There's much more to the #Oppenheimer story and what unfolded at Tsankawi (Los Alamos NM) & Pajarito Plateau 80 years ago. Indigenous peoples were displaced from homelands, sacred lands & waters contaminated. Nuclear colonization has had ongoing impact. tewawomenunited.org/2023/07/oppenh… Western Shoshone, Southern Paiute and other tribes have had their land, water, animal and fish relatives and human health severely impacted by the many hundreds of US nuclear tests in Nevada. #Oppenheimer
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Univ of North Dakota will repatriate dozens of human remains & many sacred artifacts taken from Indigenous communities/gravesites.
250 boxes of items were found in March, but at the request of tribal leaders, UND did not publicize the find until now. mprnews.org/story/2022/08/… “We are all northern Plains American Indian tribal members, & when we became aware of the locations from which the ancestors came from, you suddenly begin to realize knowing where your own family & tribes came from that it's highly likely that those are your ancestors."

Did the Biden inauguration really have to start with "This Land Is Your Land," an ode to land theft, settler colonialism and Indigenous genocide? (No matter how well-intentioned Woody Guthrie may have been.) YOU ARE ON NATIVE LAND! Every presidential inauguration has in effect been a celebration of Indigenous land theft & genocide, whether directly stated or not. Settlers exerting the power of their settler government and "ownership" over Indigenous lands.

BREAKING: The Bureau of Indian Affairs today told the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe that the Secretary of the Interior has ordered that their reservation be disestablished and their land be taken out of trust.  mashpeewampanoagtribe-nsn.gov/news/2020/3/27… Mashpee Wampanoag tribal chair: "At 4:00 pm today -- on the very day that the United States has reached a record 100,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and our Tribe is desperately struggling with responding to this devastating pandemic --

Plymouth MA has people who dress up like the "pilgrims" and march through the streets with their bibles and muskets. This 1621 "Pilgrim Progress" reenacted for the tourists exemplifies settler innocence masking what really happened. #NDOM2019 #nothanksnogiving #thankstaking The words of head pilgrim guy, William Bradford, celebrating the 1637 Pequot massacre in CT:
“Those that scraped the fire were slaine with the sword; some hewed to peeces, others rune throw with their rapiers, so as they were quickly dispatchte, and very few escapted. (cont.)

Native people have additional, contextual reasons to be upset about what happened to the two Indigenous students who were detained by campus cops while visiting Colorado State Univ CSU. (1)

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Most colleges are PWIs (predominantly white institutions) and already feel like a hostile environment to Native students. (2)