About Natives and Reparations: RESERVATIONS ARE NOT REPARATIONS. TREATY RIGHTS, LAND RIGHTS, WATER RIGHTS, HUNTING RIGHTS ARE NOT REPARATIONS. - ThreadSky

johnniejae.bsky.social • 86 days ago

About Natives and Reparations:

RESERVATIONS ARE NOT REPARATIONS.

TREATY RIGHTS, LAND RIGHTS, WATER RIGHTS, HUNTING RIGHTS ARE NOT REPARATIONS.

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johnniejae.bsky.social•86 days ago

Reservations are a complicated part of Native History, but in no way were they reparations. They were not developed as means of making amends for the injustices we faced or making peace but as means of keeping us contained and not every tribe has a "reservation".

johnniejae.bsky.social•86 days ago

Treaty, Land, Water and Hunting Rights are also not reparations. They are obligations that the U.S. government agreed to in Nation to Nation negotiations and settlements in accordance with our rights as sovereign nations and as the original inhabitants of these lands.

johnniejae.bsky.social•86 days ago

I always see folks confusing what little lands and rights we've managed to hold on to and secure as reparations but like most marginalized folks in this country, we are still fighting for reparations and justice.

johnniejae.bsky.social•86 days ago

If we had reparations, our reservations and communities wouldn't be struggling the way they are or in the rough condition that they are in.

But even with our struggles, lack of resources, and against all odds...We have taken tragedy and turned it into one of the greatest living legends of survival.

johnniejae.bsky.social•86 days ago

We faced our apocalypses, the maximum efforts of one of the world's greatest superpowers to eradicate us and yet here we stand.

And yes...we are still hurting and still trying to figure out how to heal and rebuild but we're still here and doing exactly that healing and rebuilding.

johnniejae.bsky.social•86 days ago

Which is also why we have NOT received reparations. Why so many of us have been fighting for centuries for reparations, for justice because they fear our power and what we could become.....FREE.

robroninja.bsky.social•84 days ago

Repair-ations amirite? We must repair our relations with the native peoples

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