Being an indigenous person of a colonized, occupied, militarized country, state, or territory is being in a perpetual state of grieving
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Grieving bc WE indigenous people are supposed to be stewards of our oceans, not them. They designated huge swaths of our sea as off-limits to commercial fishing, limited access for us, yet those "pristine" areas serve almost exclusively as a playgrounds for RIMPAC & war training
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Grieving bc THOUSANDS of species of marine animals are killed or affected by the constant bombing, artillery & sonar. Our endangered beaches, islands, reefs, whales, turtles, fishes, seals all unwillingly sacrificed for "military readiness" of a country I have no allegiance to.pic.twitter.com/H6tXrtV5cT
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Grieving bc we are not in this together. We bear the burden for the readiness of a nation that has historically wronged native populations it's associated with. For our sacrifices we gain mediocre healthcare, education & benefits but pay exorbitantly in our land, culture, people.
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People cannot imagine our islands as independant and that is entirely bc of colonization. People think we will "go backwards", be "lawless", "lose everything". Newsflash: we've been incrementally losing everything. It's just been so slowly & swept under the rug you don't know it.
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What I've mentioned isn't even scratching the surface. We are grieving in 1,001 different ways. S/o to
@craigsperez for writing about the militarization of the pacific in his poetry for YEARS. This paper I read used his work to help explain such a dense topic. Highly recommend!pic.twitter.com/czbeUxbocC
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Yep, like the Danes who brought mongoose to St Croix to ‘control’ iguana & snakes, but eliminated every bird except the Egret. Such is the ecological devastation of colonialism.
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