Events

Held in conjunction with the billboard campaign “Welcome to He Sapa. You’re on Stolen Land,” this roundtable brings together Lakota artists, activists, and knowledge-holders to connect present-day mining struggles with generations of Indigenous-led resistance—and the ongoing work to reclaim, protect, and steward He Sapa for future generations.

How did Central Appalachia become a target for repeated cycles of extraction and abandonment? How are communities using land ownership data not only to stop new extractive developments before they take hold, but also to break with the property regime that underpins them? And what can these struggles teach us about resisting extractivism elsewhere?

This roundtable asks what it means to resist official commemoration at a time of authoritarian backlash—and how counter-histories of Indigenous sovereignty, Black freedom struggle, abolition, anticolonial resistance, and popular education can help orient our struggles for justice and freedom in the years ahead.

Join us for a sneak preview of two episodes of the award-winning documentary series VS. GOLIATH, with a visit from Maury Johnson—a West Virginia organic farmer and pipeline-fighter known nationally as “the hero from the holler”. Maury has testified before Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court, and FERC, and has worked alongside frontline communities from Appalachia to the Gulf South to the Great Plains.