Burn the Fort is a semi-cooperative game where alliances can be made and broken, but ultimately, the goal for all players is to stop westward expansion.
Klee Benally displays tiles from his board game, Burn the Fort, at the release party on Dec. 21, 2023 at MOCAF.
Matthew Hayden, Arizona Daily Sun
Benally bites into his bouquet of flowers at his launch event.
Steven Toya
Burn the Fort is a semi-cooperative game where alliances can be made and broken, but ultimately, the goal for all players is to stop westward expansion.
Matthew Hayden, Arizona Daily Sun
Benally holds up his new book "No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred".Â
Steven Toya
Benally discusses his book with a group of attendees at the conclusion of his launch event.
Editor’s Note: Before Klee Benally passed away, Flag Live planned on writing a story about him and his two most recent anti-colonial projects, Burn the Fort and “No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred�. We sat down and engaged with both in an effort to understand and communicate his assessment of the world. This story condenses what we’ve learned from his work and celebrates his legacy as an invaluable member of this community. We are deeply saddened by his loss, and we hope—as contrary as it might be to Benally’s philosophy—that his mission, his word, lives on in the hearts of those who envision a better future, a future unraveled.
“We’ll listen to the ground shifting beneath our feet and lick the ashes of our contradictions from smoke filled eyes. We’ll share bitter coffee and spit the grounds along with coarse words between the sarcasm and laughter that cut any assumptions of the post/pre/existent of who others think we are supposed to be. We’ll fall asleep mid-sentence, perhaps wrapped in protest banners, when it’s too cold or when the dawn reminds us; we’ll keep moving, raging in beauty, always in the direction of conflict.�
THE FLAG LIVE STAFF & BRISA KAROW,
Editor in Chief at the Lumberjack
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