Decolonize Myself

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2Spirit/Cree/Treaty 4 First Nations Personal journey. Exploring colonization, decolonization, healing, & culture. www.decolonizemyself.ca

Translation exhaustion The idea that Indigenous people (or any marginalized person/group) engaging with the larger population on a given subject or topic related to bias, must first set the stage in terms of historical context all the way to current day state of affairs, before even addressing said topic of bias - over and over again - due to the lack of education/background the listener has. A direct impact of erasure of true Indigenous history beyond the cursory mention in our school systems. - Twyla Baker, Ph.D.
joenichols_theoriginal > You cannot argue with MAGA. They demand evidence, then call your sources biased. You provide primary sources, they claim they're doctored. You show them video, they say it's out of context. You give them context, they say you're cherry-picking. This isn't debate. This is a systematic refusal to allow reality to intrude on mythology. You're not arguing facts. You're arguing whether facts exist.
A HISTORY THEY DIDNT TEACH YOU "WE ARE NOT VICTIMS OF COLONIZATION. WE ARE WARRIORS AGAINST IT." EVERY CEREMONY KEPT. EVERY LANGUAGE SPOKEN. EVERY CHILD RAISED TO KNOW WHO THEY ARE. EVERY BUSINESS BUILT. EVERY STORY TOLD ON OUR OWN TERMS. THIS IS THE RESISTANCE. IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN. DECOLONIAL CLOTHING
survival July 30, 2025 Love This! mobrowne✔ Remember the people who made room for you to be human not just a resource 1.2K likes 19 replies
Dennis Ward 1h. Saskatchewan's police watchdog will now be investigating the incident in Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation. The officers involved in this incident will remain on duty during the investigation. ✓ Saskatchewan RCMP asks SIRT to investigate the incident leading to three arrests in Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation 2026-07-28 5:00 p.m. As part of our commitment to transparency, and considering public interest, Saskatchewan RCMP has asked the Saskatchewan Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT) to perform an external independent investigation of the incident. SIRT has accepted this request. The officers involved in this incident will remain on duty during the investigation. -30-
THE WEST VIRGINIA HOLLER @HollerWV X.com "The people understand that wealth is not the fruit of labor but the spoils from an organized protection racket. The rich no longer seem respectable men but flesh-eating beasts, jackals and ravens who wallow in the blood of the people." -Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
kaleidosoapbath > Disability Threads 1d If disabled people are forced to live in poverty because disability benefits are egregiously low, that's not just a policy, that's eugenics.
arnell_tf 11 hours ago Me: I'm decolonized Followers: He's decolonized Relations: He's decolonized Ancestors: Is he though?
Kim Siever @kim_siever Indigenous people paid for the wealth of white Canada. They paid with their lives, they paid with their poverty, they paid with their assimilation, they paid with their incarceration. White Canada wanted something that someone else paid for.
Jeremy @jeremyct The banks got bailed out in 2008. The auto industry got bailed out in 2009. The airlines got bailed out in 2020. The corporations got PPP loans forgiven in 2020. Every time the system fails the billionaire class, the government writes a check. Every time the system fails us they say pull yourself up. Socialism for the rich. Personal responsibility for everyone else.
