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Native Tv Writer. Oglala Lakota x Pine Ridge Rez. 12 seasons of TV. Comedy & Drama. Recent: Duster 🚗, Ringshout 🗡️, Horizon Zero Dawn 🦖, *redacted* 🐁
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A third school found the remains of Native children buried under their school.
Think about that. Hundreds of bodies of children are being found. That’d be massive news if it wasn’t Native kids. Where is the outrage? Where is the support? Why doesn’t anyone care?
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They are trying to slap a Native man with 17 years in prison for supposedly grabbing a police shield during the Black Hills protest. This guy is taking pictures with one.
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As we watch Trumpers storm the capital with guns. Just a reminder, this is what America did to Native protesting for clean water.
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88% of the missing children in South Dakota are Native. That’s systemic. That’s racism.
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Last week it was discovered that they are forcibly putting in IUDs into Native kids under 10, this week they discovered 215 bodies of Native kids under a school. These are issues that are person to me and so many of us.
It's so dangerous just being a Native child.
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Years ago I found out esk*mo was a slur. I had no idea. I thought it was a name. Inuit, Inupiat, Yupik, Aleut are their names. So I stopped saying it. I didn't tell them "that's not a slur", I didn't claim that e****o wasn't as bad as a slur as others. I just stopped saying it.
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Erasure is complete when they say your name and you're no longer remembered.
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America is now treating this exactly how they treated mass shootings.
“Despite every other country in the world having it under control. It’s unstoppable. There’s nothing we can do. Deal with it.”
Opinion: Covid-19 isn’t going anywhere. So schools must reopen.
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This article is about a group of White men who chased down and killed two Indigenous Men.
This is how the media reported it.
The racism is so loud, yet no one seems to hear it.
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Let me save you from asking a Native this:
Yes, some Natives celebrate Thanksgiving. Which is cool. It was our holiday first.
Also, some Natives don’t. Which is also cool.
But what isn’t cool, is if you only think of Natives once a year.
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Hey. The Navajo Nation turned out and was crucial in flipping Arizona blue.
Now they are going back into lockdown because of Covid.
Don’t just thank us. Help. Looking at you woke tv shows who did 12 episodes about coronavirus but ignored the place MOST affected.
Navajo Nation reinstates lockdown as Covid-19 cases surge near reservation
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The News is seemingly purposefully ignoring Native Americans again (even when talking about Arizona!)
But there are SIX STATES where the Native voting population is higher than Trumps win margin. Considering Natives have the biggest room for voter turnout growth, maybe care?
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The median US rent is $1967. Which means the median US hourly pay which would be considered livable (1/3 of rent) should be $35.40
The current US median hourly pay is… $17.02
Society will never be “okay” until this is fixed. It’ll always feel like a bad economy because of this
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—Native characters = a Native consultant is fine
—Native community = you need Native writers
—Native Story = You need to have a Native co-writer/creator
It’s not hard. Don’t be a villain. If it feels like you could be exploitative. You probably are. Let us tell our stories.
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Natives freezing to death is common. The police even weaponized it, in Saskatoon they’d take Indigenous men to the outskirts of town, strip them naked, and leave them to die in sub zero temperatures, this was known as the “Starlight tours”
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Right now. That 270 Vote route to win. Hinges on a historically red state, Arizona, flipping.
The margin is 93K.
There are 330,000 potential Native voters in AZ. Yet the media still refuses to even say our names.
Say it with me...
NATIVES ARE IMPORTANT.
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Native Americans are DYING AT THE HIGHEST RATES from COVID.
This is systemic.
The media barely talks about it.
That is also systemic.
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This is a criticism of the media and the everyone who claims to be anti-racist but still erases Natives.
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They're arresting Lakota people protesting on Lakota land now.
In 25 minutes they're going to start removing Lakota protestors from Lakota land.
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It’s not about any product or whatever. It’s about being so disregarded by society that one actress & an obscure helicopter is more recognized in America that an it’s original people.
