#(esp indigenous communities)

[st5lker]

this is so entirely random but one thing i thing i wonder abt every once in a while is if there are any indigenous american emigrants like ones that have left the americas entirely. like indigenous americans in the uk or whatever. i dont even know of any hispanic mestizo british people…. i mean statistically im sure there has to be at least some of them right. however small the number. but ive like never seen or heard from them if they do exist… so i always wonder what that must be like. like how comparible is that to cultural diaspora in america. how much of your cultural identity do you keep with a community that small? and like the way that the majority of countries have at least some amount of black & east+south+west asian immigrants for the people to have exposure to even if not everywhere is as culturally diverse as america. but if youre british have you met all of those but just never met an indigenous american. or like any latin american. thats crazy to me

[dandyshucks]

i try to keep my blog lighthearted and silly so I hold my tongue on a lot of things (.... i could vague all day about how a lot of alternative fashion trend face tattoos/drawing on face with eyeliner are racist but I will simply leave it at this LMAO) because frankly I do not have the energy or mental clarity (or functioning nervous system) to educate on a lot of matters, but this one has just been slowly eating at me and the dam broke when i saw someone in the notes of a s.elfship post using "delulu" as an insult

[butcharyastark]

the way supposed leftists from the usa on here make memes out of other countries' crisises and then expect everyone else to care abt ours is so fucking disrespectful

[6ebe]

Christopher Nolan actually needs to stop making movies fr

[thewingedwolf]

i mean listen first of all i’ve met pretendians in my real life and they almost always claim CHEROKEE or APACHE ancestry and she’s claimed BOTH and especially the cherokee ancestry like 9 times out of 10 is either “great grandpa was a nasty settler who built a house in indian country and when the tribe sent someone over to be like “you know this is rez land right” he pulled some bullshit legalize that allowed him to steal that land and to make himself look better he told the fam they’re actually cherokee so it’s fine” OR “great grandma was black/south asian but light skinned and wanted to pass as white so to explain why she’s a Lil ethnic looking she says she’s apache bc that’s exotic” and brooklyn like….REALLY fits the social background of someone who would say something like that

but SECOND OF ALL given that she’s married to a veteran, the truth is that there ARE a sizeable amount of conservative natives who were military or military wives who make this very transparent attempt to grab at respectability and look as little like an ndn as possible in order to assimilate into the settler culture OR play UP being a stereotype usually about a culture they don’t know shit about and like, we got freaks like keeler out here questioning the bq of black natives left and right not to mention going after elders and victims of the fucjing SCOOP like buffy sainte marie, so i’m not about to give any sort of tacit approval of questioning brooklyn’s identity and embolden freaks like that, especially bc at the same time you have very weird cases (there’s like 3 models and a few influencers) of people who ARE indigenous but lied about what tribe or borrowed the ~aesthetic of another bc they were too disconnected and lazy to reach for their OWN culture AND at the same time you have a lot of natives specifically along the border of mexico that get involved in pan indian stuff but that’s because they’ve MADE FRIENDS WITH OTHER NATIVES and have no information about their own people which is different than just doing that in a bubble and whomst is to say brooklyn isn’t part of any of those groups.

but her focus on the married mother bit when she hasn’t spoken on feeds at all about her indigenous heritage (whereas kimo HAS mentioned it a few times) does make me look at her a lil sideways like

[suenitos]

I think people genuinely just can’t really understand the nature of guns in the US. Because for non-Americans, the US is so so influential on a lot of countries, and when things go bad in America politics-wise a lot of people outside of it do start to fear the same things happening here. And so for a country to be so influential and powerful have the gun violence it does… it’s scary. Of course we all know there are so many people in the US who want change and are advocating for it and know the fear isn’t normal, but we also see the Republicans who seem to think their right to a gun is crucial. And with the way Western politics as a whole is shifting very right-wing, I think a lot of people fear the reintroduction of guns in their own countries.

