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    1. That One Crybaby Indigenous Auntie‏ @sha_merirei 12 Oct 2020

      02: "Elements of Indigenous Style" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VU0-W-gOw2Fbx--EiA5ezcHleXU2B0oy/view?usp=sharing …pic.twitter.com/G3gHuihlle

      We are in an era when Indigenous Nations are rejecting the colonial names that have been applied to and imposed on them, and are reclaiming their original names. Inuit were among the first to reject the term Eskimo in the 1970s; since then, many Indigenous Peoples have been bringing the word their ancestors called themselves back into use.
Quote from Gregory Younging’s Elements of Indigenous Style
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    2. That One Crybaby Indigenous Auntie‏ @sha_merirei 12 Oct 2020

      03: From “Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision” https://drive.google.com/file/d/131CkfOk9fbp4lpdFR5KsUiQtmkNLsQX1/view?usp=sharing …pic.twitter.com/pzG0hjbdnE

      Systemic colonization cannot be reduced to one essential definition or a unified phenomenon; instances of oppression operate together as a collective consciousness and infect most modern theory.
Quote from James (Sa'ke'j) Youngblood Henderson’s The Context of the State of Nature
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    3. That One Crybaby Indigenous Auntie‏ @sha_merirei 12 Oct 2020

      04: "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z_Z05jHof3W9WnkZtbsrkxWT8c2hnO5z/view?usp=sharing …pic.twitter.com/KnO3TO7xLi

      Under the crust of that portion of Earth called the United States of America-"from California ... to the Gulf Stream waters"-are interred the bones, villages, fields, and sacred objects of American Indians. They cry out for their stories to be heard through their descendants who carry the memories of how the country was founded and how it came to be as it is today.
Quote from Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’ An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
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    4. That One Crybaby Indigenous Auntie‏ @sha_merirei 12 Oct 2020

      05: From “Critically Sovereign : Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies” https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ucPRZa3msRrnoWiFyRA7fVR1yOMVTOyH/view?usp=sharing …pic.twitter.com/13Eg07fBrV

      Kanaka Maoli are involved in a strengthening process of cultural renewal and reconstruction based on epistemological resources and forms of knowledge that hold meaning for their Indigenous identities, social roles, and relationships.
Quote from J. Kēhaulani Kauanui’s Indigenous Hawaiian Sexuality and the Politics of Nationalist Decolonization
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    5. That One Crybaby Indigenous Auntie‏ @sha_merirei 12 Oct 2020

      06: "Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gUBG6YaHJTIG5E1XJ4uaqO-ug6E61Ilr/view?usp=sharing …pic.twitter.com/374X496rKJ

      As the crowd defiantly gathered under the water tower, a single future event came into view against the broader background of historical possibility. The protesters imagined the moment when West Papua would be granted independence. In a speech under the Morning Star flag, Filep Karma declared:

We, the people of West Papua, pledge to struggle to uphold the ideal of the independence of West Papua.

We, the people of West Papua, declare that the Republic of Indonesia cannot interfere in the affairs of West Papua. 

We, the people of West Papua, ask that our security be guaranteed by the United Nations and by no one else.

Quote from Eben Kirksey’s Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power
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    6. That One Crybaby Indigenous Auntie‏ @sha_merirei 12 Oct 2020

      07: Encounters with Indigeneity: Writing about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kKK5kD6IvBTWpAOjEqSWss5CLXSblAvA/view?usp=sharing …pic.twitter.com/5L99WO3FPY

      For its part, the state is so inextricably bound up with the Aborigines, politically and administratively, that it cannot easily disengage; rather, each effort to solve the problem binds the two closer together. The implication of this is that the state is an integral part of the problem it is supposed to be solving.
Quote from Jeremy Beckett’s Encounters with Indigeneity: Writing about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
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    7. That One Crybaby Indigenous Auntie‏ @sha_merirei 12 Oct 2020

      08: "Words of the Lagoon: Fishing and Marine Lore in the Palau District of Micronesia" https://drive.google.com/file/d/19coCSyLsb8eQ_TXI7ymT26l3u0RorD0h/view?usp=sharing …pic.twitter.com/1eTHJSd1r2

      I learned that his knowledge of reef fishes was phenomenal. Perhaps most impressive was the fact that he [Ngiraklang of Ngeremlengui, a Palauan fisher] knew the lunar spawning cycles of several times as many species of fish as had been described in scientific literature for the entire world. 
Quote from R.E. Johannes’ Words of the Lagoon: Fishing and Marine Lore in the Palau District of Micronesia
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    8. That One Crybaby Indigenous Auntie‏ @sha_merirei 12 Oct 2020

      09: From "The Politics of Cultural Knowledge" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V8bycPHP4bWTiNmX3idI6Z1gDU12YWXq/view?usp=sharing …pic.twitter.com/xHFSLEO9UH

      African feminism is part and parcel of African women’s lived experiences. African feminism is about African Indigenous ways of knowing which are holistic and not compartmentalized into neat piles but more fused together. African feminism is not exclusionary in terms of how gender participates and derives its impetus and meaning from particular historic-cultural specificities. African feminist thought is embodied through collectivism and collaboration. African feminism is about decolonization.
Quote from Njoki Wane’s African Indigenous Feminist Thought: An Anti-Colonial Project
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    9. That One Crybaby Indigenous Auntie‏ @sha_merirei 12 Oct 2020

      10: "Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1upeTymUda8kao3D3iVIpR_8tOZ276pGZ/view?usp=sharing …pic.twitter.com/77Huj7gX3U

      Feminists who felt marginalized from decision making and spoke critically of the failure within movement communities to recognize and honor female leadership projected their situations onto a particular Native woman. La Malinche began to function as an example of how misogynist nationalism asserted control over not only the bodies of women, but also their repre- sentation in the domain of the image.
Quote from Sheila Marie Contreras' Blood Lines: Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature
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    10. That One Crybaby Indigenous Auntie‏ @sha_merirei 12 Oct 2020

      And in the event that anyone wants to donate to help support my digital hoarding, you're always welcome. 😅 Ca$hApp: $merirei Venmo: @/merirei #OrSendMeLunch

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      Lani Mermaid‏ @Lani4Pasifika 12 Oct 2020
      Replying to @sha_merirei

      Beautiful thread Sha OMFG you outdo yourself every time 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

      8:05 PM - 12 Oct 2020
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        1. That One Crybaby Indigenous Auntie‏ @sha_merirei 12 Oct 2020
          Replying to @Lani4Pasifika

          🥰🙏🏾💖 Thank you soooooo much!

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