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I want I celebrate Native Kids. I want people to see this talent. 🔥🔥🔥
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Okay, some people are mad about this, and posting terrible things about Natives/messaging me. So I’ll say this:
I know it isn’t a google conspiracy, they prioritize what people search for. This was merely a representation of how Natives are ignored by mainstream. That’s all.
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A Judge. In 2021. Just said it was the right of the US to extinguish Indian title by treaty or SWORD.
When Natives say the system’s anti-Native. We mean it. To this day US enforces laws specifically attacking & discriminating against Natives.
And it’s allowed b/c we’re ignored.
Breaking: Judge Steven Logan has denied an Apache injunction to halt destruction of Oak Flat by mining giant Rio Tinto.
He quoted a case saying, "The exclusive right of the U.S. to extinguish Indian title has never been doubted. And whether it be done by treaty, by sword ...
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So far, instead of negotiating a fair deal, the Media Corporation Gurus have inspired:
—WGA to strike
—SAG to strike
—VFX to unionize
—TV commercial production to unionize
—South Korean Actor & Director strike talks
—Reality Show performer unionization talks
And more to come 😎
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These Indigenous were leaving a finished hunt. And they were chased down. The reasoning? To quote the Whiten Men who killed them “these sons of bitches are coming to steal or do something.”
They just left their bodies without call medics or anything. A murder in the snow.
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Look at Arizona and Wisconsin. The margin's Biden's winning by 93k and 21k are well within the potential Native voting population. The news wont say our names. The only time I saw anything trying to help Natives votes, were by other Natives. Ignore Natives at your peril.
The News is seemingly purposefully ignoring Native Americans again (even when talking about Arizona!)
But there are SIX STATES where the Native voting population is higher than Trumps win margin. Considering Natives have the biggest room for voter turnout growth, maybe care?
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This is going to sound weird. But it’s true, and Indigenous people have known this for a while.
If you’re in nature and you eat an Apple from a tree. It’s not stealing.
If you pluck every Apple from that tree and sell it. It’s theft.
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Also, if anyone who is Alaskan Indigenous wants to speak about this... we should listen to them over me.
This is why we need representation because the media/education used this as a name, so many people (including myself) grew up misinformed.
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WAIT WAIT WAIT. Corporations will put a box asking if you’ve been convicted of a felony so they can discriminate against you — and at the same time fill their customer relations jobs with people in current prison because they basically don’t have to pay them? 👀👀👀
Alabama has a prison labor system where the state makes hundred of millions leasing inmates to companies like McDonald’s, KFC, Burger King, Wendy’s, and more.
Now a federal class action lawsuit has been filed to dismantle the scheme and compensate those who have been exploited.
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30,000 children who never got to go home to their parents.
30,000 lives cut short.
And that’s Canada. This also happened in America.
How this isn’t bigger news, just shows how numb everyone is to the murder of Native children.
30,000 Native children.
BREAKING: Ian Austen now reports that up to 30,000 missing Indigenous children might be in makeshift graves at Catholic schools in Canada — not the 4,100 initially reported.
That means as many as 1 out of every 5 children forced into these genocidal "schools" never came home.
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Holy sh*t. This is how bad Native Erasure is. We’re not even included in polls about Native Racial Slurs.
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The Indigenous urge to make people feel guilty on Thanksgiving.
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If you're not sure what to call someone. Using their specific Nation/Tribe/Name is ALWAYS the best option. It'll be accurate & respectful.
But if you need broader terms:
Indigenous
Alaskan Indigenous/Native
First Nations (Canadian Indigenous)
Native American (US Indigenous)
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It���d never be considered a National emergency but Natives have the highest rates of being without electricity or running water (19 times higher!) Some Native children have tried killing themselves because they were “tired of waking up cold”
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The news covers any protest where a few dozen Trumpers gather to hate. But pretends like it doesn’t hear about Native protests cause they’re small or something.
