Emily Riddle
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anti-capitalist older sister, descendant of treaty 6, trying to write another book.
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not to be ~over dramatic~ but almost an entire generation of my family died before the age of 40 due to the repercussions of having their children and land stolen from them, so you telling me your family is INCONVENIENCED due to 3 weeks of rail blockades makes me pretty steamed.
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hey canada, there are indigenous people still being coerced into sterilization here. many northern and rural people without access to abortions. trans people who are forced into infertility in order to transition. don’t be so proud today. it’s not a cute look.
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as more graves at residential schools are confirmed, it’s important not to shy away from using the term genocide in professional and personal contexts. if talking about genocide makes you uncomfortable, it should. the fact that you have normalized it should disturb you more.
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when someone dies, ndns take time off, stop and cancel everything, close offices. even with such mass death in north america settlers have kept everything open and operating, not taken a moment to grieve. just an example of very different worldviews at play.
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it’s disingenuous if you wear an orange shirt on wednesday but don’t speak out about the fact that there are more indigenous children in care now than were ever in residential schools. this stuff isn’t in the past. you don’t get to wear your orange shirt one day and feel better.
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as part of reparations for residential schools, every survivor or descendant of a survivor should be able to access a generous stipend provided by the federal government to relearn or learn their language full-time for at least one year.
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the pope keeps talking about the importance of intergenerational familial bonds but without the acknowledgement that their schools catastrophically disrupted our kinship by removing our babies. we used to live with 5 generations of our families, now many without even parents.
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i thought i was so ugly as a teenager but in reality i was just always the only native girl in my classes and that shit affects what you deem beautiful. looking back at old photos of teen me and she is so lovely.
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how far removed from reality or working class life are people to assert that people are living the high life on $2000 a month or won’t want to go back to work? $2000 doesn’t even cover rent and utilities for a one-bedroom in cities like vancouver and toronto.
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just an fyi that Turtle Island is not a universal Indigenous term! within my teachings, this is not a term nehiyawak used so i find it a little odd and pan-Indigenizing when settlers use it here.
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going to get someone to translate “tomatoes are a native american food” into italian and put it on a t-shirt before i go live in italy for two months next year.
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many public places are increasing the frequency of cleaning. these folks are cleaning so that we may be safe but aren't nearly as celebrated as other service providers keeping us safe and are often making minimum wage. please be kind to custodial staff and advocate for them!
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if a man murdered my mom and then had his poetry honoured by a guest lecturer talking about mmiw in the city she was murdered in, on a university built on my land, i’d lose my mind. pamela george’s children are around my age and i keep thinking about how they must feel.
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claiming Indigenous people aren’t innovative or that we stand in the way of ‘progress’ is always racist.
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Kapawe'no First Nation says they paid for the ground penetrating radar search themselves, that the province was very disrepectful in their dealings with their tribal council and called this effort to uncover truth a "project".
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cutting greyhound services in western canada will result in the deaths of more indigenous women who have no other means of transportation. this is something the folks at the national inquiry should be making a statement on.
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seeing people fly canadian flags at pro-palestine rallies is such a weird feeling. i’m so happy palestine is getting attention this week but people need to realize canada is a settler colonial country illegally and violently occupying land too. all settler states need to go.
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public transit should be free. gender affirming surgeries should be free. university should be free. menstrual products should be free.
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we’re all mentally irreparably damaged from the pandemic, right?
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european world juniors hockey players being horrified by the lack of covid protocols in alberta, bro same.
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white women who married first nations men before 1985 became status indians and band members. first nations women who married out were asked to leave and lost direct access to inherent and treaty rights. nehiyawak are matrilineal people and we have a lot of healing work to do.
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every indigenous person who does any public speaking is always asked by settlers “what should i do?” and this is a frustrating question to be asked tbh because if i don’t know you, i can’t tell you that. evaluate your own knowledge, resources, talents. give us your cottage.
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there is an increasing eagerness for settlers to learn about indigenous cultures and attend ceremonies. this cannot come at the expense of indigenous youth’s access to these spaces. they need to be included and prioritized.
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i don’t know how i feel about the pope receiving a headdress, but you have to know that gifting/protocol for nehiyawak isn’t only about the recipient, it’s about the person giving the gift wanting to open the mind of the person receiving it. it places two people in relationship.
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i love listening to canada reads but too often books by indigenous authors are expected to be the answer to all colonial problems. let ndns just write beautiful books. our books don’t have to save canada or do reconciliation.
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just saw on her sister’s facebook that Dawn Walker and her son Vincent were located and are safe. 😭💕
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jason kenney showing more emotion about a pipeline cancelled than when he offers condolences to the thousands of people in this province who have died of covid-19.
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in a bar not far from my house mike nickel and kerry diotte are together, unemployed. love that for all of us.
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just saw two dudes in oilers jerseys making out. truly a blessed evening in edmonton.
