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May 5 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I wrote this last year but on this Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Girls and 2 Spirit Awareness Day it bears repeating.

#mmiw #mmiwg #MMIWG2S #nomorestolensisters
TW: Violence

On this day of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2 Spirit Awareness I honor my Great Great Grandmother Louisa (Yahola) Scott who lost her life in 1900 to violence that is still all too familiar to us today.
I don't know what she looked like. To be honest the only thing I know about her life are the details of her death, a senseless act of brutality that shouldn't be the only thing that defines her.
That it does is emblematic of a problem that 121 years after her death is still echoing across our Nations.

I will give her a voice today and every day until our targeted destruction,
an epidemic that is a continuation of our genocide, is finally taken seriously enough to be brought to a definitive end.

Raise your voice with me for my ancestor, for so many lives lost, and for those yet to come who deserve a world better than the one we have now.

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Last week MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred decided that racial justice for Natives is over by announcing he was cool with the @braves racist name, chop, and chant.

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Now that I have your attention:
I mean not *all* Atlanta fans are racist.

The @braves name, chop, and chant are 100% racist. As is Rob Manfred. As is anyone who perpetuates stereotypes that denigrate Natives.

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I was going to answer individually but, shockingly, Atlanta fans vocabulary is really limited so they just repeat each other. Here's my response.

Yes I: am fat, have blue bangs, could eat more salads

No I: am not a guy, white, going to fuck myself/die

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I promised her that I'd do everything in my power to make sure she never had to hear anything like that again.

I failed.
Two months later a woman who was upset that she had to wait for something in a retail setting due to a technical issue called my kid a wetback beaner. My kid bowed up and informed her she was Native. The lady then called her a retarded redskin.
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