Weytk, Greetings, Everyone. My name is Kanahus Manuel, I am a Secwepemc and Ktunaxa Mother of 4 Freedom Babies, I am a Warrior and full-time teacher and activists. I am also a Traditional Birth Keeper and have given birth to all 4 of my FREEDOM BABIES by myself, on my Homelands. I have refused to register my children with the government of BC and Canada and because of this stance my children, my Freedom Babies make the biggest sacrifice.
THE STRUGGLE IS REAL! By NOT registering them with the occupying state, I do NOT receive finincial benifits and services including: medical, dental, public education, monthly child tax payments and any extra curicular childrens programs and services provided by the state. I have struggled for 13 years raising them with little to NO support, while still working full-time running our Freedom Babies - Life School program (a seasonal-land based curriculm that we developed oursleves), helping Women to birth their babies naturally and also taking my stand as a Warrior defending our Secwepemc Homelands.
For Peoples that know me - I am going beyond most parents comfort zones with my Decolonization and stance for Indigenous Autonomy and Independence. But I do it for them! I am asking for those that Support this stance to help donate what they can to help cover emergency costs for our Freedom Babies Life School program, dental and life costs. (My full time effort right now has been on the Mount Polley disaster - biggest environmental mining disaster in all of Canadian history in Secwepemc Territory - they make their Sacrifice again.) If this wasnt an emergency I wouldn't ask, So Please Help What you Can! This is to continue to do the work I do, since government or industry will never fund me! ~ In the Spirit of Resistance and Freedom Babies, Kanahus Manuel (Red Woman)
PHOTO: "Canada's Solution to the Indian Problem is to Imprison us, cage us up, impoverish us with legal fees, frame us with criminal charges, and eventually kill us" Native Youth Movement (NYM). In 2001, Secwepemc youth formed a Secwepemc Chapter of NYM as "a warrior society whose main purpose is to defend and protect Indian territories, people and our way of life." One of its founders and spokespersons is Kanahus. She was jailed on 23 February 2003 for her peaceful occupation of Sun Peaks. After suffering 120 days of incarceration she was reunited with her seven month old baby on 5 May 2003 (photo above). Most legal charges against her were later dropped.
