Month: September 2013

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26 Male Survivors Of Sexual Assault Quoting The People Who Attacked Them

From Grace Brown’s Project Unbreakable , an online platform that strives to “increase awareness of the issues surrounding sexual assault.” Trigger warning for sexual assault.

See on www.buzzfeed.com

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Listen to a U.S. Citizen’s Story of Being Detained By Immigration Enforcement – COLORLINES

WNYC reporter Sarah Abdurrahman is detained at the border along with multiple family members, and is now filing an official complaint

See on colorlines.com

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Neo-Nazis Trying to Take Over North Dakota Town Sent Running by Native American and Anti-Fascist Activists

“In an update to the story we ran yesterday on the town of Leith, North Dakota being taken over by Neo-Nazi racists, Michael Pugliese tells us from the ground that “Lakota, Dakota, Anishinabe, Apache, African, Irish, German, Norwegian, Spanish, and other anti-racist individuals stood together to fight against the attempted nazi takeover of Leith, North Dakota.”

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

And here is a CNN interview of a family in the town.

 

and this irony:
“Dakota” is a word that means “ally” and is likely derived from the Oceti Ŝakowiŋ (the Seven Council Fires) – or main political units – of the Dakota people (sometimes referred to as the Sioux)” –The Dakota People

See on politicalblindspot.com

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Vine Deloria, Jr on the whitenesss of American history

 

“Note: This post is based on “We Talk, You Listen” (1970) by Vine Deloria, Jr (pictured), a Native American (Sioux) writer. His ideas, my words:

 

By 1970 it was clear to most people that American history was too white as commonly taught at schools and universities. There were two main schools of thought about how to set it right:”
See on abagond.wordpress.com

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Confronting Violence Against Indian Americans

 

“Building Brides is our response to the persistence of violence in our society and against members of our ethnic communities, the most recent instance being that of the killings at the Sikh Gurdwara (temple) in Wisconsin.

 

The primary objective of this event is to create, promote and render a thought-provoking civil discourse among members of our communities.”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

This talk was given at San Jose State University, CA

 

Follow them online at IndiaCurrents.com

See on www.youtube.com

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Cut Your Hair – or Else

“It was 1902.  The government was unhappy that Indians were acting like, well, Indians, with their own customs and ways of life.  The government wanted to make the Indians white, or what they called “civilized,” so they would stop causing trouble with all of those “unacceptable ways.”

 

So on January 11, 1902, the Department of the Interior, Department of Indian Affairs, issued a letter instructing that Native people should cut their hair (males), stop painting themselves, start wearing white people’s clothes, stop wearing Indian clothes and blankets, and stop having dances and feasts.”

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Eliminate your culture – or else.

 

My son has long hair and people give me grief about it.

No one gave me grief about my daughter’s long hair.

 

@getgln

See on nativeheritageproject.com

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6 books to decolonize your mind

“In that practice of striving to disrupt oppressive-repressive discourses and decolonize the mind, I’ve decided to post 6 books that changed my life–some of these are banned from being read by high school students in Arizona. I realize many of these are pretty much a no-brainer for those of us who are already attempting decolonial praxis in our daily struggle, but nevertheless I feel deeply indebted to these authors for impacting my life with their radical words, ideas, and their overall activist approach towards writing.”
See on discoursedisruption.wordpress.com