On July 4, 2018, a police officer listed me as ‘white’ for the first time in a report documenting an instance of Domestic Violence I endured.
I was repeatedly kicked while carrying my newborn, one of many instances of physical violence I’ve endured.
@ArnallLabrador
Native American tribes engaged in endemic warfare and torture of captives for sport but you want to pretend you have some moral high ground because of how an anthropologist handles a skull?!
Remove a Tribe’s Reservation Status and no one bats an eye.
Remove Native Butter-Lady from packaging amidst a biblical-ass plague and Settler-Colonists lose their goddamn minds.
…and take that weaponized Pan-Indian shit with you.
Stare back into that hole in the ceiling that your eyes have burned and bored into over the years, let your soul escape through it, then turn sharply south until it starts getting HOT.
Missing/Stolen Items and Redditor Theft:
If you or someone you know lost these, a Redditor was trying to get pricing for them.
(Supposedly “found” near Lake Powell, UT.)
The post was removed, the user banned.
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I concede this does not belong to Sam Alito: Owner of the racist question in the OP.
I do not apologize for harsh words for the man who tarnishes Justice Thurgood Marshall’s seat.
Killers of the Flower Moon illustrates the foundational, fundamental and unrelenting white disregard and hunger for the basic and self-evident humanity and property of Black and Indigenous peoples.
Spoiler-free and artlessly, that’s the movie in one sentence.
The Holiday Season is a perfect time to remind people that:
• ICWA protects Native Children,
• ICWA protects Native Families, and
• ICWA protects Indian Country.
#ProtectICWA
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The mainstream must understand our children, families, and communities are fundamental.
The Anti-Mexican animus in the Sacheen “discourse” is profound.
The way some of these folks use “Mexican” as an invalidating slur and dog whistle is something Indian Country really needs to deal with.
Its nationalism gets wrapped-up in race, ethnicity, and mainstream politics.
Twitter laid me off today. If you know of any open positions for developers, let me know. I was the project lead who created the reporting feature that automatically found no violations of our rules when Indigenous Peoples reported being doxxed and/or harassed.
I was interviewed by the New York Times for their Sacheen Littlefeather story.
Asked about actual core priorities for Indian Country, I answered:
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> “iNdIaNs DiDn’T uSe ThE lAnD tO iTs FuLl PoTeNtIaL”
>
> Generations later, the land still has limited colonizer infrastructure, development.
Their justifications have always been bullshit.
Being NDN actually makes it worse, because they should know better.
Not the worst iteration of Pan-Indianism, but it’s up there.
(Bonus points for the questionable Tribal Council flex.)
Jacqueline Keeler is a fucking ghoul and she couldn’t even wait until Sacheen Littlefeather was cold before taking a swipe at her.
Here’s
@Jfkeeler
, smearing a dearly departed elder the morning after news of her passing:
Daily Reminder to center Osage voices in Indigenous discourse about Killers of the Flower Moon.
Because it’s worse when NDNs write the actual people out of their own story, even by way of critique.
The disclaimer is absolutely necessary.
[Not of Freedmen or 5 Tribes.]
As a viewer who enjoys and wants more NDN Media, a critical thinker, and a Black Native what strikes me is this:
Rez Dogs is celebrated for and marketed on its Authenticity and Indigenous inclusion, but this omission is glaring and undermines both
To think in 3 seasons, Reservation Dogs can showcase aliens for multiple episodes but can’t showcase Afro-Natives/Freedmen in a town which has a majority Freedmen population. 🤔🤔🤔
Tonight’s Super Bowl is a battle between subltle racism and overt racism.
For the 49ers you need to know the history of California Genocides.
For the KC Chiefs, you just need functional eyes and ears.
Jarring to find “Guns, Germs, and Steel” reductionism in an otherwise brilliant feminist comedy.
The comparison hit harder because we were otherwise having a good time, so our guard was down.
Felt like shit.
Include Native Creatives next time,
#Barbie
#BarbieMovie
@warnerbros
.
#Barbie
with all its cleverness, great set designs, stellar acting, reflections on human existence and yet the script writers decided it was okay to RIDICULE indigenous people.
