indigenous ChunkaLutaNetwork • 2 months ago • 100%

Fundraising has been extremely slow this year so anything helps. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-support-lakota-ceremony-and-community Here are some pictures of work you all have helped enable in addition to last year's sundance. This is the trailer home we purchased for one of the elders here.  This creek was barely running last year. We are cleaning it up and repairing the natural features that help slow the flow and raise the water level bringing back crawfish and other native plants and animals.  In addition to the sundance we are in urgent need of preparations for winter which means major repairs on homes among other needs. We raised funds for firewood last year but even still, one elder died of exposure when their fire went out overnight. Thank you all for the support you have given us so far.

indigenous ChunkaLutaNetwork • 3 months ago • 100%

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Secondarily there is also another urgent ask for a trailer for our permaculture specialists https://ko-fi.com/emsenn 

history ChunkaLutaNetwork • 5 months ago • 100%

I originally tried harder but my computer got turned off while I was asleep so lost all my progress and am frankly out of time, sorry its not up to the usual standard of effortposting          So thank you all for reading

We are looking for help to buy as many of these 4 tipis as we can before they are gone, we will use them for temporary housing, and ceremonies to house guests and those who come who cannot afford their own tent. You can send donations to $ZitkatosTinCan or @zitkato on ven to help us get these or support our monthly via liberapay or patreon both found on linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork any extra money will be put into a savings account we call the tipi/trailer fund Update 700/2000

earth ChunkaLutaNetwork • 6 months ago • 100%

For those unaware of the totality of our goals this year:  What hick-up there have been were from self-serious people unaware of just how much opportunity actually laid before them, due to their lack of investigation. This is a drop in monthly donations via liberapay and patreon on an unfounded basis of "unprincipled behavior" Sungmanitu is accused of. This accusation comes from the IACI due to Sungmanitu following the proper procedures in handling disagreements (that they have yet to post the procedures we agreed to, and prefer to tell you orally so they can leave out convenient details), that they then project PlantsFanon's uncomradely and liberal attitudes to protect egos. "You have to admit that he played you like a fool" was what was said to me, as if they were unaware they are the ones vouching for him. At any rate, he went on to call me anti-science for having a critical position on nuclear (I am pro nuclear and we expect half the building if not all to be paid for by nuclear engineers lol Ideally we will use micro reactors but thats a lot of red tape, research, and democratic struggling). Upon seeing the anti-science BS, I saw it for what it was, a colonial canard to distract from the actual criticism be leveed just as they did at TMT (Mauna Kea) and countless other places, Indigenous people had stolen and poisoned. The actual issue at hand however was about Plants willful and ignorant representation of Lenin wrt to the colonial question, and the policy of korenizatsiia (which was primarily written by Stalin, based on Stalins work, and implemented and not reinforced by everyone but Lenin who had suffered 2 strokes by the time it was instituted. I only write these first paragraphs to explain what we have not addressed officially (mainly waiting for the finished website which should be out by summer) rather than continue that drama groups drama, I should self crit for supporting them as long as I did, however part of my allying with them was to get to the root of their intentions in the larger movement which seems far more driven by clout than education but thats my opinion :) Due to the position we have actually trying to determine energy policy in NDN country already, we felt we had to take a principled stand due to being called in by the communities we serve and are far better and more useful allies than podcasters and streamers with barely an audience. SO I will admit our decision was clout motivated, but it never had to be a public debacle as it was made by them (plants decided to vague post as he is known to do). Our clout is built on serious people, who actually take revolution serious, but want people to still be human beings as we discuss these things and understand people aren't perfect. Those complaints aside we are excited to announce that we have launched the food forest program, that will hit 4 primary objectives: 1)feed the people 2)return biodiversity 3)Stop desertfication 4)build community 2 and 3 are almost the same in so far as our plant to stop desertification is also one that returns biodiversity, but honestly we would say all 4 fit under the first and or better yet: landback. Our argument is simple, slogans are only slogans until you can materially back them. Therefore landback is a quicker way to say Peace Land and Bread if you want it to be, so why not make it so?  On their way from the South East to the Great Plains, a storm had been coming to meet them. Now many would see this as a set back, they saw it as a willing companion preparing the ground for the work ahead. Being forced to stop in Valentine Nebraska, they wondered around one of the nearest bordertowns to Rosebud reservation. They brought an entire food forest, tons of hand sanitizer, and has they stopped picked up a small library to help with the work that we showed above   These folks were really great about their opsec and remaining underground, but they see the same need we do, a need for the aboveground part of the movement to make moves to invent the future now. Because of this they are willing going to film the first hand accounts of the project, we will be doing a podcast interview with them, and ideally showcasing this stuff on streams. It is really an honor and a pleasure to have put this network together. We are trying to get to 2500-3000 a month to provide 500 stipends to field organizers to carry out their work in ways we dont have to oversee (a stipend is a good enough description for tax and disclosure purposes, helps keep specifics to entrusted circles) we have 8 candidates already we think could replicate everything we are doing and more where they are: the thing instead of supporting podcasts like ours people prefer bonus episodes. At any rate we are also in the middle of increasing the amount of content to make patreon more tantalizing to people who want more leftist content from us. With all that said we look forward to sharing more of what we are doing, showing how much so little has accomplished already, and proving the major parties and thought leaders could be doing more: they are choosing not to

indigenous ChunkaLutaNetwork • 6 months ago • 100%

Maybe not a megathread but still worth the read in my opinion, this effort post was brought to you by one of our amazing organizers with Eco Just Food Network, one of the more public parts of the CLN that operates in the Greater Toronto Area. Anyway this isn't about that amazing org (but there is a podcast episode coming soon c: ) instead we want to discuss an extremely influential Dakota Writer named Vine Deloria Jr who was born today. We feel discussing him and his work is a good starting point, to understanding a basic sentiment in NDN country, but also one that needs to be ruthlessly criticized through educated criticism instead of knee jerk reaction. His two biggest hot takes being 1) If Israel gets its land back we should get ours (zionist argument that legitimizes Israel, and can be said far better, but Deloria was being heavily influenced by the Mormon Zionist Hank Adams who helped play a large role in the 20 Points of the Trail of Broken Treaties. Ultimately what this means is of course the 20 Points are lackluster and demand a revolutionary update, but it should be noted that its influenced by the BPPs 10 Points) 2) The Indian New Deal brought prosperity to NDN people. In reality it was some NDN people, while many more were literally washed away by floods caused by dams built, that Vine is directly talking about and saying is good because "electricity could come to the reservation" when in many cases it still has not. Ultimately we must remember Vine is a liberal, but that doesn't stop him from having banger quotes and relevant opinions cast decades into the future that we must update and wrestle from reaction. One of the most important things Vine set out to do, was to challenge white supremacist academia, and the false notions of history it perpetuated about Indigenous people almost always to diminish the level of "civilization" present here.  It is obscene that there are people who own homes and land in the US, that they can not work, and utilize without being forced to privatize, or forced to give it to a comprador political leader not chosen by the people and propped up by the colonial occupiers. When people have homes but freeze to death, what is a home? That's just shelter and bad shelter at that.  Despite the milquetoast liberalism, being an Indigenous person and the chair of the National Congress of American Indians, had brought Vine into contact with radical and non radical Natives alike. Colorado was well known for its radical Indigenous scene as Denver was one of the major cities used during the relocation program that coerced Indians off our land under false promises, so to steal the land. In fact that's where my grandma and my mom moved when leaving South Dakota, but you also already had a large Indigenous presence in the state historically so it lent itself to being a good geographic base. Floyd and my grandma actually used to hang out  My grandma is all the way on the right. She was his security during this photo, but it was this connection to Floyd that ultimately brought Vine in contact with the American Indian Movement, which had barely formed as Floyd and Vine met.  Their relationship would go on to inspire the Red Power movement, but it would also be what helped bring AIM into the Trail of Broken Treaties altogether. The Trail of Broken Treaties was a cross country caravan of people that went from California to Washington DC to demand changes, to stop the clear systemic murdering of Indigenous people and demand treaty rights be upheld. This culminated in the 1971 occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs building in Washington DC which led to incredible acts of solidarity between the Black Panthers and AIM.  It is important when we listen to Floyd's song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWaI9UZ-LYw we recognize the amateur anthropology often deployed my Marxists, usually rooted in the anthro work of Marx and Engels themselves. The number one argument against landback (besides that they dont know what it means) is that not every Indigenous person wants that, however what we do want is everything it entails. This pointless distinction of whether agree with the slogan or not is meaningless, if you look at the content of said slogan and the masses needs and wants in this current period.  So when you see Marxist podcast, platforming but never paying Indigenous guests, that is an amateur anthro whose motives should be severely questioned. Especially when we consider the question, what have they given back with the wealth they accumulated beyond a podcast thats business model (whether for fiscal or social capital) doesnt work when you pay for peoples time and expertise?  When talking about "Indian Experts" Vine is specifically drawing on his introduction where he explains how easy it is to be an Indian expert, and when you look at the arguments people try to waste my time with, you will often see the same thing Vine describes in the following:    So much in the vein of opposing book worship, you must oppose Indian expertise! Unless you actually live with us you do not know us, and it is not enough to visit for a week. Some visit a powwow and suddenly they understand every nuance of an American flag in NDN country, albeit I think we should stop flying them.  The irony of seeing the flag is not lost on us, and it has been a central prop in many demonstrations and used many ways, to represent are discontent. It also has a deep effect on our communities when so many people gave their lives fighting a foreign war for the first time ever in our peoples history. What is worse, was we were promised we would only be national guards. This and many other tragedies will have people laughing with pain in their eyes as they recall the generational trauma, that repeats over and over, only with new lies that prey on people who are desperate  That's what makes it easy for white organizations reformist or revolutionary, to be quickly ignored in decolonial spaces, they often have barely even done the bare minimum to participate let alone not over step their station. There is a reason why no investigation, no right to speak, is such a crucial part of being a good communist.  So often people come without an invitation, and it causes a great deal of problems, and gives people less time to plan. At any rate all these quotes came for Custer Died for Your Sins original published in 1969 and updated in 1988. We think it is time to utilize the decades of work, revolutionary experimentation, and historical development to update and harness the frameworks of this work and this is a sort of "toe dip" into the water. If you enjoyed this please find a way to support the many things we are doing via our linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork Currently the most important ask we have is $900 to pay back our organizer who lent us the last bit we needed to get the shipping container on time, thats under the winter drive GFM and the remaining amount will be for our own broker/trucker or for another trailer depending on how fast Direct Aid is moving with their end of things (always have a plan b). In other news our permaculture experts arrive on Pine Ridge any minute now and we will have updates from their unload and everything else happening on that end. Anyway plenty of reasons to join the patreon or liberapay, but most importantly is to pay for these amazing organizers survival, and cost of organizing. I will be foregoing my own stipend as my organizing severely reduces to focus on my newborn kid. (also yknow if you want to say congratulations and help with diaper costs $ZitkatosTinCan) Thank you all for reading and look forward to the next thing. There wouldve been more but somehow I got Covid, weakened my immune system (my entire family then got sick), at the end of covid having our baby, then my firstborn got a double ear infection from the drainage of mucus caused by COVID. So Im exhausted lol. We are also always raising money for wood so if you are donating to wood make sure to leave a note!

