

#OtD 17 Mar 1876 US troops attacked sleeping Cheyenne and Oglala Lakota people in Montana in the Battle of Powder River, beginning of the Sioux wars. However the Native Americans emerged victorious from the battle. More about Indigenous resistance here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Born on this day in 1835, militant abolitionist, Lewis Sheridan Leary, who went on to take part in both the 1858 Oberlin-Wellington Rescue and the 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry with John Brown. anticolonialhistory.com/event/157/

#OtD 16 Mar 1968 the Mỹ Lai massacre took place in Vietnam, in which around 500 unarmed villagers were murdered by US troops and others raped. One US helicopter crew saw and landed to stop the killing and reported it, but the army retaliated against them workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e14-...

and an excellent speech by him here: historyiswhat.noblogs.org/post/2024/12...

#OtD 15 March 1919 thousands of women in Egypt marched in protest against British occupation. The arrest and deportation of Egyptian politician, Saad Zaghlul, and several other activists caused widespread outrage and boosted anti-colonial sentiment stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8701...

On this day in 1873, Cayuga (Gayogohó:no') religious and political leader and speaker of the Six Nations Hereditary Council, Deskaheh is born. anticolonialhistory.com/event/156/

On this day in 1738, Fort Mose and the village of Gracia Real are established for escaped formerly-enslaved people in Florida. anticolonialhistory.com/event/31/

#OtD 14 Mar 1970 two sailors on a US vessel carrying 10k tons of napalm for use in the Vietnam war mutinied, hijacked the ship and sailed it to neutral Cambodia. But they could never have guessed what would happen next. Learn more in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2019/04/09/w...