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This week we are rebroad­cast­ing our inter­view with Sii-am Hamil­ton, orig­i­nal­ly aired in Novem­ber of 2020. In this pow­er­ful con­ver­sa­tion with land defend­er Sii-am Hamil­ton, we are invit­ed to dis­cuss futur­is­tic ways for­ward in recog­ni­tion that Indige­nous com­mu­ni­ties have been prac­tic­ing cre­ative resis­tance against colo­nial­ism and cap­i­tal­ism for hun­dreds of years. We begin by dis­cussing what is cur­rent­ly tran­spir­ing on Wet­suweten ter­ri­to­ries and how colo­nial gov­ern­ments are using the cur­rent pan­dem­ic (and will use future crises) to roll back reg­u­la­to­ry mea­sures and push devel­op­ment full force. Sii-am offers a holis­tic reflec­tion on front­line land defense and the extent to which vio­lence is afflict­ed upon land defend­ers, and resource extrac­tion par­tic­i­pants, by transna­tion­al cor­po­ra­tions, while also reori­ent­ing us to the real­i­ty that just, dig­ni­fied, and bril­liant futures already exist but are not giv­en atten­tion, curios­i­ty, or love because they do not serve cor­po­rate prof­it. Sii-am Hamil­ton is a land defend­er and tra­di­tion­al knowl­edge hold­er born in occu­pied Hupacasath ter­ri­to­ry to moth­er Kwit­sel Tatel and father Ron Hamil­ton. Their expe­ri­ence stems from time on the land, feast cul­ture, and liv­ing tra­di­tion­al law and pro­to­col. They are a qual­i­fied hand poke tat­too artist as well as a song hold­er. Sii-am has been raised in polit­i­cal orga­ni­za­tion, land title, and grass­roots activism since child­hood, and now spe­cial­izes in publicity/​media pro­mo­tion of envi­ron­men­tal and land sov­er­eign­ty movements.