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Feb 2

We can do so much in our own communities just by every person doing a little. If you can't help hands on, help the helpers. If you do this, more organizations and mutual aid volunteers can keep helping. If we wait on government, many will not eat today or tomorrow. 🪶💕

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CathyCrowe

@cathyacrowe

Come on out to this. Invite a friend you haven’t seen for awhile. Safe Covid protesting outside. One hour in the cold is nothing compared to what the city is forcing upon ppl who are unhoused.

This is what I speak of when I tell you where I travel, the things I have seen and spoken with, those that showed me so much that no human can teach. This. Just this. My place of comfort and nothing is strange there to me. 🪶💕

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It is the same in SK. If you don't have an address, you have NO income at all. And people wonder why the houseless are struggling so badly out there. They can't afford a meal, ever. I want to scream from frustration💔😪😭

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Samantha’s Law

@SamanthasLaw

#Alberta cuts off social services cash when people lose housing, which makes homelessness cycle worse: expert. Policies criminalize houselessness. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-new via @edmontonjournal

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Christian Big Eagle

@CreeWarrior2010

Indigenous nations never fought holy wars against each other. Indigenous people tolerated each others religious beliefs. Even during times of war when a war party was going to attack a camp, but saw the people taking part in a ceremony, they would let them finish before attacking

Apparently we are getting censored for residential school truths. Not just me, but other Indigenous people as well. If the truth makes you uncomfortable, unfollow. You don't need to report and clutch your pearls, thanks.🪶

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Replying to @S_Catsgotmyback @KerryHopkinsTV and @SupportABanNI

Thank you for sharing this information. A lot of my posts are now censored because it seems residential school denialists are winning this one.

There is a very big difference between a naturally occurring pandemic, and a willful genocide. Sorry for your losses, but there is no similarity.

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Beverley Griffith

@Beverle94383579

COVID stole 2 yrs of old age,my grandkids lives,changed the way we work, our mentality,driving,recreation, entertain. When SARS hit, & isolation/sterile,masking, in hospitals became the rule…we thought such an outbreak or thought a derivative would ever affect , everything… twitter.com/ironbow/status…

Every word is true. I want to be who I am, without the strangeness being wrong. I want to be the little brown child who laid in the tall grass surrounded by spirits and looking closely at the crocus flowers to see if they loved me too. 💔🪶

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle

@DrDoyleSays

It's f*cked up that things that happen TO us can leave us feeling unfulfilled & empty-- but that's what trauma does. Living in survival mode disconnects us from who we are & what we find meaningful. We call it trauma "recovery" because it's about RECOVERING who we really are.

My little heart of broken pieces is struggling with this 'new world' of evil. I hope once the upheavals are over, even if I am not here to see it all, that ALL Indigenous are empowered once again. Fully and forever. 🪶

Someone, give me some motivation here. I am supposed to help the kids get these meals on today and my heart won't let me start. Something inspirational will help 💕

One thing came to my thoughts this morning, as I quietly was reflecting on the deep wounds; this era stole everything from my family. We are still suffering under it all. People do not know the full scope of loss and may never know. 💔🪶

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Chuka Okeke

@chukokeke

The concept of residential school denialism is an attempt to suppress the truth. It's inhuman to deny the RSS.Those who are propagating this sort of hate speech are not better than the 18th-century Maximilien Robespierre of France, who was a notorious tyrant produced in history.

Tansi, rise with the Sun relations and make ready yourself for the new day ahead. Take heart in the processes taking place in this world, they will lead to better if we really want it. Walk with gentle steps on the Mother, so others may pick up the energies of love and kindness🪶

Tomorrow, am supposed to be making hot meals for the houseless and I feel beaten already. The hate poured out for our eyes and minds to view is so heavy. I smudge and still feel its wrath and power. A force only they can change. Be kind, help one another. This is life; one shot🪶

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The Sun has set, smudge is over, to release the pain or negative energy of any emotions of this day. Be 'clean' in your heart for rest so the Ancestors might find you peacefully at rest. After today, I just say this; be kind, caring and lift those who are suffering. Be Love💕🪶

We have always said that this was happening and not much was ever done. #MMIWG2S

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Arlene Christie

@HighwayOfTearz

Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli

Ian Mulgrew: Allegations that BC RCMP officers abused Indigenous women. Allegations of Mountie complicity in the violent, sexual abuse of Indigenous girls in Prince George were not investigated. Vancouver Sun vancouversun.com/opinion/column

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Native Red Cloud

@Native3rd

Where the world hides wisdom the universe places its treasure. ~ M Dhliwayo 🪶✨

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The conservatives are pushing to erase the treaties .. if they continue, our own must demand our lands back

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Robinson Huron Treaty is currently still in court for not upholding its side for over 150 years. Check out @RHT1850 for more information.. This is just BS twitter.com/guardian/statu…

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I also see the same thing. Freely sitting on fences quietly while watching is far too common. Pick a lane and commit to it. At this point it's only good and evil. Tapwe

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Bryson The Gaytive

@ArnallLabrador

I’m constantly disappointed with my white followers. There’s a vast majority of y’all that follow straight up racist, transphobic, bigoted accounts on here. I could go to a dozen white supremacist accounts on here and have mutuals with them.