yeah I think you’re mainly right about a lot of these aspects. I also admit I can’t rlly see the outside pov of other countries because I’m ‘merican so it’s like a bit of my own national myopia and also lived experience influencing the way I understand the us. I think it’s very different having to see and experience mass violence constantly around the country (not even just with guns but other things too, with your point on right wing politics) therefore becoming desensitized to it in a way than it is living somewhere where you will not see a gun in public and dont/wont experience that fear. so it’s easier to be like “??!!” with both the physical and emotional distance from these events. violence and the threat of violence does exist everywhere but the us is very unique in the way that some of our accepted cultural values coincide with the continuous ignorance and lack of reckoning/education and honest reflection about our past. also the fact that politics is bought here and is intentionally divisive/more like a sport contributes to a lottt of our issues. anyway. despite its reputation as an influential/somewhat “rich” country you are not guaranteed personal safety at any point during your stay in the us and again that’s true everywhere but you are more likely to die/experience it firsthand because of it here which IS really sad. its just interesting people say “are you guys ok” or “this isn’t normal” when it’s like yeah you’re right oh btw I just read about 4 shootings that happened the past two weeks because this person went to the wrong house/car or just existed outside a Walgreens or asked for help on the train as a homeless person so no we’re not doing too hot rn

[daenerysoftarth]

Daily reminder that missionaries are modern day colonizers

[rotzaprachim]

some smaller bookstores, presses, and museum shops to browse and know about! Most support smaller presses, diverse authors and authors in translation, or fund museums and arts research)

(disclaimer: the only three I’ve personally used are the Yiddish book center, native books, and izzun books! Reccomend all three. Also roughly *U.S. centric & anglophone if people have others from around the world please feel free to add on

birchbark books - Louise Erdrich’s book shop, many indigenous and First Nations books of a wide variety of genres including children’s books, literature, nonfiction, sustainability and foodways, language revitalization, Great Lakes area focus (https://birchbarkbooks.com/)

American Swedish institute museum store - range of Scandinavian and Scandinavian-American/midwestern literature, including modern literature in translation, historical documents, knitters guides, cookbooks, children’s books https://shop.asimn.org/collections/books-1

Native books - Hawai’i based bookstore with a focus on native Hawaiian literature, scholarly works about Hawai’i, the pacific, and decolonial theory, ‘ōlelo Hawai’i, and children’s books Collections | Native Books (nativebookshawaii.org)

the Yiddish book center - sales arm of the national Yiddish book center, books on Yiddish learning, books translated from Yiddish, as well as broader selection of books on Jewish history, literature, culture, and coooking https://shop.yiddishbookcenter.org/

ayin press - independent press with a small but growing selection of modern judaica https://shop.ayinpress.org/collections/all?_gl=1kkj2oo_gaMTk4NDI3Mzc1Mi4xNzE1Mzk5ODk3_ga_VSERRBBT6X*MTcxNTM5OTg5Ny4xLjEuMTcxNTM5OTk0NC4wLjAuMA..

Izzun books - printers of modern progressive AND masorti/trad-egal leaning siddurim including a gorgeous egalitarian Sephardic siddur with full Hebrew, English translation, and transliteration

tenement center museum -https://shop.tenement.org/product-category/books/page/11/ range of books on a dizzying range of subjects mostly united by New York City, including the history literature cookbooks and cultures of Black, Jewish, Italian, Puerto Rican, First Nations, and Irish communities

restless books - nonprofit, independent small press focused on books on translation, inter and multicultural exchange, and books by immigrant writers from around the world. Particularly excellent range of translated Latin American literature https://restlessbooks.org/

olniansky press - modern Yiddish language press based in Sweden, translators and publishers esp of modern Yiddish children’s literature https://www.etsy.com/shop/OlnianskyBooks

https://yiddishchildrensbooks.com/ - kinder lokshen, Yiddish children’s books (not so many at the moment but a very cute one about a puffin from faroese!)

inhabit books - Inuit-owned publishing company in Nunavut with an “aim to preserve and promote the stories, knowledge, and talent of Inuit and Northern Canada.” Particularly gorgeous range of children’s books, many available in Inuktitut, English, French, or bilingual editions https://inhabitbooks.com/collections/inhabit-media-books-1

rust belt books - for your Midwest and rust belt bookish needs! Leaning towards academic and progressive political tomes but there are some cookbooks devoted to the art of the Midwest cookie table as well https://beltpublishing.com/

