#unceded

[aistobascistod]

Check that box : Territory is xed :: Check that bounced : Territory is unceded

[bossymarmalade]

- september 30th, national day for truth and reconciliation -

Survivors experienced horrific atrocities while prisoners in these institutions. It is important that this image show the love and strength that colonialism tried to steal from us. Despite genocide, we are still here – still fighting for justice and restitution, as true Warriors. - Dorene Bernard, Mi’kmaq Survivor who attended Shubenacadie Residential School

[sangsaracycling]

white people inadvertently feeding into hindutva propaganda gets particularly vile in canada, with every yoga teacher and every yoga studio in this damn country taking "international yoga day" as a self evident politically neutral construct. for context, june 21st has been recognized as national indigenous peoples day in canada since 1996, which is solidly 2 decades before modi pulled that international yoga day nonsense. hindu nationalists literally have a rhetoric (and various political practices) of continuing the subjugation of people of scheduled tribes in india and their practices and way of life and access to resources and stuff and any of the Promoting Yoga and Hinduism stuff that the current admin does needs to be discussed in the context of that.

so like. all these canadian yoga people who have not fucking ONCE talked about indigenous people whose ancestral land were on (and how that land was occupied and at what cost). immediately jumping on a commemorative day essentially invented to do the work of subjugating the indigenous people of another part of the world. im gonna hurl

[mousemannation]

made a typo in my last post 🙈 it is what it is

[three-headed-monster]

Hey! I really appreciated your world juniors primer and I hope this isn't rude, but if you're going to mention that a player is Indigenous, it's probably good practice to say what nation they're from! It's an easy mistake and I'm sure you didn't mean any harm by it, especially since you were excited about there being Indigenous players on the roster (I definitely am as well!)

hey anon ! thank you for telling me and informing me. i didn't know about that, but moving forward, i'm going to include it if i mention that about those players.

i'll link a tweet by hockey indigenous here too, as to where i got my information from, but let's highlight some of the indigenous players this year representing their nation at wjc 2025!

first, we have gavin mckenna on team canada representing the Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin First Nation.

next, we have carson bjarnason from canada representing Kinonjeoshtegon First Nation.

and finally, we have casey terrance representing the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory.

[absolute-immunities]

hey! give it back!!!

[cinemaocd]

The University of Minnesota should be providing free college for Dakota students. For any major they want...

[bossymarmalade]

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westham island herb farm, ladner bc, canada

[dionysus-complex]

look I know it’s supposed to be a joke but that “irradiated wasteland” is the unceded homeland of the Paiute and Shoshone peoples and consists of fragile Mojave and Great Basin desert ecosystems that are actively being exploited and destroyed by mining interests who utilize the perception of desert as wasteland to justify their destruction of indigenous lands and communities. the joke's not funny. fuck off with this.

[siewwah]

Dragging myself to the advanced federal voting polls during this depressive episode in hopes my country 🇨🇦 doesn't elect a Conservative cuck leading a racist and misogynist party for prime minister who'll probably let us be annexed into the 51st US state (slash j...)

like there is a vocal residential school denialist running as a local riding's Conservative candidate... genuinely letting them even exist is a mercy and ideally they'd be publicly shamed/ostracized, but they at least shouldn't be allowed to run as an MP ughhh

​also my stepdad knows the Tory candidate in our riding and says he's literally Just Some (white) guy with frosted tips LMAO

[gaast]

I didn't know that the preferred term was Lenape, not Lenni Lenape, until now. I feel really badly about putting it in all my author bios. From now on I'm just using Lenape. My bad.

