Civil disobedience against colonial courts becomes a process of psychological liberation

Evidence

After the fear is quelled from your first arrest, the liberation of your mind from the legal colonialism begins. Facing down the white man’s laws was indeed a process of unlearning oppression for the Innu. — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations, 320

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Innu blockade secured a court-ordered environmental review — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 367; Civil disobedience reveals institutional power as contingent and disruptable

Broader Connections