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 for your culture because youre in a state of perpetual loss as the military keeps trying to expand their control over your inherited domain. They stopped your elders from speaking the language. They convinced your people that they can't be independant. They feed us lies.
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Grieving bc the military is also the world's biggest polluters & contributors to climate change and carbon emmissions. Not only do we lose our lands to them, because of their existence & insistence on being so large, we WILL lose our lands because of them. Low-lying atolls, gone.
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Grieving bc the military has introduced species that devastated our wildlife like the Brown Tree Snake, which decimated native bird populations on Guam. Now all you hear in the forests here is an unnatural silence. It turns my insides. The U.S. military is the invasive species.
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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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