[turian]

mind you of course the us/canada/uk etc can't reckon with the fact that "good germans" are instrumental in the perpetuation of genocides because they are built on and continue to profit from genocide lol. therefore genocide must be taught as an isolated incident instead of something that echoes down generations in multiple ways. and in removing genocides from their contexts in those ways i think they also serve themselves by isolating genocides from each other instead of teaching people to see the parallels. i feel as if some people refuse to see the parallels between the shoah and the genocide of the Palestinian people currently ongoing, and will instead get bogged down in the details of those comparisons and call the comparison historical revisionism / holocaust inversion and it's like... i think in getting bogged down in semantics, the point of these comparisons is being missed by miles. a genocide does not have to be a 1:1 parallel in order to be compared to another genocide, but also! the parallels are there and they are terrifying. to be clear i think critique of the way these parallels are expressed is fine, but like. the expression "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater" comes to mind.

[butchwink]

yeah im a plant for team santa whats up bozos

[sunflower-shell]

Also! Free Borikén/Puerto Rico! Free Hawai'i! Free Guåhan/Guam! Free the "Virgin Islands"! So many of y'all usamerican leftists are willing to advocate for freedom from imperial domination until it comes to the US's own colonies!

Don't forget it's still free Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Yemen, West Papua, Tigray, Haiti, Burma/Myanmar, Uyghurs, Syria, Kashmir, Cameroon, Armenia and Kurdistan.

Regardless of who you are or where you come from, if you do not feel outrage, anguish, and grief for these innocent lives lost, something is amiss, and you must consider why you lack the drive to take action.

Their fight should be considered our fight, as it is one for human rights.

[bandydear]

Land acknowledgments be like: I would like to acknowledge the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the First Nations band we had to google before writing this an hour before the presentation on which we are learning, working and organizing today. I think it’s important to acknowledge the land because growing up as an immigrant here, I never heard the traditional names of the territories. I still don’t use them because, frankly, they’re difficult to pronounce and I don’t like learning things where I can be corrected. Indigenous people were talked about in the past tense and all the struggles they faced were in the past tense as well. It is easier to deny Indigenous people their rights if we historicize their struggles and simply pretend they don’t exist. As an activist, I would like to take this opportunity to commit myself to the struggle against the systems of oppression that have dispossessed Indigenous people of their lands and denied their rights to self-determination, work that is essential to human rights work across the world. I’m not going to invite any Indigenous voices to participate though. We invited one elder here to give us permission to guilt trip everyone in this room for five minutes, but we are making no effort to support the existing Indigenous community. We plan to continue ignoring them after patting ourselves on the back for this acknowledgement too. It’s not that we’re against adding indigenous voices, it’s just not the time and place for it. If anything, we’re for the further segregation of our cultures, because we feel guilty and uncomfortable at the poverty these communities continue to live in when we charged $100 a ticket for everyone to be here.

[californiannostalgia]

Something that my therapist said today stuck with me.

America has never been a white country.

This got me thinking. The United States are fundamentally different from Europe. First there was Native people. And then came the immigrants, and European slavery of African people, and immigrants, immigrants, immigrants.

It is very hard to claim ownership to the American identity when so many of us, despite how long we've lived here, do not feel welcomed. Yes, the United States is a center of colonialism. But it is also one of the first postcolonial states. We're not going to have the linearity of European history. We do not serve a king. Monarchy has no place here.

There are always going to be people who go too far, because immigration and exploitation has been what created America, and all immigrants are a little desperate and all exploited people are at the very least angry. It's not something that goes away, even with generations. But it matters that America as a nation-state exists in spite of that. It matters that our defining stories start with "Despite of".

I don't have legal citizenship and I probably never will. But that doesn't stop me from saying I had a home here. That doesn't make it less true that I am a person from here. I am American in the way I smile at people behind the counter in the immigrant-run deli that sells nice sandwiches. I am American in the way I think about personal boundaries and make everyday efforts to try to exist with different people.

There is such a huge spectrum of ways to be American. Evangelical Christianity is not the definition. Rich white suburbia is not the norm. The people in power right now have no understanding of what it means to be American. We live on unceded land, in cities built by enslaved people and impoverished immigrants. Everything of note that was achieved here happened "in spite of."

America has never been a white country.