One of the things we don't acknowledge enough is that there aren't really any ancestral homelands. We think of, for example, Wales and Ireland as being the homes of Celtic culture, but the Celts originated in Austria and Switzerland and only later migrated west.

Turkey, Israel/Palestine, France, England, Japan, Hungary, Greenland, and a host of other countries have populations we think of as being "native" who were originally usurpers (or at the very least, not the original inhabitants), displacing or assimilating existing cultures.

This allows us to re-cast Native identities away from a potentially problematic claim to eternal land ownership (else how can we possibly resolve Israel/Palestine?), and into a direct response to the harm and erasure resulting from colonialism.

One need not tie the Palestinian people to the Peleset (themselves invaders, btw); one need only acknowledge their displacement by Israel.

One need not recognize the Nahua, Welsh, or Uyghur as inherently rooted to their land in order to fight to preserve their rights and culture

Corollary: populations displaced or transplanted through colonial endeavors deserve just as much consideration *where they are now* as cultures who have been able to weather colonization in their own lands.

Hmong neighborhoods in St. Paul are just as valuable as those in Laos.

Jewish enclaves outside of Israel are in many ways *more important* than the colonial State of Israel, which has mingled its ethnic and cultural identity with the politics of displacement and supremacy.

Not sure where I'm going with this, but it's definitely given me some things to think about, and (as a person from a displaced culture) a way to recontextualize my place in my own people's diaspora and in the world at large.

Anyway if you live on land that was colonized, find a way to acknowledge (and ideally support) the people who were marginalized or displaced as a result.

For example, if you live in Seattle, consider showing support for the Duwamish people:
https://www.realrentduwamish.org/ 

I also want to put a big asterisk on this tweet. Specifically, I'm talking about how *we as members of the dominant culture* conceive of Native identities, not about how Native people conceive of their own identity. That is their prerogative. https://twitter.com/leftoblique/status/1199398643230314496

Dancing around some perilously nuanced ideas in this thread; might delete later

This is a brilliant way to put it: https://twitter.com/liamlburke/status/1199411803463094272