Natives have gotten 400k signatures & giant snake puppet the size of a city block. ARE WE BEING TOO SUBTLE?
#StopLine3
Finally a video that captures how awesome yesterday’s giant black snake puppet was.
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Happy Native American Heritage Month!
We f*cking told you so.
Keystone pipeline spills over 350,000 gallons of oil in North Dakota
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If you’re shocked by the price of food today — remember that companies have just been found guilty of price gouging eggs. So b4 you believe some republican saying it’s b/c money was given to poor people, know it was planned corporate greed & they aided in it b/c it benefited them
BREAKING: America's largest egg producers and industry groups illegally rigged the market to drive up the price of eggs, a jury has found.
Their price-fixing scheme included exporting millions of eggs overseas to drive up U.S. prices around Thanksgiving and Easter.
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White people flying out to Indigenous Reserves to take vaccines from Indigenous Elders... is about expected.
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1 in 3 people on the Navajo nation rez don’t have access to clean water. 1 in 3!!
Natives have the highest rates of plumbing poverty is just one of the many inequalities that are forgotten and ignored in Native communities.
Natives are out here fighting for basic human rights.
The Supreme Court ruled the U.S. govt is not responsible for ensuring water access for Indigenous tribes in a 5-4 vote.
Nearly 1 in 3 people who live on the Navajo Nation reservation do not have access to clean water, despite living alongside the Colorado River.
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Just to clarify a few things:
1. This was not a long time ago. Boarding Schools were around in 1996
2. Canada AND The US are guilty of this. Both had hundreds of Native boarding schools through their countries
3. These are unmarked graves, there were other deaths on top of these
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Since racists are appropriating the okay hand sign to mean “white power”, I’m going to say the thumbs up means “decolonize & land back”
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710 Native women went missing in the same place… strange how none of them trended.
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Just a reminder that 90% of commercially bought white Sage is harvested illegally.
Because ya'll can't stop stealing from Natives.
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One team has fans in red face and headdresses in the crowd doing a tomahawk chop. The other is named after miners in a gold rush which lead to massacres and a 70% reduction in the Native population in those areas.
America!
Kansas City Chiefs vs San Francisco 49ers will be this year’s Super Bowl.
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The Wounded Knee Massacre happened on this day in 1890 in Pine Ridge. One of the largest massacres in US history. Over 300 died, 200 of which were women & children.
But there were survivors, Including my direct family.
Makes me think, how trauma can ripple through generations.
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Biggest premier ever on Hulu. Including all their big Tv shows. Everyone likes to throw stats at us, well the numbers say to bet on Natives.
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The Last of Us had an amazing scene with Native characters and it was all over Twitter...
And that’s the thing. There’s so little Native representation that one scene of screen is still big news. And I don’t think many people can actually wrap their heads around that.
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Kyrie Irving (who's Native) posted a picture of Sitting Bull. That's it. And the AMOUNT OF RACISM AND HATE he got for it is overwhelming.
All it takes for people to hate Natives, is a picture of us.
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The Office - Parks and Recreation - Community - 30 Rock line up was the reason I became a comedy writer.
I’ve seen every episode of each show multiple times. All your takes are wrong. They’re all classics. They all are mean. They all have heart.
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Most people don’t realize it, or even see it. But anti-Native racism is taught in America’s schools. Its why there’s an unconscious bias against us. It’s ingrained.
And this writing prompt asking to justify genocide is just the tip of the ice berg.
my friend's kid's school in Georgia sent homework with this question
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The Navajo Nation was one of the hardest hit in the US.
Even then the Trump admin still withheld Pandemic relief aid.
Despite everything, they persevered, and now they’re donating PPE to India. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I just heard that Navajo Nation, which has done a heroic job wrestling the coronavirus to the ground, is now donating extra PPE to India. The Navajo have been a model of resolve in fighting the pandemic, and are now a model in supporting others worldwide who need help.
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Links
215 bodies of Native children found under school
Forced IUDs in Native children under 10
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The Donner Party, we know the story right?
