#native american genocide

[komsomolka]

A pro-Palestine woman interrupted Biden’s apology to Native Americans for years of boarding school abuse, chanting “How can you apologize for a genocide while committing a genocide in Gaza?"

[athena5898]

It really speaks of the lack of critical thinking, the lack of understanding, the lack of imagination, the lack of many things that when you criticize Joe Biden, you are met with fearful liberals crying "what about Trump?! Do you want him to win!" As if any of us want that.

However, what the rest of us understand, is that there are options. There have always been options, but you have allowed the empire to cloud your mind and make you think their solutions, their poison is the only solution.

[nyiibat]

I hate how much religion but in this case Catholicism is ingrained in Indigenous cultures my own included.

How many terrible things the church has done to our ancestors and lands and tribes for generations with residential schools, ethnic cleansing, forcing religion on us and on our lands that already had religion and tradition for thousands of years prior.

It’s so deeply ingrained in our cultures now that a lot of us wear crosses or go to church while feeling that generational trauma, even if we don’t believe in the religion crosses, Catholicism, the ideas of it became a part of the cultures unfortunately.

[reuna]

I was watching this yesterday and soon found myself going insane because, during the last 6 months, I've heard ALL THE TALKING POINTS this Stefan Molyneux says about the Native American genocide, but in relation to Gaza.

Srsly... There's the "they aren't all dead so it couldn't be genocide", "it's the rules of war and civilian casualties can't be avoided", "the government isn't responsible for what their army does" and ALL THE REST. ASdfgj<lvö

[marxism-leninism-meowism]

I want to share this photo because I don't think a single day goes by that I don't think of it at least once.

Those are all the skulls of American Bison. They were killed not for food, not for resources*, not for sport. They were killed as a part of Native American genocide—to deny indigenous people their primary source of food. Starvation is a weapon often used to enact genocide—and the way it is done here is particularly heinous in the way it nearly sent an entire species to extinction in the process.

Here and here are articles with more details + the image credits.

*resources from the bison were gathered and sold, but it was not the intention of the mass slaughter, and there are many instances where bison corpses were left to rot

[wherewisteriaends]

I saw that some people that were stolen precious, emotional token had gained back thanks to the internet. So here I plead. I'm on my knees and I'm begging to see returned to me The father I had before a man sat at his desk with his and a discovered carelessness in his voice The mother I knew before she became too angry of what life had turned her doll into

The ability to love that I shattered myself and locked away

The faith in God that became dirty out of all those false humans words using it to clean themselves up

The first ever trust I gave that was kept among the pieces of my failure My body untouched, unviolated, sacred The humanity that will never again be part of me after they nourrished the soil with way too much children bloods

The innocence I felt before my anger took it away

[crystalsandbubbletea]

What should have been

(CW: Anti-Indigenous themes mention, racism, genocide)

This is basically a ramble about the effects of how my grandmother did not grow up in the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma

We're doing a weaving project in my art class and I'm feeling this emotion that I can't describe-

It's a positive emotion, I know that, it comes whenever I'm beading, smudging, learning Ponca, or at Pow-Wow's.

I can only describe this emotion as a mix of euphoria and feeling like I'm floating.

Is this emotion positivity? Joy? Or happiness that I'm reconnecting with something that was stolen from me.

My grandmother and her brother, my uncle, could have grown up in the Ponca Tribe, could have been adopted by a family in the tribe, yet my grandmother was born a year before ICWA was passed, and my uncle two years before ICWA was passed, so they were adopted by a white family. They were a good family from what I heard, but that doesn't change that we were robbed from growing up in the Ponca Tribe, our tribe, our family.

My grandmother and uncle wouldn't know about their biological family until around 2018, when I was eleven.

My grandmother and my mother took DNA tests, and that's how we found out.

My grandmother had a Ponca father, and a white mother, and many siblings and cousins, all of whom were still alive.

We would be able to meet up with them, although my uncle only met them via video call.

At first, I thought this was normal, didn't think anything of it.

I realize now exactly how much was stolen from me.

I should have grown up with my culture. I should have been beading, and weaving, and learning the language, and attending Sundance, and going to Pow-Wow's, yet I didn't.

When I attended Sundance last year, I ended up crying. How couldn't I cry? After all, I was doing something I should have been doing my whole life.

I should be able to enroll in the Tribe, yet I can't, neither can my mother, because of blood quantums. My grandfather is a white man, so is my father. Although the elders are discussing letting people of lineal descent enroll.

... Then there's this other side of me.

Every time I wear my ribbon skirt, or smudge, I have this voice in my head, it says to me "You will never be indigenous enough. Look at your skin, you're too white, Rian. Your name is also too white. And look at your hair! You have your father's hair, and he's white! And that ribbon skirt, it's just cosplay! And you only bead because you just like the colors and textures!"

Would I still have that voice if I had grown up with my culture? Definitely not, this voice is the result of having the life I could have lived stolen from me.

The white people, the land stealers, they wanted the Indigenous Americans gone, so they took our children and tried to force us to be like them.

Of course, they failed.

... They can try to apologize for the things they done, but no amount of apologizing will change the fact that they stole from us, and how we are still digging up the bodies of children at residential schools.

When they say "America is the land of the free!" Don't forget the Indigenous Americans, and how we're still being oppressed, and never forget how what the white people did still affects the children that didn't grow up in their culture, and how it affects their children, and their grandchildren.

And don't forget, the genocide of Indigenous Americans is still going on.

[zuko-always-lies]

Obligatory Thanksgiving post.

[cemitadepollo]

I wish people would stop using nazism to measure how bad a thing is. Cruelty has existed for WAY before nazis existed, things like the spanish inquisition or the genocide of native americans happened before the holocaust did. By this I don't mean to say that "the holocaust wasn't that bad" bullshit antisemitic people spit, I mean that maybe people -especially gentiles- should leave the nazi comparisons alone??? Maybe?? Perhaps even understand that something can and will be terrible without saying "oh, this is just like the holocaust."

I'm sick of people comparing things to nazism to show how bad or good something is. Sure, there's a lot of things you can trace down to nazis, like eugenics, but a bad thing can exist on its own and still be terrible without being tied to nazis.

I don't know if I explained myself correctly, but yeah.

[hellyeahheroes]

What is Two Spirit? by sexplanations

[hellyeahheroes]

Responding politely to JJ McCullough without needless conflict, or resorting to rage baiting by Thought Slime

[imanflexington]

Is the ethnic cleansing of Gaza ringing pretty close to the extermination of Native American people or is that just me?

[motherofplatypus]

[Original video. Downloaded for easier access.]

[filosofablogger]

Wiser Voices Than Mine Speak Truth

I have written a few times about the current attempts to ‘dumbify’ the next generation of Americans by governors, school boards and others whitewashing, covering up, and downright lying about the history of this nation.  But nobody says it better than Dan Rather & Elliot Kirschner, so here is their take … Teach The Truth Ominous lessons from Florida By Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner 22 July…

[wisekidperfection]

WTBF-AM/FM Interview

Here’s a link to an interview I did last month with Dave (Doc) Kirby of WTBF Radio in Troy Alabama which you may find of interest.   https://onthebookshelf.podbean.com/e/interview-unsung-patriots-black-american-hero-warriors/   Dave (Doc) Kirby Operations & Program Manager WTBF-AM/FM 67 West Court Square Troy, AL 36081

[needsukunainmymouth]

Multiple genocides are happening, and their health ministries are purposefully being targeted so that they can downplay already horrendous loss of life.