More from @LakotaMan1

Lakota Man

@LakotaMan1

17 Jul

They were abducted from their families. Had their hair cut off. Were forbidden to speak their language, and then were expected to smile for a photo op? Boarding school Indigenous angels had absolutely nothing to smile about—my heart is heavy today.

I desperately search for a myriad of different ways to assuage my grief. It’s an impossible endeavor. As my tears for these poor children continue to flow, unabatedly so. If there is a god out there, among the stars—today would be a good day to make his presence known…

When my takoja (granddaughter) cries out in the middle of the night, I run to her, and hold her gently and tightly against my chest, until our hearts beat in tranquil synchronicity. I think of all those children crying in the darkness of a thousand lonely boarding school nights…

Read 4 tweets

Lakota Man

@LakotaMan1

15 Jul

Let’s get one thing straight—Natives were never conquered. Our land was stolen through 500 years of cheating, swindling, lying and bamboozling by greedy, predatory, unscrupulous non-Native colonizers—this is an historical fact.

I was taught settler propaganda in school. I was indoctrinated to believe the Columbus “discovery” fallacy. Then one day I went to my local library—and saw the light.

The U.S. illegally rescinded every single treaty it signed with its Indigenous populations. Every. Single. One.

Settlers descended upon the land of my grandfathers like malevolent white locusts. A plague of disease infested vermin. 50-100 million Indigenous people succumbed to the smallpox they brought with them. They were not “conquerers”—they were carriers of deadly pathogens. Like rats.

Read 4 tweets

Lakota Man

@LakotaMan1

6 Jul

The dumbest thing anyone’s ever said to me was, “go back to your country.”’

So I pitched my tipi up in his backyard and was like,—“I’m home bitch, what’s for dinner?”

These fucking colonists brought their laws and their religion, but did they bring any land? I didn’t think so.

This makes them tenants—and rent’s way past due.

Read 4 tweets

Lakota Man

@LakotaMan1

25 Jun

June 25th 1876, two Indigenous warrior women, Buffalo Calf Road Woman (Cheyenne) and Pretty Nose (Arapaho) participated in the Battle of Little Bighorn. Buffalo Calf Road Woman (left) killed George Custer, clubbing him on the head, while on horseback—ending his reign of terror.

George Armstrong Custer’s Crow and Arikara scouts repeatedly warned him not to take the 7th Cavalry down into the Little Bighorn Valley. When Custer arrogantly refused to do so, they began to sing their death songs. Custer’s entire command was wiped out that day. June 25th, 1876.

When Mark Soldier Wolf returned from the Korean War in 1952, his 101 year old grandmother, Pretty Nose, hero of Little Bighorn was waiting. She was adorned in buckskin and her cuffs signified her rank as a war chief. As he approached her, he could hear her singing her war song.

Read 4 tweets

Lakota Man

@LakotaMan1

27 May

Ancient Indigenous cultures throughout North America have the same stone etchings of giant winged beings—reportedly visiting them—long ago. Then abruptly leaving, without a trace.

Hopi Holy Ghost pictographs, some dating back 10,000 years, depict the same giant anthropomorphic entities found in a myriad of Neolithic civilizations across the globe. I believe their origins hold extraterrestrial significance.