Nêhiyawpwat from the prairie, living on the homelands. Narrative Podcast is the side project https://xitter.gq/t.co/3a6EOsu9vL
Treaty Six Territory
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To all the settlers who are complaining about the snow and how cold it is here on the prairie, Don’t live here then, you can always leave and move elsewhere. We’re from here and always been here. and we know winter is vital and needed
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Remember fam, Under settler colonial conditions there are major differences between liberation and representation.
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If you're going to hark on the morality of Canada, a settler state. It's coming at the cost of indigenous peoples histories and presence here. Really irks me when I see that card being played.
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I'm pretty tired of settlers of all types, all spectrums talk down to me and my people in condescending ways. We get it, a lot of you fled and have these global identities, but we're still here on our homelands holding it down.
Gabor Maté is popular in treaty six territory and on the prairie now, I really encourage people to dive into his work and read it, the books go deeper than what you hear from the front of the room, it helps and is more comprehensive, correlates and creates shifts
Today we are celebrating my dad @DrGaborMate's 80th birthday. He was born in Budapest on January 6th 1944, two months before Nazi Germany occupied Hungary.
He was able to escape the Jewish ghetto after his mother, Judy, gave him to a stranger on the street, who agreed to take him to cousins in a safer area.
Staying in a cold, overcrowded flat, they kept him warm by sleeping on each side of him. After reuniting with his parents, who managed to survive, they fled to Canada along with his brother Janos in 1956. Living in Vancouver, he became a student activist, writer, high school teacher, doctor, healer, and renowned author.
He and my mom Rae taught me and brother Daniel and sister Hannah from an early age to be uncompromising about the truth, both the personal and political, and to stand up for the oppressed, especially the Palestinians occupied in our name.
On his 80th birthday, I honor his life and all that he has given to me and to the world.
And my wish is that today's modern-day Jewish ghettos — the Gaza death camp and occupied West Bank — will be liberated from today's modern-day Nazis, the Israeli government, so that every Palestinian can have the same freedom to follow their life path that my dad has been fortunate to have.
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I don’t believe in the renegotiation of treaties takes that seem popular amongst reconciliation and neoliberal types. You’re telling me, my ancestors who never been to residential school, fluent in language and world view to the core, were wrong?
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One of the things that irks me with folks who are just coming to learn of indigenous political thought and traditions is their assumptions, we didn't exist in a vacuum, territories were fluid and our history can be measured in peace and diplomacy amongst one another
I don’t believe in the renegotiation of treaties takes that seem popular amongst reconciliation and neoliberal types. You’re telling me, my ancestors who never been to residential school, fluent in language and world view to the core.
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We need to be louder with critiquing these random ass takes coming from settler colonialism itself. It's hilarious to certain extends, settlers attempting to speak to the conditions of their creation. Indg roots are always deepest here in the americas, why uplift the invasives
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I would add that it is older than the physical presence of settler colonialism itself, we knew of spaniards in the south and of colonies on the east coast well before we laid eyes on them. In fact, the waves of sickness preceding them lead to some major critiques them moving in.
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Also, it's getting crowded and been crowded. Settlers really taking over political commentary around governance, decolonization and nationhood. Building careers, but again indigenous communities core issues remain the same. Settler colonialism is ongoing.
Our grassroots community discourse on local levels has always been paramount. Top-down approaches and the grooming of a new generation of neoliberal leaders aren't the vibe. Real ones really staying low key in this era I find too....
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Also I work in indigenous communities and always ask if the people know some mainstream so and so's, and not many do, especially the youth. I also ask who they read, not many libraries or books for miles around. Which I think is a major disconnect that is being overlooked.
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Reflecting on the past decade and it's been interesting. The bite of Indg political thought, nationhood, and sovereignty has been replaced by neoliberal reconciliation discourse. Now some sitting pretty comfortable but core issues stay the same, that capitalism yo.
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I’m now working and based on my reserve & observing the world from here, it’s been gut wrenching this holiday season. I’m getting more annoyed with the emergence of shit takes from colonizers, settlers, and conformists. But I love it here, cuz none of these types around tbh.
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it’s wild to see a wave settlers now refer to Fanon in all the wrong ways. Settlers gonna set fam, be mindful, vigilant and stay safe y’all. It’s always a power and control dynamic and it’s to be expected. Some people don’t have an identity outside of settler colonialism.
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All commercial as fuck while being coopt and even directed into neoliberal discourses.
Honestly, and tons don’t have much to show for community work or accessible to grassroots folks.
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Remember our grandparents went to fight nazis, but today we’re seeing the rise of fascism with some of our people being complacent with it. Like, “hey ancestors ur great grand kid is a fascist sympathizer and border line white nationalist via economic and political standpoints”