But did you know two Miwok Natives actually came to their aid, when they were stuck in the dead of winter? But the Natives refused to eat human flesh with them, so they peace out, and the White hikers chased them down and ate them.
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October 11th, 2020 we scraped the data from South Dakota's Missing Children website and found that 88% were Native. And no one is talking about it.
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*Natives.
--Where are the missile launchers they deployed at Standing Rock? Where are the water canons? Tear Gas? Rubber bullets?
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Hmm… let’s keep going on this.
President Joe Biden has proposed an annual tax credit that would give Americans $400 a month for the next two years to put towards their mortgages.
Americans may therefore get a $9,600 tax credit to buy a home.
Should this be implemented?
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Also, we were right. Trumped pushed through the pipeline and it leaked practically immediately.
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Yes. Tribal sovereignty means Native communities *could* became havens that provide abortion.
But this is how many Native communities still get their water.
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Second school found 104 bodies
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Just realized, changing things you use to be able to buy, into a subscription… is just turning everything into rent.
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A Native Slur is trending again, so I figured I'd show you some 19th century newspaper clippings reporting on the government bounties for "Red Skins"
A Sioux scalp like mine was worth about $25.
And one of these articles refers to bounties for "papooses" which means babies
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Anti-Native bias appears in rhetoric like "US awards Natives Land" because they want people to think we get free sh*t and resent us.
YOU. CAN'T. GIVE. LAND. THAT. ISN'T. YOURS.
Bank Robbers don't "award" money back to the banks.
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What these Trumpers are doing is a federal crime. Will there be consequences?
Let me remind you some Standing Rock protestors were sentenced to FIVE YEARS IN PRISON.
@NickTilsen
was arrested for a protest in the Black Hills just a few months ago.
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Also, I’m told. Aluet is not the preferred nomenclature. They prefer Unangax̂ or Unangam.
I used a list of Indigenous Peoples in Alaska that included that name. But it’s not their name, and I won’t be using it either.
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@KaitMarieox
Do you ever wonder why no right or even alt-right news organization will hire you? Like, sure you’re a knock off Tomi Lahren, but they hire tons of those. It’s sad no matter how hard you try, this is it for you.
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Natives have to put up with Native racial slurs trending, people proudly wearing slurs on their shirts, & billion dollar companies using slurs/racist caricatures as logos for over a century. But problematic white people get called “Karen” for a few months & think it’s oppression
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So, everyone is scared because they’re worried LA’s infrastructure would collapse this weekend (rightfully so)
Good time to remind everyone that LAPD’s budget is over $3 BILLION. Over 26% of the city’s budget.
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You wanna talk about Cancel Culture? Many Native activists were getting attention in the 1960s & 1970s and some representation was about to happen in the media. But America couldn’t have that and TWO U.S. PRESIDENTS started black listing Native Artists.
Native erasure was policy
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I have multiple Native group chats celebrating that someone
*checks notes*
“Mentioned Native Americans”
I’m gonna need some non-Natives to realize how low the bar they have for us here, and how sad that is.
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Natives predate America, so many don’t like the term “Native American” I use Native. But the problem is that term is used generally as well. People say “I’m Native to ___” So Indigenous— except people say “everyone’s Indigenous somewhere” this de-categorization is part of erasure
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Nine year old Vicky Stewart of the Tsimshian nation was killed at the United Church residential school in Edmonton on April 9, 1958 by school matron Ann Knizky, who hit Vicky over the head with a two by four. The RCMP refused to press charges,
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Was just told the Pine Ridge Reservation was 90% Biden. Oglala Lakota County as a whole is 88%
... not blaming that 2% difference on the 5% white people in Oglala Lakota country. But I am.
Either way, WAY TO GO OGLALA LAKOTA COUNTY!
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Hey, if you're mad the Supreme Court ruled against helping Natives get access to clean water, you can donate to the Navajo Water Project.
