#or the American Indian Movement

[neechees]

Wandering Spirit & his men's graves & memorial still get vandalized to this day by settlers 200 years later btw. That's how settler White Canadians treat First Nations who fought back

[intervex]

It was Indigenous People's Day so I made some intersex + Indigenous flags

Since I've been on a roll in making intersex flags. First: flags for the three major types of Indigenous groups whose lands were stolen to create the country I live in (Canada):

Left: intersex and First Nations (American Indian Movement) Middle: intersex and Inuit Right: intersex and Métis

Then I made some intersex flags for some specific First Nations whose cultures I have at least basic familiarity with: Left: Haida ................... Middle: Huu-ay-aht ......... Right: Musqueam

Left: Blackfoot ........... Middle: Anishinaabe ...... Right: Haudenosaunee

Note: The last three are confederacies of multiple nations. Order is based on geography, going west to east.

Personal Note: I am a settler and am not a member of any of these nations. I've moved many times in my life, and these nations are the rightful stewards of the lands that I personally feel I have the most connection to. 💜

Tagging for archival: @intersexflags @varsex-pride @radiomogai @beyond-mogai-pride-flags

[glowingcritter]

[revoltinglesbians]

Minutes before leaving office President Joe Biden commuted the sentence, but did not fully pardon, American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier. Peltier had been in federal custody since 1975 for the apparent killing of two FBI agents. Biden’s official statement on the decision is no longer available on the official White House website.

[olowan-waphiya]

Peltier will remain under house confinement, likely for the rest of his life. Still, human rights advocates and Indigenous activists who have campaigned for decades for Peltier to be granted clemency celebrated the action.

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At the time of his conviction, Peltier was a member of the American Indian Movement, a grassroots movement that was founded in 1968 to advocate for Indigenous rights and sovereignty in the United States. He was charged under dubious circumstances for the killing of two FBI agents in a 1975 shootout at Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. After being charged, he fled to Canada; he was extradited and sent back to the U.S. to face trial in 1977.

Indigenous advocates and human rights organizations have long maintained that Peltier was not given a fair trial. Evidence that could have exonerated him — including ballistics showing that the bullets that killed the two agents were not fired from Peltier’s weapon — was withheld from his lawyers. Testimony that led to the Canadian government agreeing to his extradition was also perjured.

[blanket-burrito-protocol]

The 50th anniversary of AIMs (American Indian Movement's) occupation at Wounded Knee is coming up, so the Lakota People's Law Project is leading another push to free an AIM activist who was wrongly convicted of killing two federal agents in 1975- Leonard Peltier. He was convicted on false evidence and false testimony and sentenced to two life sentences. He is now 78.

LPL has a formatted email up on their website now which you can personalize and send to Biden to ask for clemency. (Please personalize emails like this so it doesn't get filtered as spam. Just move some words around, add some, take some, you don't have to write a whole email.) Please pass this around.

[forever70s]

Mary Brave Bird, circa 1973

[typhlonectes]

[garadinervi]

Leonard Peltier is going home [February 18, 2025]

(image: Peter Matthiessen, (1983), In the spirit of Crazy Horse, Afterword by Martin Garbus, Viking, New York, NY, 1991)

[hussyknee]

I hate white people so fucking much.

[bloodanddiscoballs]

I shouldn't have to say this in the year 2024 but if you're not Native, I don't wanna hear you calling me or my cousins Indians. You should know by now that's a no-no.

✅️ Indigenous Peoples

✅️ Native Americans (as in Native to the Americas)

🚫 Indians/ American Indians

[empress-lotus]

“What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians of Europe” -Russell Means

Portrait of Russell Means by Andy Warhol

[victusinveritas]

It's not a full pardon, just indefinite house arrest.

[coochiequeens]

With all the outrage over Trump pardoning the Jan 6 rioters let's not overlook that one of Bidens clemencys was complicit in the murder and cover up of a woman and the media brushes that crime under the rug.

Annie Mae Aquash (Mi'kmaq name Naguset Eask) (March 27, 1945 – mid-December 1975 [1][2]) was a First Nations activist and Mi'kmaq tribal member from Nova Scotia, Canada. Aquash moved to Boston in the 1960s and joined other First Nations and Indigenous Americans focused on education, resistance, and police brutality against urban Indigenous peoples. She was a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and participated in several occupations with them. In December 1975, she was kidnapped and murdered in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation by members of AIM. Her body was later found in February 1976. In the 2000s, several members of AIM were convicted of kidnapping and murdering her.

[beardedbarba]

LEONARD IS GOING HOME

[glowingcritter]

American Indian activist, Vietnam War veteran, and protest folksinger, Peter LaFarge in Greenwich Village, August 1962