#INDIGENOUS

THREAD: Oct 12th is #IndigenousPeoplesDay in the U.S.A. & this thread is all abt APPRECIATION!Each day until the 12th, I'll spotlight, recognize, & celebrate a contemporary #Indigenous person whose talents
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We have a lot more folks we need to support and aid at @spoonieuni and we explicitly prioritize Black Indigenous Disabled TGNC Queer folks 4 MA efforts & survival funds.
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so yeah, please don’t support @AlunaBear anymore! the photos explain it all, this is NOT okay. As an indigenous person this is extremely harmful & I can’t believe that this
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If you're planning to share stories about the Saunders (Gunditjmara) family and their contributions this ANZAC day. Please tell the whole story. Share how Indigenous soldiers weren't given blocks of
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Here are 5 ways we can begin to decolonize our #Thanksgiving. A THREAD 1. Learn and acknowledge whose land you are on. Learn about the history, the people, and the
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A short timeline thread on the FN child welfare compensation case that began in 2007. The case picked up speed in 2016 with a landmark Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling
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We should be proud that Macdonald betrayed the Métis, specifically Louis Riel, a founding father of confederation in Manitoba and had him tried and hanged for treason for of all
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The governments of Alberta and Canada will fund a Métis Capital Housing Corporation affordable housing project to provide homes and create 60 jobs in Edmonton. Learn more: http://www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?xID=731411B3C65E5-E1F1-88B1-AA1FE
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The first thing they asked was when I was going to complete the classes, and I said hopefully this quarter. They didn’t like that response. They then basically threatened to
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I am quite comfortable openly critiquing every anti-democratic or genocidal campaign of my society. My Twitter timeline will prove it. I do not suffer the Francoist impulse to play whataboutism
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It’s okay okay to be upset by the verdict in R v Theriault. But I suggest we be upset for the right reasons. (thread 1/14). It’s certainly okay to be
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Whether or not they were sexually/physically abused, EVERY child that went to Residential Schools in #Canada was robbed of culture & familyFocusing on individual acts of abuse obscures the real
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White friends; fiction is part of our work trying to deprogram ourselves from our racist upbringing. Representation in fiction isn’t only “for” BIPOC to see themselves in stories, it is
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1/7 - Our investigation, "Land-Grab Universities," reveals how Indigenous land was turned into seed money for U.S. colleges: 10.7 million acres taken from nearly 250 tribes through over 160 violence-backed
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Starting now--I'll be tweeting a bit. #RoadSafety #Indigenous #IndigenousLivesMatter https://twitter.com/americawalks/status/1270768345520861186 Tribal Transportation Program: Many may not know that tribes do transportation planning/del
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For anyone shocked about the revelation of the sterilization of Uyghur women and wondering how this could possibly happen, the sad truth is is that it's not the first time
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