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This country was built by slaves , on stolen land. This country was stolen from the Indigenous people of this land; it was stolen through mass killings, forced displacement, biological warfare, rape, and so much more. The treatment of indigenous people has been and still is tragic and disgusting, whether it be in 1830 with the Indian Removal act, or American Indian Residential Schools that were in use until the late 20th century.

Indigenous people are still facing oppression today, and despite making up one of the smallest percentages of the population in the USA at around 2%, Native American people (especially Native American women) are some of the most susceptible to crime.

There is a current crisis in America of murdered and missing indigenous women, yet there is little to no coverage about it in the news. OVER HALF OF THE PERCENTAGE OF INDIGENOUS WOMEN HAVE EXPERIENCED SEXUAL VIOLENCE. HOMICIDE IS THE THIRD LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH FOR INDIGENOUS WOMEN BETWEEN THE AGES OF 10-24.

the statistics go on and on, yet no one seems to talk about it.

on this day, I urge you to research the land you reside on, and educate yourselves on both the brutal history of the colonization of America , as well as the current issues in the Native American community.

the statistics I have used in this post are taken from National Indigenous Women's Resource Center, and I strongly encourage you to take a look at the cite and possibly donate to some of the resources given on the website.

Researchers have used Easter Island Moai replicas to show how they might have been “walked” to where they are displayed.

Maori told Europeans that kiore were native rats and no one believed them until DNA tests proved it

Until they finally payed closer attention to local songs and legend that all essentially said “Yah the Goddess Nanda Devi got mad and sent huge heave stones down to kill them”. That was consistent with huge contusions found all on their neck and shoulders and the weather patterns of the area, which are prone to huge & inevitably deadly goddamn hailstones. https://www.facebook.com/atlasobscura/videos/10154065247212728/

“Inuit traditional knowledge was critical to the discovery of both ships, she pointed out, offering the Canadian government a powerful demonstration of what can be achieved when Inuit voices are included in the process.

In contrast, the tragic fate of the 129 men on the Franklin expedition hints at the high cost of marginalising those who best know the area and its history.

“If Inuit had been consulted 200 years ago and asked for their traditional knowledge – this is our backyard – those two wrecks would have been found, lives would have been saved. I’m confident of that,” she said. “But they believed their civilization was superior and that was their undoing.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/16/inuit-canada-britain-shipwreck-hms-terror-nunavut

“Oh yeah, I heard a lot of stories about Terror, the ships, but I guess Parks Canada don’t listen to people,” Kogvik said. “They just ignore Inuit stories about the Terror ship.”

Schimnowski said the crew had also heard stories about people on the land seeing the silhouette of a masted ship at sunset.

“The community knew about this for many, many years. It’s hard for people to stop and actually listen … especially people from the South.”

it’s literally the oldest accurate oral history of the world.