I have to have a serious talk with one of my Metis friends on how she needs to do a lot more decolonization work. It's due to her reaction to my annual Earth Day call for #Indigenous #LandBack. She's still very colonial indoctrinated. Her response to any landback statements is: "Every earthling needs earth and land happy earth day."

If you still have a #colonial #mindset like this - it tells me that you need a ton more #decolonization work. Landback isn't about making sure ONLY Indigenous peoples have lands. It's about recognizing colonial land theft & the ongoing colonial genocide of Indigenous peoples by colonial capitalists. It's about respect & genuine reconciliation for Indigenous peoples. It is literally the least we can do as settlers on stolen Indigenous lands.

I'd like this cycle to stop - white folks, it's on you & your fellow Caucasians folks to cease doing this kinda of crap.

White CIS people(or any gender & nonbinary white folks), self proclaimed ally types insert their noses into POC peoples' business & create unnecessary dramas for others. When POC folks confront them on their behaviours, they deny/deflect & yank out PTSD shields, only to avoid personal accountability for their own words/actions. They don't truly care much at all about the harms they inflict on POC folks, nor care about triggering our PTSD, by being shady, ignorant busy-bodies. They need to do much more decolonization mindset work & also focus on their own lives much more than others' lives.

Recommended decolonial educational resource.

The #TreatyMap.
#IndigenousPerspectives on #Treaties in #Canada

Covering every #Canadian #treaty from 1763 to the present, The Treaty #Map aims to challenge the commonly held view of treaties as land surrenders and offers a #comprehensive, #interactive #learning and #teaching tool, grounded in #Indigenous perspectives of #treaties.

https://treatymap.yellowheadinstitute.org/

#RecommendedReading for #Decolonial #Education. #Free #OpenAccess report.

About Murder by Decree

Murder by Decree is an #uncensored #record of the planned #extermination of #IndigenousChildren in #Canada’s murderous Indian #ResidentialSchools. It is issued as a corrective #CounterReport to the miscarriage of #justice by Church and State known as the “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” #TRC. Based on eyewitness #testimonies and #archival #documentation deliberately suppressed or ignored by the TRC, Murder by Decree proves that the #genocide of #IndigenousPeople began as a religion-led campaign and continues to be a deliberate governmental policy in Canada. This Counter Report reveals these startling facts: – Over half of Indian residential school children began dying the very first year these church-run facilities were opened – This huge mortality rate continued unabated for over a half century because of deliberate practices of germ warfare according to a prescribed monthly “death quota” – Evidence of these crimes and their intentional nature has been continually destroyed by the RCMP and the #Catholic, #Anglican and #UnitedChurch since at least 1960 – The same genocide continues today, is aimed at indigenous women and children, and is driven by foreign corporate interests hungry for #NativeLands and resources Murder by Decree is issued by The International Tribunal for the Disappeared of Canada (ITDC), an international #coalition of #jurists and #HumanRights groups. The ITDC was formed in December, 2015 to investigate the disappearance of people in Canada, prosecute those responsible and prevent a further #whitewash by Canada of its #CrimesAgainstHumanity. This report is an answer to these #crimes and an urgent summons to the world and to all #Canadians to live no longer under #genocidal #regimes.

Published by the #ITDC Central Offices in #Brussels and #Toronto. For more information write to angelfire101@protonmail.com .

http://murderbydecree.com/

Through a close examination of #Canadian #ForeignPolicy from crushing an #Indigenous rebellion in #ElSalvador , #peacekeeping missions in the #Congo & #Somalia & #ColdWar interventions in #Vietnam & #Indonesia to #Canadian participation in the #WarOnTerror - Canada in the World finds that this #colonial heart has dictated #Canada ’s actions in the world since the beginning.

https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/canada-in-the-world

There are more Black Autistics and Autistics of Colour and yet the Autistic voices most heard are white.

Listen to Black Autistic Kayla on YouTube

We have to be intersectional in our activism.

Happy Black Autism Awareness/Acceptance Month

#DecolonizeYourMind #Intersectionality #AutismAcceptanceMonths
#BlackAutismAcceptanceMonth #BlackAutisticKayla
#ActuallyAutistic

https://youtu.be/HUad0awMsb4

#CitizensPlus also known as the #RedPaper was a #report presented to the federal government on 4 June 1970. It was prepared under the leadership of #HaroldCardinal & the #IndianAssociationOfAlberta. It was a response to the 1969 #WhitePaper . The authors believed the White Paper offered a dire view of the future for #Indigenous .

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/citizens-plus-the-red-paper

Part of my ongoing local #decolonization efforts include helping people learn that insects can also be #food & to not feel grossed out about eating them. Many #insects are #edible - even #invasive ones(which I encourage voraciously eating) & provide a good source of #proteins too.