Xicana Nican Tlaca Rising

 

I come from Texas. I am indigenous. I am Xicana. I am Nican Tlaca. We might not remember her indian names any more but Texas was and is holy land.

 

 

The version of American “history” that is socially programmed is one of the most powerful tools of colonialism that persists today. Labels like “immigrant” to describe indigenous peoples across Cemanahuac (the “Americas”) are a great example of the great wasichu crime against our humanity and connection to the earth.

 

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Source: xicanachronicles.com

An Introduction to Settler Colonialism at UBC

 

This three-part series on settler colonialism is co-authored between two people: one who identifies as a michif (Métis) man from Saskatoon, the other who identifies as a racialized, non-Indigenous female settler. As co-authors, we are speaking from our own perspectives as an Indigenous person (Justin) and as a settler (Kay).

 

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Source: unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com

Colonialism Never Ended [VIDEO]

 

Awqa Colque speaking about the ongoing colonialism on Nican Tlaca (Indigenous) land at Birmingham University at the event “Far From Post-Colonial: The continued struggles of indigenous peoples”.

 

Source: xicanation.com

The U.S. Roots of the Central American Immigrant Influx

how to purchase isotretinoin Before dying of pneumonia at a Guatemala hospital in late May, the recently deported 21-year-old Gustavo Antonio Vásquez Chaj told his family that the U.S. Border Patrol had kept him, at some point, wet, stripped of a layer of clothing, and in a cold cell during several days in detention.

The tragic journey of Vásquez Chaj and Tucux Chiché is one story among many of how http://fhaloanmichigan.org/fha-loan-in-wixom-mi/ harmful U.S. political and economic policies in Latin America violently intersect with a hardening and brutal system of U.S. immigration control. In their case, the young men’s voyage was first and foremost one of necessity rather than of choice. Vásquez Chaj and Tucux Chiché were economic migrants fleeing a country of wreck and ruin that decades of harmful U.S. foreign and economic policies have helped to bring about.

It is indisputable that the United States shares significant responsibility for the genocide of tens of thousands of Guatemalans—mainly indigenous Mayans, including members of Gustavo and Maximiliano’s community, who comprised a majority of the (at least) 150,000 killed in the 1980s alone.
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Source: nacla.org

Decolonizing the Mind: Healing Through Neurodecolonization and Mindfulness

 

“Decolonizing the Mind: Healing Through Neurodecolonization and Mindfulness –

Author, educator, medical social worker and citizen of the Arikara (Sahnish) and Hidatsa Nations in North Dakota, Michael Yellow Bird, MSW, Ph.D. works with indigenous communities, teaching about healing the trauma of colonialism.

 

On January 24, 2014 he spoke about his experiences at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, sharing his ideas about how to go about doing this through techniques of mindfulness, thought and behavior which he refers to as neurodecolonization. ”

 
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Harvest of Empire – YouTube

 

“Harvest of Empire is a gripping documentary that reveals the political and social roots that have driven millions to migrate from Latin America to the United States”

 
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▶ Maternal Colonialism: Feminism – Mexica Movement

Feminism was created as the means for white women to gain the same stolen and genocidal fruits of male dominated white supremacy.

Community Village‘s insight:

 

If feminism = pro women’s rights. All women (regardless or race or time) who respect themselves and all men who love women are feminists.

The concept of women’s rights existed before the English word ‘feminist’ and before the books on feminism were written.

feminism: the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.

Feminism will overlap with racism, but that doesn’t mean that feminism is bad. It means racism that exists within feminism is bad.

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#DecolonizeHistory: Storytelling & Resistance

 

“I started writing because there was an absence I was familiar with. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy – a yearning I had as a teenager… and when I get ready to write, I think I’m trying to fill that.” –Ntozake Shange

 

#DecolonizeHistory is about storytelling that disrupts space to present narratives that have been actively silenced or neglected. 

 

 

“Colonialism set the foundation for all other ‘ism’s’”

– Krysta Williams

 

 
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