Pronounced ear-UH-shuttuh, Basque name for this MexIndigenous American, Father, Scientist, You don't hear about it, but Latinos are your remnant Indian Problem
Jul 11, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
1/5 "When first contacted by Europeans in the early years of exploration the Tupinamba were described as the most handsome and best-proportioned people in the world, virtually creatures of perfection. "
2/5 "They were, said Pedro Vaz de Caminha in 1 500, people of "fine bodies and good faces as to good men," and a kind and generous people of "innocence" and "pure simplicity" to boot."
Jul 11, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
1/6 "By 1 520 the popular Swiss physician and philosopher Paracelsus, whose eventual burial place became a Catholic shrine, was arguing that Africans, Indians, and other non-Christian peoples of color were not even descended from Adam and Eve, but from separate and inferior"
2/6 progenitors. 39 Paracelsus advanced this thesis less than thirty years after Columbus's first contact with the people of the Caribbean, although in that short time the Indies' many millions of native peoples-
Jan 6, 2020 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
1/7 With all the Warren, Eastern Metis and Chumash #pretendian stories flitting about, there isn't much opportunity to speak about the core issues of #AmerindigenousDisempowerment I hope my colleague forgives me using her video for my own purposes.
2/7 1) Amerindigenous groups are divided, as they have been since 1492. But they are united by ancestry and genomic evolution. 2) Amerindigenous groups are divided by colonial mindsets / language (Spanish & English, Puritans & Catholics, Segrationalist vs Aggregationalist Racism)
Apr 17, 2019 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
1/10 Remember this? artsy.net/article/artsy-…
2/10 I think there is another family of Stones or Meteorites from Arctic people that were moved to a museum. This is just one sad story of practical and spiritual use of meteorites and their removal from Native people. narratively.com/minik-and-the-…
Apr 16, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
People are pushing back on Native American "What aboutisms" over the Notre Dame fire. They use sites hindu and buddhist sites bombed by Muslim fundamentalists as evidence that they care about world religions and sacred sites. But we aren't some ancient sect nor an abandoned site.
We're living humans, some who maintain our cultures, languages & spiritualities, some who are entirely assimilated & many more in between. We are under constant attack and our #DefenseAgainstEuropeanHegemony isn't over. Our lands, water, culture & bodies are under constant attack
