You cannot find a corner of this continent that does not hold ancient history, Indigenous value, and pre-colonial place names and stories. And every place we occupy was once homeland for other people, most of whom didn’t leave willingly. https://twitter.com/brianrahmer/status/801878346720231424">https://twitter.com/brianrahm...
“This vagueness benefited the government’s purposes in crafting treaties and executive orders. Greater legality and more precision would have made it impossible to seize so much land in so short a time.” https://twitter.com/NPAIHB/status/1140823438111596544">https://twitter.com/NPAIHB/st...
“This history has contributed to greater disparity, greater injustice, and in some cases, intolerable conditions in Indigenous communities.”

#SDoH #HiAP #Interdependence https://twitter.com/juliancastro/status/1154474677785415680">https://twitter.com/juliancas...
“In this era of truth and reconciliation and nation to nation relationships I just think this kind of tokenistic approach to working with Indigenous people is really unacceptable.” https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/10/25/indigenous-elder-slams-hollow-and-tokenistic-consultation-by-sidewalk-labs.html">https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/...
“Do our romanticized vision of exploration and perhaps the very concept of wilderness itself require a mental erasure of the native experience—one that echoes their physical removal from the places we now treasure as national parks?” https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/11/06/why-we-wish-for-wilderness/">https://www.nybooks.com/daily/201...
“...it followed a string of bloody episodes since 1524 in which European explorers seized coastal Wampanoags to be sold into overseas slavery or to be trained as interpreters and guides.” https://twitter.com/geedee215/status/1200014218109636609">https://twitter.com/geedee215...
“A good time was had by all, things quietly took their natural course: American colonies expanded, Indians gave up their lands & faded from history, and the germ of collective governance... blossomed into American democracy.

Almost none of this is true.” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/25/the-invention-of-thanksgiving">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/...
Water (in)security and American Indian health: social and environmental justice implications for policy, practice, and research...

Mitchell, 2019 #PDoH #SDoH #HiAP https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S003335061830338X">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a...
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