[grecoromanyaoi]

from what ive seen in progressive spaces a lot of ppl talk abt ethnic groups esp marginalized ethnic groups under the assumption/argument that theyve ''always been there'', to make their lives easier objecting to racism and colonialism. but like many things ppl make up to make their lives easier, its just not true. it often uses this false ideas that indigenous ppl or otherwise marginalized/colonized ppl lived in peace until the big bad colonialist force arrived. to make their lives easier they categorize everybody as either "always been there" or "doesnt ~belong~ there". like for example im of tunisian descent. when ppl act like tunisians, or whoever they claim r the "real" tunisians, have "always been there" i have to laugh. bc even when ur talking abt imazighen, the indigenous ppl of north africa - groups used to go to war and conquer each other and settle in new places or even immigrate throughout all of history, yes, even indigenous ppl. then there was the carthanigian conquest, then the roman conquest, arab conquest, ottoman, centuries and millenias b4 the french colonialism of tunisia. a lot of tunisians are descended from these ottomans, these arabs, these romans, these carthaginians, from other immigrants and groups who settled in what is now tunisia for whatever reason.

so ppl tend to lose their mind when it comes to jewish communities and jewish history, bc like most things, its not that simple. due to the nature of antisemitic prosecution, jews have moved from place to place a lot. n they hate jewish communities for not fitting the "theyve always been here" vs. "violent colonizer" dichotomy, bc weve been forced to flee again and again and again n there r only v rare instances where u can point at a jewish community thats "always been there". ppl try and "find" the place where jews "belong" by using this dichotomy which is literally opposing zionism so hard it turns into zionism again. my ancestors escaped prosecution in portugal fled to italy before settling in tunisia. but according to a lot of ppl using this logic were not "really" tunisians or "belong" there bc we came there at some point (go back to my prev point on how it literally applies to almost everyone), n bc we came from europe we must b colonizers (not how it works). if we dont "belong" in tunisia, which has been our home for the last hundreds of years, where do we "belong"? italy? portugal? maybe we should just go back to judea, bc thats where were "really" from.

there r only v rare instances where u can point at a place and go "thats where theyre From, thats where they Belong, this is their Homeland", and let me tell u, u cant do that w/o at least dabbling in zionism. jews belong everywhere, bc ppl belong everywhere. we shouldnt need to "prove" our ancestry to anyone or adhere to a certain indigenous status in order to partake in our cultures, our traditions, to live in any place.

[opencommunion]

Hello, I really don’t want to be rude or anything like that but I would love to know any more information about the Christians in Palestine, Lebanon and Syria like, is it true Gaza had family lineages dating back to Jesus Christ? Asking because Ziocucks love making it seem as if Christians don’t exist over there

omg not rude at all, actually this is my favorite thing to talk about (it was a major focus of this blog prior to Al-Aqsa Flood) it's a huge topic so I'll link a ton of resources, but to answer your main question: yes, many Palestinian Christians in Gaza and elsewhere can trace their family history with Christianity back to the 1st century. the Christian community in Gaza is said to have been founded by the apostle Philip. the first bishop of Gaza was the apostle Philemon, the recipient of a Pauline epistle. a core zionist myth is the idea that contemporary Palestinians only arrived in Palestine in the 7th century or even the 20th century (see the links for debunking). but there's plenty of documentation of continuous Christian (and Jewish) presence in Palestine before, during, and after the emergence of Islam. Palestinians (and Levantine ppl more generally, but esp Palestinians because of the totality of their colonial dispossession—stories are often literally the only heirlooms refugee families have) typically have very strong family oral histories going back many centuries, so if a Palestinian tells you their family has been Christian since the time of Christ, take their word for it. community continuity is also about more than family trees—even if someone's family came to Christianity later, they're still part of the continuous living heritage of their community. the continuity of Palestinian Christianity is also evidenced by Palestinian holy sites. because Christianity was illegal in the Roman Empire until Constantine took power, dedicated churches weren't built until the 4th century, but many of these churches were built around existing sites of covert worship—for example the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem was built around a grotto that was already venerated as the site of Jesus' birth, the Church of St. John the Baptist in 'Ayn Karim (a forcibly depopulated suburb of Jerusalem) was built over a 1st century rock-cut shrine marking the site of John the Baptist's birth, and the Church of the Multiplication in Al-Tabigha (a destroyed and forcibly depopulated village on the shore of Lake Tiberias) was built over a limestone slab believed to be the table were Jesus fed the multitude. throughout the Levant there are also many ancient shrines (maqamat) that are shared sites of prayer for both Christians and Muslims; in Palestine many of these sites have been seized by the occupation and Palestinians are prevented from visiting them.

