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“I am now 73 years old. I was at Indian residential school from age 11-15. I had to work in the infirmary, where there were many sick and hungry children. I’d steal food like peanut butter and bread to feed them. A lot of kids died there."
Sep 23, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
With the recent arrests, and escalated violence against Indigenous Tribes defending their Homelands from the Colonizer's Destructive Border Wall. I wanted to show some solidarity from Dinétah, the home of one of my ancestral bloodlines. #nowalls#noborders #borderwall
Ahéhee’ to the Uncle Sam for helping brainstorm this with me.
We translated "No Walls No Borders" into Dine' Bizaad.
"Bináhásdzo Dooda!".
This has the ability to be understood in English as, "No Walls No Borders!".