The idea that a basic right you hold could disappear overnight is unfathomable. Many in shock now. But for Native people, especially for Native women, it has been our reality that court cases and policies take and take, as that is the way of settler colonialism. #RoeVWade
Native women held power prior to colonization within in their tribal nations, it was settler colonialism that stole that away. The women’s rights movement lifted ideas from Native women, because our bodies, minds, and spirits were always ours.
Native women’s knowledge of plants ensured they had a choice of when and if they wanted to have a baby. Divorce was easy as putting their husbands possession’s outside the door. Settler colonial heteropatriarchy is foreign to these lands.
Native women in many tribes owned the homes, they controlled and traded resources, and chose leaders, some even were the leaders. Many Native tribes had more than 2 genders. And for this, settlers called us primitive. Violence against us consistently ignored like #MMIWG2S.
Native people always have to collectively hold our breath when the U.S. Supreme Court takes up any case dealing with tribal sovereignty. Our very existence as we know it is constantly at stake. Attacks on #ICWA is the current Trojan horse to destroy tribal sovereignty.
Mainstream white society has always seen itself separate as than Native people. It has always justified our destruction. White feminism never formed crowds for us and crimes against our bodies, though Native women have always been the canaries in the coal mine.
It’s great that people are thinking about tribal sovereignty, disappointing that people only think about it’s value in relation to how it might benefit white women. Cecilia Fire Thunder attempted this on Oglala Sioux Reservation in 2006 in SD. #RoeVWade 
https://twitter.com/klwsmith0418/status/1521336941681197057?s=21&t=b1wp9-dfWX_i5tfZDhRYng
Native women are raped at a rate 2.5 times higher than white women. However, many Natives don’t have the resources to travel for abortions in red states. Donate to an abortion fund for Native people, that also covers travel: iwrising.org/abortion-fund
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