indigenous rights
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On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning. The whitewashed story of u...
In the new ep, Laihall walks us thru anthropologist Phillipe Blouin’s affidavit in support of Mohawk Mothers’ investigation into Ewen Cameron’s Montreal Experiments & search for un...
Debunking @ryxnmxlvk___’s FITNAH towards the stateless Bajau Laut community. 1. Indigenous but to NO land So they’re indeed indigenous, and last I checked Malaysia’s jurisdiction...
More on the US ban of our Hawaiian language and culture, and how the US continues to punish Native Hawaiian children for speaking Hawaiian to this day with no consequences for the...
The US banned Hawaiian language, overthrew our country, let us die in Maui fires, devastated our universal healthcare, & illegally occupies Hawaii to this day. My mother's hands we...
Biden administration just waived 26 laws -- including the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, & the National Environm...
when danish people say “just be grateful we colonized you and not america, you ungrateful people” meanwhile denmark used the same genocide tactics as america. danish people aren’t...
1/7 🧵 As we continue to discuss the film "Oppenheimer" this week, let's dig deeper to unveil the hidden narrative of uranium mining's devastating impact on Indigenous communities -...
I think a lot of people in social change spaces have a really colonial & extractive view of “community” where community = a group with shared characteristics that they can opt in o...
Today on Canada Day, we have much to reflect on. We must continue to acknowledge the history of colonialism and its lasting impacts on Indigenous Peoples. While moving to right t...
Who is behind the attack on the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)? ICWA protects Native children & ensures Tribal Nations make decisions regarding the welfare of their citizens. Rig...
The US banned Hawaiian language, poisons our water, devastated our universal healthcare, overthrew our country, & illegally occupies Hawaii to this day. My mother's hands were brok...
The illegitimate US 'state' of Hawaii is trying to erase LGBTQ+ people and by extension our native Hawaiian culture as we speak. It's not hypothetical there are at least 5 anti-tra...
This is my 'Stop pushing anti-LGBTQ+ bills, punishing kids for speaking Hawaiian, poisoning our water, & illegally occupying Hawaii, colonizer' face. https://t.co/1XCSiinl1c https:...
You will not eradicate us queer indigenous people, colonizers. Also, I'm hot. https://t.co/qqzzZZcuiU
TBH I'd rather no Disney movies ever again. The US empire was a cinema-based power of manufacturing global consent by projecting false Mouse-Eared goodness while enforcing global c...
As a Native Hawaiian, I'd like Disney to stop displacing us homeless Hawaiians with a $144 mil resort for rich foreigners in collaboration with the illegal US occupation that is po...
The US banned Hawaiian language, poisons our water, invaded our country, & illegally occupies Hawaii to this day, but speaks of 'supporting Taiwan independence'. My mother's hands...
Today I learned that a Vatican decree called the "Doctrine of Discovery" gave Europeans the right to steal everything from indigenous people in newly "discovered" land, and that it...
The US pretends to care about LGBTQ rights but it in fact foment the anti-LGBTQ sentiments around the world, and then uses that as a pretext to sanction & re-colonize countries lik...
Neofeud is 70% off! Help some native Hawaiians pay some bills, do education work, & keep a roof over the kids as well as complete Neofeud 2! Also you get an anti-capitalist anti-ra...
Since the US banned our Hawaiian language, it nearly went extinct. Less than 100 kids spoke it in the 80's. Kids are STILL punished for speaking Hawaiian today. The fact we've 30,0...
Thomas Jefferson owned 600+ slaves, including a 14-year old 'concubine', plagiarized the US 'constitution' from indigenous people that he genocided. There are no great US presiden...
The US still punishes children for speaking Hawaiian in school, and forces them to worship American politicians who exterminated Native people like us. Then the US school and paren...