Ancestors

Written by emsenn on 2025-01-24 at 13:29

The U.S. government questioning Native Americans' birthright citizenship isn’t just a bureaucratic issue—it’s a fundamental attack on Indigenous sovereignty. Native people are dual citizens: members of our sovereign nations first and foremost, with U.S. citizenship imposed on us in 1924 to erode that sovereignty. Now, the state is threatening to claw back even this imposed recognition, undermining treaty obligations and the legal frameworks that acknowledge our nations’ existence.

This is settler colonialism in action—using laws to erase and control. We’ve always existed as independent peoples, long before the U.S. imagined itself into being, and we’ll continue to exist regardless of what the settler state decides. This fight isn’t about fitting into their system; it’s about defending our right to govern ourselves on our terms.

https://www.salon.com/2025/01/23/excluding-indians-admin-questions-native-americans-birthright-citizenship-in/

[#]LandBack #IndigenousSovereignty

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Written by RememberUsAlways on 2025-01-24 at 15:08

@emsenn

While I agree with the right of self government, at what point do the tribes stop accepting payments from the US government though social programs and other tribal subsides?

Because what you imply is self governance without sacrifice.

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Toot

Written by Jane D.R. Fraser on 2025-01-24 at 21:14

@RememberUsAlways @emsenn Why should a people who were subjected to mass land theft, genocidal killing, and the erosion of their lifeways, have to make some “sacrifice” to exercise their right of sovereignty? Why shouldn’t the state that did that, that continues to benefit from that, provide them financial assistance?

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Descendants

Written by RememberUsAlways on 2025-01-24 at 21:50

@janef0421

War is brutal but nearly 3000 years of wars and suddenly everything is genocide.

I don't buy it.

The US tribes are all well respected and Trump is a moron for questioning their citizenship.

I have issue with the Tribes accepting government subsides while claiming the need for self governance.

Pick one.

@emsenn

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Written by Jane D.R. Fraser on 2025-01-24 at 21:58

@RememberUsAlways @emsenn Yeah, totally. Why reevaluate the actions of the past and rectify the issues stemming from it, when we could just become simultaneously moralists AND moral relativists. Then we could all sit around, doing nothing. World would be worse, but, hey, more time for navel-gazing.

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Written by RememberUsAlways on 2025-01-24 at 22:21

@janef0421

Good day.

@emsenn

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Written by Jane D.R. Fraser on 2025-01-24 at 22:50

@RememberUsAlways @emsenn You too.

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