history ChunkaLutaNetwork • 6 months ago • 100%

Normally when we talk about the history of "the pilgrims" and the first thanksgiving it is usually around, thanksgiving. However this story stretches across time to give us important lessons, as we repeat the story, when we need them. This is not some metaphysical process, but the natural result of learning a story, its ins and outs, and observing them from new perspectives in time that are accompanied by a plethora of new information to change what our conclusions might have previously been. The circular nature of Indigenous oral histories, is something I aim to capture with my work, and so if this sounds familiar: its because Ive probably said it before.  We of course are constantly dispelling Settler mythology that informs American jingoists, most commonly seen in the 'patsoc' but we really need to address how many people, believe the version of history taught to them in public school. Of course in communist spaces they've began to address the lies around the Cold War, but how often are they question not the information itself, but the LACK of information within the textbooks about Indigenous nations?  One of the more gruesome pieces of folklore is the idea (lied about by William Bradford himself) that the Pilgrims were giving burials to their fallen siblings, but instead they were turned into scarecrows out of paranoia to ward off any would-be attackers. They were tied to trees and armed with muskets to make the Mayflower appear well guarded, in reality so long as they weren't actively stealing, there was no risk of attack.  Their paranoia stemmed from their own ignorance or perhaps disparity, that drove them to steal from people they had never even met. The Nauset people only lived in the area during the summers (much like the rich) and so these stores were pivotal in surviving harsher weather later in the year. Once they found their stores being stolen from.  It was in the town of Patuxet, the settlers would become convinced that it was God's will that brought them here. The town had fertile fields with food growing, and the inhabitants had all become ill and died. Quickly they moved into pre-built homes that were the same quality and designs as European homes, and when the fires were lit, the smoke drew in Samoset. The people surrounding the area knew this was where the sick were being sent, and that nobody should be alive lighting fires. So when the English heard Samoset, speak English, they must have truly believe God had made these circumstances for them. The reality of this education of not only Samoset, but Tisquantum, is much darker   When looking at a guy like this I can't help but think of a variety of people who've had far too much money, like Elon Musk for example, and terrifies me to imagine what activities like Gorges they might copy. If Musk knew of aliens on Mars, it would not surprise me to learn Futurama had predicted English speaking Martians, that Elon had forcibly kidnapped and taught English. Perhaps that was a dumb joke, but the history is undeniable morbid, and before you ask: yes Matoaka (Pocahontas) was in Europe at the same time as Samoset and Tisquantum, but no they did not meet. She also died this month in 1617 on the 21st, were it not for being extremely ill and how welcoming a second child into the world, we were going to do an effort post then too. However because of the circumstances Im just trying to prevent brain damage from covid, and praying fever doesnt kill my kids.  The treaty mentioned here is what sets the precedent for the First Thanksgiving as depicted in children's stories, to come about. Really it was a response to the terms set in the treaty granting Patuxet to become Plymouth, that brought a group of warriors to the Pilgrims harvest celebrations. This included shooting guns for fun, it really is the most American thing you can do, which Ousamequin responded to believing the guns were the English fighting another group. Tisquantum would end up using his position as translator to subvert the Massasoit's traditional sphere of influence, but as soon as the English learned this was happening, they got a new translator. The peace wouldn't last of course when we would come to see the real first Thanksgiving as a celebration of the death of Ousamequin's son Metacom (King Phillip), whose head would sit in Boston's Town Square for decades.  Obviously the story we are telling this post is much larger, so I guess you will just have to follow our other social medias, or look for our effort posts on here in order to make sure you don't miss out. We have most of our podcasts already planned for the year, our organizing, and a great deal of effort posts which we are aiming for 2 a month. We are still working on videos though thats slower, but is becoming more streamlined as we grow and are able to pay people for labor. So this November you will also get a podcast episode to accompany this with the organizers of the National Day of Mourning, who are wonderful and were amazing hosts when I visited, so it will be great to talk to them again in such new context (I was still with The Red Nation when we last interviewed).  We will be launching a new GFM but for now we have a few still left unfinished that we would like to draw your attention to that you can find via linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork. The first is a wheelchair drive where we are over halfway to our final goal to get an immigrant comrade of ours a wheel chair to prevent severe sores you can see on the GFM. She was paralyzed due to an accident during surgery and has really had a shit ton of bad luck for way too long. Had I known the fundraiser would stall out, Id have prioritized the wheelchair higher, and now Im left wrestling with the ableism implicated in that decision. As well as left to wonder how bad the ableism problem is when we get the donations for land in 2 weeks, and it takes a year to get a wheelchair. The next fundraiser is Lost Sioux who is just a Lakota in Canada trying to survive, and survived the 60s scoop. Theyre not communist but you should help them survive anyway. Lastly is the Winter Fundraiser which final amounts go to 3 things: the first 900 is for the loaned amount one of our organizers fronted to cover the costs of the storage container in time for our deadline. They believe we can get that money, and have kindly deferred what payments we could've given them to other important asks like housing elders. Which is the second thing the last bit of money goes to along with land, while the third thing is wood. We have seen trailers for as little as 1k this year, and think contributing to this fund is a lot more than most people do to fight the housing crisis. We are also sending out permaculture experts this month to live on the land permanently, this means they will live and suffer with the people, and means they need our help just as much as the people on Pine Ridge do. Our goal with this group is to set up systems to combat food insecurity cheaper and more effectively at this stage in our organizing capacity then a Buffalo Prairie. However the work fundamentally reshapes the land to host Buffalo better once again. We also hope to get a jump start on the Great Green Wall project we will be starting, which will couple with bringing back the Black Footed Ferret to the area. Hopefully solving desertification issues through a two prong approach 1) planting trees along the area under desertification and 2) by supporting Black Footed Ferrets who will naturally out compete prairie dogs, whose tunnels cause more severe erosion, and whose over represented presence is the result of settler colonial terraforming of the plains into mono culture crops and grasses. All of this to say by supporting our Liberapay and Patreon you are contributing directly to the stipends of our network of incredible organizers, who deserve to be supported like so many people support podcasters on the left. I hate podcasting I do it to attract donations for mutual aid work and organizing I support or am doing myself, and to educate people before my larger projects are ready to release and prime them for better understanding of the materials being covered. As my kids come to dominate my life, my stipend should go to another organizer who needs the support I had that enabled me to start CLN. This idea comes from a study that shows if you give a houseless person 700 a month no strings attached, they will become homeowners. What happens if you give a communist 500 a month? Well I certainly did a lot over the last 2 years, and see no reasons others couldn't. The biggest thing is these stipends represent employment for our people on Pine Ridge, who have no other access to a regular "pay check" beside from government assistance. We already know the next 5 people we think deserve 500 a month, and we believe their work will speak for itself as to why they deserve that stipend. As this year goes on you will be introduced to each of these people through various ways, and some of you might already know of them because their organizing is so influential. We are daring to invent the future, we are building a mass base, and we are creating infrastructure that generations can use for resistance. Walk with us, you won't regret it

chapotraphouse ChunkaLutaNetwork • 6 months ago • 100%

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indigenous ChunkaLutaNetwork • 7 months ago • 100%

A lot of people are unaware of Marlon Brandos extensive efforts to bring attention to Indigenous rights issues. From attempting to platform an Indigenous person during the Oscars, to giving an RV to the American Indian Movement that the feds would pull over in Wichita, it is no wonder we find him at the Fish-ins during 1964. The title image shows Brando with Puyallup tribal leader Bob Satiacum, Brando is holding one of 2 steelhead salmon he caught during the protest.  It's important to note the real impetus of these protest not only being the Puyallup but the Nisqually people as well which, the right hand map shows in reference to Puyallup. Puyallup being in the middle of Tocoma, Nisqually is right outside the western city limits. All of this history of course is underpinned by settler-colonialism that we can't help but see being repeated (only with modern technology) in Palestine.  Of course we all know Lewis and Clark to be foundational to western expansion, their expedition having ended in the PNW, it makes sense why when Ft. Lewis was built they would name it after Meriwether. This is why we can't colonial occupation and land grabs to something "hundreds of years ago" considering Bill Frank was born only 25 years after their treaty was signed and lived to be 101. Our elders and leaders have a living memory of this time because it really wasn't that long ago  In total I have heard elders say 400 times the franks had been arrested, 40 were the times they were charged with a crime instead of only having property seized  And if you are ever lucky enough to meet the people who grew up learning from the Frank's, you will see why I felt the need to inform people more about this topic. You see February 12th marked 50 years since the courts ruled in favor of the organizers  Yet the salmon are not safe, and in fact are on the brink of extinction. When I went to the Pacific Northwest I went to Frank's Landing, I visited the Puyallup, and then I went North to Lummi. There I would have an interview with Children of the Setting Suns production crew, and would meet with Jewel James. There I learned about the effort to establish an International governing body to protect the salmon from over-exploitation called the Salmon Peoples Project, which would seek to connect people who rely on salmon for their way of life, to fight on behalf of the Salmon.  Solidarity on an International level has always been at the root of Red Power, and is why I think people should learn to put down their hubris, and humble themselves to hear about the kinship between our nations and the other-than-human nations that are often hard for settlers to understand.  There's a great song by the AIM activist Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman (a grandpa of mine) called "They Didn't Listen" which is painfully relevant today, as is his song "Where were you when" when I mention humbling oneself to hear another world. While in Lummi I learned their traditional river only saw 3 salmon return, and I was honored with a can of smoked salmon of one of them, and feasted with them after being invited to an incredible ceremony to celebrate the end of a totem journey.  This is despite the best conservation efforts of settler society, and the elders there believe this year there will be no salmon if the dams are not removed. There has been incredible efforts to do this, but the question remains what will happen? Have their predictions changed since 2019 and 2021 when I last heard them? We will see.  I can only talk so much about this specific story out of respect for the people who I was a guest to, but you can read about it https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/indigenous-carvers-totem-pole-to-journey-across-pacific-northwest-to-bolster-dam-removal-movement/ where I am actually behind the camera as the photo of the 3 of them is takem (Jewel being to the right). They were actually laughing and smiling right before the camera took the photo and had to take considerable effort to stop smiling. The totem pole shown above is my photo of the same one shown in the paper, and neither of us took a photo of the other side. On the other side was a red women waiting to be reborn through the salmon, this symbolized Indigenous resurgence through traditional food systems brought into the future and updated. It was an honor to have met these people and shared our stories, to hear how they valued the salmon like we value buffalo. I look forward to visiting again this year and to hear about the dams they are tearing down, and what theyre carving next. Most recently was a totem pole https://around.uoregon.edu/content/totem-pole-journey-will-make-stop-uo-campus that was an orca being ridden by an Indigenous woman in reference to the same orca from 2018 that inspired the journey I saw the end of. They call orcas the people under the sea, and I think when we see literal organized attacks on yachts, we should consider what that means for organizing given stories of crows collecting change for people when trained to. Theres a lot you can do thinking outside the box, to me this is how we invent the future  So if you learned something and want to help us out we are currently raising $1000 for an Anishinaabe families electric bill that got away from them with rising prices, and ultra cold, cold spells and weirdly warm spells making bills extremely unpredictable. As well, the utility is owned by enbridge who is being required to remove Line 5 from Bad River lands where this family lives, to us we believe there might be a case of mass retaliation through raising prices. We have 711/1000 we are also looking for help paying the storage costs of an elder and community leaders ceremonial items he has had to store to house 15 people during the winter. We have 87.50/200 needed to pay that bill. You can of course support these people monthly and our organizers via the patreon or liberapay (found on https://linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork) and hear the CLN podcast as soon as the episode is ready verse on the 20th of every month for the public feed. All content is eventually made free and we encourage that you steal and distribute it, who knows maybe a pirate RSS feed might appear to get patreon content for free at the same time. At any rate supporting us monthly will go towards paying $500 a month stipends for International organizers of a variety of orgs, that were they given that extra support could dedicate far more time to incredible work. We are increasing our first year goal to 3k/month as we have identified several candidates that we believe could do incredible work, if supported how people support podcasters doing the bare minimum. The podcast is a byproduct of easily produced theoretical and relevant discussions to the current moment and organizing our networks are doing. We are hoping to start writing more when the website launches and ask forgiveness for the delays in thats launch, as well as the delay in the audio documentary (we are doing some rewrites due to time constraints of the second narrator we wrote in and we are making all of the music ourselves now) anyway I promise it is worth the wait and things just take time to do right and not cheat people for the years of support theyve given me in pursuing this research. Its been a real honor and turned into the Chunka Luta Network so it really is just something else worth documenting the best I can the first time. However you can see rough drafts on patreon before publication lmao. Anyway thanks for reading all of this if you did