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canada isn’t a nation. it doesn’t have its own language, laws, culture, land. canada is a colony with no claim to territory, treaties or not. i opened this app to see “as a canadian” trending and wanted to throw my new phone at a wall.
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respect for Indigenous people who don’t vote in provincial elections because they believe doing so violates Treaty.
respect for Indigenous people voting in ontario’s election today as an act of harm reduction.
zero respect for doug ford.
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police were established in edmonton because white people wanted to increasingly live outside the fort and were afraid of a collective prairie ndn uprising/ indigenous legal systems continuing. learn the history of law enforcement where you live and everything becomes quite clear.
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the audacity of people from grace life church vandalizing chief billy morin’s vehicle and invading enoch cree nation. our ceremonies were outlawed for decades! you can do zoom church for one year, you absolute hicks.
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edmonton police service posting a tribute to george floyd as if every black person and ndn person in edmonton hasn’t experienced or witnessed police violence. canadian exceptionalism is truly a wild ride!
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i can’t believe we’re talking about how dangerous downtown is rather than how many PEOPLE NEED HELP AND SERVICES.
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i’m sure this comparison has been made but the idea that people will search the bottom of the ocean for a bunch of billionaires on a expedition to a graveyard but can’t search a winnipeg landfill for the remains of murdered native women is expected but still so fucked.
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colten boushie was murdered three years ago today. the man who killed him still walks free. it’s still our responsibility to work towards an expansive, fierce, loving justice in our territories, everyday.
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if you’re dating a man i probably think you should break up with him.
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at this point, in canada if you have not taken some of your own independent time to learn about residential schools with the abundance of resources, you fail. i don’t care if you didn’t learn it in school.
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it’s truly awful when anyone goes missing, but the attention and care towards a white family who is missing a loved one versus a native family is so incredibly stark and upsetting.
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i just led a smudge for a bunch of Indigenous 4-6 year olds at the library. they each said hiy hiy when they were done and i literally died of cuteness everytime.
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please stop using pioneer as a positive verb, especially in indigenous policy contexts jfc
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kamloops residential school closed in 1978. there are people alive who worked there or whose family worked there. what kind of culture can be so cruel to children. european settlers really need to radically rethink how they relate to children still.
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meeting someone who strongly identifies as Indigenous as part of their brand and then meeting their biological parents neither of which identify as Indigenous is a wild ride. i keep thinking about how i have been in this situation a handful of times.
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i feel safer downtown surrounded by housing insecure native folks than on whyte avenue surrounded by drunk white frat boys.
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a nine year old muslim boy is in the hospital recovering in london, ontario because a white man murderously drove a vehicle into his whole family. he’s the only one who survived. what is it of canada that you celebrate?
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ottawa itself is an occupation. the convoy is an occupation of an occupation.
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you ever think about how settlers genetically modified crops indigenous to this continent (like tomatoes) to grow bigger but now they have little to no taste and how insulting that is lol
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academia is counter to indigenous logics for many reasons. i keep thinking about how unreasonable it’s to ask people to move to places where they don’t know anyone for an academic job. our ancestors relied on each other so much. they wouldn’t comprehend that voluntary isolation.
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the french president just announced that they will launch an international fundraising campaign to rebuild notre dame. thinking maybe the vatican could put up some of its billions or france could pay for it with the wealth it pillaged from many continents?
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💚🌱the nehiyaw term for love (sakihitowin) is directly related to our term for a plant sprouting out of the ground (sakikin). for us, loving someone means supporting their growth, giving them space to sprout.🌱 💚
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the way we’re expected to optimally perform while living through genocide is unreasonable, to say the least.
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everyone who hasn’t gotten covid yet is swinging between being resolutely stubborn about not getting it and being resigned to eventual infection, right?
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first nations students still really paying tuition still when 1) we were guaranteed free education in treaty 2) these universities have the literal bones of our ancestors in closets and drawers.
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did you know woodpeckers wrap their tongues around their brains so they can peck without getting concussions?
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today is the first day without greyhound service in western canada and i wrote a piece about what this means for FIrst Nations medical travel and no i am never going to stop talking about this issue.
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east van is full of queer communal houses of white people with intergenerational wealth trying to seem working class for artistic or organizing cred. people with lawyer dads reusing rags as toilet paper. i kid you not.
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if you haven’t planned anything for friday as an org, don’t scramble now. make a donation to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society, have a discussion about colonialism in your next staff meeting. make this work year round, and not just a social media post.
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obsessed with avril lavinge encountering a white girl with her boobs out and land back written on her on the juno’s stage tonight and then dancing to nickelback (her ex husband’s band) afterwards. the earth is healing. i love edmonton lmao
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if this is your first year not celebrating canada day: welcome, we still have fun on our stat holiday, just sans the genocide denial. 😘😘😘
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i really hate the glorification of "side hustles". it's not fair that people need multiple forms of income in order to have secure housing. it's not a boss move if it's just surviving.
