This is very inaccurate and highly offensive position. You're 1) saying that all Mexican women are indigenous. They're not.https://twitter.com/map_alfaro/status/814737581594161152 …
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The Hopi are a nation that existed before the United States. Existed before Mexico. Hopi have their own government, have their own nation.
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What are the borders of the Hopi nation?
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Hopi is 2,500 square miles that border the Navajo Nation. Hopi has its own police, its own schools, its own healthcare.
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But that's not what you're asking, is it? You're asking a question that's meant to detract from the concept of nationhood.
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White whites violently colonized the Americas, they relied on a racist notion that nations and government didn't exist here.
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But nations and government very much *did* exist here — but they weren't modeled after European concepts.
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You define a nation by whether it has a king and a militarized border. 2016 and you're still stuck on that shit. It's sad.
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So a nation is just wherever a bunch of people decide to park themselves?
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