#Russel Means

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Have you heard of the American Indian Movement? Did you know natives had a movement/group in the 70's-80's dedicated to native liberation?

No? It's a part of history they don't teach you in school, but come close and look so I can show you.

Watch this, it's not long I promise. This is Russel Means, a prominent native activists and one of the leaders of AIM. AIM sought to help natives with things like tribal sovereignty, housing, healthcare, and food security.

Here he is testifying to the US government.

The transcript ^

A little excerpt of the end:

"The American Indian people’s right to self-determination is recognized and will be implemented through the following policies:

The American Indian individual shall have the right to choose his or her citizenship and the American Indian nations have the right to choose their level of citizenship and autonomy up to absolute independence;

The American Indian will have their just property rights restored which include rights of easement, access, hunting, fishing, prayer, and water;

The BIA will be abolished with the American Indian tribal members deciding the extent and nature of their governments, if any;

Negotiations will be undertaken to exchange otherwise unclaimed and un-owned federal property for any and all government obligations to the American Indian nations, and to fully -- and to hold fully liable those responsible for any and all damages which have resulted from the resource development on or near our reservation lands including the -- including damages done by careless and inexcusable disposal of uranium mill tailings and other mineral and toxic wastes.

I want to thank you, gentlemen, for inviting me here. It's been a high honor, especially since I'm the only one invited here today to testify that doesn't receive money from the federal government. Also, I want to make -- I was introduced as a former founder and leader of American Indian movement to the tribal chairwoman that you have here, a former associates for the American Indian Movement back in the days when we were gross militants and so I just wanted to let you in on that, that the American Indian Movement is a very proud continuing part of American Indian Society.

Thank you."

"The American Indian Movement remains based in Minneapolis with several branches nationwide. The organization prides itself on fighting for the rights of Native peoples outlined in treaties and helping to preserve indigenous traditions and spiritual practices. The organization also has fought for the interests of aboriginal peoples in Canada, Latin America and worldwide. “At the heart of AIM is deep spirituality and a belief in the connectedness of all Indian people,” the group states on its website."

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Read the whole thing.

History of Thanksgiving

Excerpted from Russell Means "Where White Men Fear To Tread"

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How come that George is always at the scene of the crime. Without a fault George will be there. Someone crashes out, George comes in and swoops up the pieces. Alonso gets mad at the FIA, George appears next to him like a summoned Genie, Oscar gets his lap time deleted, George is there. Travel stories, extracurricular sport activities, doesn’t matter. George is there

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— and zen, ze doktor he vas meeting miss sunday. roo-bee vas his best friend. but she vas shot… by an anglican marine!

— she got resuscitated by a field ambulance…

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Genre of image: Writer and the two little guys with homoerotic tension that he created and one of them is blonde and one of them is David Tennant

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f1 + txt posts = true 11.0

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2023 MEXICO GP : pre-race

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Baku 2023: Max going around showing everyone a karting photo of him and Charles.

Baku 2024: George going around showing everyone a karting photo of him and Max.

What is in the Eurasian air 🥹😭

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the way he credited george on both of them

+ Tom

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rtd first era is like

s1: awkward closed-off secretly (not so secretly) silly alien learns to feel things again because of a woman who feels so much and isn't afraid to challenge the silly alien on the importance of these feelings

s2: formerly awkward closed-off secretly (not so secretly) silly alien feels so hard that there's no defense left against an inevitable loss that both alien and woman pretended wasn't going to happen

s3: silly alien now bleeding uncontrollably everywhere, but a doctor comes along and does triage on the wounds. experience deeply traumatises this doctor and her whole family and she has to leave

s4: silly alien now in some tricky equilibrium, tries to balance bleeding heart with living, made easier because of a very special woman who understands on some intimate level the struggle of this balance. things looking up on the whole. but watch out

specials: oh no oh no oh no oh dear

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wait can you elaborate on nativism/indigeneity being a lifestyle? i always thought it was like an ethnic thing sorry if thats stupid

Hiii!

So I wouldn't say lifestyle unless you'd also say white supremacy a lifestyle.

And whatever they are, I would say indigeneity is the direct opposition to white supremacy. It's why you will see me making that claim on my blog so much.

The things we share in common are built on the singular pillar of us refusing to be defined by anyone but ourselves and especially not defined by whiteness.

There are lots of different ways to be indigenous as well. Natives all over the globe have vastly different cultures and symbols and ceremonies.

What makes us "Native" is our loyalty to our principles, values, and who we are. We don't compromise who we are for peace and we can't be gaslit into believing otherwise.

Because peace can't be compromised unless its already being threatened by one side. You see?

And we refuse to compromise who we are just so settlers won't kill us. We'd rather die than become something we are not, than become like the people killing us. And you've seen that over and over. You're seeing it right now, even.

Our people and our history and our connections mean to much to us, respecting and honoring their memories and ourselves means to much to us.

Natives reject the idea of white supremacy and that colonizers are more civil or humane just because they said so especially when they use their own measures of civility and humanity and don't listen to ours.

If you can ignore and speak over us then why can't we speak over and ignore you?

What gave white supremacists the right to decide what peace and harmony looked like for the oppressed?

Idk.

Like.

I think, honestly, that native is how you're born. You grow and then you are taught how to be a settler instead of learning to appreciate and respect the earth and people around you. You are taught division and hate. You're taught that getting food from a store and not the ground is normal, you're taught that your settler life is the norm.

I genuinely fucking believe that "whiteness" and colonization is only possible when you've convince people to hate everything about being human.

Like have you ever met a white supremacists or a colonizer that just...existed? That wasn't trying desperately to fit in or "be" something?

Whether it's good with his boss for a raise or being manly enough for a wife or making sure they're groomed but not so much they look gay or, etc etc.

You ever notice how fucking hard it is for a settler to be comfortable with being? Just existing?

They shake with anxiety under the weight of hating themselves so much.

I strongly suggest reading this in it's entirety while taking notes and stopping to process whenever you need to. Below the link, is the quote that Very Much helped me answer this.

A master’s degree in “Indian Studies” or in “education” or in anything else cannot make a person into a human being or provide knowledge into the traditional ways. It can only make you into a mental European, an outsider.

I should be clear about something here, because there seems to be some confusion about it. When I speak of Europeans or mental Europeans, I’m not allowing for false distinctions. I’m not saying that on the one hand there are the by-products of a few thousand years of genocidal, reactionary, European intellectual development which is bad; and on the other hand there is some new revolutionary intellectual development which is good. I’m referring here to the so-called theories of Marxism and anarchism and “leftism” in general.

I don’t believe these theories can be separated from the rest of the European intellectual tradition. It’s really just the same old song. The process began much earlier. Newton, for example, “revolutionized” physics and the so-called natural sciences by reducing the physical universe to a linear mathematical equation. Descartes did the same thing with culture. John Locke did it with politics, and Adam Smith did it with economics.

Each one of these “thinkers” took a piece of the spirituality of human existence and converted it into a code, an abstraction. They picked up where Christianity ended; they “secularized” Christian religion, as the “scholars” like to say—and in doing so they made Europe more able and ready to act as an expansionist culture.

Each of these intellectual revolutions served to abstract the European mentality even further, to remove the wonderful complexity and spirituality from the universe and replace it with a logical sequence: one, two, three, Answer!

Being native is just....being human idk how else to explain it.

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Oh Ncuti, you know us so well!!! so when does he come back?

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Rihanna in 2006

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lance celebrating his 20th birthday (ft. george)