This clip is part of our forthcoming documentary A Red Road to the West Bank, a film that connects Indigenous resistance from Kanien’kehá:ka territories to Palestine. Our goal is to expose how settler-colonial systems operate across borders—and how communities resist, survive, and fight back together.

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From Wounded Knee to Gaza: Gord Hill on the Ongoing Machinery of Colonialism

In this powerful short clip from our interview with Indigenous historian and activist Gord Hill, he breaks down the uncomfortable truth: what we’re witnessing in Palestine today is not new—it’s a familiar stage in the settler-colonial project.

Hill draws a direct line from the military violence Indigenous nations faced across Turtle Island to the current Israeli assault on Gaza and the West Bank. He explains that colonization follows a pattern: “discovery” (or reconnaissance), followed by invasion, military occupation, and then deeper systems of control like residential schools and reservations.

While much of North America now presents itself as “post-colonial,” Hill reminds us that Indigenous peoples here were subjected to full-scale military campaigns that only began to wane after events like the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890, which he marks as the end of widespread Indigenous armed resistance.

In Palestine, he argues, that military phase is still unfolding. Israel is currently trying to break Palestinian resistance by force, using advanced military technologies, mass displacement, and total siege. It's the same colonial playbook, just in a different time and place.

This isn’t ancient history. It’s ongoing. It’s global. And it’s connected.