Why? Why take pot shots at Indigenous people, laughing about literal genocide in the film. Fuck. No.
Irish eyes smiling, he left confessional with Father O’Leary, the sun shining on his back back, dinner at Ma’s ahead.
He could almost taste the corned beef, potatoes, and soda bread she had waiting for him.
Straightening the buckle on his green hat, he walked on, whistling.
David Cornsilk is an Anti-Black and Anti-Sovereignty Extremist operating in Indian Country, as well as an *Amateur* Genealogist.
Remind us again how that Cherokee Nation employment ended.
Being older doesn’t make an Elder.
No. David is a Cherokee elder & expert genealogist. He worked for the tribe for a very long time. He’s not on
@X
, which you know,
@FrancesMFDanger
.
- Nex was not enrolled Cherokee.
- Nex was not enrolled Choctaw.
- And the Choctaw Nation did not recognize Nex as Choctaw.
“This is for every little rez kid, every little urban kid, every little Native kid out there who has a dream, who is seeing themselves represented and our stories told, by ourselves, in our own words.” – Lily Gladstsone at the
#GoldenGlobes
📸: Getty Images
#NativeTwitter
needs to be explicitly told:
This GIF is disrespectful to Matoaka and Powhatan’s People.
It’s a specific kind of “FUCK YOU” as directed at us.
There is no decolonizing it.
This is not up for debate.
Don’t preach at us about respect and unity if you use it.
Killers of the Flower Moon introduced mainstream audiences to modern systemic murder and (ongoing) theft against the Osage, Osage Women.
#MMIW
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Now “Pretendian Panic” changes the subject and ignores modern theft of Native Children.
“Can you find the wolves in this picture?”
Keęler’s statements are false as a matter of policy and simply dumb, xenophobic hate.
“Native American” is race, interchangeable with “American Indian,” defined to include Indigenous Peoples from North, Central, and South America.
“Indian” is status defined by Federal statutes.
A RACIAL SLUR against Nex.
Yet another example how Prętendian Scouts have deputized and emboldened the white right wing to police Indian Country.
Their pandering to conservative audiences in the New York Post bears this rotten fruit.
Policing Indigeneity and Deputizing White People to do the same is literally NOT YOUR JOB.
You don’t work under the legitimate authority of the Native Nations you’re policing.
You’re not even BIA.
LITERALLY NONE OF THIS IS “YOUR JOB.”
I have ZERO confidence that a leftist revolution will leave the Treaties and Governance of Indian Country intact or honored for the better.
Why?
The American Revolutionaries didn’t keep Powhatan Treaties with the British.
We started at ZERO with the Feds.
They. Knew.
So,
#NativeTwitter
.
Can we agree that
#MMIW
means:
“Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women”
And NOT
“Missing and Murdered Fullblood Enrolled and Federally Acknowledged Tribal Women?”
@Lakotaman1
Anti-Blackness Update:
No longer content to speaking over and for Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, he dismisses African Voices when it comes to Colonization, Imperialism, Displacement, and—easily—Transatlantic Slavery because that’s a FULL PACKAGE DEAL.
People were asking for an Anti-Black tweet from Lakotaman that hasn’t been deleted, so he obliged by denying Anti-Blackness exists.
**And by invalidating the Indigeneity of his critics.**
Maybe he won’t delete this one.
So Twitter has an inborn bias—within its code—against the marginalized, Indigenous Languages, and building the lexicon.
#NativeTwitter
, here’s proof that Twitter is fundamentally opposed to Indigeneity.
9. Making up words or misspelling hurts
Words that are identified as “unknown language” are given 0.01, which is a huge penalty.
Anything under 1 is bad.
This is really bad.
I’ve been to A LOT of powwows, had all kinds of roles in them.
Never have I attended one in which they feed the whole public.
Walked away with an overflowing bag of half-subs.
No questions asked, save whether we wanted a WHOLE BOX of them.
(Their Land Acknowledgement SUCKED.)
What are we really doing in Indian Country?
Are our dead sacred or not?
Have this poisoned Identity Discourse and Prętendian Hunting so degraded our cultural and social norms to the point that a dead child on Native Land is reflexively dismissed as not being enrolled?