history ChunkaLutaNetwork • 7 months ago • 100%

Is this how you thought the actual Wounded Knee post would be presented? Stroke of genius really, at any rate this is a history I have grown up hearing. I've known the broad strokes for so long it felt like I was an expert when I started the Bands of Turtle Island podcast when I was like 19 maybe just turned 20. I impressed people so much a producer from Jacobin reached out and offered 15k to tell this exact story, and we all know how much Jacobin sucks but it was a great little podcast called "People's History" named of Zinn's book. So I demanded artistic and editorial control. This was paid by 3 entities and paid to multiple people I received 10k which what I received for labor went back into the podcast to make it better. I visited 53 reservation communities and 18 urban organizers from a wide variety of parties/orgs to better understand the conditions of the US. Because of this I learned just how little I knew, and realized there is a missing piece to a larger question of why momentum of the movement slowed to a crawl and is properly better suited for a long form piece that doesnt need pictures to save characters. On February 27th, 1973 (51 Years Ago) my family helped lead the famous Wounded Knee Re-Occupation. There countless people came and went while a core 300 occupied the town for 71 days and declared the Independent Oglala Nation backed by the traditional chief Frank Fool's Crow and Matthew King who commanded considerable political sway among traditional communities on Pine Ridge (often "coincidentally" also the poorest) who were being harrassed and assaulted by Dick Wilson to coerce them into agreeing to sell off a tenth of the reservation to Uranium mines like Union Carbide.  They chose Wounded Knee because of the symbolism in protesting there, it didn't turn into a re-occupation effort until AFTER Richard "Dick" Wilson set up road blocks, and used arms supplied by the US government to blockade. In Dicks mind AIM was coming to kill him, when they drove by the Tribal council building instead he chased them to Wounded Knee to instigate a fight while claiming the American Indian Movement was. In fact one of their supporters had survived the 1890 massacre, and is pictured above.  My elders call this period the Reign of Terror. Dick Wilson killed the equivalent amount of people to Pinochet's first 3 years. My uncle Leo saw his uncle burned alive as the Dick Wilson and his GOON (Guardians of the Oglala Nation) Squad tried to firebomb Fool's Crow who wasn't in his home at the time. OSCRO was even able to successfully collect the signatures needed to impeach, only Dick Wilson oversaw his own impeachment trial. Of course he was innocent.  Their argument was premised on the 1868 Ft. Laramie Treaty which by precedent set by the Marshall Trilogy in the Supreme Court, was the supreme law of the land equal to the constitution. This led to it be conceived as a Civil Rights issue by the Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization (which is ironic considering Sioux is a slur), who would be the ones to ask AIM to come protect them as they collected signatures. After the impeachment failed, what recourse were we left with a literal dictator murdering his political opponents?  The reason this history is so mystified and hidden is because it lays bare so succinctly, the continuation of COINTELPRO after it was made public. The solution was a new far more encompassing program that was essentially a domestic Phoenix program called Garden plot at least at the time of the re-occupation. What its become now is anyone's guess but Newsweek uses the limited hangout phrase 'Signature Reduction' which stems from the Douglass Durham infiltration imo and is the premise of the book I am writing.  During the period of 1965-1973 are 71 Red Power actions, one of which is led by Herb Powell and is the first example of a landback protest. This resulted in a lighthouse being returned and utilized as a Survival School and Indigenous spirituality led rehab center to combat the AA/NA Christianity underpinnings that often drove away Indigenous people. Akewsasne Notes are some of the most comprehensive resources available of the period beside archive footage and are archived online. Madonna is my aunt, sister to David Swallow Jr and Russell Means and you can learn so much about her in Warrior Women (just wait we will make it accessible)  Madonna's daughter Marcella actually incredibly went to Cuba for the 11th World Youth Festival in 1978, she went and met the youth movement of the PLO around the same period too, my mom wrote the Denver youth program charter, this has always been one generation building of the other. Madonna calls it "a movement of families" I argue what we need is a family of movements united under one.  It's no exaggeration either! David's grandpa rode with Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, Fool's Crow was 88 in 1974 (John Denver sang at his birthday oddly and we have the footage and me the people who filmed it) people think these things are so far away but literally up until the 90s you had to speak Lakota on my rez. Now the language is practically gone. Is it any wonder the ghost dance which caused so much fear they murdered a childs mother while still breastfeeding, while under a truce flag, caused just as much fear in the state agents hoping to kill more Indians?  This year we were the ones who funded the gas, water and part of the food being provided, we are housing the victims of this violence after decades of continuously being tossed around. The photo under this one was taken by my former boss Nick Estes, in it you see a Palestinian Flag next to the AIM Flag and next to an upside down American Flag. When the flag is upside down it means you are under duress during war, this is a war. Its still be raged, just in the 90s under Clinton the ATF, FBI and more raided our Sundance accusing David of forming a militia and having bazookas. They found only a Buffalo gun. They are so afraid of us picking up the rifle again, and this spring David will be going to the senate and demanding the BIA and Tribal Council dissolve operations on our reservation. He will be demanding the reinstatement of the 1868 land claims, as a starting point to honest relations and building a future. This will be denied. There will be turmoil. You need to be ready.   If you enjoy these posts, want to support this movement, and in general learn more about us check out our https://linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork where you can see our other social media to get updates on our public works, read our first year organizing strategy, or find our patreon/liberapay links in order to support this work monthly. Otherwise right now we have a huge ask for $1000 for an electric bill that got away from the Indigenous family, enbridge owns their utility too and I just find it particularly moving to help them fight their electric being shut off by some one poisoning their lands right now as we speak. You can donate to $ZitkatosTinCan on cashapp and @zitkato on venmo we are hoping to fulfill this one by the 8th. We also have ask for that we currently are at 1500/4500 for a trailer to house an elder, unfortunately the trailers we got donated were falling apart and would definitely collapse on the journey to the Rez. This one is in Rapid City and we can haul it with a pick up and just need to winterize it and hook it up to electricity which we are estimating to be 1500+ as you can tell we always have a ton going on this will be the 2rd home we provided this year, and we are sending a permaculture crew to the land this March who will be staying in a Tipi until we build several A Frame Cabins this May-September during our construction caravans. We have been asked to also help develop an ID and passport production system like the Haudenosaunee have, and are looking for ideas and pointers. This is far more than a mutual aid organization, and people should learn just how much we are doing and how much our base already believes in us. I dont know any other party where we are, and we barely have our governing documents together so why not support us and see where we can go Lastly fuck commas and the English language

history ChunkaLutaNetwork • 7 months ago • 100%

Sorry for the late post, we wanted to get this uploaded for the 14th but due to a clusterfuck of several things occurring all at once, my time on the computer was eaten by moving and planning a funeral at any rate we wanted to share these photos on here (and they were already shared on instagram on time albeit without alt text) as time allows a statement will be made wrt to what happened as its relevant, Otherwise no we did not use CLN funds to untag people from Instagram posts. We did however ask them to remove us, so whoever did it did us a favor we asked for a week prior to any animosity. This decision was made due to the effort we put into our posts, and the lack of effort involved in screenshotting your posts from one site and re posting them. While the drama and theatrics were carried out, I was studying the genocidal campaigns of Cook for a week and plenty of real life issues for a reasonable criticism to have gone so poorly handled.  There is not a place on this Earth, Cook went, that he was actually respectful of the people. With all the typical euro-swagger of a "self-made" settler, turned explorer extraordinaire due to birth lottery, he sailed around the world finding himself related to the many colonial activities of the time carried out by Britain.  The French-Indian War, or Seven Years Wars holds a lot of the contradictions the affected the Great Lakes Region and later expulsion of Indigenous nations across the Mississippi. His cartography would directly help several massacres occur nearby where I currently live, or have lived thanks to helping people navigate the St. Lawrence river easier. This essentially exacerbated tensions with peoples in the Great Lakes regions leading to Pontiac (Odawa) and Guyasata's (Seneca) War which is most known for the takeover of Ft. Detroit through a LaCrosse game. Thats a story for another time (trust me I tried to write that story short and we decided its worth its own book because I can reach all the way to Tecumseh and later)  Cook's trajectory into later voyages was set by this initial colony effort, however benign his role seemed, mapping and land surveying are the first steps to colonial occupation. By using science as a means to fundraise efforts to colonize, one of the most insidious colonial tactics of claiming Indigenous people are anti-science for recognizing the white supremacy inherent in academia as it exists, was created.  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/captain-cooks-1768-voyage-south-pacific-included-secret-mission-180970119/ you can find the quote above here, as we discuss the red line on the shown map. Which began with colonial activities in Tahiti and islands across the ocean as they went. Ultimately this was to beat the Spanish and Dutch to finding Australia  Of course they would map what was called New Zealand but is Aotearoa, being chased away for being assholes. Then due to sickness Cook was forced to stay close the ship when they landed in Australia  Now there is amazing groups like our friends at the Black People's Union who you can hear us talk to their president on the Chunka Luta Podcast on wherever you listen to podcasts, who are showcasing the horrors of this legacy and how to build toward a future where the colonial relation has ended.  I wish we could blame him for Climate Change, but Cook helps us understand the extent colonization changed the climate, with studies suggesting the genocide here on Turtle Island reduced the Earth's temperature. As well as acknowledging how the destruction of the bioregional agriculture practices established across the hemisphere, has sent the Earth's regulatory systems into a change.  So sorry this was so late, we are currently raising money to help people pay for groceries and their electric bills due to several programs running out of funding on Pine Ridge. We have another effort post planned for the 27th so whoever is in charge of those Megathreads let me know or I guess Ill ask Nikolai (hands broken so trying not to bother) about the Wounded Knee Occupation which we helped fund the 51st annual Liberation Day walk to remember the people who gave their lives for the movement.  If you are in the area I recommend you go see for yourself the gas we are cooking with. If you want to support those efforts and more related to send donation to $ZitkatosTinCan on CA or @zitkato for now as we finalize the org admin stuff to open up a collective bank account and have org accounts. You can also support us monthly via patreon or liberapay found on our linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork We also had a new branch begin public organizing in the Vancouver Canada area, which will be launching a program this April to help houseless relatives in the Area. Interac RedRoadWG_Van@proton.me PaypaI @vancouverchip And you can reach out to us to get ahold of them or email them at the same interac email There's Always more but this was a late post anyway so forgive me for not trying as hard as I might normally