Palestinian Christian communities who are able to travel to the villages they were expelled from in the Nakba will sometimes return there to celebrate weddings and holidays in their ancestral churches, e.g. in Iqrit and Ma'alul (x, x). of course because the occupation heavily restricts Palestinian movement this isn't possible for most refugees.

here's some resources to get you started but feel free to hmu again if you have any more specific questions! Zionism and Palestinian Christians Rafiq Khoury, "The Effects of Christian Zionism on Palestinian Christians," in Challenging Christian Zionism (2005) Mitri Raheb, I am a Palestinian Christian (1995) Mitri Raheb, Faith in the Face of Empire: The Bible Through Palestinian Eyes (2014)

Christ at the Checkpoint: Theology in the Service of Justice and Peace (2012) Faith and the Intifada: Palestinian Christian Voices (1992) The Forgotten Faithful: A Window into the Life and Witness of Christians in the Holy Land (2007) Faith Under Occupation: The Plight of Indigenous Christians in the Holy Land (2012) Palestinian Christians: The Forcible Displacement and Dispossession Continues (2023) Donald E. Wagner, Dying in the Land of Promise: Palestine and Palestinian Christianity from Pentecost to 2000 (2003)—can't find it online but worth checking your library for

Pre-Zionist History James Grehan, Twilight of the Saints: Everyday Religion in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (2016) Ussama Makdisi, Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (2008) Kenneth Cragg, The Arab Christian: A History in the Middle East (1992) Christopher MacEvitt, The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance (2007) John Binns, Ascetics and Ambassadors of Christ: The Monasteries of Palestine 314-631 (1996) Derwas Chitty, The Desert a City: an Introduction to the Study of Egyptian and Palestinian Monasticism Under the Christian Empire (1966) Aziz Suryal Atiya, A History of Eastern Christianity (1968) Michael Philip Penn, When Christians First Met Muslims: A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam (2015) Early Christian Texts The Acts of the Apostles (1st century, Palestine. yes I'm recommending the bible lol but I promise I'm not trying to evangelize, it just really paints a good picture of the birth of Christianity in Jerusalem and its early spread) The Didache (1st or 2nd century, Palestine or Syria—the earliest known catechism, outlining how Christians were supposed to live and worship) Cyril of Scythopolis, The Lives of the Monks of Palestine (6th century) Sayings of the Desert Fathers and Desert Mothers (early Christian monastics)

for more resources specific to my tradition, the Maronite Church, see this post. for other misc Syriac tidbits see my Syriac tag. this is just scratching the surface so again, if you (or anyone else who sees this post!) have more specific interests lmk and I can point you in the right direction

[hero-israel]

just seen a palestinian auntie post about her niece being born w red hair and she constantly fans over it and goes on about how it’s a blessing and the comments are other palestinians and arabs fanning over the white pale skin and blue eyes and blonde/red hair of some of their relatives. even going on to call those relatives swedish/russian/white as nicknames.

but when jews esp israeli jews talk about their natural fair skin, or blue eyes/light hair (which is a minority in the jewish world, majority of jews do not have light features the same as arabs) in the slightest, they are called hitler 2.0 and it’s used as ‘proof’ that we as a whole can’t possibly be indigenous. like these features have always existed in the levant. they weren’t as prevalent in the levant as some ppl think, but they were there.

i see the same happen w black jews. despite black ppl being in the levant for a very long time, pre-enslavement and after, due to migration, pilgrimage, intermarriage etc etc etc, they are told they can’t possibly be native. while some afro-palestinians who came just a few decades before are native? and i’m not talking about those that are the descendants of enslaved people, if you are trafficked from you land and assimilated/forced into a new ethnicity due to that you have every right to consider yourself a native bc you were literally forced to be one. i’m talking about those that are the descendants of migrants and pilgrims, who set up shop in jerusalem during the ottoman empire and are now supposedly more native than black jews who in most cases are there bc their ancestors were expelled or had to flee and bc they have an actual cultural, genetic and historical link to the land even before that.

Don't be shy about citing this:

My grandfather, born on an actual shtetl in Poland, was the spitting-image lookalike for Hafez Assad. Speaking of Syrians, here's pro wrestler Sami Zayn. Hajj Amin al-Husseini famously had blue eyes and red hair, which might have helped him befriend Hitler. As bad as colorism is in any context, it is all the more infuriating from an I/P perspective when so many people just accept from the outset that people like you, people who look like you, have no right to live in certain areas (even though we always have). Read long enough in Palestinian, Syrian, and Lebanese communities to see their perspectives on Jews and Israel and you can't help but notice the fairly frequent comments about (and I swear I have seen this quote near-verbatim) "We Syrians have such beautiful white skin and beautiful blue eyes, we are not at all like those Saudis or Yemenis, who are as dark as Indians!".