Safety Warning Regarding a sexual predator who is following alot of people we are mutuals with:
Several of his accounts are trying to sneak through the back door after having the front door slammed in his face. All the accounts shown are the individual in the Top Left Photo.
Slathering a generous dollop of mayonnaise upon bread hewn from bleached flour, in the way of her mother and her mother’s mother and all the women before her, she turned her attention to the potato salad and the raisins she would soon add to it.
“Oh. My. God. Becky” she began—
I know this is a painful & difficult for so many people in the Indigenous community- especially those for whom Buffy is a family member, friend or role model - but if you’ve engaged with this story at all this week, I encourage you to read the full article.
Killers of the Flower Moon illustrates the many mundane and terrible ways how proximity to whiteness can be and has been corrosive and fatal.
That its injustices endure.
That Indigeneity endures despite its best efforts and worst intentions.
Part of how ICWA gets undermined is by NON-TRIBAL voices picking through family trees of Tribal Enrollment Eligible Children, then saying things like:
“Look, just ONE Native Ancestor!”
It should sound familiar, because it was weaponized during Baby Veronica.
Indian Country is exceedingly civil and compliant, even when it comes to the THEFT AND SALE OF OUR CHILDREN. We purge ourselves, regularly, so what’s one more cut?
That’s why this meme is pure fiction:
An easily predicable scenario, climaxing in Christian White Nationalist Terrorism:
“The Injuns are are killing White Babies!”
SECURITY will be an issue.
ICWA is in the best interests of the child.
It endeavors to give Native Children welcome placement in a family, community, nation, and culture, all theirs.
It gives them a HOME, not a buyer whose selfishness contributes to their genocide.
I understand Imposter Syndrome, so I ask—and I know this is a big ask—can’t we just LOVE ourselves?
Even each other?
The pain of this insecurity hits me harder than the embarrassment of it.
See, this is the problem with LakotaMan.
You’re just minding your goddamn business OFFLINE, then he *manifests* into a whole-ass franchise at a mall near YOU.
It’s telling how settler-colonizer observers are exploiting Israel-Palestine to rhetorically attack First Peoples who aren’t:
• Taking settler homes,
• Occupying settler homelands, nor
• Retaliating against historical and modern settler aggressions.
Hit dogs holler.
I simply find offensive the IDEA of shooting a modern film in a Black or Freedmen town, while telling the locals their Black asses can’t be in any of the shots.
REALLY hope this isn’t a projection of lived experience.
For Nex Benedict, /r/IndianCountry on Reddit is promoting and soliciting for events, vigils, and action.
I’ll do my best to repost what is added to this thread.
The thread will remain pinned to the top of our community of 63.9k users for the near future.
#MMIP
#NativeTwitter
A Black History Month Wishlist for Indian Country:
• Amplify and Follow Freedmen Voices
• Amplify and Follow Black Indian Voices
• Dedicate Introspection and Political Capital to Eradicating Anti-Black Policies and Practices in Your Nation and Others
ICWA Oral Arguments are this week and Jacqueline Keeler had the white gaze of the mainstream media for two weeks before that.
This was a lost opportunity to center protecting the Indian Child Welfare Act.
DISTRACTING FROM ICWA IS A MEANINGFULLY HARMFUL CHOICE.
All of our babies used cradleboards, even out and about.
Never been hassled about it, not even by security at the Capitol.
This is just discrimination.
On last week’s Canadaland ‘Pretendians’ podcast I came forward about the harassment of my family by Pretendian Hunters rebranding Jim Crow for the Digital Age.
I’ve since received heartbreaking testimony from Native Woman SA Survivors they’ve targeted.
Shared with permission:
If you’re not blocked, take a moment to report the harassment happening here.
Jacqueline Keeler is a goddamn ghoul with no respect for the dead.
There’s nothing Tradish or Authentic about THAT.
Indigenously, Twitter provides a grifter marketplace selling authenticity, authority, and identity.
For example:
•
@LakotaMan1
offers white people a superficial feeling of NDN belonging and knowledge
•
@Jfkeeler
offers white people police power over NDNs, scapegoats to NDNs