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@IndigenousXca
Oct 24, 2017 • 9 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
I'm love-hate with @Carleton_U as a native student. There's amazing educators here + great community. But then there's weird shit like this.
Do I really want to work for RBC, the second largest investor in the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline?
Do I really really want to work for INAC where #GroundZeroINACToronto is camping out below their Toronto offices?
Do I really want to work for the RCMP who pulled their automatic rifles out on us when we tried to put up a tent during #Canada150
I don't know. Not really, lol?
But these entanglements between lethal colonial industries and Indigenous students are so normalized that no one ever speaks out about it.
It's not all bleak though. For myself, with the high-risk activism that I sometimes engage in, I've found many supports from within here.
Examples; like profs coming out to rallies, or giving extensions because of organizing, or offering letters of support; being kind people.
But lol still, I'm more likely to get shot by the RCMP before I end up working with them, so fuck off with that shit lmao.

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Aug 29, 2018
I have a lot of thoughts on 'Eskimo vs Inuit'

Not because Eskimo is a slur (though it is) but because the debate underlies a identity and culture in transition
Canadian Inuit transitioned from Eskimo in the 70s, in an act of self-determination

Prior to that Eskimo was merely a name, it *became* a slur when the only ppl left using it were racists that didn't respect Inuit self-determination
That's why Eskimo isn't a slur in Alaska yet, not because there's anything inherently or genetically offensive about the term
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So I suppose y’all are here to ‘learn’ or ‘get educated’ or whatever (ugh)

So I guess I’ll give a quick overview of the Yupiit, little bit of background
The Central Yupiit (as opposed to Siberian or St. Lawrence Island Yupiit) are an Inuit nation, and the largest Alaska Native group with about 25,000 people
Our homelands are in western Alaska, based around the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta

To the north are the Iñupiat, to the south are the Sugpiat, and to the east is the Athabaskan
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Aug 11, 2018
It was a beautiful day in Deshkan Ziibiing as we expressed our Nationhood and sanctioned all that we are responsible for: a thread
This foundational document expresses our inherent rights in our own words, and is a basis for us to assert our own jurisdiction
Our Chi-Inaakonigewin was drafted by our people and reviewed by respected Anishinaabe legal scholars
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Aug 8, 2018
I've got some time before a meeting to share some of the conclusions I've drawn through my research on Jim Brady and his "failures." The first is that while Brady did some amazing work and theorizing, ultimately it's not about him!
Metis tend to go hard on our "Great Men of History," particularly Riel. I've heard people use "Riel would've wanted this" to justify conflicting viewpoints before, lol! Of course, Metis histories (written by mostly non-Metis men) also tend to focus on singular male actors.
That's starting to change, thankfully, but I was wary white writing my thesis of extending the Great Man of History narrative into the 20th century with Brady. I focus on him not because I think he should be our next historical celebrity, but because we can learn so much...
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Aug 4, 2018
Alrighty, so Brady's first big project, and the first test of his political strategy: the Metis Settlements! First, the Settlements (and all of Brady's projects) were the result of the work of many many ppl, not just one guy!
Brady joined the MAA in 1932, and was one of five executive members who were able to come together despite different political orientations and personalities to build a strong and unified Metis movement in Alberta.
The "Fabulous Five" or "Famous Five" included Malcolm Norris, Joe Dion, Peter Tomkins, and Felix Calihoo. Brady was the theoretician of the group, and his and Norris' Marxist influence is really apparent in the MAA's writing and how they approached the land question.
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Aug 3, 2018
Today I'm working on the conclusion to my thesis on Jim Brady: Metis communist, radical labour organizer, and anti-fascist! In spite of being a Metis labour organizer myself, until I moved back to Alberta after my undergrad, I had never heard of him! So here's a bit about the guy
He was born in 1908 outside of Edmonton, and was the grandson of Laurent Garneau, who fought with Riel in 1885. Brady considered himself an inheritor of the Metis radical tradition, and spent his entire life working to build Metis political and economic self-determination.
He was instrumental in the formation of the Metis Association of Alberta (now the Metis Nation of Alberta), the Alberta Metis Settlements, and organized many Indigenous resource cooperatives across the northern prairies (mostly in AB and SK).
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