Unraveling the Roots of Colonization in New York State
A benefit for the #landback return of Onondaga Lake
https://givebutter.com/unravelingcolonization
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Unraveling the Roots of Colonization in New York State
A benefit for the #landback return of Onondaga Lake
https://givebutter.com/unravelingcolonization
unitedforclimate.blogspot.com/2025/01/by-e... CANADA and the UK can develop more effective, just and sustainable climate policies while addressing colonial legacies.' #LandBack #IndigenousPeoples #RespectIndigenousSovereignty #EndFossilFuels #Self-Determination #Decolonisation #UK #CA
‘BY EMBRACING CERTAIN CLIMATE ...
#Sovereignty Starts Here: Land, Economy, and #TribalRights in #Maine
James Myall
October 14, 2025
"Maine has profited from centuries of #Wabanaki land loss. Supporting land return and sovereignty reforms is both a moral responsibility and a smart economic investment.
This report focuses on the fundamental importance of land acquisition and usage to lay out an economic case for fully recognizing the #WabanakiNations’ inherent sovereignty.
Key Facts
- For at least 13,000 years, Wabanaki people and their ancestors have cared for this region’s land, water, and natural resources through sustainable stewardship.
- About 12.5 million acres of Wabanaki territory, valued at $105 billion in 1976, were claimed by Maine before rulings showed the claims were based on invalid treaties. Between 1820 and 1980,
- Maine extracted hundreds of millions in profits from tribal land seizures and sales, resource exploitation, tourism, and taxes — without compensating the Wabanaki Nations.
- The 1980 Settlement Acts ended the federal land claims case but left the Wabanaki Nations uniquely constrained compared to other federally recognized tribes, granting the state unusual control over their affairs and sparking decades of contention over unfulfilled promises.
- The Federal government contributed $26.8 million each to trust funds for #Passamaquoddy and #Penobscot Nations to purchase a maximum of 150,000 acres each, and $900,000 for the Houlton Band of #Maliseet Indians to purchase 5,000 acres. But the funds were exhausted before the full amount of land could be secured. #Maine did not contribute any funds to the settlement.
- The federal land acquisition funding was based on a calculation of $181 per acre. A recent purchase on behalf of the Penobscot Nation was valued at more than $1,000 per acre.
- The #Mikmaq Nation did not receive any federal funding for land acquisition until 1991. Today, the Mi’kmaq Nation still faces more land acquisition restrictions than other Wabanaki Nations.
- In contrast to efforts across North America to foster tribal sovereignty, the Settlement Acts lock the Wabanaki in an outdated system that blocks access to federal programs and about $4.6 million in funding per year, limits land acquisition and usage, and stifles economic growth.
- Between 1989 and 2020, tribes in the US with full recognition of their sovereign authority had six times greater income growth per capita than Wabanaki Nations.
- Modernizing the Settlement Acts could add $330 million to Maine’s GDP each year, create 2,700 new jobs, and generate $51 million in state and local tax revenue.
- Collaboration between Wabanaki Nations and non-native organizations will secure the return of over 50,000 acres to Wabanaki communities. But the state and federal government can and should do far more to fund and facilitate land return."
Source:
www.mecep.org/maines-economy/sovereignty-starts-here/
#WabanakiNations #IndigenousSovereignty #MaineTribes #PassamaquoddyNation #PenobscotNation #HoultonBandOfMaliseetIndians #MikmaqNation #Maine #LandBack #SettlementAct
Some people refer to New Mexico as ‘O’Keeffe Country’. I don’t
@sillygwailo Seems like MLB is WAY behind the NHL on Indigenous recognition. Seattle and Vancouver, at least, do land acknowledgments before every game, and the Kraken have an Indigenous artist design a new logo every year. (The Canucks got in trouble for appropriation in their logo, but last season did the same as Seattle, wearing a shirt with a custom logo in #LandBack orange.)
We are thinking of the #Oklahomans who will lose their SNAP benefits on November 1 due to the government shutdown. Call 211 or text 877-836-2111 to be connected to local food assistance programs. #Oklahoma... ...where the healing has to start. #LANDBACK #SOLIDARITY #HOPECORE 3.5% 🙏🕯🙏
I think that what most settlers fail to understand or acknowledge is that there is no ongoing consent for their presence on stolen land. I feel this is the core of the injury of colonisation as a structure and a system. #landback #Indigenous #consentisapractice
I *finally* just this week feel stable and settled. After years of intense suffering.
So of course my mom just called with a tech question. And I let it go to voicemail.
