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@TheAgentNDN
Operative of the NDN Agency. Listuguj Mi'gmaw. straight. cis. student. display:@inde_milou
May 3, 2024 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Gonna need Americans to please read a single fucking book. Influential English colonists like Cotton and Increase Mather explicitly called Natives "Amalek" and called for the extermination of Natives so that the colonists could establish their "English Israel."

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Apr 4, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is a point that a lot of people who are rightly critical of Israel still don't get.

Settler colonies weaponize the distinction between civilians and combatants as an occupation strategy and it almost always works out to the settler state's advantage. The concept of the settler cuts across civilian and combatant. They will call themselves civilians but they act like combatants in plain clothes towards Natives. It's not a coincidence that a shitload of settlers throughout history were actually soldiers. They're gaming the idea.
Mar 5, 2024 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
A couple "free land" posters trying to give away land on the prairies here in so-called "Canada." They are quite colorful and propagandistic so it's perhaps worth contextualizing them with a few points.

(I'm from out east so apologies if I get anything too wrong.)



Poster showing a white farmer holding hay and pointing to his farm. The title says "Canada: the right land for the right man." And below it says "Travel by Canadian National Railways."
Poster with an incredible amount of detail showing the process of colonization and a map of the area being colonized. The title says "Free Farms for the Million. Dominion of Canada." "Free Farms of 160" "Manitoba, Canadian North-West, and British Columbia" "Dominion Line Royal Mail Steamships"
Colonization poster. The foreground shows a man holding his son, who is brandishing a large carrot. Women mild a herd of cows in the background. The title and caption say "Canada West - Canada - The New Homeland"
Poster with a white man pulling back a curtain to reveal fresh new lands for the taking to a clamouring crowd of settlers. The caption says "Canada is your land for the asking. Enquire at any Canadian government agency or if any licensed booking agent." Canada's first Prime Minister, John A MacDonald wanted Canada to be an "Aryan homeland." Few people adopted his language in parliament at the time, but his policies left a mark.

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Feb 18, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I've never met a liberal who wasn't 100% about upholding the colonial order. You can get other things from them, rights for this or that, a nice budget every now and again, but they will always go to bat to defend foundational exclusions baked into the social and economic order. Trudeau came into office talking about renewing "nation to nation" relations with First Nations. Did this mean he was going to actually recognize our nationhood? Fuck no. He kept that foundational exclusion intact and gave FNs an "historic" budget - with our own money of course.
Dec 1, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Still processing the fact that Israel just admitted to using artificial intelligence to target and kill tens of thousands of people in their homes. The fact that this article talks about a "factory" and a "production line" but the only thing this "factory" "production line" produces is dead bodies should make most people take a step back and ask what the fuck we are doing here, species-wise.

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Nov 13, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
One of the biggest problems with the concept of genocide is that it remains poorly under-theorized in relation to Indigeneity. It's bad enough that most people think it simply means mass murder but so many of the terms prefigure its application to Indigenous contexts in a bad way Settler societies generally do not have a good handle on how culture and nature are interconnected. They brought their culture with them from another land. It's an expression of that other land. They hollowed out the meaning of their cultures in order to transplant them.
Mar 16, 2023 • 27 tweets • 6 min read
One of the greatest quotes in all of Mi'gmaw history comes from an Lnu fisherman telling off some French fishermen in Gespeg (Gaspé) in the 1600s. The French were basically asking him how come he followed Mi'gmaw ways instead of being assimilated to French ways. Here's the reply: "I am greatly astonished that the French have so little cleverness, as they seem to exhibit in the matter of which thou hast just told me on their behalf, in the effort to persuade us to convert our poles, our barks, and our wigwams into those houses of stone and of wood