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We last left you discussing the concept of the bordertown and the racialized violence enacted there through settler vigilantism, which is obvious through physical violence. In a new era, however, what about online discourse? This is one thing I’d like to introduce to our discourse and hopefully help settler allies understand when they might accidentally dawn a hood and cape for the state. I see settler vigilantism as synonymous with Kluxism, or at least they stem from the same psyche. The spirit of Manifest Destiny seemingly possesses these settlers to act out in monstrous ways, depriving us and themselves of humanity and life. There are no more bounties to collect for a scalp, so this shows these actions to murder Indians are deeper than just monetary gain. It is always about the land. Briefly we spoke on Raymond Yellow Thunder and Wesley Bad Heart Bull, both victims of settler vigilantism. Raymond died due to injuries sustained in a fight, and Wesley was stabbed in a fight at a bar. Both resulted in AIMs activism, and ultimately pushed them further to Wounded Knee. Raymond Yellow Thunder was killed before the Trail of Broken Treaties in 1972, and inspired the famous “AIM Song” which is actually the Raymond Yellow Thunder Song and should be respected as such.There is a great deal of controversy still surround Raymond’s death, but from every perspective I’ve heard one thing remains true; it is colonialism that murdered him.  Colonialism’s claws come from many directions, and it brings death in a systemic, planned and targeted manner, contrary to Engels' view of social murder. In a colony that target gives a slight reprieve for the colonizing nation’s working classes, and seemingly at the root of every boot strap story, is a mystified deluge of the eldritch horrors of capitalism and colonialism. These horrors which possess, steal, and murder are often described as primitive accumulation by contemporary Marxists (or the motor of capitalism), the tongue-in-cheek humor often becomes lost. Primitive accumulation which once derided the ruling class's view of themselves, now it is used by chauvinists to be synonymous with pre-Columbian political-economy. In the case of the Oceti Sakowin, we remained primitive in the eyes of these chauvinists until 1868. The people who make these arguments don’t seem to realize the cloak and hood they have proudly proclaimed as their own, but to us the colonized, we see the same two mouths our white siblings have become known for.  English is known for its one word with many meanings, or perhaps many words with the same sounds, but each uniquely specific. In the case of Wesley Bad Heart Bull we can see this most clearly in the settler’s courts, which proclaim law and order, but really only on behalf of the landowner. When there is no clear land owner, it's about which party most represents the landowners. In a settler-colony with a case of assault with prior consideration to ‘kill him an Indian’ it is of course manslaughter when you kill somebody who was fighting another person. This is of course sarcasm, generally speaking when you “accidentally” kill someone it is still a degree of murder especially with prior expression to want to kill an Indian, and when the assailant wasn’t involved in the fight. Murdered in the street like so many before and after, and that was a well known fact of life in South Dakota. You could be murdered and like Raymond or Wesley, your attackers might get charged with a small fine and manslaughter, but when you ask every settler when justice comes they all play innocent. This is why AIM went to the streets. When you ask Pine Ridge elders when AIM became a symbol, you are told the Gordon protest. When Russell Means took the Chief of Police’s hat and threw it, David Swallow Jr recounted his feelings as “we can do that?” This is where a fire was reborn that still carries on today, as my nation’s president banned Kristi Noem from our reservation after she tried to stoke xenophobic fears at a rally. We are standing once again, and it is time to stand with us and learn our revolutionary history.  So today on February 6th was the day of the Bad Heart Bull trial in Custer, South Dakota. To this day as landback grows more prominent and our elders and leaders move forward with decade old plans and conversations, the contradictions here grow. Because of this I’ve sought to see the perspective of various communities and generations, on the ‘Indian problem’ as it has always been called here. The Indigenous question is only the colonial question, and the communist movement has had a century, decade, and a year to discuss this since Stalin's publishing on the subject (1913, of course the conversation predates Stalin). One of Lenin’s last works was on this specific topic, and the question of who should be okay with having an autonomous region of their own in a larger state: is one that places great nations at the whim of the nations they oppressed.  Because of the words Lenin has spoken on the subject, people like Ho Chi Minh froze all night just for a chance to see the great man’s body. The pan-African revolution, the third world movement, fourth world theory and so much more have a red light shining on them from the star that is Lenin streaking across the sky: calling us to revolution. We don’t know if that star was shining at the time the molotov was thrown, but when the court house went up in flames, it certainly caused a stir. Nobody knows who threw it either, I’ve talked to a considerable bulk of living participants, but it was thrown after the cops pushed Wesley’s mother down the stairs with a billy club. Only 3 people were going to be allowed into the courtroom, and when Dennis Banks, Russell Means, and David Hill entered the cops stood in the way of the mother of the victim, and brutalized her. David punched that pig-fucker in the face and the riot ensued. Custer is THE symbol of settlement in the Black Hills, it's one of the first towns, and to this day makes its money from exploiting the land and treating it like an amusement park. While people on my reservation don't have water, Rapid City has a water park. Custer had a literal amusement park that flew a replica of the 7th Calvary's flag; we already had the real one, so during the riot that replica flag was also taken. Cy Griffin was a film maker from the video freak movement that was there, he went back to New York and told his friends about everything happening there. A war in South Dakota is how he described it. We call it the Reign of Terror. See, it wasn’t just in the bordertown we were being murdered in the street, on Pine Ridge a seemingly innocuous man named Richard Wilson (only one parent was Lakota) became Tribal chairman. He employed his family (legal in our laws) , began embezzling money (not legal) and established a right-wing paramilitary called the GOONs (Guardians Of the Oglala Nation, questionably legal). The GOONs would enact violence on Dick Wilson’s political opponents by firebombing, drive-bys, and gunning people down in the street. This spurred the organization OSCRO (Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization) to form, and begin collecting signatures to impeach Wilson. They were successful in collecting the signatures, however Dick was the one who presided over the impeachment, and of course found himself not guilty. OSCRO is an often overlooked organization, and I believe this to be the goal of federal agents to remove the grassroots elements from these struggles and obfuscate the lessons we could learn. As mentioned in a previous post, Dick Wilson would oversee the equivalent amount in deaths to Pinochet’s first 3 years. This is in South Dakota, and nobody knows these facts, and pretend colonialism is some bygone era. Because of the fire lit in Custer, in Gordon, in the Pacific Northwest, in DC and so many more places, we see the modern land back movements stem. Those movements stemmed from the wars, those wars stemmed from the early capitalists accumulation of wealth to jump start global capital today. In these circles we see how yesterday is today, and only by understanding both can we move on to tomorrow. We must pull capitalism up from its roots which are soaked in the blood of the colonized, until we do that we are doomed to fail. We mentioned briefly how these concepts go beyond physical violence, and one way is the erasure and silencing of Indigenous and other marginalized voices. This might sound farfetched to the insensitive, but in a critical period of rupture, we have to make sure we don’t get bogged down in what is socially mainstream. If the mainstream is saying our talking points then we have failed to stay at the head of the movement, and are merely another voice consumed into the acceptable protest movement. We have to stand arm and arm with trans comrades as opportunists and state agents both turn their sights on them across the country, seeking to separate them from would-be allies who are worried they will lose mainstream support for daring to stand against the face of oppression. Those who can’t stand in solidarity with everyone, yet voice opposition to Israel in this critical moment, are capitalizing and being opportunists. This has to be combatted. People like Jackson Hinkle make Trans and Indigenous people their target for a reason and you should learn why. Especially if folks like Hinkle can sell stolen Palestinian Gold, and people give passes to communists defending him. The movement is in a critical moment where it has to struggle with the colonial contradictions, failure to do so, means failure to form a vanguard. In our next post we will discuss Captain Cook and his death on February 14th, my birthday is then next so y’know if you like these posts and the work we do I recommend supporting us! We have a linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork with all of our social media, gofundme efforts we are engaged in, a liberapay and a patreon that all go to supporting the work CLN does. This post was short as it's mostly a timely bridge to send us on our way to the real Wounded Knee 1973 post at the end of the month, so lots of learning to do. I also recommend checking out the Indigenous Anti-Colonial Institute podcast and the CLN podcast for more education. Our patreon also has a ton of episodes, and there’s also Marx Madness where we read you theory. Right now we are reading a custom Gramsci Reader that you can check out in our library listed on the linktr.ee. I also want to stress, don't wait for us to learn about this stuff, start with Blood of the Land by Rex Weyler, read the Erdoes biographies, and then ask what a Marxist perspective on this stuff should be. I will be releasing a companion to the book later this month hopefully, of a stream of thought journal kept on my 3rd read through.

