Jun 29
I love that one of the great indigenous unifiers is just, like fancy screaming. Like weather it’s Turtle Island Natives, Nordics, Africans, Asians, we’re all united by the cultural need to be as loud as humanly possible
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I love that one of the great indigenous unifiers is just, like fancy screaming. Like weather it’s Turtle Island Natives, Nordics, Africans, Asians, we’re all united by the cultural need to be as loud as humanly possible
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I think this might be a terrible thought to have but sometimes I wished I looked more like my ethnicity. I am white and American passing and I know that this has given me privilege. But I wish I looked more like my elders and the people that live in my community. To me that is the beauty standard. Colonization took my language, homeland, clothes, and the face of my ancestors away from me.
“How to Erase a People”
Indigenous Postcard: We need to shed our colonizer view of the world by Ken Whytock
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TLDR; A rant about Indonesian gov (again) after the news I got from my friend recently that I can't share online just yet. Beware for anti-blackness and anti-indigenous.
It gripes me so much every time Indonesians talk about how West Papuans don't like being Indonesians, that we hate being SEAsians, that we're separatist, terrorists, and malicious.
Whether or not we're SEAsian is a different conversation I will unfold with my fellow West Papuans, because we sure as hell ain't treated like one. But MY GOD you want us to be proudly "Indonesian" all the while refusing our indigeneity to OUR land, while ALSO claiming that this land is part of your territory?? For the love of god make it make sense? You want the land but you don't want to feed the people?
You want our forests and make it your palm oil plantation, you want our oceans and our resources. But somehow you don't want our people in your congress, you don't want our people to lead, you don't want our people anywhere near your precious Java island. You bleed us dry and punish us for trying to make a living.
I was stolen and brought here and still yall treat me like it's my fault that I'm here. The same thing you did to my brothers and sisters. We're "debt-collectors", "gangsters", "troublemakers". But who cares if we're being killed? Who cares if we have to scrape for our dignity at your feet?
All the while we're being beat up by the police, chased down to hide and being pit against other ethnic-minorities. You kill our fathers, exploit our mothers and steal our children. There is no part of our identity that you haven't stole and commodify.
Because you know when is the only time that we're being treated as part of Indonesia and SEAsia? When they wanna put Raja Ampat in their fucking tourists website.
Yet, we're the separatist?
Fucking bite my fucking ass.
If, and I mean IF, the Indonesian govt really do care about West Papua and not just looking to exploit our resources, I wonder why we are rarely included in indigenous (read: Pribumi) conversations.
We were the first to ever reside in the archipelago, long before the others come down here, and the last to gain our independence. Every time there's a conversation on indigenity, it's always the Javanese and Sundanese dominating.
We are indigenous to Papua but apparently not indigenous to Indonesia, in the same breath West Papua BELONGS to Indonesia, so what are we? Because as far as I can tell, Indonesian govt LOVEEE to come up here in the east to bleed our ocean dry.
So which is it? Are we indigenous or not? If so, why are we constantly being sidelined in conversations about indigeneity?
WHICH IS IT??
Next time I will talk about how Melanesians are historically treated across SEAsia.