The following is a short preview, the full comic is published in the book, Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle, an anthology of Canadian labour history comics edited by the Graphic History Collective and historian Paul Buhle and published by Between the Lines Press in 2016.
Working on the Water, Fighting for the Land: Indigenous Labour on Burrard Inlet
By Tania Willard (Secwepemc Nation)
Co-written: Robin Folvik and Sean Carleton
Thank you for this important work! Too much of this First Nations labour history has been hidden & this distorts Canada’s actual history where Native peoples have contributed a tremendous amount of hard work to build this nation’s wealth.