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Indigenous resistance in Canada/US/Mexico/Planet. Decolonize. #2S #MMIW #BLM #ChingaTuMuro 🇵🇸 🇵🇸🇵🇸 #Landback Linktree:

Stolen land
Joined October 2011
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
@mahtowin1
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5 years
BREAKING: The Bureau of Indian Affairs today told the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe that the Secretary of the Interior has ordered that their reservation be disestablished and their land be taken out of trust.
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Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old nonbinary citizen of the Cherokee Nation, was beaten up at the Owassi OK high school and died the next day. The anti-2SLGBTQ principal and teachers didn't even call an ambulance or the cops.
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Nex Benedict should still be alive. Nex deserved not only a safe and nurturing environment to learn, but an environment that actively disrupted anti-2STGNC+ rhetoric and worked to ensure that vulnerable students were safe. Read more, here:
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"We the People of the First Light have lived here since before there was a Secretary of the Interior, since before there was a State of Massachusetts, since before the Pilgrims arrived 400 years ago."
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Mashpee tribal chair: "These are our lands, these are the lands of our ancestors, and these will be the lands of our grandchildren. This Administration has come and it will go. But we will be here, always.“
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Dear prospective statue topplers: If you dont have a confederate statue nearby, Christopher Columbus statues are nearly everywhere.
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-the Bureau of Indian Affairs informed me that the Secy of the Interior has ordered that our reservation be disestablished & that our land be taken out of trust.  Not since the termination era of the mid-20th century has a Secretary taken action to disestablish a reservation."
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Mashpee Wampanoag tribal chair: "At 4:00 pm today -- on the very day that the United States has reached a record 100,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and our Tribe is desperately struggling with responding to this devastating pandemic --
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6 years
Japan's 'vanishing' Ainu will finally be recognized as Indigenous people.
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SNAPS UP to Aquinnah Wampanoag member Samantha Maltais @sdmalt96 for representing at the Supreme Court #ICWA hearing today. She refused to leave when told that she could not wear her regalia in court under threat of arrest because her clothing was a "political statement."
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4 years
Humans are not the virus.
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Boston Public Schools Superintendent Chang has resigned after it was revealed that BPS has been providing student info to ICE to help deport migrant schoolchildren.
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4 years
This is the site of the 1770 "Boston Massacre," where an Indigenous and Black man, Crispus Attucks, was the first to be killed.
@HUBhistory
Jake @ HUB History (@[email protected])
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Irony is dead.
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@ShaunChavis Stay tuned. The tribe needs to discuss and consider next steps.
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On Dec 26, 1862, the largest mass execution in US history took place under the orders of Abraham Lincoln. 38 Dakota warriors were hanged in Mankato, MN. Their people had been dispossessed by settlers and were starving. +2 more men were captured and killed later. #Dakota38 +2
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Thousands snowed in on Pine Ridge Reservation burn clothes for warmth in wake of storm, snow drifts and low temperatures.
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Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain. Twitter is 🔥today because so many have suffered from British colonization (incl. internal colonization/oppression within the "United Kingdom"). From Kenya to Ireland, Canada to India, why would anyone mourn a British royal?
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Roses are red Colonialism is theft Today's the anniversary of #CaptainCook 's death! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
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THERE ARE NO CLOSETS IN TIPIS. Decolonize Pride wherever you are. (Photo: Two Spirit News)
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BREAKING: After more than 35 years, the Massachusetts state legislature has finally passed a bill to redesign the racist state flag and seal! Congratulations to everyone who worked on this!
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A Native first grader in Oklahoma had his long hair cut off by two classmates while their teacher stared at a laptop. Sending ❤️❤️❤️ to Andreas and his family.
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This shows settler expansion into the US as though the land was empty -- not showing Indigenous peoples being there in the first place, getting killed off, or being forced to relocate where they lived. Do better.
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"You are on Native land" banners put up by the Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association.
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BREAKING: THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT #ICWA WAS UPHELD BY THE US SUPREME COURT 7-2! You can hear the whoops and lililis in every corner of Indian Country this morning. And see the flood tears of relief. Opinion here:
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Racist South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is now banned from entering the lands of all 9 tribes in the state.
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Chef Sherry Pocknett (Mashpee Wampanoag) has become the first Indigenous woman to be selected for a prestigious James Beard award, winning for the Northeast US region.
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Prayers up, tobacco down for our relatives in Colorado.
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I already had no use for Avatar movies. But wtf with the racist victim-blaming comments from the white savior asshole director James Cameron, such as this one calling Lakota society "dead-end" and saying 19th century ancestors should have somehow "fought a lot harder."
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Sacheen Littlefeather deserved a lot better than to have her entire life, identity and reputation violently laid out for inspection like this, largely for the entertainment of outsiders.
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Trump is coming to Texas on January 12. The Esto'k Gna (Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe) do not want him on their homelands.
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I don't think the artist meant it this way, but this fire-breathing raccoon torching a settler house just screams #LandBack to me.