indigenous ChunkaLutaNetwork • 8 months ago • 100%

Here is a bit of an update post for CLN and the many things we have underway, our goals, and plans to accomplish them though it is in slide form, just trying to condense larger documents that are being finalized  Our main goal is to offer an actual Marxist-Leninist position on landback, that is easier to articulate than the current offerings by many groups that all boil to Indigenous self determination and ending of global colonial exploitation  We are a organization based in demcent, and scientific socialism. There are many like minded groups and individuals working towards the collective liberation of the land, and life from the contradictions of colonialism and Imperialism.  Our goal is to go beyond cheerleading, and instead enable people to lead. This was my largest criticism of The Red Nations "The Red Deal" and you can hear more of my in depth thoughts starting Season 8 on the Marx Madness podcast. I offer 40 hours of reading you the book word for word and offering my criticism as openly as I could.  The specific house at risk of seizure is my dad's who is a Union member, and my brother who has a different dad but live with my dad also live there. They have 3 kids in the house and he's a native with a record in a bordertown so the financial situation has been hard after some medical issues occurred, some legal issues, and then some neighbor issues on top of the city raising water rates and their bill being $400 this month so they could really use this help and can even pay people back if you want after they get their tax return which has been delayed for one reason or another due to paper work taking a while to get to them.  Our biggest goal is self determination through dual power systems during a war of position. Through this preparation we demonstrate an ability to build, plan, and lead. This we think is an important ability for any cadre, and we do this through building up cadres in different regions across the world.   One of these groups is in Toronto and is working to send the shipping container we are raising money for to pay back the organizers who fronted the last portions to assure we got the container in time for the deadline.  We are of course most excited about the future so I encourage people to keep their eye out for the website where we will be uploading public viewable financial information, there we will also replace the patreon and liberapay but for now you can find links to those https://linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork as well as various GFM links to efforts mentioned in the updates  We are doing great things and I think everyone should check out our friends at the Nation of Hawai'i, Black Peoples Union in Australia, and more

history ChunkaLutaNetwork • 8 months ago • 100%

In Gramsci, I think a lot of working class people who struggled to become educated, will find themselves and be glad when they do. If you are like me at a young age you began to work to help pay bills, and so did Gramsci pulling him from schooling after his father went to prison for embezzlement. Because of this their family was reduced in status, but ultimately a foundation was laid that his brother expanded.  The images accompany this post to include more information I will try and synopsize in the text, but will allude to the photo to save character space. In the CLN podcast Marx Madness (where we read you theory) we had the help of our friend and comrade Prez from the Minyan podcast (an anti-Zionist Jewish podcast from a Marxist-Leninist perspective) come on to season 9 and develop for us a custom Gramsci reader to best understand his Prison notebooks. This choice was made to present the contents (which can sometimes be stream of though about the smell of his cell mate) in a more organized fashion useful to our education and full understanding of the useful writing he did. Our reader also covers relevant writing leading to the prison notebooks, in order to provide a fuller understanding of Gramsci's development, and in the podcast we try to cover relevant history. One of the essential pieces imo is 'War in the Colonies' written 1919 in the New Order.   "The colonized were not even left their eyes to weep"  It is no wonder Lenin would commission Stalin to write On the National and Colonial Question, and it was in response to the same dialogue I am referencing that Ho Chi Minh, Gramsci, Hoxha, Tito, Mao, Kim etc would find the Soviet's position to be lacking at various periods of time. This to me indicates a larger contradiction going unexamined to its fullest, and I'd argue it is the realities of colonialism. The red star rose over the Third World, and with it a light was shown on the Fourth World. These are nations occupied by Imperial core nations, who suffer the same material conditions as the periphery.  The expansion of our analysis to include Fourth Worldism not only incorporates Third Worldism into a larger theory (yet less known) theory, while moving beyond its shortcomings in analysis and success: though it is third world movements that lead the global movement today (China and Cuba were pillars of Third Worldism, and now where is the Soviet Union or Tito). Like any contradiction communists fail to fully understand in their material conditions, when its important enough the weight of subsequent contradictions spawned from that rot, will cause an easy point for the Imperialists to press on.  This often unspoken, taboo, and mystified contradiction, is the same unconscious bias and unconscious vampirism, I and Gramsci spoke about; and is settler-colonialism. I'd argue it was the Soviets refusal, or inability, to wrestle with the settler-colonial realities of the Russian Empire that were left over, that led to the chauvinists and bad actors who were able to garner power and undermine an experiment in scientific socialism. We can't copy and paste, but we can see the echoes and rhymes of history, as we march ever faithfully to the new world as it struggles to be born.  Yes we will win because we have to, but if we don't that means its the failure of the movement to form a capable vanguard. Yes outside reaction will occur, and inside agitation from opposition, operatives, and opportunists, but capable carries a specific connotation and that includes defending the project. We chose Pine Ridge as our primary organizing location due to a variety of reasons, but it is primarily due to the proven leadership their communities have, the stark and obvious economic void that is easy to fill, and Sungmanitu's family having lived there since their family rode with Crazy Horse only a few generations ago. Instead of reinventing the wheel, Sungmanitu analyzed the old movements and found a severe under education of AIM after Wounded Knee 1973. This is due to a concerted effort by state actors to mystify and hide the real struggle at the root of oppression here on Turtle Island, and that is the one against settler colonialism and the subsequent systems and oppression it wrought.  As Gramsci rotted, our leaders like Leonard Peltier do too only thanks to modern medicine, even the US gulag system has yet to kill him. Leonard Peltier was building community gardens when the US fabricated consent to raid the Jumping Bull Ranch, under the false pretexts that a potato cellar was a new bunker like AIM built at Wounded Knee. What initiated the raid was the execution of a false warrant claiming Jimmy Eagle was there, and had stolen boots in a bar fight. This is a post for a later time of course, but this is to say these same fabricated stories have already been deployed on Oceti Sakowin Treaty Council Headsmen, David Swallow Jr in the 90s by the Clinton administration and failed. We expect that same repression as our success grows undeniable. We owe it to everyone who has died for our movement, and as now is the time of monsters, we must prepare for the shape of things to come. If we don't another reign of terror will be brought upon my people and the communist movement.  You can support our efforts to prepare and build, find the mentioned reader, and the various podcast on the https://linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork as I update it and try to localize information better. Our website is in development and will launch soon, and I am writing several effortposts to talk about the history of Wounded Knee as the audio documentary I have been writing for the last 3 years is delayed by one thing or another. When the website launches we will also publish our 5 year plan, and principles of unity, so people can better understand the full scope of our organization and network as people don't seem to get the big picture quite yet. Which to me is a good thing as it gives us a clear direction to educate AND more importantly means as it becomes easier to understand who we are, and what we are about, support will undoubtedly become greater then it already is. I look forward to further updating people on things as of right now we are at 600/1000 needed to connect a trailer we bought a community member to the electric grid, thus providing a larger cushion for our organizers there. You can donate to $ZitkatosTinCan on CA or @zitkato on ven, or bandsofturtleisland@gmail.com on paypal. You can also become a monthly sustainer of these efforts as mentioned before on the linktr.ee via patreon or liberapay. Our goal is 2k/month to provide 500 stipends to our strongest organizers to make their survival easier, thus helping boost their organizing and the overall organization of CLN. I think you'll regret not doing it sooner

Earlier this month we were able to purchase a community member a trailer home, and are now trying to fundraise money to connect this trailer to the electric grid. You can direct money to $ZitkatosTinCan on CA or @zitkato on ven, or bandsofturtleisland@gmail.com on Paypal. We got a ton going on already this year, and I think we more then proven our ability to do great things with your support, so please support this endeavor to provide basic amenities most people enjoy. The reason we do not have access to this electricity easy or cheaply is due to the design of the Indian Reorganization Act and Allotment Acts (Dawes Acts), and New Deal public works projects like Pick-Sloan Plan which though producing a lot of electricity does not service the reservations it helped undermine the traditional social organizing in river valleys that were flooded. A land grab not for profit, but for public land for public good, to quote the national parks program. Beyond this goal which we have 45/1000 of we are seeking an additional $800 for either more wood or more nights in the hotel depending on time it takes to get repairs done. We are also trying to get a shipping container for 2500, we have 1121, that will be filled in Toronto by several organization (EcoJust Food Network, Beads Against Fascism, Fellow Travelers, etc) https://www.gofundme.com/f/deliver-wood-coats-supplies-to-pine-ridge?utm_campaign=unknown&utm_content=undefined&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=linktr.ee with a variety of aid to be distributed and then the container will be utilized to store building materials. It will also be used by the permaculture experts who will arrive in March, they will be staying in a Tipi and tents until we can build an A-Frame cabin so the container will also be their main storage. This will be shipped with the help of the org Direct Aid, who also ship more furniture and appliances then what we do in our container, only we dont get to keep their trucks but they handle the brokers and truckers which was a larger barrier to our goals. There is a lot more going on this year so I recommend following our other social medias while I get better at updating here and participating in the communities. https://linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork has all of our links, as well as a patreon and liberapay you can join to provide stipends for our organizers across the world (this isnt an exaggeration and we have member in Bulgaria, Germany, Japan, Australia and more!) Our goal is 2k/month this year we are already more than half way there and look how much we accomplished before getting that first 1k. I know there are software engineers and such on here with a lot of money that they probably give to podcasts, well we have a podcast and we do so much more than the average Joe. Help us show a better way, be a part of something amazing   You're gonna regret not supporting sooner!

indigenous ChunkaLutaNetwork • 8 months ago • 100%

Here is a dossier we have been developing for the last year, that's gone through a review by the communities we serve, as well as our organizers, and now it is time for our public review: That is why I am posting this here         Along with videos in development, a further public five year plan, and several theoretical pieces of our unique contribution to the contemporary theoretical landscape, we have joined with the budding Indigenous Anti-Colonial Institute that you can find the first episode on youtube and spotify idk about anything else yet. Already this year we brought a 20' Uhaul full of wood, winter gear, hygiene materials, gardening materials, and whatever else we could fit like a child's bed. We also raised the money to purchase a new home on the land, are in the process of sending 40 lbs of socks to the Rez, raised 500/2500 of the storage container costs we need by the end of the month, are finalizing our Principles of Unity, facilitating 4 nation to nation treaties, are halfway to our goal of 2k a month to support our organizers survival with 500 stipends, and have raised several thousand dollars in the last day to keep folks alive during this deadly weather  I am attempting to bypass the character limit via the photos so forgive me. However we are on a great trajectory and the momentum is undeniable. On https://linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork you can see several fundraising efforts we are doing and see our liberpay and patreon options to become monthly sustainers of our efforts, our website will be launching later this year, and really get involved. Help out. Theres so many ways and I think we are proving ourselves very capable at organizing great things, and you will see us move mountains this year. So follow our various social medias, and Im seriously going to try to engage here this year. I just hate social media in general and this doesnt give me a bright notification on my phone. We also highly encourage sharing and in our library (once I update the materials available) stuff like this will be readily accessible for your posting pleasure

indigenous ChunkaLutaNetwork • 8 months ago • 100%

https://youtu.be/4j48owNmquc?feature=shared here's a great video featuring more of the Swallow family, new media from the winter drive coming soon check out our linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork for ways to support our work and organizing efforts. > yewtu.be