Afro-Palestinians are pretty much always used unfairly and tokenistically by pro-Palestine outsiders; in their daily lives they are regularly called "abeed" (slave) and sometimes even with their neighborhoods known as that. It's not unlike how goyim only ever bring up Ethiopian Jews to spin yarns about "sterilization" while also cheering for groups who want to kill them alongside the rest of Israel.

[sheepgirlmaidtummy]

fucking thank you for mentioning that black and brown and indigenous bloggers (esp trans women) on this website have been nuked since 2016 and nobody gave a shit. this website has been racist and transmisogynistic for years and 99% of the ""community"" on here didn't give a fuck until now.

an indigenous child is dead. transfem bloggers are harassed. nobody cares about that. the white trans community on this site cares about funny jokes and infighting instead of protecting us. avery deserves better. nex deserved better. children are being murdered and people have decided to strip every ounce of racial and transmisogynistic intent from the current wave of violence in favor of jokes.

when do we get to be a part of our own communities? when do we get the support and protection and righteous anger from other trans people? im so fucking tired.

honestly? ive been talking about this stuff for years, and the only reason it got attention is because of what happened to rita being so public, those posts never got the attention they should've and that doesnt surprise me in the slightest.

we arent a part of this "community", we wouldnt be trampled on and forgotten if we were actually important. and whenever we make our own spaces they take that over too. it doesnt matter what happens to us in the process. i hate the performative bullshit i hate the jokes i hate the ignorance i hate that theres nothing left for us.

the only times we're fucking noticed is when somebody murders us and EVEN THEN thats giving too much credit. white people get to joke about this shit while we have to live every day accepting that we'll be left behind. with no way of finding others like us to even feel just a smidgen of comfort. you look at the tag for black trans women before this photomatt bs and theres nothing but our murders. you cant even find shit about all the poc getting banned from this site because nobody cared to document anything let alone Help us.

im really fucking tired of seeing the 'support black trans women!' posts around here. you dont support us when we look you in the eye and Beg. when i got kicked out last year and made a post about it NOBODY batted an eye until rita and afew other popular white transfems reblogged it. and im the lucky one. people would rather be upset at the hammer car than us dying in the streets. i dont even know how to type this all out, just thinking about this makes me furious. i spent the early years of my transition hearing nothing but black trans girls getting murdered in their cars for $100. thats how worth our lives are in this "community". we cant even get that much in donations.

im tired too hun, im really fucking tired

[cqallenwalker]

In Porto Alegre in Rio Grande do Sul, a social center run by anarchists is acting as the hub for mutual aid in the city and they need our help. To quote from them:

"Historic flooding has hit the south of so-called Brazil.

Fueled by the effects of runaway climate change and exacerbated by government inaction and incompetence, these floods have submerged entire cities in the state of Rio Grande do Sul and many neighborhoods of its capital, Porto Alegre. They have wiped away entire communities, and killed dozens of people.

The anarchist social center in Porto Alegre, Esp(a)ço, has been set up as a hub to receive donations of supplies, and to get them to those in need. They need our help.

Please make a donation to help cover the costs of emergency supplies and materials to rebuild shattered communities. Any amount helps!

All funds raised will go towards local mutual aid efforts, to support affected Indigenous and quilombo communities, and to repair anarchist spaces impacted by the floods."

Here is their verified donation link:

[angelicm00n]

Feel like I’m gonna get attacked for this but like I genuinely feel like when people think poc they think of black people with like 4c hair or smth and completely ignore other cultures. POC is used to describe anyone who doesn’t fall under the umbrella of white, so like European, Australia etc. MENA, South Asia, Southeast Asia, east Asia etc. We’re all member of POC.

I think this is also extremely rampant in the genshin community, esp when people try to fix Sumeru and instead give them features that do not represent their culture. I feel like it’s very stereotypical to bunch all POC people under one race or culture or a certain group of features. ESP when it comes to North Africa, as we fall victim to the “all Africans are black” which erases our roots. Like we are indigenous to the land. Anyways POC is not a skin tone thing, it’s an ethnicity thing, and honestly we need to stop stereotyping in the big year of 2024.

