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Nov 24, 2019 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
Indian massacres and Indian hunting have returned to Bolivia, with help from the US. In the last month from "concerned" environmentalists, the media, and even some "leftists", we've heard: Evo burned down the rainforest. Evo is an extractivist. Evo is a machista. 1/
Evo sold out the social movements. Evo is not a "real" revolutionary. Evo is drunk on power. Evo should have stepped down. Evo had a mansion. Evo didn't listen to us. Evo is a narco-trafficker. Evo is a terrorist. Evo is a criminal. Evo manipulated the Supreme Court. 2/
Evo is a dictator. Evo is authoritarian. They froth at the mouth when Indigenous people get power. And they won't be satisfied until Evo is dead. Let this be a lesson to us. 3/ theguardian.com/world/2019/nov…

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We’re at the Burdick federal courthouse in Fargo, ND for #RiseUpforPeltier. @Ruth4Nd @TraceyLWilkie2
Chairman of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Delbert Hopkins Jr. and Chairman of the Spirit Lake Nation Douglass Yankton Sr. Gave powerful testimony about the support Leonard Peltier has from Tribal Nations. @Ruth4Nd organized the rally today for #RiseUpforPeltier
@Ruth4Nd spoke about how incarcerated Natives, especially our elders, have not been received Covid release at the same rates as others. Peltier’s continued imprisonment continues this discriminatory and dangerous trend.
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Dec 24, 2021
Here’s what I read in 2021—partial list.
We lost @MaracleLee this year. She had a complex legacy, didn’t alway get things right, but left us with a revolutionary legacy as an Indigenous feminist and communist. Her book Memory Serves: Oratories is a collection of her speeches.
@KeeangaYamahtta’s updated edition of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation makes what was already a great book better. She is one of the leading left thinkers of our time. ❤️
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Nov 25, 2021
Thanksgiving epitomizes a make-believe nation’s fake history of cordial Native-colonizer relations as its founding. We are thus compelled every year to counter a Disneyland story erasing European invasion, land theft, and Indigenous genocide. #NationalDayOfMourning
The cynicism of the so-called “culture wars” over national holidays and fake histories is that they gloss over how billions of acres of territory was annexed to make the USA. That’s imperialism. European invasion introduced a class system, sexism, racism, and bigotry.
Whether you feel good or bad is not the point. Feelings aren’t facts. To know the history of the USA is to realize that immense suffering and loss weren’t inevitable and that things need not always be this way. No culture founded on invasion is legitimate.
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Mar 25, 2021
I’ve only seen Dances with Wolves once. That ends tonight. Podcast homework.
Every Native actor from the 90s is in this film.
Kevin Costner claimed to be “Cherokee.” Art imitates life. A Pretendian plays a Pretendian in this epic Lawrence Arabia of the Plains.
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Mar 5, 2021
In an act of solidarity, the Bolivarian revolution filled up my family’s heating tank on the reservation in the middle of winter. It wasn’t that act alone that convinced me of Hugo Chavez. But it showed he’s for the revolution that keeps us warm and feeds the children.
Venezuela offers heating aid to tribes (2007)

rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/ven…
SD Tribal Officials Saddened By Chavez Death (2013) listen.sdpb.org/post/sd-tribal…
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Feb 22, 2021
Zitkala-Sa is one of the most misunderstood Oceti Sakowin activists. She believed in Native independence and national American Indian unity; she opposed the capitalist plunder of Native lands; and she wanted to abolish the BIA. She also was for US citizenship and against peyote.
Too often is Zitkala-Sa cast as just literary figure. She pushed the Society of American Indians to seek international recognition at the League of Nations and saw American Indians in the company of other colonized people around the world. Her vision exceeded the US.
Zitkala-Sa mistakenly believed American Indian service in WWI as non-citizens would give them leverage to force the US to uphold treaty rights. American Indians weren't citizens, so they had little legal recourse to push the treaty issue in US courts.
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