Whose land are you on? https://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/decolonize/this-app-can-tell-you-the-indigenous-history-of-the-land-you-live-on-20180416
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
“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
“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
#SDoH #HiAP #Interdependence https://twitter.com/juliancastro/status/1154474677785415680
“...pointing to treaties signed in the 18th and 19th centuries that explicitly promised them a seat at the table.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/us/cherokee-nation-delegate-congress.html
“Our stories already tell us how long we’ve been here. … This [study] only reaffirms that. This is not just something that happened 16,000 years ago. It’s something that is still important to us today.” https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/first-people-americas-came-sea-ancient-tools-unearthed-idaho-river-suggest
“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
“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/
“...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
“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
Almost none of this is true.” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/25/the-invention-of-thanksgiving
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
Mitchell, 2019 #PDoH #SDoH #HiAP https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S003335061830338X