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The word "unceded" is a polite word for STOLEN.
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"Dior is putting the cologne in colonialism." 😆
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WTF. @Dior is doing a perfume ad campaign called "Sauvage" ("savage" in French) starring non-Native abuser of women & has-been #JohnnyDepp dressed in some kind of Indigenous cultural appropriation clothing. It took talent to put that much racism together.
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4 years
Minnesota looters.
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About those cops kneeling at protests: COPS ARE NOT OUR ALLIES. This is a photo opp for them. They continue to terrorize communities & defend the systems that oppress us. They take a knee, then turn right around to trap, pepperspray, shoot rubber bullets at & arrest protesters.
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Tulalip Tribe in Washington is strategically placing beavers around to help rebuild salmon habitat.
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Oglala Sioux Tribe Passes Resolution in Support of Palestinians 🇵🇸 in Gaza.
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Emphasis on and praise to the Maori people who put in years of work to make this happen!
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New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern is making the Māori New Year celebration the first public Māori holiday, after decades of work by Māori activists.
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Native Americans make up 8.8 percent of South Dakota's population, but comprise nearly 70 percent of the 2022 state count of unhoused people -- on their own stolen lands.
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January 1 is an amazing day because it is the anniversary of the 1994 Zapatista Indigenous uprising in Chiapas, Mexico, the earth-shaking 1804 Haitian revolution, and the 1959 Cuban revolution that kicked out the US and overthrew the Batista dictatorship.
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DONATION INFO: The Rosebud Sioux Tribe is doing everything possible this week to help the people severely impacted by the storm (while the racist governor does nothing). You can donate directly to the Tribe:
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Vote if you want. But voting in settler elections is not sacred. And voting in settler elections is not gonna "restore democracy," either. You can't restore something that has never existed.
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An Indigenous woman whose daughter was murdered has been granted custody of her 4-year-old granddaughter, Chanel, for the second time. A white family has been dragging out the custody process instead of respecting ICWA and a tribal court.
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yes yes yes Andrew Jackson coming down
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Protestors in Washington, D.C. tearing down a statue of Andrew Jackson, the president responsible for the Trail of Tears and a hero to President Trump. Video courtesy of ⁦⁦ @jonathanchase_
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Indigenous #Kanak people have been killed as a righteous rebellion is taking place against French colonialism in Kanaky (New Caledonia) and France calls in military. France has also banned #tiktok there. Support #Kanak resistance!
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An Indigenous delegation from Brazil has flown to Peru to join forces with Indigenous organizations there in a desperate bid to stop a Congressional bill known as the “Genocide Bill.” The bill, being pushed by allies of Peru’s oil and gas industry, would:
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On #July11 , 1990 the Oka Crisis (Kanesatake Resistance) began when the Quebec Provincial Police raided a Mohawk effort to stop a golf course expansion. Kahnawake shut down highways & the Mercier Bridge in solidarity. Indigenous people across the continent showed solidarity.
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The morgue director at Harvard Med School has been selling body parts for years. Now watch how Harvard handles this scandal compared to its failure to respect living Native people or ancestors by refusing to obey NAGPRA & return 1000s of Native remains.
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Overt colonial hatred of Indigenous people in Bolivia: Inside the government pslace, fascist coup figurehead Camacho placed a bible on the Bolivian flag. He announced that "the Pachamama (Indigenous Mother Earth) will never return to the Palace. Bolivia belongs to Christ."
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Today in Boston, members of the Massachusett at Ponkapoag tribe had their flag raised at City Hall for the very first time and received a Boston City Council #IndigenousPeoplesDay resolution acknowledging that Boston is built on their homelands.
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President-elect Lula da Silva fulfilled a campaign promise Thursday with the designation of Brazil’s first-ever Indigenous affairs minister, Sonia Guajajara.
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Good news! Felony charges have been dropped for all Water Protectors that took action in 2018 against the Bayou Bridge pipeline. The charges stem from Louisiana's ALEC-backed "critical infrastructure" laws that specifically criminalize pipeline protests. #NoBayouBridge
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115 more "Indian boarding schools" that forcibly assimilated American Indian and Alaska Native children have been revealed, bringing the US total of these genocidal institutions up to 523.
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Today's Google Doodle features the late Barbara May Cameron (Hunkpapa Lakota), lesbian co-founder of Gay American Indians, AIDS activist, writer and so much more.
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Hey NFL:
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Sounds about white: The University of Mary, a Catholic university in Bismarck ND, co-hosted a powwow with UTTC yesterday. They had a mass as part of the event. They also posted these signs all over the place.
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Oklahoma is poised to become one of the first states in the nation to enshrine into law the right of Indigenous students to wear tribal regalia at school graduation ceremonies. Indigenous students everywhere should have this right!