Mark Carney Senator Lindsey Graham has devoted her life to serving the people of South Carolina and the American people. Throughout his career, he has tirelessly defended democracy and freedom, most recently that of Ukraine and its people, in particular. I extend my deepest condolences to Senator Graham's family and friends, and all those who served with him. ✪ Rate this translation
Sherry Lynn Mckay ❤ 53m Yenno some people's opinion of me aren't even based on me. It's based on someone else's version of me. A story they were told. A clip they watched. A comment section they believed. A version of me that existed in one moment, under pressure, in survival mode and maybe not my best self. And then they carry that version around like it's my entire identity. What's funny is that those people have never met the thriving version of me. The healed me. The peaceful me. The funny me. The generous me. The version of me that isn't just surviving anymore. So if all you know is survival mode me... I'm sorry you haven't met the version that's pretty fuckin' dope. And no, I'm not going to apologize for defending myself when people who don't know me insist on telling the world an expired exaggerated version who I am. Sorry She doesn't live here
Read this voicesof_theoppressed ♥ 6h Message Colonial power has always used laws, treaties, and handshakes to make land theft look like diplomacy. @decolonizemyself
TRANSPHOBIA DOESN'T STOP WHEN PRIDE MONTH ENDS. YOUR SUPPORT FOR TRANS PEOPLE SHOULDN'T EITHER. @TRANSGENDER_TOGETHER
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dineaesthetics Systems of care, like culturally affirming care, gender affirming care, inclusive and intentional policies and practices, and so much more, SAVES lives. Collective liberation is and always will be possible when we work, nurture, and care for each other. Our "Two-Spirit and LGBTQ+ Relatives deserve to be respected for who they are, are supported and celebrated in ways that are relevant to their view and experiences within this world. are offered reciprocity rooted in radical kinship and unconditional love, and are provided the capability to exercise responsibility over their lives and those that they care and love." - Scott & Thōtin-awāsis (@prestomanifest0), 2023, Developments Beyond the Asterisk: New Scholarship and Frameworks For Understanding Native Students in Higher Education.
Luke @l_melo_h As it turns out, the moral arc of the universe only bends toward justice if massive amounts of everyday people decide to yank it in that direction
bethdefyingyall Follow "I asked ChatGPT..." yeah well I asked Reading Rainbow and they said take a look, it's in a book.
Rex Smallboy 3d C what bothered me was we already have racists and residential school denialists making everyday harder in this colonial society.. and now we gotta contend with racist native residential school denialists making a shitty situation even shittier
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MEDIA RELEASE June 17,2026 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BOIL WATER ADVISORY DAY 11,459: NESKANTAGA FIRST NATION RESPONDS TO CANADA'S NEW BILL C-37 FIRST NATIONS CLEAN WATER ACT Neskantaga First Nation, ON - In the House of Commons yesterday, the Honourable Mandy Gull-Masty, Minister of Indigenous Services (MP Abitibi-Baie-James-Nunavik-Eeyou, Quebec) introduced Bill C-37 the proposed First Nations Clean Water Act, and the Neskantaga First Nation Chief and Council issue the following statement: "The People of Neskantaga First Nation have lived the reality and impacts of a long-term boil water advisory for over 31 years. Canada is presenting this proposed legislation as recognizing our First Nations Section 35 rights to self-government and the novel recognition of First Nations jurisdiction over water. Canada has failed our people when it comes to providing access to clean water. From Chretien to Carney, five Prime Ministers have failed to ensure real action at the First Nation local level is taken to address this basic quality of life issue Neskantaga First Nation reminds Canada that First Nations jurisdiction over water is as equally fundamental as First Nation jurisdiction over our lands and territories. Firstly, the First Nations Clean Water Act Bill C-37 is fundamentally flawed as it is an unacceptable tool of delegated authority. If Canada truly recognized First Nations jurisdiction over water, and the UNDRIP principle of free, prior and informed consent - then First Nations would have an equal role at the Canada Water Agency that has been established at arms length from direct First Naton engagement and decision-making. Instead, Canada and the Minister of Indigenous Services will place First Nations at a legislated table only amongst ourselves in Bill C-37's proposed First Nations Water Commission. Secondly, Bill C-37 holds space for First Nations who are modern treaty or self-government agreement holders. There is no recognition of the inherent challenges
ASSEMBLY OF TREATY CHIEFS DEMANDS PREMIER AND UCP TREASON INVESTIGATION Unanimous resolution calls for immediate action by RCMP and Auditor General June 17, 2026 (Treaty No. 7 Territory) - The Assembly of Treaty Chiefs (AOTC) of Treaty No. 6, Treaty No. 7, and Treaty No. 8 has unanimously passed a resolution calling for an investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Auditor General into the actions of Premier Danielle Smith and members of the UCP to determine whether they constitute treason under Section 46 of the Criminal Code of Canada (Criminal Code, RSC 1985, c C-46, s 46). The vote took place in a duly convened meeting on Treaty No. 7 Territory in Calgary on June 16, 2026. We call for this investigation on the basis of the intentional violation of the Treaties; of calling a referendum in the face of severe risks to Canada's sovereignty and the Treaty Relationship and of failing to take action on the violation of privacy rights of millions of people. Further, Premier Smith and the UCP government have done all this with significant risks of foreign interference and influence. At the time of Treaty, the Northwest Mounted Police, now the RCMP, committed to ensuring the safety of First Nations and our Territories, and that the Crown guarantees the peace and goodwill mutually promised between First Nations and the Crown in exchange for sharing these Lands. United, the Chiefs of Treaty No. 6, Treaty No. 7 and Treaty No. 8 Territories now call for the fulfilment of this commitment in the form of a full investigation.
