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Here's a reminder that the Doctrine of Discovery, an 1823 law declaring that colonial/conquering powers have automatic rights to the lands of sovereign nations, is still the foremost law cited in Supreme Court cases which undermine indigenous sovereignty and indigenous rights to ancestral lands.
Indigenous sovereignty, or lack thereof, in the United States is entirely dependent on how the current Supreme Court justices decide to twist a 200 year old colonial law to suit their needs. This goes for not just conservative judges but also "liberal" ones, as seen in Sherrill v. Oneida Nation, when it was decided that a tribe purchasing ancestral tribal lands did not actually restore sovereignty to those lands and they could not be considered Indian territory by law, with Ruth Bater Ginsburg writing the majority opinion.
The Supreme Court has never been and will never be on the side of indigenous people. It is a system desiged to uphold colonial rule.
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t shirt that says ‘I don’t consent to being filmed in public for social media views’
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Si Pih Ko addressing the pope during his visit to Maskwacis
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Idc about taylor swift and I think all private jets should be cannibalized for scrap metal but in particular I don’t think singers and bands etc should have private jets. They should only have shitty tour buses in which incalculable drama and bad decisions go down
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I hope every writer who sees this writes LOADS the next few months. Like freetime opens up, no writers block, the ability to focus, etc etc you're able to write loads & make lots of progress <3
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I think Americans need to understand how normal it is in other countries to have extremely limited hours of operation to ensure the sanity and health of workers are kept in tact. We are so accustomed and entitled to demanding people’s time that we forget that they’re… y’know… people
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there are no hard rules for human interaction but honestly i think everyone online would benefit hugely from operating under the assumption that, unless you have been given a specific reason to think otherwise in discrete instances, internet strangers do not want to be approached with:
your trauma, illnesses, or deep-rooted self worth issues
any come-ons or sexual content
over-familiar playful rudeness
information about your dnd characters/ocs
disagreements with their harmless subjective opinions
if it is your first time speaking with someone i can not highly enough recommend that these do not be your opening topics
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