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First #NoDAPL Baby! Beautiful girl born by the Cannon Ball River. She's in a Lakota cradleboard w/ overlaid Palestinian keffiyeh. #MniWiconi
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Indigenous Anangu people in Australia announced that, as of Oct 26, tourists could no longer climb sacred #Uluru . Thousands of settlers have responded by stampeding the area to exert their colonizer disrespect & climb Uluru before the ban takes effect.
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If you support decolonization in Canada and the US then you need to support Palestinian resistance too.
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BREAKING: US Interior Dept. reverses Trump’s attempt to strip #Mashpee Wampanoag lands of reservation status and confirms the tribe's reservation.
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No. Massachusetts was in fact built on the stolen land of the Wampanoag, Massachusett, Nipmuc, Nauset, Penacook, Stockbridge-Munsee, Pocumtuc, Nonotuck, Mohican and other Indigenous tribes.
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Massachusetts is home to the first public park, school and library in America. The first ironworks, printing press — and the first battle of the Revolution. Massachusetts wasn’t built on division or fear. It was built on courage, and built by working together to get things done.
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Indigenous Women Defending Land & Life Since the Beginning of Time #IWD2022
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Indigenous communities in Jujuy, Argentina are urgently fighting against the quest for 'white gold' (lithium).
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On July 11 1990, the #OkaCrisis (siege of Kanehsatake & Kahnawake) began when the Quebec Provincial Police attacked Mohawks land defenders opposing a golf course expansion on their land. Kahnawake shut down busy highways & the Mercier Bridge for months in solidarity.
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Dear Allies: Please. #NoDAPL
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Here's what the Six Grandfathers looked like before settlers carved their Native-hating, slave-owner presidents into what they call #MountRushmore . The Black Hills, like the Lakota people, have suffered many wounds & indignities from colonialism. But restoration will happen.
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Indigenous solidarity needed now to #StopGazaGenocide End the occupation and #FreePalestine !
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Boston Public Schools have about 56000 students. The school district has been collaborating with ICE by providing information to help deport migrant students. I wonder what other school districts in the US have been doing this?
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Hey @NPR . I can assure you that Indigenous people in 'Latin America' knew how to pull down statues before 2020.
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The largest dam removal project in U.S. history is underway at the Iron River Dam on the lower Klamath River. Once it's gone, Native tribes will plant billions of seeds to try and restore the land.
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The Rappahannock Tribe has reacquired 465 acres of their sacred land at Fones Cliff in Virginia, more than 400 years after settlers stole it.
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BREAKING: Cambridge MA votes to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus Day! WE DID IT!
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. @POTUS Why are you silent now? Honor your promises to #StandingRock . You can stop Dakota Access Pipeline. #NoDAPL
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Did the Biden inauguration really have to start with "This Land Is Your Land," an ode to land theft, settler colonialism and Indigenous genocide? (No matter how well-intentioned Woody Guthrie may have been.) YOU ARE ON NATIVE LAND!
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We will fight you with every ounce of strength. Our ancestors stand behind us. #NoDAPL #NoKXL #HonorTheTreaties
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No One Is Illegal On Stolen Land!
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We had a powerful 54th National Day of Mourning in Plymouth Ma on Nov. 23, with a crowd of as many as 2000 people. We were in ceremony together and heard the true history of US thanksgiving, words from an 82-year-old residential school survivor, a message from Anishnaabe (cont'd)
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Indigenous tribes in California warned that there were many remains & artifacts in Owens Valley and that a Highway 395 expansion would be a problem. The state didn't listen. Now, DOT crews are unearthing Native bones, with tribes demanding work stop.
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New film 'Waikiki' shows colonial underbelly of Hawaii's tourism paradise. This is the first feature film directed by a Native Hawaiian person (kanaka maoli).
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Dear white people: Indigenous people do not exist to be your teaching moment.
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3 of those Indigenous reps (Tom Cole, Markwayne Mullen & Yvette Herrell) are right-wing Republicans refusing to certify the presidential election vote. They support the border wall, fracking & oil industry. Their representation does not reflect traditional Indigenous values.
All six Indigenous Congress members were in the Capitol when protesters mobbed the building. They are all safe.
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Ainu elder: 'Why doesn't the government apologize? The Japanese forcibly colonized us and annihilated our culture. Without even admitting to this, they want to turn us into a museum exhibit.'
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Junipero Serra's name will be scrubbed from Stanford Univ buildings due to his role in Indigenous enslavement and genocide in California.
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Rise up against Genocide. Free Palestine! (art by Molly Costello)
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Wouldnt it be great to have "Settler, please" signs everywhere?
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The decision to burn some structures at the #NoDAPL camps was deliberate & the intent was important. A lot of media are misinterpreting.
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Flint, Michigan Stands with #StandingRock #WaterIsLife #NoDAPL Thank you, beautiful little sister! (Via CopwatchCPU
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Another proud Native youth who was not able to walk at graduation because he was wearing an eagle 🦅feather. Please sign this petition to let Evanston Township HS in IL know that what they did is not ok:
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