WHISOL Project
White Solidarity and Native North American Rights in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe, 1960s-1990s
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This project looks back to the work of white activists for Native North American rights in the US, Canada, and Western Europe from the 1960s to the 1990s. Using archival research, literary writings, and oral history interviews of members of past rights organizations led by white Europeans and North Americans, this research will question how effective solidarity can be built. What role did underlying assumptions about land, race, and indigeneity play in shaping the possibilities of building decolonial solidarity? How did these activists conceive of their own positions in relation to Indigenous peoples? The project aims to advance the scientific understanding of the structures of whiteness and settler colonialism and their intersections. It is funded by the Research Council of Finland.
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