“The United States Government is offering you a piece of land of your own.”
“We have our own land.”
“No, it’s not yours. It’s the US Government’s.”
— S1E6, “Pride, Pomp and Circumstance”
Once you understand the criminal behavior of white people and their offspring then you can put in perspective gentrification and genocide of the copper color American Indian
In making plans to celebrate Thanksgiving, don’t forget: November is also Native American Heritage Month. Observing it won’t undo the atrocities that occurred over the past few centuries — or the current threats to Native Americans and their lands, such as the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline — but recognizing and celebrating those who were here first and are now marginalized is an important step in moving things forward. Especially if you missed Native American Day.
If Congress does not pass legislation protecting the tribe and the legal challenge fails, the Mashpee would be stripped of their right to exercise sovereign jurisdiction over their land.
Jessie Little Doe Baird, the tribe’s vice-chairwoman, told Al Jazeera that loss of jurisdiction would prevent the tribe from running indigenous language schools, tribal courts, and housing projects, as well as its own police.
“We have our own police force, which is important because they’re tribal citizens and since we’ve had our own police force, none of our men have been beaten or shot, which we’ve had before with non-tribal police,” she said.
Just a quick message of love to my fellow Native Americans who either mourn on Thanksgiving or who skip over the holiday entirely: you are so fucking valid and however you tackle this holiday–whether it is with anger, grief, or outright denial that it counts as a holiday at all–just know that you have the right to do so. Don’t let colonizers try to guilt you into celebrating a holiday you aren’t ready to or don’t want to reclaim.
The weird thing about falling down the golden oldies hole is finding a great song, and then discovering that actually, it’s the toothless cover by white artists of a song that was performed much better by the original black artists. This seems to have been, like, common practice?? Were black people not allowed to have a hit unless the whites ritualistically desecrated it on the radio, jfk
I think the most dreadful example of this I found was Rum and Coca-Cola, which was in its original form a commentary on the sex tourism that American soldiers engaged in when they visited Trinidad.
And then the Andrews Sisters sang it like it was a little ditty about family vacation.
i just bawled my eyes out and it feels like i just got the biggest hug to my soul. thank you thank you thank you. it is sacred and it is SAFE the poster will not tell anyone even what state this is in, only thats this is in USA. even if you are not indigenous i hope this lifts your spirits and comforts you.
When I was still in my MSW program, we paid a visit to the Puyallup DCFS office. We learned about the shittier aspects of how social work it’s professionals have treated Indigenous peoples in the states–especially in Washington. One of the things I learned was the history of Mt Rainier’s name. Then we learned the history of its original names: including Tahoma, Tacobeh, and Pooskaus.
Every single Native culture is distinct and unique, though many share similarities, and lumping them together is ridiculous. And while some practices are pan-Indian, the vast majority are not.
Stop homogenizing our cultures. Every Native culture is beautiful and unique and deserves to be treated that way.
Don’t fall into the trope of “pan Indian”. Fucking teepees and totem poles never existed together. Totem poles are permanent structures, teepees are fucking tents for nomadic peoples. First Nations and indigenous cultures are all deep and uniquely complex, it would be like confusing England with Russia.
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