1 in 3 people on the Navajo Nation don't have access to clean water. This organization helps bring water to them.
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Police once arrested 76 people in 30 minutes at Standing Rock.
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751 Native children were stolen, murdered, and put in unmarked graves.
This eclipses the largest mass murders in both US & Canada. And there there hundreds more of these schools. Each one a massacre of Native children.
We need to make noise about this.
#FindOurChildren
Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan says it has discovered 751 unmarked graves at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School in a press conference Thursday.
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People who are complaining about staying home, clearly haven’t been staying at home. Because by now they should’ve been inside so much they’ve developed an anxiety about going out.
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Also Natives are constantly harassed by racists calling us savages and cannibals… just know that sh*t is them PROJECTING.
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I need you to know... I absolutely stunt with my beadwork.
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White Sage has historically only grown in North America. And now it’s being poached. If you trust Indigenous wisdom that it clears negative spirits— trust when we say it can’t be bought and has to be harvested correctly.
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Native stories are going to be wildly popular. It’s coming.
But after centuries of erasure & oppression, we need to do these stories right. Because they can do real harm if not
So the most ethical thing you can do. Is directly support a Native artist. Let them tell their story.
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Okay, so we have a report of racism over the lesson. Well, yeah sometimes history can— oh, she was teaching math? 🥴
Copied:
Yesterday a Native American student filmed this video in his Math class. After several minutes of the teacher “war hooping & tomahawk chopping” the student began filming because he, “felt that violence was being committed against him and he had the right to record.”
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This may be the Native in me jumping out. But I'll never understand how some people can consider buildings made by man sacred, but mountains, oceans, and land -Things actually made by the Creator/God- as not sacred.
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Wow, since this blew up
Please check out The Native Pride Project
@NativePrideProj
Native Youth have the highest suicide rate of any ethnicity. We provide Emotional Care Packages for Native Kids to instill pride, Native representation & self-esteem.
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Happy Indigenous People’s Day!
Celebrate Natives today!
Call out anti-Native behavior!
Celebrate Natives tomorrow too!
#IndigenousPeoplesDay
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People just now realizing Canada has a racism problem... clearly have never talked to an Indigenous person.
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Speaking of GOATS. Native Olympia. Jim Thorpe had his shoes stolen during the Olympics, and they wouldn’t give him shoes. So he got two mismatched shoes from the trash and set an Olympic record that wouldn’t be beat for 40 years... in mismatched garbage shoes that didn’t fit him
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And then the surviving members of the Donner Party… were rescued by more Miwok Natives.
Which perfectly encapsulates the US/Native experience.
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Geez, the moment he says Indigenous people the crowd boos. Thats the hate we’re dealing with.
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@RAConrad
It's really not difficult. Respecting a group's ability to deem what's hurtful to them is the most minimum of anti-dickery.
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Once again, ignore Native issues at your peril.
The news out of Portland is really terrifying. I keep thinking about Standing Rock and how they practiced all of this on the protectors in 2016 (and internal documents showed they were using it as “training” for future uprisings).
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Racists are burning down Indigenous businesses. It’s 2020, and people still don’t do anything to stop anti-Indigenous racism.
White settlers are now burning the entire Mi'qmaw lobster processing plant for the Sipekne’katik First Nations fishery! Holy fuck.
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The bodies of 200 Native children were found under a Nevada boarding school. Those are just the unmarked graves. Many more died. They were burned, sent home, or buried elsewhere. There are 350+ of these schools. That’s potentially 70,000 unmarked graves.
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Okay. Natives jumped in population to 10 Million and everyone is wondering how.
I’m sure there may be many reasons, but the biggest one staring you in face. WE’VE BEEN TELLING YOU FOR YEARS NATIVES ARE UNDERCOUNTED.
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Hollywood is not “out of ideas”. There are amazing ideas from diverse storytellers being pitched every day. The phrase I think you’re looking for is “Hollywood doesn’t buy great ideas.”
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