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agitated girl: mike put the camera down

The reservation system that Amerikkka has to-day is the outcome of treaties signed by the bourgeois government with tribes (and tribal coalitions) who spent centuries fighting against extermination. On one end they are administered in a genocidal manner by the bourgeois government, but that's only half of the picture—the reason that, despite everything, indigenous tribes do still have relative autonomy over their (underfunded) education and (underfunded) healthcare systems, as well as their (legally constrained) law enforcement is because for 400 years they have continued to fight for every scrap of sovereignty possible. Do you think that reservations function with a relatively high level of democracy within the limited sectors they are capable of running themselves because that's all part of the bourgeoisie's plan?? It's the bourgeoisie who wants to do away with the reservation system in the immediate moment, because that would give them access to dwindling reserves of land and bodies to exploit (remember Standing Rock?); whereas the indigenous peoples have fought for their sovereignty within the reservations because that's the space that they curdently have to exercise sovereignty within.

Whilst there are certainly comparisons to be made between the institutions on another level, likening the defense of tribal sovereignty within existing reservations to the establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto is fucking grotesque.

reservations are not a happy outcome we fought for, they were the precursor to forced removals, and were another step of our attempted extermination. we were denied all sovereignty and self government, until the indian reorganization act, which only granted sovereignty to nations whos constitutions and governments resembled the usa. some treaties signed that were used as evidence of agreement between the usa govt and tribes were signed by tribal members who had no authority signing a decision for everyone, even doing it against direct orders by tribal leaders. treaties were signed about lands held in commons between tribes without other tribes being present for negotiations. many times there was divisive disagreements between members about signing or not. land that was given in those treaties was also subject to being retaken by the us govt at any time. reservation era was on the coat tails of removal era, so reservations were established in the wake of forced removals like the infamous trail of tears after the indian removal act in order to find somewhere to put us to get us out of the way. and reservations then led into the allotment era where we were given land "that we had asked for" explicitly in order to break up our communities and assimilate us. in general, our territories extend past marked reservation marks, and this is constantly in dispute with the usa. even then, those are territories from (broken) treaties and those are not our actual lands and territories that we also want back. as well, tribal governments do not operate solely within reservation land - i have never lived on rez land and have worked for the chickasaw nation and used our healthcare facilities, and even now ive moved away from oklahoma i can access scholarships and grants and other non-geographic support and i get the nations newspaper delivered every month