In 1974, Indigenous youth organized one of the earliest land-back occupations in a small Canadian city, aided by activists who had recently emerged from a major resistance movement in the United States. Centering on a charismatic young revolutionary who led a group of warriors from a local park to a dramatic standoff at the nation’s seat of government, the story reveals a little-known chapter in the rise of modern Indigenous resistance and the power of youth-led movements to challenge colonial authority.