500 Years
OF INDIGeNOU s resIsTaNCe
This article is intended as a basic history of the colonization of the Americas since
1492, and the Indigenous resistance to this colonization continuing into 1992. The
author admits to not having a full understanding of the traditions of his own people,
the Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka’wakw); as such the article lacks an analysis based in an
authentic Indigenous philosophy and is instead more of a historical chronology.