Here https://gofund.me/3e75a0c6 is a link to a current winter drive, part of the money is intended to get land for the organization to hold in trust and steward. Leo is a big source of where we are buying the land as he does not want to sell to /just/ anybody, and trusts us as we have saved his life already before. We still need to raise about $1700 to buy a 2 bedroom trailer home with free hauling to location, in return for a parcel of land. This is overall more than a 15k dollar value and I really hope one of you tech bro types see whats happening here. There is a lot of good places to use your ill gotten wealth specifically on NDN land. If you make more than 2k a year you make more than the average person on my reservation, we are bringing several jobs this year with the help of the Nation of Hawai'i, and helping with some incredible historical achievements as well that you will read about. I can confidently say that. So be apart of something bigger than whats on offer because we will move mountains this year, especially as the people become our mountains. Our governing documents will release this year along with our website but if youre holding out then I recommend just actually investigating our social media listed on linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork also just so you know this isnt like hes comfortably sleeping on someones couch. We were only just able to get him a cot and he sleeps everynight in a snow suit like he's going to chop wood. He deserves a home

Our organizers on Pine Ridge are in need of $600 to make some much needed repairs for the used car they were able to buy after the heater in their old vehicle broke; if anyone is extra wealthy and feeling kind they also could use a break from keeping a fire going all night to survive. So we are trying to raise an additional 500 to get several rooms for a few nights for the 15 people staying in their home right now. I think this is a worthwhile donation for anyone who sees the work we have been doing here  I brought a 20' Uhaul full of stuff and they're already done distributing everything but the wood, which we are also fundraising gas to pay for the delivery and chopping of the wood with a chainsaw as a major storms rolls in. The only opening for the mechanic is Tuesday so please help our endeavors in keeping people alive. Please send donations to $ZitkatosTinCan on CA, @zitkato on ven, bandsofturtleisland@gmail.com for Paypal, or join our liberpay or Patreon listed at linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork to sustain our efforts more consistently. This is a big year and trust me you'll see why as time permits me to update

indigenous ChunkaLutaNetwork • 8 months ago • 100%

This is only one of the many shitty statues in this godforsaken bordertown. Theyre all private property too so cant be removed by legal means besides by the owner. Theres so much bullshit about that place fucking hate it. Gonna start regularly using hexbear more so hopefully people like hearing me rant about Rapid City because I got a whole ass post Im gonna make and you know how my effort posting goes. GWB will get the least of it by the time Im done haha

We are in urgent need of 500 for groceries for a household of 15 this winter, gas to gather wood and a Christmas dinner for 30 people send to $ZitkatosTinCan on Cashapp or @zitkato on Venmo and then Paypal is just bandsofturtleisland@gmail.com generally theres not nazis here so not too worried

indigenous ChunkaLutaNetwork • 9 months ago • 100%

Today we launch the official feed for the Chunka Luta Podcast https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chunka-luta-network/episodes/Ep-1-New-Directions-e2d11rb/a-aaneqt5 that is replacing the former Bands of Turtle Island pod. BOTI was started to tell the story of AIM, then I got paid to tell that story so why would I keep posting it free if Im posting it free down the line and actually well produced? The last few episodes on the feed will be that story completing a circle I started at 19, and we will start this circle with that same story; the story of Wounded Knee 1973. While documenting this story, somehow I ended up forming an International collective of Decolonial Marxists (MLs to be more correct, as to mean the scientists of Liberation) we have plenty in the pipeline for this podcast so I highly recommend following it and staying up-to-date. You can find all the links at our linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork and find the patreon where you can gain access to content earlier than others, or the liberpay which yknow I can email the content or something early? Idk trying to figure out a work around but they dont take cuts so are urging people support there. On the linktr.ee is also a GFM to help our comrade Juche Gang, or Leaping Larry on Twitch, we already raised 3k before launching the GFM but he still needs help recovering from several storms. Supporting us monthly helps us help Indigenous families like Larry's easier, and enables professional organizing of very successful project so far; so who knows what the future will hold. The elevator pitch is this: For only 1800 a month we would have 2 full time organizers (paid a stipend of 500 USD/month) and a transcriptionist paid at 2 USD/raw transcription audio minute to the extent their groceries and rent are paid, usually 360-400 USD, and they are always willing to help with admin tasks which has been invaluable behind the scenes this year. The last 400 is for our Media Teams needs, that is $35/month in web hosting, $35/month for a proposed newsletter and zine email thing, $105 for streamyard including taxes (im bad at math though), $100 a month for a constant stream of high quality b-roll, $20 for a Newspapers.com+ subscription, VPN, and a social media tool to allow easy cross posting for $50 a month, and another $100 for the 1 podcast a month promise we are aiming for, and all extra will be just done by me as time frees up and more of the organization is taken off my shoulders. All extra fund then gained after that go directly into organizing fundraising as they have been since restarting the patreon, and this disclaimer is a public accounting of our plans for the money and our current goals. By enable 2 full time organizers you allow another person to pursue the level of organizing capabilities as I have shown is possible over this last year. I will be taking on a second job to supplement the 1100 still needed, but I really hope people recognize how much we have accomplished as a network in a year. The podcast covers the project briefly, and of course we plan to explain more in a episode coming out next year about everything we accomplished from the 2022 Winter Fundraiser to this current one you can also find at the linktr.ee (the Uhaul part is already paid for so now we are raising for a car, and then a storage container, and then more land to bring into trust and help an elder build a house) theres a lot of moving pieces, and so I am hoping this year in review episode will help explain things better; until then, here I will try to not mess up formatting normally Nikolai helps.  For those unaware the org and year began as I arrived home in the uhaul I raised in response to a devastating blizzard that swept the continent, literally arriving in time to celebrate New Years as we brought my son up to bed. Since then the org has grown to include over a hundred direct organizers, over a thousand associated organizers, and more sympathizers then I care to actually count as I know the number will only grow. In total we estimate around 70k to have been raised and will be hiring an accountant to handle everything that will be posted to the website for public view, bearing in mind the anonymity of individuals and censure of doxxing information. From providing the funds for a traditional ceremony, moving a house for the headsmen of the nation as well as the logs for another home, and are designing a community center we will begin actual construction of next year from which we will build a buffalo prairie to provide food FREELY to the people, and to give them away for ceremony. We will also be building food forests and community gardens to address the food insecurity, and developing a textile mill to process the 40 acres of self seeding hemp already on the land. A lot is happening beyond that but lets wait til things are more presentable before counting our chickens. However til then expect lots of photos and videos, also sorry the website is taking so long we will have update photos soon! Lastly we have a library on our linktr.ee even including the required reading for our organizers and cadre. I look forward to showing you just what we are and that we have a road to follow, thats wide enough for us all to walk to the next world together. We need only build the bridge there, and we have to do it together. As Ngugi Wa'Thiongo says "decolonization is colonizer and colonized..." we must work together to become human again, and it is by landback by which we can reclaim our humanity and dignity

history ChunkaLutaNetwork • 9 months ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1355656 > https://twitter.com/DecolonialMarx/status/1736248614035272113 > > There's a lot of misleading things about this presentation; for one only the poorest of people were crossing the plains and Mountains. Instead those who could afford it preferred to sail to Nicaragua and walk across the isthmus, to then sail up to the West Coast. Yes the mountains were tough to pass, but not because they are mountains, but because the easiest paths are controlled by, and tolls are enforce by Indigenous nations across the west. Meaning it was not the Mountains that discouraged them, but instead the idea of following Indigenous laws; i.e. it's a political barrier. This barrier prevents a western expansion preferring instead almost a Roman style, build a fort around your enemy, style of invasion. > > >Palo Alto was further from the White House than it was from Mexico City. Frémont felt safe massacring unarmed indigenous groups in 1846, but the Anglo settlers were vastly outnumbered, and the tables could turn fast -never mind the European powers and wildcards like Russia and the Chinese. In the West, the United States was out on a limb. What the United States needed was for a bunch of people to go to California and stay there, anchor the territory, and ready it for statehood. The problem was that there were not a whole lot of reasons for settlers to try it. The sea routes around the Cape of Good Hope or down to British Nicaragua and up the West Coast after an overland trek were long, dangerous, and expensive; the Oregon Trail across the continent was even worse. When they got to the California territory, settlers found unsurpassed natural beauty and unbelievable biodiversity, but the pecuniary prospects the only thing that could lure them in large numbers were not all that great at first. There was plenty of land but no one was especially enthusiastic about working it for profit. Indians comprised the vast majority of laborers (as they comprised the vast majority of the population), but their connection to the land always left them an exit if the contracted terms were insufficiently remunerative. > > So while people like Leland and William Randolph Hearst's dad fled the eastern side of the Mississippi after ending slavery cut into prophets, it became clear it was very easy to rip people off in California; and anti-slavery laws didn't apply to Indigenous workers who were disregarded as people, so remained a cheap if not free source of labor. A lot of folks then assume the railroad was made to cheapen the costs of traveling to the west, but in reality that was more of a marketing ploy by a group known as the Combine, or 'the Associates' that Leland Stanford would be made a de facto face of, hell he was even made the de facto governor. According to the eugenics science that was pioneered in Stanford University later in Leland's life, he was a great man because of great genetics. In reality it is birth lottery, as is always the case, and a uncanny ability to somehow take credit for everyone else's work making him the best of the capitalists. > > He couldn't even pretend to be self made. Even his associates often made jokes about how all of his money is made for him, he doesn't have to do anything. At any rate it was land speculation by which this profit was made, just as George Washington's was made before him, this business was the American dream; the get rich quick scheme. One that practically presents itself to him after squandering the perfect opportunity he had on the Erie Canal. These excerpts come from Palo Alto a must read for movement members today. > >After an apprenticeship, he opened his own law office, which suffered from his total lack of German-language proficiency, given that German immigrants formed the bulk of the settler population. A run for district attorney on the progressive Whig line flopped. In 1850 he briefly returned to Albany to marry Jane Lathrop, a merchant's daughter from his hometown milieu. Back in Port Washington, Leland's office burned down, taking with it his law books and legal career, such as it was. Leland's life to that point - he was in his mid-twenties - was a total loss. Despite the cosmic luck of being born alongside the Erie Canal, he'd squandered the little he put together. What he did have left was family, including four surviving brothers. He (scandalously) deposited his new wife back home, and set out to join the rest of the Stanford boys in California. With his family's support, he took the ritziest of the three routes west: a ship down to British-occupied Nicaragua, an overland trek, and another boat up the continent's flank. > > > >Born at the edge of a commercial frontier, Leland was a restless young man, moving from mediocre school to mediocre school, performing in accordance with his surroundings. Leland liked reading more than he liked working, and he didn't like reading all that much. He decided on a career in law, perhaps with a quick transition to politics, a professional path forever beloved by ambitious slackers. A politician needs a good name, and so Leland dropped the biblical Hebrew Amasa, which, fittingly, means "burden." The frontier had lower standards than New York did, so he took the law books his father bought him and in 1848 moved to Port Washington. > > (Cont. in comment)

