#native voices

I was removed from the Shutdown 315 movement as an admin and group member for calling attention to someone who said they were Abenaki (Vermont). They claim Coosuk of the Nulhegan band. I questioned why their tribe was considered fraudulent and why they were invited to the human rights council for their actions. I was only given deflection and a claim that a genealogist was a pedophile, but nothing to solidify any claims against them as wrong.

There was another Indigenous member removed and censored when asking why I was removed and pressing on why the "Abenaki" person was not held accountable for their fraudulence.

This same admin left 50501 after causing harm to their group and inciting violence. I was also privately messaged to incite violence which I did not do.

Here are some links to share their controversy by the First Nations tribe which are recognized.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/abenaki-in-quebec-take-identity-fraud-concerns-to-the-united-nations-1.7182692

https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2024/04/19/the-abenakis-of-canada-denounced-vermont-abenakis-as-frauds-before-un/73369936007/

https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2024/04/24/abenaki-chiefs-burlington-vermont-uvm-canada-native-american/73425974007/

https://www.raceshifting.com/abenaki-tribe-at-nulheganmemphremagog-the-nulhegan-abenaki-tribe/

posted a little information about smudging/sage alternatives for non-Native ppl on my instagram, figured i could post it here too.

This morning I wanted to share one from the vaults! 

I first read this astonishing piece about Ann Rinaldi’s “My Heart Is on the Ground” in 2009, and found it both eye-opening and transformative. Did you learn about residential schools in history class? I fucking didn’t! These authors were, and remain, some of my most influential teachers on the subject.

Looking for Your next nonfiction read? Check out my Book Review of Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask (Young Readers Edition) #booktwitter #bookreviews

I wish I had this book when I was younger and asking some of the questions that were covered in Dr. Anton Treuer’s Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask. I grew up in Michigan and I first began learning about Indigenous culture in elementary school from an Ojibway educator named, Mr. Ken, who would visit us at our annual camp. He called his people Anishnabe and taught…

It occurred to me that (partially because it’s National Indigenous History Month —in specifically Canada and not the US I just learned XD, but also because of the rise in Anarchism in recent events)

A lot of people (particularly white people) might not realize that awareness of Native American peoples’ social structures was largely what inspired and bolstered the rise of Anarchism as an ideology in the Enlightenment era.

Both in giving concrete ideas directly (like Gift Economies) and in giving strength due to the fact that native peoples had been doing it undeniably successfully for thousands of years, Native American people are directly responsible for and probably were indispensable in the rise of Anarchism as we know it today!

So, anarchists, not only don’t forget to pay respect to Native peoples due to the fact that they’re people XD, but also because they’re our founders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_anarchism#Precursors

In the New World, the first to use the term "anarchy" to mean something other than chaos was Louis-Armand, Baron de Lahontan in his Nouveaux voyages dans l'Amérique septentrionale, 1703 (New Voyages in Northern America). He described indigenous American society as having no state, laws, prisons, priests or private property as being in anarchy.[34]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin

Kropotkin's observations of cooperative tendencies in indigenous peoples (pre-feudal, feudal, and those remaining in modern societies) led him to conclude that not all human societies were based on competition as were those of industrialized Europe, and that many societies exhibited cooperation among individuals and groups as the norm. He also concluded that most pre-industrial and pre-authoritarian societies (where he claimed that leadership, central government, and class did not exist) actively defend against the accumulation of private property by, for example, equally distributing within the community a person's possessions when they died, or by not allowing a gift to be sold, bartered or used to create wealth (see Gift economy).[58]

Men Of The Last Frontier, by Grey Owl

Grey Owl is speaking of the forest fires that raged through Canada in the early 1900s following irresponsible logging and decimation of local beaver populations, and his words still ring with truth 100 years later, and far beyond the once-wild North. No mortal punishment is severe enough to atone for the deliberate destruction of our forests.

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"And until the politics in which the issue is obscured are kept out of the matter and replaced by public-spirited altruism and a genuine forest conservation policy, the will of the people will be over-ridden, and the forest will con[174]tinue to fall before the hosts of the God of Mammon, until the last tree is laid in the dust.