I used to try so hard to be everything for everyone. Now I'm just trying to be okay for myself.
Kanahus Manuel ❤ @KanahusFreedom I am appealing for community assistance right now if you can help me with contribution: PayPal or emt: kanahus515@icloud.com Kukstsemc, I'm so in shock and glad I wasn't on the highway
Winnebago Two-Spirit Prestin Thōtin-awāsis Jun 9, 2024 2 Spirit people are brought into your bloodlines by the Creator to teach + show our kin how to heal & how to love themselves. 2 Spirit people are simply a body of prayers your ancestors prayed into existence.
Emily L. Hauser @emilylhauser A big part of toxic masculinity is teaching boys to bond over the shared humiliation of people they perceive to be vulnerable.
Happy Pride! @freeyourmindandthink There are no drag queens in the Epstein files. Just straight white men. Have the gayest month everyone!
If you know someone is abusive and you still defend them, cover for them, or stand beside them while the person they hurt is being discredited or silenced - then you are not neutral. You are choosing a side. When you enable an abuser, you become complicit in the abuse. Sit with that. -unknown
indigiqueercreativealliance ♫Blackfire Is This Justice Not gay as in happy; JUSTIFIED RAGE Ancestral Queer as in burn it down. HAPPY PRIDE MONTH
Upsetting The Setup hip hop movement Jun 4, 2017 The fact that oppressed people can't make a single angry statement about their oppressors without being asked to clarify they didn't mean literally everyone in that group just in case they hurt someone's feelings blows my f cking mind. Sorry if I hurt your feelings by pointing out that you're part of a group that benefits from the dehumanisation of others. I guess I was just too busy being actively dehumanised to care.
shelliesizer 10h You don't like Pride Month? Follow Just ignore it like you do the Epstein Files Happy Pride Month
JUSTICE FOR JAALI WALK FOR AWARENESS OF PREECLAMPSIA SASKATOON, SK MEET: WHITE BUFFALO YOUTH LODGE (602 20TH ST W) CALLING ALL INDIGENOUS MOTHERS WRONGED BY HOSPITALS IN ANY WAY THE FAMILY OF EXPECTING MOTHER JAALI SUTHERLAND-WEENIE, WHO TRAGICALLY PASSED AWAY AT THE JIM PATTISON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ON APRIL 26, 2026, IS URGING ALL FIRST NATIONS, SASKATCHEWAN RESIDENTS, AND CANADIANS WITH COMPASSION TO UNITE IN THEIR CALL FOR JUSTICE. #JUSTICE FOR JAALI SUNDAY JUNE 7 1 PM RIVER LANDING AMPITHEATRE SPEAKERS TO FOLLOW FOR QUESTIONS CALL CONNIE MIKE (639) 318-9148 KIRBY SCOTT (306) 514-3023
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June is ihy.wes For pride month you can't say "let me get this straight...", you have to say "just so we're queer..." Pride Month
The Resistance 37m blairimani ❤> One of the most effective tools of authoritarianism is convincing the public to look away when civil rights violations happen to people they disagree with. They come for the people we are taught to dismiss and dehumanize but by the time they come for you, the precedent is set and it's too late.