a family of four from a mutual's rez could use some help. there is no extra housing in fort babine, and this reservation in particular was featured in a documentary on aptn abt housing crises on reserves. pls share 🫶🏼
Calling the North American continent "Turtle Island," and then dusting off your hands and thinking you're an ally to various indigenous/First Nations groups, or that you've actually materially helped anyone is laughable.
Like, you picked an English translation of a specific culture's mythological term for the land they live(d) on. There are hundreds of Nations that still exist in the US and Canada (we're not going to get into the indigenous groups in Latin America).
This group of cultures is a fraction of the diversity on this continent. But their somewhat related myth(s) are chosen as the sole legitimate name for this entire landmass? And why do you use an English translation? Why not call it Hah-nu-nah? Is that not legitimizing the presence/hegemony of English on this occupied land?
Or maybe it's that there are hundreds of indigenous languages on this continent and choosing just one might be seen as playing favorites. That doesn't make sense for all the points above: this creation myth is not universal among indigenous peoples, and even so you chose the colonial language to refer to the True Indigenous Name??
And again I stress, none of this achieves land back, sovereignty, reparations. It's just a way you can annoy your friends at your favorite artisanal coffee shop by playacting that you're more woke than them. It's a badge of honor. It's a sign that your Leftist Power Level is higher.
haha oh no im definitely not at all disturbed by the prevalence of leftists on all platforms who are loudly 'anti-genocide' when it comes to the palestinian cause (and a couple others at best :3c) yet the only time ukraine [ʊkrɐˈjinɐ] leaves their mouths is in critique, in stark comparison to the former or in complaint about their (american) government sending aid.
at first what i saw often was pointing out the differences in western media framing [ukraine vs palestine], and that's fair (until the words and the agenda of western journalists are used to paint, as a whole, ukrainians who have been actively going through genocide as some kind of white supremacists hogging the blanket of global attention when they kinda just want to live and have the rights to their own land, culture, names and families)
but no one is even caring to do that anymore, today bitches just invent metaphorical scenarios and people to get mad at and to throw an entire ethnos away because wahhhh i decided that you care for X but not for Y!!!.... all while doing the exact thing they are condemning. the exact absolute same and they don't even hide it but do lack the self-awareness to realise