Please don’t dox me for this ty >.<

Just felt like I needed ro share my opinion as a member of MENA and an indigenous African (Amazigh)

[lazaruswitch]

that post from eveningdawn22 (I think??) about "not palatable (notably to tim) transfem jay" is only reassuring my ideas and thoughts for the lily todd au but in like a different specific-to-me and specific-to-this-au way

speaking from experience tim drake Would be weird about lily* (for context: lily as in lily todd, from an au where jay is a transfem Muslim, among other things)

this isn't like a character condemnation thing, this is me speaking from experience about what people are like about queer Muslims. (bruce would also be very Weird about it but i think the source would be first and foremost bruce/batman shit, particularly in relation to jay specifically, before we hit the like more general social aspects and whatnot)

people around here (new jersey, but also america in general) are just Like That. the white kids (esp rich white kids from those gated mansion communities or whatever) around here are especially Like That. i've been going to school with them for years and have even been "friends" with some (for a given definition of friends) and they all inevitably to some degree will be Like That. in fact the vast majority of the world is Like That, to varying degrees of severity, not just specifically because of the Muslim bit or the queer bit, but because of the two things together in one person.

(from my personal experiences, it's not always a malicious thing or an intentional thing, but it is inevitably demeaning and isolating in a particular way that's supposed to be acceptable and is brushed off as like, "people can have different political beliefs blah blah blah". microaggressions and the taint of Islamophobia and all that)

there are a lot of places and people that are theoretically queer friendly or push this idea of no prejudice, like my uni, but it's inevitably not actually that straightforward

(tim and tbh a lot of the batfam, or even superheroes/vigilantes in general, are or would be like that. not even your beloved heroes are immune to propaganda, overt or otherwise. jay is already basically a freak in canon. in the lily pot au, lily is a freak existence for arguably "worse" reasons. "crazy" white boy is vastly more preferable to transfem niqabi mom.)

there's a specific idea of queerness people have in mind when they talk or think about acceptance, and it's one that does not involve the majority of the real world or communities, and they react poorly when asked to confront that

none of this is new or revolutionary information or ideas; queer bipoc people, especially Black and Indigenous queer people, have been talking about their personal experiences with this for ages, and have been demanding attention and change for just as long

some people are receptive, some people are theoretically receptive, most people don't like confronting or acknowledging the status quo

but i almost never see those kinds of discussions about or from Muslims, especially Muslim women or hijabis (i specify this bc of the visibility of hijab)

if anything it seems like everyone is deeply uncomfortable with just Muslims existing in a way that is not in fact "Other", and having to think too hard about Muslims as people who can have similarities that Really don't fit certain narratives (e.g. devout hijabi who is also proudly queer) even "positive" ones is just so.... incomprehensible, and disgusting, to them

it's exhausting when even the blue-hair-and-pronouns cannot stand the blue-burqa-and-pronouns but everyone pretends that's like. fine. and acceptable. if they acknowledge it at all

tim drake would think lily todd was weird and freaky and he'd be with the majority on that

[eddiegettingshot]

hi i saw that post abt prescribed burns earlier and i debated sending this but i just wantto add this perspective to the conversation as a native person (esp bc there is a complete absence of indigeneity in the show). controlled burns have been practiced by indigenous people in California (and elsewhere) for always. and while i do love the idea of controlled burns propaganda in 911 realistically it would be massively offensive if they did it without any native voices on and off camera. i just need to add this to the convo bc a lot of people don't even know and landback is truly the best solution to climate disasters but settlers cannot practice traditional indigenous land management practices WITHOUT the traditional indigenous part. full disclosure i'm not a California ndn my people are from the northeast so we have different practices but I've been in community with a lot of California ndns bc i used to live there and there is so much history around the restriction of controlled burns and the oppression of ndns that practice it esp with food sovereignty bc of the intersection btwn controlled burns and agricultural practices. anyway on anon bc Tumblr loves to give natives shit (not directed at anyone on eddieblr I trust y'all just being careful. and this isn't a criticism of anyone here either! genuinely loved the post just have mixed feelings lol) but if anyone wants to have more of a convo i'm happy to in dms :)

thank u for sharing and i’m glad you did send it! 100% always want to be challenging settler colonialism of course.