Now I'm listening to this one on repeat.
https://open.spotify.com/track/1OrBPFs8yLkT02aLiloHQs
#solarpunk #music #antifa #resist #resistance #NowPlaying #degrowth #rewild #LandBack #PNW
Thinking of a post on TL yesterday, saying something to the effect "our parents were able to build a house on one salary that we can't afford with two".
Yeah, presuming this is Usian rosy retrospection, that'd would have been because there was a bunch of stolen land near cities, as yet undeveloped, and Usia had made it a policy agenda, after the second World War, to all but pay white folk to settle that land.
It was another homesteading act in all but name, only with hubcaps traversing highways rather than large wooden wheels trundling wagon routes, that leaned into the white aversion to multi-generational, even multi-family, households and multi-racial communities.
Which is to say, your parents were able to build a house on stolen land—on just the one patriarchal salary—because that was how settler colonialism works.
That you can't afford those houses now, is also how settler colonialism works. That you aspire to single-family monuments to homesteading… yeah, that too.
So, I am seeing some patterns... Cutting #USDA funding, support for #LocalFood and #LocalFarms, #SNAPCuts, #UnaffordableHealthCare, etc. #HungerGames. Plain and simple. Cull the population. This is #LifeOrDeath for many Americans. And #NationalGuard / #ICE / #DHS bullshit is just the establishment of a national police force (#CapitolPolice) to #SilenceDissent. #DoublePlusUngood! Pay attention folks!
#USPol #WorldPol #Fascism #authoritarianism #ClimateCrisis #NineteenEightyFour #BigBrother #CatchingFire #SilencingDissent #Resistance #LandBack #TakeBackThePlanet
Even without reading notifs, can hear the defensiveness now. "I don't own land. I've only been a renter."
Oh, and how do those systems of stolen-land rents continue to operate? Not your place to have feelings about that?
Have you ever been subject to wage-exploitation in place of work? On what stolen land was that workplace located? Not your place to have feelings about that?
Have you ever shopped a store where you are expected to pay for things to continue living? Where was that store located? Not your place to have feelings about that?
Been a student in a school? Driven on a road? Received electricity, phone, water, sewage, internet over a distribution network of any kind? Those physical services are where? Not your place to have feelings about that?
#LandBack ain't about homeownership. It's about whiteness. It's about colonialism. It's about an entire society that harms everyone in it—based on privileges granted through stolen land.
Not your place to have feelings about that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrDW79h_Lo8
ENGLISH BELOW
Le Camp Souveraineté, situé au km 134 sur le chemin Parent, est un lieu de protection du territoire ancestral Atikamekw Nehirowisiw Aski et de transmission des savoirs vivants. Les gardien·nes de la forêt y construisent un centre de ressourcement pour accueillir les générations présentes et futures.
Soutenez la défense du territoire et la revitalisation culturelle en visitant http://campsouverainete.org/
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Camp Souveraineté, located at km 134 on the Parent Road, is a place dedicated to protecting Atikamekw Nehirowisiw Aski ancestral lands and passing on living ancestral knowledge. Guardians of the forest are building a healing and cultural center to welcome current and future generations.
Support land defense and cultural revitalization at http://campsouverainete.org/
#CampSouverainete #Atikamekw #NehirowisiwAski #LandBack #IndigenousRights #DefendTheForest #CulturalRevitalization #LandDefense #Solidarity #AncestralKnowledge #ClimateJustice #IndigenousSovereignty
Listening to this playlist today.
Here's a track from my previous life in Seattle in the 00s. Members of this band, Gaia Consort, were in my extended friends circle, with a lot of great poly/pagan/hippie music. They used to play house concerts.
This one mourns the loss of the old growth forests.
If you poke around hard enough, you can still find pockets of the old trees not far from Seattle. One was a two-mile trail to the beach on a hill that was too steep to log. (Easy to hike in, but save spoons or you'll never get out!) Right off the edge of a suburb, these trees are too big to wrap your arms around.
https://open.spotify.com/track/5SYCHi9ZGDQly6UCvaBvRb
It also makes me think of this place a friend took me to. He was an former forest ranger, and he and his wife still kept the hobby of bushwacking to find places no one had discovered yet.
It was a hard trip for me, because I was even sicker then than I am now. But they took us to a "maple cathedral." It was like an elfin hideaway, with maples taller than you can imagine, a whole grove of them. It's hard to believe my memories of them.
I'll speak of the old ones.
#solarpunk #music #antifa #resist #resistance #NowPlaying #degrowth #rewild #LandBack #PNW
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