indigenous ChunkaLutaNetwork • 10 months ago • 100%

When studying the US or Canada, we are not studying a nation, but rather a prison house of nations bent on replacing the native or totally assimilating. Like Israel, this is the stated goal of the US project and it is no wonder why ‘manifest destiny’ bears barely any discernible differences from ‘lebensraum’ or ‘Zionism’. The most important aspect to these projects is the myth making that underlies their so-called rights to the land, and none of them are particularly unique. Instead all find themselves firmly justifying and creating the “white” identity, ever fluid, they pick and choose who constitutes ‘white’ and define it based on exclusion of an ‘other’. This is a trend we see manifest itself in medieval antisemitism which lies at the root of the story of the Zionist entity's creation. We also see the beginnings of whiteness form in the crusades and Spanish Reconquista, which sought to reclaim land they believed to be rightfully theirs. During this Reconquista we would see the same brutality Columbus would import to the “New World” on behalf of Spain, only adding to the rhyming. This is the prologue to the story of Thanksgiving, and it's a very poignant history as settlers call a ceasefire to celebrate their genocidal Thanksgivings as they always have. Here I plan to cover three major topics, the true history of Thanksgiving, only the surface of the true extent and face of colonial occupation, and the current movement settler-Marxists are alienated from due to one reason or another. It will not have any order and we will revisit topics as I like in a real tradish way, it's gonna be fun. This of course could be a book but we will have to settle for an effort post until I have more time. This prison house of nations of course finds its foundations not in Spanish colonialism, but English, although the Spanish did have to supply what amounts to a venture capitalist endeavor to send Columbus west where most people assumed they’d find another continent or find a path to Asia. Our first myth we will dispel is the term Indian, commonly we are told Columbus was confused and thought we were in the East Indies or India and therefore the name Indian is just the result of a doddering fool. In reality the term is far more insidious and not the result of ignorance, no, instead it is the result of the settlers dehumanization of themselves as they begin to feed on the blood of the colonized. Russel Means (anti-communist and former leader of AIM) in a speech given in 1980, that would be problematic by today's standards, said: “did we really know what it meant to be Indian?” This question has a lot of layers, you have what does it mean to be a second class citizen? To be actively genocided? What is the origin of the term? “I got a letter while I was in prison last year, from a professor at the University of Turin in Turin, Italy. He said ‘you probably already know this, but I… got to tell you anyway.’ He said Columbus was not looking for India, or the Indies. He wasn’t looking for the far east, but India had not yet been colonized by Britain and there was no such country called India or the Indies, in 1492. India was then known as Hindustan so if he was looking for Hindustan we would be called Hindus, if that is the truth of what the white man has been telling us and the world. But this professor, and I have since got the correct translation from other Italian people, but when Columbus first encountered the red people in the Caribbean he saw them and he wrote in his journals that we were ‘generous to a fault’. That we would ‘share everything’ every one of our possessions, even the clothes off our body, and because we were so generous we would ‘make excellent slaves’. He did take back 500 of us to Spain as slaves. Another tidbit of history did you know that the majority of slaves in America were Indians up to and including the year 1715? Something else they don’t tell anybody else, but we were not a ‘good’ economic risk. Number one we died from all their diseases, or else we’d split for the woods. Economics is whats pressured them into bringing in the African people as their slaves, but up until 1715 we were the majority of the slaves in the United States alone. Getting back to Columbus he called us ‘Indios’ and the correct translation from Italian into English; ‘Dio’ in Italian means ‘God’. ‘In-’ and ‘-s’ with it, put together means ‘people in with God’. That’s the correct translation of ‘Indios’ ‘people in with God’” There is plenty we skipped, plenty to criticize, but what we have here is a very surface level examination of what being Indian actually meant in full historical context. Russell Means is hardly somebody I endorse, but I will not he is Oglala and is my Great Uncle, and for that I am responsible for demystifying his achievements and must inform people that for one reason or another any good he did, he severely out weighed with bad. My favorite story is about these warriors' courageous efforts to stop a Thanksgiving feeding happening only a few miles down the road. See the land our org acquired with help from donors here, is where this exact scene took place, and is that close to the Means ranch and the LIbertarian project “Republic of Lakotah”. My uncle David Swallow Jr. who we actually do support, was feeding people under the thought “the churches are the only group feeding people today and they lie to us and brainwash us” so he provided a Lakota feed with Lakota spirituality, and an oral history. Russell and company destroyed the feast in protest, I wonder why they couldn’t go to a church instead? He also ran guns to the Contras, but this is a story for another time, the Thanksgiving story makes it in here because of the theme, and because I need a way to talk about the Contra thing despite its brief mention we are just clearly off course. That brings us to a discussion on the Colonial land divides, which all come once again from the Pope (see there is a theme here in why I claim Reconquista and Crusades as first iterations) and the infamous ‘Doctrine of Discovery’ established over several Papal Bulls meant to settle the squabbles of Empire. First the world is divided between Spain and Portugal, then France and England insert themselves into the equation. This led to a crisis of irreconcilable economic based conflict, that was eased through the idea of terra nullius, nobody owns the land if Christian’s do not own the land. This left the majority of the world conveniently vacant and to be tamed. When there were what appeared to be people “discovered” on these lands, they simply were not people until they accepted Christ, and even then their treatment would make one wonder what the Spanish thought Jesus meant when he said “treat others as you would want to be treated”. Now this seems so far away it's a wonder why I am insisting knowing this is so important, I must refer to the Marshall Trilogy and Ruth Bader Ginsburg's rulings with regard to NoDAPL. What these cases establish is the Doctrine of Discovery is the very basis of not only “International Law” but US Law. This brought the original settlers of Anglo-America here first with the colony of Roanoke, which ended in the strange disappearance of the settlers as the story goes. In reality this common folklore of the events that occurred comes to hide the failures of English rule, for how could Europeans die but savages be so successful that the settlers starving to make profit for merchant guilds in Europe, would abandon the colony and integrate into the Croatoan Island community. This forced England to launch Jamestown which enabled the cartography necessary for the Mayflower to make its famous journey. The map they used brought them to the Cape Cod area, and yet another piece of mythology comes about. Instead of Plymouth Rock being the first place they landed, in reality, it was first encounter beach where the first interaction they had with Indigenous people would be by the Nausett whose food stores the religious zealots stole, resulting in the chasing of the settlers back to their ship and forcing them to sail to Plymouth Rock. On their map was the town Pawtuxet, an Indian town with significant population and agriculture. They expected to find people when they came into the town but what they found was an apocalypse unfolding as people had died of disease leaving the town essentially empty with enough room for the settlers to move in. This came after a harsh winter where out of paranoia they turned their fellow pilgrims who died to illness or starvation, into scarecrows armed with muskets to make the Mayflower appear to be well guarded and armed. In their letters they pretend to have dignified them with burials, but when they finally moved into the town apparently emptied by an act of God; the lifeless towns now life filled smoke stacks let neighbors know someone had moved in. “Hello Englishman” was the first words heard by the puritans establishing Plymouth Rock, or more so squatting on existing Indigenous infrastructure. The look on their faces must’ve been one of wonder and fear, but overall it convinced them they were meant to be here. Thomas Morten wrote in his description of the Indians of New England, 1637; "The Hand of God fell heavily upon them, with such a mortal stroke that they died in heaps as they lay in their houses; and the living, that were able to shift for themselves, would run away and let them die, and let their carcasses lie above the ground without burial. For in a place where many inhabited, there hath been but one left alive to tell what became of the rest; the living being not able to bury the dead, they were left to crows, kites, and vermin to pray upon..." This was Patuxet, and the mandate from God the pilgrims were meant to be there, just look at the timing. The Indian who said “Hello Englishman” was named Samoset, an Abanaki sagamore (a type of sachem or minor ‘chief’) who learned English not from God, but the sadistic acts of a “forward thinking” colonizer named Sir Ferdinando Gorges who routinely kidnapped populations England wanted to colonize, taught them English and transplanted back in their homes to act as translators for future colonizers. This is how he earned his name “The Grandfather of Anglo Colonialism” and also how Tisquantum (often called Squanto) also learned English. After explaining where they were, and what had happened in Patuxet, Samoset would leave to talk to the nearby Grand Sachem, or Massasoit. As you might notice there are quite a few myths in the making at this point in our story, and one of the oddest ones is the renaming of a man to his title by settlers. A Massasoit was an inter-tribal Chief in charge of settling disputes of a larger federation, and handling redistribution of their tributary system. Even his descendents wrongly name him this due to the profound effects of colonialism on education, but Ousemequin is his true name. They returned with 60 men and signed a treaty formally ceding Patuxet to the settlers. This is then the first treaty, which means it's the first of many to be broken, however the terms were one of mutual defense, and that if an Indian hurt a white man that they should be turned over for justice. This is also where Tisquantum finally meets the pilgrims, he is placed here to act as their interpreter as he was from Patuxet. Unfortunately by the time Sir Ferdinando sends him home to fulfill his destiny, the angel of death passed over Patuxet and smallpox ravaged them. The myth became, “the single most perfect human being on the continent to help the pilgrims” by PragerU and a “...special instrument sent of God...” by Plymouth governor William Bradford. The spring after the Mayflower returns to Europe, the pilgrims try to pay for looting the graves and food stores of the Nauset people who attacked them on First Encounter Beach, as it is known today. It would then be that fall, prior to the arrival of the next ship the Fortune, that the classically depicted idea of “Thanksgiving” happened. That is a harvest party where Indians and Pilgrims come together in the first ever melting pot! In reality our only written account of the event comes from Edward Winslow who wrote in a letter, “Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors. They four in one day killed as much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week. At which time, among other recreations, we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest king Massosoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation and bestowed on our governor, and upon the captain and others…” Despite common belief, this wasn’t upon invitation but instead it was Ousemequin upholding their end of the treaty because he believed the settlers were under attack, when in fact they just loved to shoot guns when they partied. Thanksgiving however would be something entirely else, where the devout would spend their day in church giving thanks to God, and was a fast. After this point relations between the settler and the Wampanoag would worsen. This was primarily because Tisquantum used the English to usurp power from Ousamequin, and collect tributes from other sachem in place of the Massasoit. When the settler found out they switched translators, Tisquantum would die disgraced within a year of that first so-called Thanksgiving. In the summer of 1622, the Merchant Adventurers sent a third ship and established a new colony north of Plymouth named Wessagusset in Massachusett territory (that is the people from whom the state takes its name.) Ousemequin falls ill and is brought back to health by a settler from Plymouth, and then tells the settlers about a plan the Massachusetts had to destroy Wessagusset and Plymouth due to the poor relations that capitalist greed in Wessagusset was causing. Then while Wessagusset was besieged, Plymouth colonists are informed by a survivor who escaped the siege of the situation and a group of men are sent to “negotiate” resulting in the execution of the Masschusette sachems under the guise of peace talks. This then resulted in a power vacuum that Ousemequin used to gain more influence in the region, as in his eyes he was the ruler of these lands and the pilgrims were now part of his people. However the treaty they signed would claim the Womponoag people as subjects of King James. The Merchant Adventurers go bankrupt in 1626, and their debt is then shifted onto the settlers who had yet to turn a profit. The following year the Anglo-French War of 1627-1629 was declared and due to the French domination of the beaver market, and English high society losing their source, the pilgrims then capitalized on this market by expanding extraction into Maine. It would be due to King Charles I’s decision to disband parliament, due to Puritans within voicing discontent over his marriage to a Catholic, that would send 80k Puritans leaving England in the Great Migration between 1629-1640. A thousand of whom would go to New England to establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony next to Plymouth. Here John Winthrop, who was the captain of the ship, said the famous line “For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.” This of course is the real version of the story we tell children in kindergarten as they craft hand turkeys, but in reality the first day of Thanksgiving celebrated by the pilgrims came only a few years after the massacre of Massachusetts' sachems. 1637 during the “Battle” of Ft. Mystic, at the end of the Great Migration, our proto-Zionist found themselves looking more and more to replace the natives instead of living alongside them. It was the Green Corn festival in what is now Groton, CT that Dutch and English settlers surrounded the celebration and ordered everyone leave the Fort Mystic stronghold (at the time one of the largest forts in the world equivalent in military technology to the Europeans besides the guns) and then subsequently massacred them and burned the fort down. After the murder of 700 unarmed women, children, and men the settlers would begin murdering villages wantonly stealing land. Those who survived were sold into slavery, and for a long time ships of up to 500 Indian slaves would leave New England's ports regularly. After a raid in Stamford, CT the Wampanoags had lost, and Metacomet and his people were beheaded, their heads mounted on spikes for decades and at the time kicked down the road like a soccer ball. That brings us to today. The National Day of Mourning for Indigenous activists, which is a yearly event that's been ongoing since the 1970 Occupation of the Mayflower II by United American Indians of New England (UAINE) and AIM (American Indian Movement) which was one of 71 Red Power occupations that occurred from 1965 to 1973. This event stems from a very specific person named Wamsutta, or Frank B. James, a Wampanoag (you might recall them from Trumps recent attempt to bring back the Termination Era) and is continued by his granddaughter Kisha James (Oglala, Wampanoag) and her parent Mahtowin (Oglala). I will quote heavily from their website, but this began because Wamsutta was asked to write a speech for the 350th anniversary of the landing at Plymouth: “Three hundred fifty years after the Pilgrims began their invasion of the land of the Wampanoag, their "American" descendants planned an anniversary celebration. Still clinging to the white schoolbook myth of friendly relations between their forefathers and the Wampanoag, the anniversary planners thought it would be nice to have an Indian make an appreciative and complimentary speech at their state dinner. Frank James was asked to speak at the celebration. He accepted. The planners, however , asked to see his speech in advance of the occasion, and it turned out that Frank James' views — based on history rather than mythology — were not what the Pilgrims' descendants wanted to hear. Frank James refused to deliver a speech written by a public relations person. Frank James did not speak at the anniversary celebration.” Instead the grassroots organizers got in contact with the just budding American Indian Movement, who by this time were regularly doing demonstrations as well as combating police brutality with their Red Car Patrol. From an optics standpoint they even looked like “real life Indians from the movies” to quote my super traditional uncle, and so when AIM came the news focused on them. Now when we remember this moment in time we remember the red paint thrown by AIM onto the sail, even though this was the idea of the grassroots organizers, and the later burying of Plymouth Rock by AIM. That is why I’ve gone around the country the last 3 years investigating the on-the-ground conditions of the current US, while deep diving the radical history hidden from view, and interviewing veterans of the movement as well as current day organizers in 53 reservation communities so far. I want people to hear about the uncommon history of the movement, because I believe it is this hidden history that we will find the answers to overcome our current roadblocks as we recognize how many wheels are being reinvented and lessons we are not learning. This post is about the true history of Thanksgiving, yes, and that is settler-colonialism. So as settlers everywhere gorge themselves in thankfulness their bombs don’t fall on them, take the time to educate yourselves about this history. Because this genocide didn’t stop, it isn’t 350 years old either. For my people these stories and these celebrations happen much more recently at the end of the 19th century, and as Marx was just about to pen his first sentences of Capital; my people were already waging national liberation against it. This is the project we support that has continued to this day, and we want to bring the communist movement to the head instead of watching as we can’t even find the tail to follow. Right now the western left thinks painting the claws of the Beast is heroic, as they ignore real revolutionaries who have stood and fought the government, while the communists of the time ran when the guns started shooting. It was the BPP who gave us hope the communists might have something to offer and when they were neutralized, the feds turned their scopes on us. I could go on and on and never end, but then you wouldn’t need another post from me. So be sure to follow our other social medias all found under linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork and learn more about our project and program as more details become public. We really want to encourage people who are unable to organize regularly to donate $5 a month on our patreon.com/chunkalutanetwork or donate to $ZitkatosTinCan on cashapp or @zitkato on venmo. Lastly we were recommended we start one of these https://liberapay.com/ChunkaLutaNetwork/ so please if you have a lot of money and don't know where it will be best used, I highly recommend it come to us. We are building a community center to house 9 people, provide the first ever laundromat to the Pine Ridge reservation, re-establish the former AIM Survival School in Porcupine, building food forests, community gardens and a buffalo prairie to decommodify our ceremonies that ranchers currently profiteer on, we already have provided 2 house for families there, and have kept countless people alive. There are plenty of reasons to support so please ask questions, please come look, and if you don't believe us we can raise money for you to come visit the land base yourself and see first hand what we can publicly do. We don't post much about anything besides our Pine Ridge operations as that is backed with a lot of organic gun ownership due to the people we support suffering under a reign of Terror in the 70s. You see the government installed a dictator and armed his right wing militia with armor piercing rounds on the Pine Ridge reservation, who went on to murder a per capita number of people similar to Pinochet the first 3 years after his coup. This is in your backyard and you ignore it, dont anymore, we will remember. **Megathreads and spaces to hang out:** - ❤️ Come listen to music and Watch movies with your fellow [Hexbears nerd, in Cy.tube](https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies) - 💖 Come talk in the [New Weekly Queer thread](https://hexbear.net/post/1149995) - 💛 Read and talk about a current topics in the [News Megathread](https://hexbear.net/post/851674) - 💚 Come and talk in the [Daily Bloomer Thread](https://hexbear.net/post/1109740) - ⭐️ [September Movie Nominations](https://hexbear.net/post/451216) ⭐️ **reminders:** - 💚 You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics - 💙 Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears - 💜 Sorting by new you nerd - 🌈 If you ever want to make your own megathread, you can reserve a spot [here nerd](https://hexbear.net/post/261657) - 🐶 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon [instance toots.matapacos.dog](https://toots.matapacos.dog/explore) **Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):** **Aid:** - 🌈 [LGBTQ+ Resource Post](https://hexbear.net/post/279079) - 💚 [Resources for Palestine](https://buildpalestine.com/2021/05/15/trusted-organizations-to-donate-to-palestine/) - [🐌☕ Zapatista Coffee](https://schoolsforchiapas.org/store/coffee-corn-and-agricultural/zapatista-coffee/) **Theory:** - ❤️[Foundations of Leninism](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/index.htm) - ❤️[Anarchism and Other Essays](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-anarchism-and-other-essays)

