#fuck the pipelines and fuck mancamps

[midwxstmilf]

keystone xl pipeline being canceled! would be! amazing!

[jcheechoo]

i just hope this publicity about bear stops some of the canadian self aggrandizment about how theyre so much better than the usa. i know it won’t. but in my experience canadians always downplay what they’ve done, or say “it wasn’t as bad as the US,” or say that it was something in the past. like off top of my fucking head:

1) residential schools, starlight tours, all in the near past.

2) many reserves still don’t have clean water and canada refuses to help.

3) Indigenous people are 4% of population but 23% of federal prison. Indigenous women represent 41% of all women in provincial jail.

4) Indigenous children are 8% of population but 53% of children in foster care, because Canada never stopped stealing our children. sixties scoop to millenium scoop.

5) Indigenous women and girls are extremely disproportionately victims of violence. I can’t remember off top of my head which numbers are for US and which are for Canada, but it is an ongoing epidemic of violence against Indigenous women and girls

6) the Dakota Access Pipeline that Biden is illegally running right now? it was built because of Canada, & canadian exports of oil. These pipelines don’t just taint sacred, stolen land, the mancamps around them are responsible for much violence against women. the police violence against Native people protesting pipelines cannot be understated

7) some Indigenous children in foster care have allegedly been forced to get IUDs inserted in BC. some of these children are under 10 years old. saskatchewan is also facing lawsuits for their (alleged) forced sterilization of Native women.

8) this whole fucking story. I know so many Natives with similar stories in the “great” canadian healthcare system, someone I know has a story about a loved one who was just turned away after traveling 6 hrs to the nearest hospital. i had hoped that in the nearly 60 years since my granny left canada they had grown out of calling Native women “loose” and only good for having children but nope 🙃

again, Indigenous people asserting our rights in Canada is met with hatred. But Indigenous people just existing is met with hatred too. That we still exist and have ties to what settlers call their “home and native land.” not just the current situation with Bear, it just is. they do this because they can. I think of Joyce Echaquan, who died listening to her nurse call her a fucking idiot and tell her she was better off dead. they do this because they can. and they don’t ever seem to reckon with it, because “hey we’re better than america!”