lupi

cow of tailed snake (gay)

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you can say "chimoora" instead of "cow of tailed snake" if you want. its a good pun.​


i ramble about aerospace sometimes
I take rocket photos and you can see them @aWildLupi


I have a terminal case of bovine pungiform encephalopathy, the bovine puns are cowmpulsory


they/them/moo where "moo" stands in for "you" or where it's funny, like "how are moo today, Lupi?" or "dancing with mooself"



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Sahoni
@Sahoni

Please read the preliminary report from the department of the interior's initial investigation to understand the very surface level of what it is the ICWA (indian child welfare act) is defending against. It is not an easy read. It in fact will be very upsetting.

But know no matter how upsetting you find the horrific abuse and death, this is the surface of a very deep trauma. There are many aspects it did not touch. And the academic language used to insulate mutes a level of horror.

These schools did not end. Some are still in operation. Some closed in the 80s. Many of them became adoption agencies. There use to be vans that grabbed kids off the street.

Estimates place 25-35% of native children were taken out of their communities. Forced sterilization was something that happened to about 1 in 4. There were whole communities that lost all their children. The reason we don’t have examples of exact numbers were that people didn’t think it was important enough to track or purposefully obfuscated and buried it.


Please understand this about the supreme court. These are men, who will never feel the consequences nor guilt of their actions arguing in favor of genocide. And should be treated as such. They feel no shame over this nor the racist propaganda they propagate. Only see a smug righteousness and oil money in their future.

And it is oil money.

The ICWA has been under attack for a while by people claiming it's "for the children". But the documented truth is native kids need the support of their community and there is a long paper history over-policing of indigenous communities.

The ICWA isn’t some poorly thought out patch job. It in many ways is a gold standard of child welfare. Plenty of advocacy groups, be it child welfare, mental health, or transracial adoptees agree. Last count I checked was 486 tribal nations, 59 Native orgs, 11 child welfare orgs, 26 states.

In fact the only people that seem in favor of it is the state of Texas, a conservative think tank, and a law firm funded by big oil? Now what would all these these people have a vested interest in a face that on the surface level seems to be about custody?

Well, the case is arguing that the policy is reverse racism and that indigenous identity is racial instead of, what it actually is, a political and social identity as we are sovereign nations and political entities.

They say this to enforce exterminationist policies like blood quantum. The practice of determining indigeneity by blood fractions. Something that is racist, has no basis in science, indigenous models of nationhood or belonging, and again, is made to be exterminationist. That indian can be bred out.

This, would be key to undermining Indigeneity as an identity at all. Basically, legally, native folk would be tied to (by the US's definition) an identity that couldn't exist in a sustainable or politically defensible way. Thus undermining every bit of sovereignty or civil rights protection that has been fought for over hundreds of years. Or, more direly, leaving it up to the states.

Something oil has a monetary interest in as this has been the cornerstone of indigenous nations to stonewall oil pipelines going through, lands, sacred sites, and watersheds. It is one of the keys to success for pipeline protest all over the country. Standing rock put the fear of god into these folk.

Indigenous nations are politically sovereign entities with our our rights, cultures, languages, and definitions of belonging and community. We're not purebred dogs nor can we be bred to extinction. We have the right to our children and they have a right to their future.

Please don't let some clowns arguing "reverse racism" without the first clue over indigenous identity, belonging, or kinship being backed by oil money and a racist lawyer with a grudge against natives take our children our undermine our sovereignty.

I do not have faith in american government on issues of indigenous rights. Especially in this supreme court. Indigenous racism has long been defined by a hyper invisibility which silences our struggles. Do not let this be one of them.

All I ask is you pay attention and listen to the people actually affected by this case. And question the motives of anyone that says a civil rights ruling is unneeded.

Indigenous people are not inherently less capable of providing for and loving our own children.


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