#indigenous people are still here

[halpwhatdoiputhere]

Just gonna slide this on here and say this is at the Field Museum and as far as I know it’s here to stay along with a new addition to the Native Americas that elaborates even further about the colonization and the impact and how you are on stolen land and that indigenous peoples are still here

So yea

[olowan-waphiya]

if usamericans are excited about the concept of anti-colonialism in other countries oooh boy do i have some exciting news for you...you can practice decolonization right here at home!

[theradioghost]

resisting the urge every time ive ever seen an analysis of the ecological and/or ethical themes in princess mononoke to grab the person by the face and scream that their analysis is valuable but is inherently incomplete without the understanding that this is also a movie about real historical colonialism

[millionsofbooks]

something about the tiktok ban that i haven't really seen people here talking about is the experience of tiktok users not from the usa, which was, as far as i can tell, on the whole, very positive. it was actually really nice to, for a short period of time, be on a major social media network and able to interact with people across the world without usamericans constantly inserting themselves into every conversation.

usamericans kind of take over people's fyp regardless of where you're from. this is partly to do with the fact that the creators fund is only available to usamericans so most of the shitty content farms are from the us. then there's also the cultural aspect of the fact that being a citizen of the most powerful empire in the world is a significant privilege, and also a privilege that 99% of usamericans are seemingly unable to acknowledge, plus the us centrism and exceptionalism, plus the constant need to cast themselves as the underdog, and, well. it's annoying.

so, like. everything of what i've seen (which is not to say that other opinions don't exist, just that i haven't seen them) is that it was really nice when the usamericans were gone, and it kind of sucks that they're back.

[thedeadtalker]

Today, someone complimented me on having a lighter skin tone than "some other Natives I know," and then explained it was a good thing because I might be able to escape and blend in with the enemy when they came for us, and sweet mother mary and buddha too, She Was Not Joking and...

I am NOT OKAY WITH THIS.

[11oh1]

[cator99]

I always get detained at da border because PROFUNC never ended but basically I'm like if a targeted individual didn't even care

[gurorori]

haha oh no im definitely not at all disturbed by the prevalence of leftists on all platforms who are loudly 'anti-genocide' when it comes to the palestinian cause (and a couple others at best :3c) yet the only time ukraine [ʊkrɐˈjinɐ] leaves their mouths is in critique, in stark comparison to the former or in complaint about their (american) government sending aid.

at first what i saw often was pointing out the differences in western media framing [ukraine vs palestine], and that's fair (until the words and the agenda of western journalists are used to paint, as a whole, ukrainians who have been actively going through genocide as some kind of white supremacists hogging the blanket of global attention when they kinda just want to live and have the rights to their own land, culture, names and families)

but no one is even caring to do that anymore, today bitches just invent metaphorical scenarios and people to get mad at and to throw an entire ethnos away because wahhhh i decided that you care for X but not for Y!!!.... all while doing the exact thing they are condemning. the exact absolute same and they don't even hide it but do lack the self-awareness to realise

[hymnsofheresy]

European here. You're right that America was home to multiple cultures spread over a vast area that couldn't be divided by state lines. True. Then you colonizing fuckers exterminated them. Then you invaded Mexico. Nothing you say carries weight. Hope this helps 🙏🏽💞

I'll only ask you who it benefits to perpetuate the convenient lie that indigenous people are all dead. Especially considering that indigenous people still are still living under the systems that enabled (and are still enabling) their genocide.

[haemosexuality]

i often think of what brazil couldve been like if we never got colonized. like, what the lives and cultures of indigenous people would look like today. it makes me want to cry that we'll never know

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

So, Canada has decided to stop sending arms to Israel after an NDP motion. The Liberals made major amendments to it so as to firmly condemn Hamas as well. It's kind of a mixed bag. Honestly, it's naive of me but I didn't expect there would still be so much outrage, even if the motion did call for an acknowledgement of Palestine as a state. All the Conservatives voted against it - to be fair, some of them wanted to wait for the motion to be passed because the amendments were super last minute and the Bloc Quebecois were annoyed that because of this there wasn't a French translation.

I guess it's a step in the right direction. I think it's still weak but you can read more on it here.

Source 1, Source 2, Source 3

[thedeadtalker]

"It smells like snow," I said.

"You can't smell snow," he said, dumbfounded.

"I... what? You can't smell it? You can't smell snow? Is this one of those cilantro things?"

"It's not snowing."

"It will, soon. I can smell it.

"You can't smell snow. And the weather app says no snow."

In the lobby, escaping the winter darkness, we meet another late coworker: a Samoan woman. She's chatting with the night guard.

We have to ask. She agrees with me: it smells like snow. The security guard is perplexed. He thinks this might be a practical joke. He is new.

At home, my son bursts in through the front door. The first thing he says is, "It smells like snow!"

"Hah!" I say, vindicated.

The weathermen continue to say there will be no snow.

The next day, it snowed.

Conclusion: white people can't smell snow coming. Who knew?

[i-am-thevoid]

I think about that quote about indigenous people living in a post apocalyptic world everyday here, why are there no natives here, why does this town think its still in europe, why is there a land acknowledgment before the list of original settlers that make it seem like we're extinct, why am i the only indigenous person here and the only reason im here is because im working??? why am i the only indigenous person here and the only reason i am here is because i am working.

[terabyteunion]

perhaps in the end, the people's spirit, that little bit of hardcoded brain-programming that just wants people safe and happy, will prevail

i have to trust it will

[ookaookaooka]

i LOVE first contact with aliens stories, seriously it’s one of my favorite tropes, but authors writing it really need to understand that there’s no writing it without engaging with the colonial history behind it whether you intend to or not, and if your story is about humans settling on another planet you’re gonna look stupid if you don’t