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Until they are found accountable by laws, they will continue to post their lies and encourage hate towards Indigenous people. 😠🪶

sick world if they were untrue? Would you do something like that? No one in their right mind would want to share these stories without the hope that change was coming.🪶 It cost her everything. My mother. #ChildrenOfResidentialSchoolSurvivors #TruthMatters

Annie Ironbow, Survivor, Delmas, SK. residential school. Family Album, Deb Ironbow

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I have two questions for people who doubt in the residential school abuses; 1) why did the survivors, some who had not seen each other since they were 10 or 11, have the same testimonials of the abusers and killings? 2) why would we willingly disclose our deepest shames to this

speak our pain to the air and let the deep pain escape our lips. This is the gift you gave us, and we now give back to you. Until you can carry it, we will remind you just how heavy it really is. Tapwe🪶

lies forever. And I will pass this to you, for you to carry now. I will give you the burden of the abuses, the churches lies and the shapeshifters of your culture. You will carry them one day, and this is my hope. Those that know, they know by our tears, our shaking voices as we

would rage over their own demons given to them by these priests and nuns. Telling us the same things, you are dirty, you are evil, you are wicked and sinful. Over and over. Know this, deniers, come to this nightmare but you had better be ready for a truth that will silence your

knew. I recall urinating under my bed hiding deep in a corner because who my mother became when she picked up that thick leather strap was monstrous. She told us how she endured it and lived. We should be grateful. She would be far more cruel when drinking. She and her siblings

lived what she lived. Her siblings never said a word, because they lived it too. IT WAS NORMALIZED. I do not hate the abusers, because I loved my mother. I hate what was stolen from us. The language, the culture, our innocence and love. Our fear of beatings and harm was all we

thick leather sting of 'love' and 'discipline' and the abuses were many. I carry these memories, ask me. Do not doubt in the history, because I can speak to the many horrors of the abuse as it was PASSED down to us. We were always locked in basements, dark and empty, haunted. We

fearful. They were carried off to 'schools' where they suffered atrocities you cannot even imagine. THEY WERE CHILDREN, and they only half came home and many never came home. Stories told to us, but we, the children of these survivors, we also felt the abuse. We were shown the

your cattle, onto small parcels of land at the time was not considered 'agriculturally sound,' so they knew the lands were isolated and in places they would not use. The RCMP came and with the priests STOLE our children, ripping them from the arms of the mothers, wailing and

on our own lands, where we are respected and shown honor for all we carried so the settler and colonist could use these lands for their own wealth. We would ask for this respect as it is what we have shown you. We honored the treaties, we allowed our nations to be herded like

Anger weakens our spirit, hurts us, breathes life into the past traumas. If I had to explain what that means, I will share something about it here, with hope you understand. We, the survivors and the families, those whose lives were impacted so horrifically want to see a day

even if you don't want them. They are from the settler nations on these lands. Their beliefs are your community's beliefs and we cannot keep being under this attack on our truths. We share them, we speak them and this is our reward. We cannot be as strong as we have had to be🪶

As allies, what do you do when you witness residential school denialism? What are the things you can do? 1) speak up 2) report the posts 3) check on your Indigenous friends and survivors. These are not asking you to become a new person, just a decent one. These are your people,

Genocide denial should be illegal. Yet here it is, and we once again suffer. I am so angry and wish these people would find similar suffering while they are alive on our lands. I truly wish they knew what our nations have suffered so they could sit here, comfortably denying🪶😠

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TheDorchesterReview

@DorchesterRev

Feb 3

It is false that indigenous children were forced to attend residential schools. Even when compulsory attendance was introduced in 1920, parents had a choice of day school or boarding. Lots of false narratives are going unchallenged by non-objective media. @NCTR_UM @CBCIndigenous

Because nothing HAS to get done. If this were anyone else, they would act and make it harder for the women to become prey. It is the same in Canada, every day we see our daughters, mothers, sisters and grandmothers faces as they are lost to the families. 🪶💔

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Arlene Christie

@HighwayOfTearz

Native American Women Keep Turning Up Dead. Why Is Nothing Being Done? Showtime’s docuseries Murder in Big Horn is an urgent examination of the missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW/G:2S) epidemic plaguing America. Rolling Stone rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-m