On January 31, 2008, two native youth warriors active in resisting the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver/Whistler visited Montreal, as part of a tour of the Great Lakes and East Coast of Turtle Island.

Their first stop was Montreal's Olympic Stadium site of the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Outside the main gate of the Stadium, on Pierre-De Coubertin Avenue, with a poster promoting the "anti-colonial/anti-capitalist" convergence against the Olympics in 2010.

Unfurling banners and flags outside the stadium for the mainstream media; the main message, "No Olympics on stolen land", was repeated by several mainstream media outlets in English and French.

Kanahus Pellkey (l), Secwepemc and Ktnuxa Warrior, and Dustin Johnson (r), member of the Ts'mksiyen nation, address the media inside the stadium.

"This is all stolen land, here as well as on the West Coast." -- Kanahus Pellkey, speaking at Montreal's Olympic Stadium.

Kanahus' father, Arthur Manuel, protested at Montreal's Olympic Stadium, in defense of indigenous sovereignty, in 1976.

Marcel Sévigny, a Montreal housing rights activist for 4 decades, who was active in supporting families made homeless by the Olympics in 1976; he was at the press conference in support of Kanahus and Dustin.

"The occupation of native land in BC by organizers of the Olympics reminds me of the scandals that took place in Montreal where several hundreds of families were forced out of their homes because of the Montreal Olympics." -- Marcel Sévigny

Poster promoting the main public event at the Native Friendship Center of Montreal. The tour was organized with the core support of the Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement (IPSM) in Guelph.

The Native Friendship Center is packed, with a standing-room only crowd. Groups supporting the event include: No One Is Illegal-Montreal, Frigo Vert, Mohawk Nation News, Solidarity Across Borders, QPIRG-Concordia, La Pointe Libertaire, Liberterre ...

... Immigrant Workers Center, La Otra Campaña, PASC, Block the Empire, the Kanehsatake Garden, Tadamon, le Collectif Opposé à la brutalité policière, Q-Team, the People's Potato, le Comité des sans-emploi and others.

"This is about land and freedom like any other struggle in the world. We're calling for an international boycott of the Olympics." -- Kanahus Pellkey of the Native Youth Movement (NYM).

"This is not just a racial struggle, but a class struggle as well. We have to unite to confront the common enemy."-- Dustin Johnson, Ts'mksiyen Nation.

Dustin and Kanahus also visited the Mohawk community of Kahnawake, prior to coming to Montreal.

Their tour builds on diverse anti-Olympics efforts, led by indigenous activists ...

Harriet Nahanee, a 71 year-old indigenous elder, was active in opposing an Olympic-related highway expansion on the territory of the Squamish nation. She died on February 24, 2007, just one-month after serving a prison term for her activism.

A few weeks after Harriet's death, native youth warriors stole the main Olympic flag from downtown Vancouver (in the background); in this photo, they hold Harriet's photo, as well as the Unity Flag.

Photo from the Indigenous Gathering of the Americas in Vicam, Mexico (October 2007), on the territory of the Yaqui people; the gathering passed a resolution to oppose the 2010 Olympics.

A photo from a protest against the Olympic Clock Countdown in Vancouver, February 2007.

The Native Resistance 2010 convergence has criticized the role of "collaborator" chiefs who have been actively promoting the Olympics.

The poster for this year's protest against the Corporate Olympic Countdown, organized by Native Resistance 2010.

Elders gather outside the Hyatt Hotel in downtown Vancouver for a protest against the Corporate Olympics Countdown on February 11, 2008. Resistance continues ...

For more info: no2010.com or harrietspirit. Montreal photos by MRG, JBS and PatCad. Text by JBS. Artwork by Angela Sterritt (Gitxsan) and Gord Hill (Kwakwaka'wakw).