#indigeous

so lets take a moment and remember some of the genocidal things the United States (and Canada, since indigenous nations don’t necessarily follow those borders) has done and will continue to do to Natives.

Let’s remember the hundreds of thousands children taken from their families and put into schools to “kill the Indian, save the man.” Where they faces severe emotional, physical, and sexual abuse for being born. For getting hands chopped off for speaking their languages.

The thousands of children that died in these places, were put in unmarked graves, and their families never got closure of knowing what happened to them.

Residential schools were open until 1996. If Canada were to keep their flags lowered one day for every kid that died from these schools, the flags would be lowered for 11 years.

 The estimated one third of native children who were taken from their families and adopted into white families at such a young age that they would never remember where they came from. This program was designed to take them before they could understand and remember their culture.

The 77 of the 109 people in South Dakota who are missing are Indigenous.

The Natives who live in extreme poverty, who don’t have clean water, and more because they were fucked over and then left to figure it out on their own. 

Jan. 2019

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Jenni Monet on fighting erasure in colonized newsrooms

Floyd Kuptana, b. 1964 Self-Portrait Canada (2007) Library and Archives Canada [Source]

Wikipedia says:

Floyd Kuptana is an Inuit artist in Canada whose work is primarily stone carvings as well as paintings and collage...