This year on Orange Shirt Day, Between the Lines encourages actively joining the fight against genocide, land theft, and the ongoing colonial project of Canada. Reconciliation is an empty call. We must refuse this erasure and centre the movements, uprisings, and vitality of Indigenous leadership.

Three books from Between the Lines cut through Canada's myths and document Indigenous resistance and survival:

• When the Pine Needles Fall — the first-hand account of the 1990 siege at Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawà:ke, told by Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, the Kanien’kehá:ka spokesperson who stood against the Canadian army;
• The Mohawk Warrior Society — the first anthology to uncover the suppressed history of Kanien’kehá:ka self-defense and militant land protection and the foundational writings of Louis Karoniaktajeh Hall;
• From Brotherhood to Nationhood — the definitive biography of George Manuel, a revolutionary leader who carried Indigenous resistance onto the global stage.

These books are weapons against forgetting, tools for organizing, and important touchstones in the fight ahead.