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I am excited to see the efforts behind https://www.endasfmascotry.com/ and perhaps it can spark momentum for even more settler allyship. #NotYourMascot #Apache

Let me share some of the things I have learned about being a better settler ally in support of reconciliation and #LandBack:

ASF and “Native”-themed Mascotry

ASF has been “playing Indian” for decades. There is no respectful way to appropriate and it’s long past the time for ASF to change its name and branding.
www.endasfmascotry.com
#landback #apache #notyourmascot
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It is important that we:
- Recognize the crimes and harms of settler colonialism
- Learn about whose land we live on and benefit from
- Learn about ourselves and our complicity in this tangled history
- Work to make amends
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First, settlers must acknowledge that the colonization of the so-called Americas was a series of terrible crimes, ongoing over centuries. Whether your immigrant family identified as colonizers or refugees, they recognized and supported governments whose state policy was genocide. This enabled land theft on a massive scale.
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Awareness can be a first step towards reconciliation. It is crucial for settlers to recognize each Indigenous Nation as a distinct entity, with its own culture, language, heritage, and homeland. "Indigenous" is about as descriptive as "European". Don't be that person who has no trouble differentiating French and German customs but acts like it's too hard to distinguish between Muckleshoot and Cree.
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One way to engage is to learn about the Indigenous peoples whose land you reside on. https://native-land.ca/ has a map that can provide a great starting point. Are you familiar with the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit in your area? What are their historical and modern languages? What tribal organizations can you support?

Welcome - Native-Land.ca

Native Land is a resource to learn more about Indigenous territories, languages, lands, and ways of life. We welcome you to our site.
Native-Land.ca
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As an example, I live on Coast Salish land in so-called Seattle, Washington, USA. I use this broad cultural term because many nations shared the land I now reside on: Duwamish, Suquamish, Muckleshoot, Stillaguamish, Puyallup, Tulalip, Lummi, and others.

I began to support Duwamish Tribal Services on an ongoing basis through their "Real Rent" program, and try to make grants to tribal foundations if I visit or use a nation's historic land.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_Salish
https://www.realrentduwamish.org/

Real Rent Duwamish

Pay Rent to the Duwamish Tribe: Support the Duwamish Tribal Services through Monthly Giving
Real Rent Duwamish
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I also began learning about the treaties that allowed me to live here, and the context in which they were signed, where mass death due to numerous smallpox pandemics left majorities of the people in these communities dead or disabled. Under these apocalyptic conditions, the treaties of Point Elliott and Point No Point were signed in 1855.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1862_Pacific_Northwest_smallpox_epidemic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Point_Elliott
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_No_Point_Treaty

1855 treaty between the United States and Native Americans

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Generous treaties were not enough for our colonizer ancestors. They sought complete domination of Indigenous peoples. Chief Seattle's own white son-in-law resented traditional, tribal housing and the dignity and community it provided. He burned down his family's longhouse.

The US government made every effort to force Indigenous peoples out of their traditional ways of life to fuel the economy with more workers and acquire more land and resources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_House
https://www.seattleweekly.com/news/the-man-who-burned-down-old-man-house/

The Man Who Burned Down Chief Seattle’s Lodge

A son-in-law to Chief Seattle, William DeShaw is one of the most mysterious characters in Puget Sound history.
David Lewis (Seattle Weekly)
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To this day, we still violate the most basic of treaty rights, while abusing the land we've taken. Hydroelectric dams threaten entire ecosystem collapse through the risk of salmon extinction. Widespread pollution has left traditional food sources unsafe to eat.

https://civileats.com/2021/06/23/renegade-biologist-alexandra-morton-is-fighting-for-the-future-of-wild-salmon/
https://www.propublica.org/series/broken-promises
https://www.propublica.org/article/toxic-salmon-columbia-river-basin-lawmaker-response

Renegade Biologist Alexandra Morton Is Fighting for the Future of Wild Salmon

‘It's not a great measure of our democracy when occupying a fish farm is what you need to do to make change.’
Civil Eats
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If this is your first time learning this, you may find yourself a bit overwhelmed. Indigenous peoples have been living in some state of apocalypse since colonists arrived. I myself learned little of this in primary school, and such studies concluded with the silent assumption that "everything is better now!" It's not. Rather than look away, perhaps you'll be inspired to learn more? I highly recommend @pattyk's new book, Becoming Kin.

https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506478258/Becoming-Kin

Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

Patty Krawec guides readers through Native and settler history, myth, identity, and spirituality in this primer on settler colonialism.
Broadleaf Books
@Daanis
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