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@EleanorMcArthu4 I hear you. I wasn’t trying to debate or dismiss anything. Just sharing a personal reflection at the time. Every issue matters and deserves space to be heard. I'm not looking to debate which issues in our communities are of more importance. They are all valid.

@BeeAndThree A debate isn't a beef. I just wanted to pick your brain a bit and move on to the next convo on here. I didn't say that I had an issue with you

I’m a Native woman living on my homelands. Where borders, forced religion, and firewater were used to erase us.

@EleanorMcArthu4 Your issue isn’t with me. I shared personal thoughts, not a fix for all. Every community is different. Bureaucracy matters, continue to speak on it. This post wasn't meant for that.

If you strip bureaucracy, the rest tends to come. Some of our issues regarding our own rights also starts with some of our leaders too, that is why we may have to make bureaucracy chill a bit.... and tackle crime against each other, which includes drug dealers in our own communities, etc. Some of this stuff comes with people bc they think moving like that is gonna bring positively, but I think it's akin to bad medicine

@EleanorMcArthu4 I hear you on bureaucracy because that's real. But some of our voices are buried by laws that strip our rights, not just red tape. That’s what I’m naming. What we’re facing is raids and rights stripped without due process. That’s not red tape, that’s violence. But both are true.

@BeeAndThree You can't have a real voice with bureaucracy in the way, that's how our voices get buried

@EleanorMcArthu4 These rollbacks aren't tribal-specific, but they hit us too. Our fight isn’t just economic. It’s also for bodily autonomy, voice, and true sovereignty.

@BeeAndThree Elaborate on rights bc it looks to me, there's policies that get in the way of Native people building economies that needs to be dealt with, which is why I'm anti regulation.

@jarr81673 Sounds like you need to do some research and I'm not one to provide free labor. Especially intellectual because not everyone has a great comprehensive level.

@jarr81673 In which we have treaties between nations.

@jarr81673 Mine. Or they would have died from disease and starvation.

@jarr81673 I'm sorry if you're people were conquered. As a descendant of the saviors who helped your people just know we did it with humility.

@jarr81673 Actually we do. 🫶

@jarr81673 Many nations resisted, survived, and still exist. Colonization failed to erase us. When they couldn't conquer they sent in their pedophiles of the church. Disgusting to idolize that.

@jarr81673 Referencing dates like 1610 and 1620 doesn’t erase the fact that Indigenous nations were already here thriving, governing, and defending our lands. I'm not the one confused.

@jarr81673 “Let us live”? Please. They were just trying to save themselves. Starving, sick, and outmatched on our land. Survival wasn’t mercy, it was self-preservation. Don’t rewrite history to make them feel noble.

@tungel2145832 “Conquering” while drunk and preaching forced religion isn’t a flex. More like a colonizer L. Couldn't fight with skill. So they came with germs, guns, and God complexes. Lmaoooooo 😂

Imagine not being able to conquer lands while drinking whiskey and preaching Christ. Sounds like a skill issue ✝️☦️🥃

@SaltyPiet That’s a real uneducated take. You clearly don’t know the difference between intertribal beef and colonization. Tribal conflict wasn’t genocide. Europeans brought disease, forced religion, and smallpox blankets. That’s not the same it’s just gross.

@BeeAndThree Too bad natives used way worse things to erase each other for Millenia.

An evening that reminded me how sacred it is to gather in sisterhood. We came together to celebrate the matriarch of our circle. So much laughter, reflection, and warmth around that table. My heart is full.

If you don’t feel affected, that’s privilege. But one day, when they come for you, who will be left to speak for you?

When you say “Make America Great Again” while cheering the rollback of rights, what you really mean is make it white again.

Sharing this again! Help a 1st grade teacher get through the last of the school year! ❤️☺️