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Native kids with disabilities were held in wooden boxes | schools on St. Regis Mohawk Reservation locked Native kindergarteners in wooden crates like animals. In 2025. Not 1825. Fucking 2025. (www.npr.org)
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The reservation schools might be "officially" shut down, but the colonizers keep showing how they think of Natives as less than human.

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[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I clicked before I read the title fully and, like you, I thought this was from 1860 or something. What the fuck.

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Reclamation of everything stolen from the original Peoples

LANDBACK Organizing Principles

  1. Don’t burn bridges: even when there is conflict between groups or organizers remember that we are fighting for all of our peoples and we will continue to be in community even after this battle
  2. Don’t defend our ways
  3. Organize to win
  4. Move from abundance – We come from a space of scarcity. We must work from a place of abundance
  5. We bring our people with us
  6. Deep relationships by attraction, not promotion
  7. Divest/invest
  8. We value our warriors
  9. Room for grace—be able to be human
  10. We cannot let our oppressors inhumanity take away from ours
  11. Strategy includes guidance
  12. Realness: Sometimes the truth hurts
  13. Unapologetic but keep it classy

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