Bunky Echo-Hawk (Yakama Nation/Pawnee Nation)
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…Indigenous claims always transcend colonial disruptions: we were here before all that; we are still here; we will make a future here.
I understand, from a historical stand point, why the colonizing of America was so devastating and horrific for natives. However, when I see things in modern day about "get off our land," I get a little upset. I was born here. As were my parents. (1/2
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(2/2) as were there parents, etc. Many Americans do not have a set culture, I know I don’t. America is our home. If we were to “get off your land” where would we go? Not to be cliche, but shouldn’t we all try to live as harmoniously as possible?
It may be hard to understand if you do not have emotional connection to any place other than your own home but the land is sacred to many Native peoples. For example, the Sutter Buttes here in Yuba City/Sutter area are sacred. ‘estom yann (the Sutter Buttes) are a sacred mountain range that Maidu and Nisenan people would make a religions journey to because they thought they would be closer to the Creator. We still consider them sacred and are not even allowed to be on them at all. They are “owned” by the city and is closed to the public. We cannot go their for our traditional practices. Can you imagine your people telling you stories about this place and other nearby places that meant everything to your people but are now off limits? This is just one story out of a million of similar accounts. Not only are we sharing our spaces but we are taken away from something that is part of making us who we are.
Not to mention Native peoples and First Nations people are still being oppressed TODAY in many ways by you settlers. We are being oppressed by people who would even keep us out an away from our homes. It is unacceptable.
We were great before whiteness. We are great during. And we’ll be great after we destroy it.
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Boarding schools used Native appropriation to embarrass, degrade & exercise control over Native children. Native appropriation is an extension of the federal government’s assimilation and termination policies to ‘kill the Indian and save the man.’
Continues to add insult to injury…
We Were Children (by TurtleIslandNewsDaily.info)
a First Nations film about the boarding school experiance.
trigger warning for abuse.
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For us to allow you assimilated mentalities to push on us the patriotism of our oppressor, to silently push their faith on us to the detriment of our esteem, is to ask us to cut our own children, and watch them bleed, asking us to give to them the means to their own spiritual death and imprisonment. We are not violent; we only love our children.
Properganda
I’ve had visions of division
Rich and poor competition, free or imprisoned
Those affected by choices, those who make the decisions
The s called “terrorists” striking the towers with precision
Buildings at freefall speed, don’t make sense
Obey or be terrorist is that their only defense
Whether grocery stores
Or walking through school halls
They got constant watch like Mumia Abu-Jama
Conspiracy theorists, get laughed at and called crazy
I’m a lyrical beast and guess who made me?
Can’t spell propaganda without pagan
Illuminati or Haliburton either devils are satan
Can’t fall asleep a rebel or I’ll get done like Fred
Hampton, a black panther shot dead in his bed
And heal yourself, yeah hospitals CAN save you
If they’re paid to, if not they say a bullet wound grazed you
And charge an arm and a leg just for some prescription
Of poisonous so called medicines entering your system
Native American and African healing practices I miss ‘em
They’re savages but got shamans, don’t it seem a contradiction?
Tribesmen and clans had better ideas in the past
Your rank based off respect and not about class
We got the rich and the poor and even the mid
With politicians and pigs’ exploitation like Indonesian kids
From sweatshops in Korea to fields in Sierra Leone
Poorer country lab rats we’re free to prey on
And if you’re on the bandwagon you’d better stay on
Because you’ll have the “eye of Horus” written on your gravestone
You colonized our hearts because our land wasn’t enough for you
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English the first foreign language
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The goal of colonialism is not just to kill colonized peoples, but to destroy their sense of being people. It is through sexual violence that a colonizing group attempts to render a colonized people as inherently rapable, their lands inherently invadable, and their resources inherently extractable.
If you are reading this in the United States or Canada, whose land are you on, dear reader? What are the specific names of the Native nation(s) who have historical claim to the territory on which you currently read this article? What are their histories before European invasion? What are their historical and present acts of resistance to colonial occupation? If you are like most people in the United States and Canada, you cannot answer these questions. And this disturbs me.
Qwo-Li Driskill (Cherokee), “Doubleweaving Two-Spirit Critiques: Building Alliances between Native and Queer Studies” (via nepantlastrategies)
extra relevant everyday, but particularly today.
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If you put people in a cage, don’t be upset that they won’t let you in.
- A.J. Perna, concerning in-groups, subcultures, privilege, and colonialism. (via jellyfish-dance)
^ this
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“We all have Indigenous blood. The poor have it in their hearts. The rich have it on their hands.”
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BTW, I’ve decided that my typos are not mistakes. They are subversive acts of resistance against a language that I did not choose to learn. It was forced upon me through years of enculturation, while my native tongue was stripped.
