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This is the website of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe.

These are the People who met the “pilgrims”.

 In spite of this, the US government doesn’t fully acknowledge their sovereignty as a Tribal Nation, or human rights, or their right to live in their own home land.

They are trying to keep their last few scraps of land out of the greedy grabbing hands of the Tr^mp Administration.

Land is more than square footage. It’s ancestral sites, it’s the right to say ‘We live here and you can’t just throw us out when it’s convenient to you’, and it’s Family for generations, and it’s Home.

The history of European colonizations in the Americas & the ways settlers constructed concepts of race has consistently established Blackness as a corruption & delegitimization of any other ethnic or cultural heritage, and while in some ways that forced the Black community (both during & after slavery) to expand & gel in a way it otherwise may not have done, the impact on Black Natives has consistently been to legally have indigeneity erased & “status” as an Indian “revoked.”

To this day some of the most visible examples of this history are the people & groups fighting for recognition of Freedmen descended from the Five Civilized Tribes in the American southeast, but this pattern of genocidal erasure of Blackness & of Black people & of Black culture & history from what and who is “allowed” to be Indigenous extends beyond “just” Indian Country to quite literally the entire hemisphere, coast to coast to coast.

Mashpee Wampanoags & Mashantucket Pequots have been fighting this same fight for sovereignty with up-and-down success for at least as long as I’ve been alive, though they’ve only made big-big news under the current administration’s undermining of tribal rights— and Native + First Nations communities have come together on the subject I think more out of both the precedent that potentially sets for everyone else & the heightened visibility of social media in the 2010s-2020+ than any especial dedication to them as Nations… because this was not the vibe towards them at all in the ‘80s-'90s, even from other Native crowds.

So when you talk about supporting people, don’t ONLY think of it in terms of spiting Trump, or of who met which pilgrims or settlers of conquistadors when & where— and don’t forget the people you say need tbat support once the Trump moment passes, or lose all this beautiful intertribal sentiment once you see photos of folks not looking like woodcarvings of Squanto. Don’t forget who was quiet before but loud now & pay attention to who gets quiet again once legal changes do or don’t start getting underway. Pay attention to if & when “supporters” of these tribes don’t rock with BLM, or go back to calling them nasty names at other pow-wows, because Black NDNs & their welfare only “counts” if what they’re going through COULD happen to other Indians, too.

I would love to see the anti immigration conservatives do this for at least 30 mins..

Happy (early) Nov 15th! Remember that Stone Butch Blues is free now and always to read here

LETS PLAY A GAME. It’s called: Who directed it TIM BURTON or HENRY SELICK

We’ll start with the 2009 Laika film Coraline based on the novel by Neil Gaiman. Do you know who directed it? Burton or Selick?

Did you guess yet?

If you guessed Henry Selick, you would be correct. Tim Burton actually had absolutely nothing to do with Coraline at all in anyway ever. Reminder: Tim Burton has NOTHING to do with Coraline. At all. But that was an easy one. Let’s go to the Walt Disney Pictures adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel, James and the Giant Peach next.

Think you got it? Are you sure? Better double check…

Oh, look. It’s Henry Selick again! Tim Burton actually interacted with this project, though only as a producer. Bet that was tricky… Next one! Let’s go to the Disney/Touchstone Pictures film Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Have you guessed it correctly? Have you really?

Yep that’s right. Even Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas was directed by Henry Selick. Though Burton wrote the poem and created the characters in which Nightmare was based he didn’t have much interaction with the project beyond that. At the time he had already signed off to direct the film Batman Returns and did not want to be involved with the “painstakingly slow process of stop-motion animation.”

During these five-hundred-year cycles, the Church was attacked in different ways. During the first cycle of five centuries, the Church had to combat heresies centering around the Historical Christ: His Person, His Nature, Intellect and Will. In the second cycle it was the Visible Head of the Church who was denied. In the third cycle it was the Church or the Mystical Body of Christ that was split up into sections or sects. In our day, the attack is secularism and is directed against holiness, sacrifice and self-denial and kenosis. The new enemy of the Church is ecological; it pertains to the environment in which she lives. The challenge hurled now to the faithful is “Are you with it?”—“it” always remaining anonymous and undefined. For that reason it is closely related to the demonic. For God defines Himself as “I am Who am.” The Devil defines himself as “I am who am not.”

I wonder why they named the cat “Derpy McMilkface” (via derpymcmilkface) 

The religion of Jesus’s people has no concept of a permanent hell and instructed its priests on how to induce miscarriages.  Jesus explicitly rejected the concept of disability as a divine punishment.  He spoke out against religious hypocrites.  He had enough respect for women to let his mother choose the time of his first miracle.  He blessed a same sex couple.  He told a rich man that he must give up his wealth to get to heaven, and also told a parable about a rich man suffering in agony in presumably Gehinnom (basically Purgatory) just to hammer the point home.  He told people to pay their taxes.  He declared “love your neighbor” to be one of the two commandments on which all laws hang.  He commanded his followers to help the poor.  He commanded them to help the sick and the needy.  He spent time with social outcasts.  He healed the servant of a high priest during his arrest rather than fighting back.  He was put to death by the occupying government because he was a political radical.