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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 11h

we taught you how to grow corn, now let's all learn to block lakota manicotti once and for all

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 17h

I am seeing a lot of people reposting Lakota Man today bc it's Indigenous Peoples Day. A reminder that he is not well liked amongst many (most?) Natives on social media. Many of us blocked him a long time ago. Some of the reasons why are in this article.

www.dailydot.com/irl/lakotama...

Who is LakotaMan, the user behind one of the most popular Native American accounts on X?

John Martin is adored by white X users—but infamous among Native and Indigenous communities.

www.dailydot.com

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Breen Ouellette (he/him) @breeno.bsky.social · 5h

Trick question.

America was always a terrorist state.

Just ask Indigenous people on Indigenous Peoples' Day.

Sarcasmo Ultra BLAM! @sarcasmoultrablam.bsky.social · 5h

So, how did the people who were supposed to protect Americans from terrorists..BECOME THE TERRORISTS THEMSELVES??

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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 5h

oh yea. A bigot is going to steamroll on this too.

the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 5h

i should add that i did the work to help him get here. i talked and argued and even cut him off several times for years. i set boundaries around behaviors and statements that are allowed around me and my kids. i gave him recommendations for reading and other media. he chose to do better and learn.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 6h

I don't know if it's something we ate, or norovirus or what, but Me, Amy and two friends have had a lousy weekend.

SO LET ME TELL YOU A STORY ABOUT BATHROOM POLICING

So all of us have the shits and feel lousy. So a guy, we shall call him Tim, was one of the ones sick. And over the weekend he

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Frances Danger *Deadly SoverAuntie* @francesdanger.bsky.social · 8h

#IndigenousPeoplesDay Edition

$340/$1500 $1160 left to go. Mvto!

Mvskoke Semvnole woman who has been housing insecure for a few months. I found an apartment I can take care of monthly if I can get the $1500 deposit. I'd love to end IDP in my own apartment. QR codes below. Mvto!

#settlersaturday

Frances Danger *Deadly SoverAuntie* @francesdanger.bsky.social · 4d

Bread and Jam for Frances #MUTUALAID💸💕

I've been housing insecure for months. I found an apartment but need help for rent/deposit. I can handle monthly if I can get the first $1500 payment. Anything helps. I'll hug you the next time I see you. Pay QR codes below. Mvto!
#settlersaturday #helpsky

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Keyah (banned era) @sapphic-film-nerd.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks for nothing I guess.

Panel 1: someone is holding a piece of paper that says "Land Acknowledgement" and they're saying "Woah"

Panel 2: He's holding it and saying "This is worthless"

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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 6h

absolutely bananas to me that i finally have an actual healthy relationship with my father, something i wanted my whole life.

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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 6h

my dad has been a terrible racist, classist, sexist white man boomer for most of my life. in the last ten years, while in his 60s and 70s, he has unlearned a lot of this and can both admit when he is wrong and maturely communicate through conflict. He quit drinking too. Old dog has new tricks.

Ź🖤🥀 @lalaspeaks.bsky.social · 1d

What’s ONE green flag about your father?

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 7h

Our fight is to make Indigenous People’s Day every single day.
For this to happen, we must end settler colonialism entirely.

This means toppling Empire, LandBack, and also, defeating the internal colonizer in our minds.

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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 6h

Fuck Gavin Newsom.

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 8h

Newsom vetoes both the PreP access and the HRT stockpile bill because he is worried it would increase healthcare costs...

He claims to support the aims of these bills. But the vetoes deny access to medical care for queer people.

(Context: He vetoed these 2 while signing 8 other queer rights bills)

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 8h

He also signed SB 590, which bolsters paid family leave.

Read his veto messages here:

www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...
www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 6h

I'll find you in every lifetime (menacing)

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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 6h

Remembering the whole incident that occurred when a few of us dared to say Melville was gay.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 19h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 7h

Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction

BIB L I OGRAPH Y
STAN DARD - A N TI-NEGRO
(These authors believe the Negro to be sub-human and congenitally un-
fitted for citizenship and the suffrage.)
Burgess, John W., Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1 866-1 876.
Coulter, E. Merton, Civil War and Reconstruction in Kentucky.
Davis, William W ., The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida.
Dunning, William A., Reconstruction, Political and Economic .
Eckenrode, F. Hamilton, Political History of Virginia During Reconstruc·
tion.
Fertig, James Walter, The Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee.
Ficklen, John R., History of Reconstruction in Louisiana.
Fleming, Walter F., Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama.
--, Documentary History of Reconstruction, 1 906, 1907.
Hamilton, Joseph G. de R., Reconstruction in North Carolina.
Hollis, John Porter, The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina.
Lonn, Ella, Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1 868 .
Ramsdell, Charles W., Reconstruction in Texas .
Rhodes, James F., History of United States from the Compromise of 1 850.
Scott, Eben G., Reconstruction During the Civil War.
Staples, Thomas S ., Reconstruction in Arkansas .
Studies in Southern History and Politics . Inscribed to William Archibald
Dunning.
Carpet-Baggers in the United States Senate. By C. Mildred Thompson.
The Literary Movement for Secession. By Ulrich B. Phillips.
Negro Suffrage in the South. By W. Roy Smith.
Some Phases of Educational History in the South Since 1 865. By Wil-
liam K. Boyd.
Southern Legislation in Respect to Freedmen, 1 865- 1 866. By J. G. de
Roulhac Hamilton.
The Federal Enforcement Acts . By William Watson Davis.
The New South, Economic and Social . By Holland Thompson.
Grant's Southern Policy. By Edwin C. Woolley.
Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction.
Thompson, Clara M., Reconstruction in Georgia, Economic, Social, Po-
litical, l 805-1 872.
Wooley, Edwin C., The Reconstruction of Georgia.

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Fruities Team🍉 @fruitiesteam.bsky.social · 10h

On this Indigenous Peoples Day, Fruities would like to share about the indigenous concept of "two-spirit" and highlight indigenous members of our team! Today is a great day to support indigenous business, read stories from indigenous people, and engage with indigenous content creators.

Information poster with text:
Honoring Indigenous Peoples' Day
Indigenous Peoples' Day is a holiday in the United States that celebrates and honors Indigenous people and commemorates their histories and cultures.
Indigenous people and LGBTQ+ history
Historically, LGBTQ+ Native Americans used terms for gender-related social roles unique to their specific tribe and tribal language. For many tribes, people were historically defined more by their roles in relation to their partner and their tribe, and viewing people as simply male or female was an idea first introduced by colonists.
Two-spirit is an English term that emerged in 1990 to describe Indigenous North Americans who fulfill one of many mixed gender roles found traditionally among indgenous groups. Male and female Two-Spirits have been documented in over 130 tribes, in every region of North America.
Two-Spirits have had distinct gender and social roles in their tribes.
They could have been:
Healers
Special role players in sundance or other ceremonies
Medicine persons
Convyers of oral traiditions
Name givers
Caregivers for orphaned children
hrc.org/resources/understanding-native-lgbtq-identies

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 8h

Happy Indigenous People's Day! I'm a Karuk food sovereignty advocate, traditional food gatherer, food writer & old nerd. My people are on the Klamath River & I grew up in the Hupa Valley. I wrote a cookbook about the way I use tradish foods in my family: tinyurl.com/4dufbvux

Chími Nu'am: Native California Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen — Quiet Quail Books

tinyurl.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11h

For Indigenous People's Day, I'd like to encourage fellow #Trekkies (and everyone else!) to read Black and Choctaw commentator @law-writes.bsky.social on one example of Native representation in #StarTrek.

www.startrek.com/news/star-tr...

How Star Trek: The Next Generation Took On Indigenous American Representation

A member of the Choctaw Nation parses through TNG's 'Journey's End.'

www.startrek.com

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Emmy Scott @emmynawjoopinga.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Saturday! For #NationalComingOutDay support Two-Spirit organizations! I am the treasurer for one on Winnebago Reservation in Nebraska serving NE & Iowa. We hold safe space family events & educational teach-ins. Donate here: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
#SettlerSaturday #HelpSky #IndigiSky

The Winnebago Two-Spirit Org Leadership holding a Winnebago Tribal Flag.

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Emmy Scott @emmynawjoopinga.bsky.social · 19h

Columbus sex trafficked Indigenous children as young as 7 years old. Columbus is basically the original Epstein, no wonder Trump idolizes him.

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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 9h

pot kettle

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Indige Tea 🦬🧡 @colouredwilde.bsky.social · 1d

If you wanna give me money for being Indigenous on these North American Indigenous days: cash app - $TCTK3 & payp/zelle - [email protected]

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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 9h

rip my notofications

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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 10h

If you didn’t know, Alaska has been hit by a massive storm, causing severe flooding. Many Indigenous villages have been completely wiped out, with some houses floating away with PEOPLE INSIDE THEM. Please keep posting to spread the info. They need help.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 16h

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 9h

why you should not tokenize us. Some of us are more radical; some are not. We are your neighbors or live in communities you'll never see. Don't conflate us. Instead, listen to our many voices and know that the only real allyship is to give the land back.

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the rhetoric hashira @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 9h

Hello, new followers. Welcome. A reminder that Native and Indigenous peoples are not monoliths. We have different spiritual beliefs, cosmologies, traditions, and languages. Some of us are also Black, white, Asian, and/or from beyond Western borders. We don't speak for our nations or tribes which is

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