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Feb 7, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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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.
About fifty supporters gathered in freezing Fargo weather for #RiseUpforPeltier. This is the city where Peltier was convicted after the venue was moved when his co-defendants were found not guilty by reason of self-defense for the same charges.
AIM song for #RiseUpforPeltier.

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Aug 5, 2023
Oppenheimer was a bad film, embellished propaganda and boring. The only truth is the villain Strauss calling Oppenheimer what he is: a narcissist who wanted the fame of creating genocidal weapons but tried morally absolve himself of the monstrosity he created.
It’s a typical US exceptional narrative: good intentions (of building weapons of mass destruction) gone wrong.
I didn’t read a biography of Oppenheimer, but the film portrayed him initially as a Forest Gump character who stumbles upon quantum physics, left politics, languages, and women. Later, he is a full blown misogynist and megalomaniac who starts snitching on left wing colleagues.
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Jun 28, 2022
Federal courts think white high school football coaches have more rights to prayer than Apache people do to their place of prayer. Or it could be that profit has more sanctity than Indigenous people. nativenewsonline.net/environment/u-…
For reference: usnews.com/news/national-…
For Apaches, the court opined: “we acknowledge that the Land Exchange may impact the Apache’s plans to worship on Oak Flat. But RFRA, the Free Exercise Clause, and the 1852 Treaty of Santa Fe do not afford Apache Stronghold the relief that it seeks."
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Jun 26, 2022
Today is the 47th anniversary of the shootout at Oglala on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Two FBI agents and Joe Stuntz, a young member of AIM, were killed. Leonard Peltier, who maintains his innocence, was convicted of killing the two agents. Youth runners remember Stuntz.
Peltier’s co-defendants, Bob Robideau and Dino Butler, were found not guilty by reason of self-defense. Peltier was tried separately. False testimony that was later recanted led to his extradition from Canada and ultimate conviction by a jury and sentencing to two life sentences.
Oglala community members invited Peltier and AIM for protection. The “reign of terror” following the 1973 Wounded Knee takeover led to a violent backlash against AIM and its supporters by vigilantes and the FBI. Mostly children and families were present the day of the shootout.
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May 5, 2022
Today is National Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls Awareness Day.

Let's remember the life and legacy of Northern Paiute anti-rape activist Sarah Winnemucca (1844-1891). She saw rape and violence against Native women as a tool of conquest. (Thread)
Winnemucca's 1883 autobiography, Life Among the Piutes, describes the early invasion of her homelands and was the first nonfiction book published by a Native woman in the United States. She recounts how policies like the 1862 Homestead Act brought predation and war to her people.
In 1862, Congress passed the first of many Homestead Acts opening millions of acres of Native land in the west for settlement to newly-arrived European immigrants. The trespass of Native women’s bodies coincided with the trespass onto their lands.
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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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