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“Everything within a settler colonial society strains to destroy or assimilate the Native in order to disappear them from the land - this is how a society can have multiple simultaneous and conflicting messages about Indigenous peoples, such as all Indians are dead, located in faraway reservations, that contemporary Indigenous people are less indigenous than prior generations, and that all Americans are a “little bit Indian.” These desires to erase - to let time do its thing and wait for the older form of living to die out, or to even help speed things along (euthanize) because the death of pre-modern ways of life is thought to be inevitable - these are all desires for another kind of resolve to the colonial situation, resolved through the absolute and total destruction or assimilation of original inhabitants. Numerous scholars have observed that Indigeneity prompts multiple forms of settler anxiety, even if only because the presence of Indigenous peoples - who make a priori claims to land and ways of being - is a constant reminder that the settler colonial project is incomplete (Fanon, 1963; Vine Deloria, 1988; Grande, 2004; Bruyneel, 2007). The easy adoption of decolonization as a metaphor (and nothing else) is a form of this anxiety, because it is a premature attempt at reconciliation. The absorption of decolonization by settler social justice frameworks is one way the settler, disturbed by her own settler status, tries to escape or contain the unbearable searchlight of complicity, of having harmed others just by being one’s self. The desire to reconcile is just as relentless as the desire to disappear the Native; it is a desire to not have to deal with this (Indian) problem anymore.”

— from “Decolonization is not a metaphor” by Eva Tuck and K. Wayne Yang

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“nobody is saying completely abolish the police theyre saying defund and reform uwu”

“nobody is saying literally give the land back theyre saying it metaphorically uwu”

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Here is the link to needanabortion.org.

The silence of the Supreme Court has just effectively allowed Texas to overturn Roe vs Wade.

I never want to hear anyone complain ever again about being told they have to wear a mask, not when shit like this is happening.

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This some fuck shit. America was literally created for capitalist to thrive. Fuck religious freedom. That was not the shit being sought out when colonizers really just murder, stole, rape & abuse the people of this land. I say in this in present tense bc this is STILL the same. It’s a before & during situation since when the British forced & forged their power into what is now America. We really out here living in such a corrupt ass country.

This probably sounds obvious, but I learned today that prisoners aren't protected by OSHA regulations, and that this is another reason why employers are so eager to utilize this modern slavery. It's only a couple cents an hour, less transportation costs than the overseas sweatshops, and if you want people to work with hazardous materials without proper training? That's fine too! Prison labor is the ultimate free market solution!

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Never forget 💔

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Help us kick Bezos in the dick

Boss Baby Bezos is at it again! Amazon opened a union busting website for people to report workers unions, so lets do the world a favor and waste Jeff’s time, money, and life energy (I hope) by spamming his website with bogus reports. Eat shit, Jeff.

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Baby and Mama, Yellowstone National Park

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FACTS!

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Strawberry Beaded Earrings // indigenousfirst

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(via CrimethInc. : Gord Hill, Indigenous Artist and Anarchist : An Interview)

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Okay but I don’t think anybody realizes how truly linguistically diverse Native Americans are, not even I realized it until I compiled this post. Even within our own language families and branches can we be so similar yet so different at the same time, so I’d figure I’d compare a word (Sun) to some of the other languages in the Algonquian family.

English = Sun

Ojibwe = Giizis

Abenaki-Penobscot = Gizos

Maliseet-Passamaquoddy = Kisuhs

Algonquin = Kìzis

Kicapu = Kíisethwa

Potawatomi = Kizes

Shawnee = Kiišthwa

Illinois = Kiilhswa

Mi'Kmaq = Nákúset

Cree = Pîsim

Naskapi Innu = Piisim

Arapaho = Hiisiis

Beothuk* = Kuis

Powhatan* = Keeshowse

Quiripi* = Kezhous

Blackfoot = Ki'somma

Cheyenne = Éše'he

It’s just so amazing how diverse even our language branches get at times, let alone language families.

*These languages have no more native speakers so these words cannot be validated.

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Drinking Cacao

Cacao was and is a very important part of Mesoamerican life, used in ceremony and general consumption, eaten in different ways and incredibly handy. Recently, I have been seeing a lot of “ceremonial-grade cacao” being sold—in lots of different recipes, batches, or how-to guides. This is utilized mainly by spiritual hipsters who think this “opens up the chakras” or is “powerful Indian healing magic”, which it does neither, although it does serve a multitude of different purposes.

It is eaten with meals and drinks in several forms, mostly by people with more to their name. Each culture consumes the drink differently, with different ingredients & means of preferred preparation. Cacao was essentially the world-ruler back in the day, being traded, ingrained in ceremony, and consumed constantly. This means it is incredibly important to handle this food with the respect that it deserves.

In my culture, it can be medicinal, mixed with herbs and given to cure certain ailments, such as internal aching. The mixture is never sweet, meant to be potent and bitter, as bitterness is associated with stronger medicine. It can be made into a common meal mixed with chilis, maize, and spices, preserved, made, and eaten by those who need quick sustenance, or made into a sweet drink with a mixture of plants and spices such as vanilla (tlilxochitl), cinnamons, and flowers from the pepper family (mekaxochitl). While Maya people generally have their drinks hot, we like ours cold, like hot chocolate vs chocolate milk.

Cacao represents life, medicine, power, and prosperity, being more accessible and tasty to those with more power in the past, while also still being a medicine today. It is also used in ceremony with drinking and offerings just like octli. Only the finest of it must be offered to the gods, otherwise it is incredibly disrespectful (or at least, to me). Those who were chosen and dressed for sacrifice in the past would be forced to drink a mixture of cacao and water that knives would be washed with.

Cacao is like any other revered identity to a culture and should be treated as such. Recipes belonging to Mesoamerican tribes should be asked for or gifted, never stolen. Although you can drink it safely for pleasure and personal purposes, you shouldn’t ever buy it with the intention of drinking it “to open up your third eye” or “connecting yourself to the spirits”—that is not how it works.

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Huichol (Wixáritari); yarn paintings. Mexico. 20th through 21st century.

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Mursi and Surma girls from Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa

By Hans Silvester 

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