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i wrote about greyhound cutting their services in western Canada and how we deserve safe transportation in our homelands. thanks to
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frankly, if you’re not Indigenous, you should get your opinion about the pope’s apology off my timeline.
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imagine if settlers were as sanctimonious about learning their treaty obligations as they are about voting.
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i'm having a lot of complicated feelings about the simplification of the relationship between ndns and ukrainian settlers on the prairies and i really don't care to elaborate, but we are flattening a story of imperialism here in just speaking about kokum scarfs.
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the first rule about inter-generational trauma club is we talk about inter-generational trauma club.
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no more settler scholars in indigenous studies. the world has progressed past the need for settler scholars in indigenous studies.
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seems so awkward for the media to say “Indigenous groups” challenged the trans canada pipeline expansion. we’re talking about thousands year old nations with title, not after school clubs.
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if you live and/or work in downtown edmonton, more than ever you should be carrying narcan and know how to use it. wearing your orange shirt last week was great but many people overdosing these past few weeks are IRS survivors and intergenerational survivors. we need to show up.
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white people will really choose to burn everything down rather than have a difficult conversation and that’s why this whole continent is the way it is.
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normalize asking white people “no, where are you really from?”
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i just had a conversation and rejected a guy on a dating app all in nehiyawewin. that is truly what the ancestors wanted for me.
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i find it incredibly confusing and white-nuclear-family-centric when
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if i was a settler what’s happening in mi'kmaw'ki would motivate me to learn about my own treaty rights. if you live in an area with a treaty, your right to live in that place is contingent on upholding that agreement. otherwise, you have ancestral lands that likely miss you.
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as someone who was on the indigenous ward naming committee, i feel very blessed to see these names we sought in ceremony so visible and in the mouths of people the last few months. there is a lot of work to do in this city and i hope the names remain a call to do that work.
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honestly kind of impressive that tomorrow alberta could have an even worse premier than jason kenney lmao
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residential schools, the 60’s and millennial scoop are all directed linked to climate change. when you remove babies from the land, they don’t learn about how to care and advocate for it. extractive industries rely on the disruption of intergenerational knowledge transmission.
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these gay penguins have been trying to hatch fish and stones in their effort to be parents. 🐧 🐧 🐣 😭
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i’m kind of sad we have to cancel caren because she carries a truly impressive selection of sprinkles and cake pans, but that doesn’t make up for this EXTREMELY BAD TAKE.
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i don't understand the canadian flag to be anything other than a symbol of white supremacy. before you battle me on this, do some reading about who this country was built for. we can live differently together in this place, without canada.
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hobby: telling italian people tomatos are indigenous to what is now called south america and watching their face crumble.
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my mom sent my uncle a bunch of resources on how the convoy was white supremacist and he deleted all his supportive facebook posts and it appears he changed his mind. love when native men can admit they're wrong.🥲
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hinshaw telling people they don’t need N95’s and shouldn’t get PCR tested if they have symptoms. this province is a circus.
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still thinking about how the Edmonton Police Service is getting a $1 million budget increase next year to pay for the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. besties, i would like to remove myself from this timeline.
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this is a reflection on the owner of gourmet warehouse giving this interview. WE’VE BEEN MAKING NOISE ON THE SIDES FOR A LONG TIME, CAREN. WHAT GOOD HAS THAT DONE.
"Just stop with these protests. Make noise on the sides. Don't inconvenience families."
Caren McSherry is the founder of the Gourmet Warehouse, located close to the corner of Hastings and Clark. She tells
@steeletalk
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people think introvert means can’t talk to people or do public speaking. what it actually means is i had to do ‘team building exercises all afternoon’ and now i need majorly hermit to recharge.
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the ‘born this way’ stuff bothers me because 1) you should accept queer and trans people regardless 2) your gender and sexuality can change and that’s okay 3) it means we’re stuck with all the cis-hets who currently exist and cannot convert them
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our new treaty partner said he wanted to live inside camilla’s pants as a tampon.
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if shandro and the rest of the UCP actually cared about safety in downtown yeg, they would be funding harm reduction and housing. this has nothing to do with safety, it's about
#yegcc
espousing values that aren't in alignment with the UCP. a power trip that will cost lives.
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edmonton has a new footbridge named kâhasinîskâk and people are already saying they wish it had an english name they could say. nehiyawewin is a consistent language, unlike english. once you know the sounds you can pronounce every word. plus, this one is quite short!
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a drunk white man on the bus just told me i should free myself from screens and throw out my cell phone. i told him my phone is a means of avoiding dialogue with random men on the bus. freedom from white men telling me what to do: an unlikely utopia.
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rossdale isn’t just a burial site, though that should be enough for you to oppose
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#yegcc
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