indigenous ChunkaLutaNetwork • 10 months ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1139273 > Aho hau mitakuyepi (hello my relatives) I am Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, my name is Sungmanitu Bluebird and I founded the Chunka Luta Org. Theres a lot of questions our agent who was handling our instance on this website couldn't answer for one reason or another. However I will be doing my best to handle posting and replying on here. I never really used reddit or any old forum, I frankly didnt use the internet actively besides Minecraft and steam games til I was 16 maybe? I am currently 24 and this came about as last year a major winter storm hit Pine Ridge  > And we lost a lot of people. I knew winters were hard so had already started raising money before the emergency happened, but when it did we were able to raise 5k and bring a uhaul full of blankets and wood and water to the Rez  it was a terrifying drive and by the time we got there my uncle had dug out an elder name Eli Tail Sr. who unfortunately passed this fall to the cold despite all our efforts to try and better prepare for winter this year. His fire went out while he slept. That was the impetus, since then we raised another 10k to help the people and put on an important ceremony known as Sundance which hosted 200+ people and fed them for 4 days, and bring organizers from across the continent there to meet in person and have the discussions we cant here, as well as taste the pear of decolonization. After that ceremony the leaders approached us about buying the land for 10k which took us 2 weeks to raise in the previous fundraiser. We did this, raised money for a camera mans labor to take professional photos and video with a drone, helped get kids school supplies and clothes helped save someones life from a black widow bite, helped move a house for the traditional headsmen of the nation  which ended up being more costly due to its strange architecture, and are still raising the last bit for a wheelchair for a comrade who asked for help getting a new chair as theyre facing down homelessness with ever worsening sores. linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork will bring you to all our social media efforts where you can learn more (and eventually our website where we will host all our stuff) as well as a go fund me and a patreon where you can become a monthly supporter of these people. Every dollar I make 25 percent goes back to my homelands like many immigrants here, except my homelands are occupied by the United States and people like Hinkle and Haz pretend colonization is over. Another portion of my income also goes to my homeless mom in Eureka. Another way you can help us is we are building a community center on that land and part of the 30k we are raising goes towards the labor involved in constructing it. >  > This is the approximate land we need to get a land survey done, and the forest to the left we also manage on behalf of the tribe and use the wood for ceremony or keeping people alive. >  > These are the first iteration of the blueprints, and I am sure there is something I forgot to mention we did this year. Along with this mutual aid, the community center is part of our steps toward dual power and national liberation. The building will let us feed the people, by cooking the food we will also be growing utilizing the land for food forests, and community gardens. Our most exciting project imo is the regeneration of prairie land to host buffalo and foodstuffs for ceremonial use and to feed those in need, this will lead to the decommodification of our ceremonies which currently white ranchers will charge up to 2k for a buffalo and let parts go to waste. We would do it for free and not waste a thing. We will also be utilizing this land base to reclaim other family allotments of similar size next to the bad lands and a bombing range that was stolen during WW2 under the Indian Reorganization Act, where we will plant trees to combat the desertification of the reservation due to the badlands erosion and the prairie dog problem (yes we have a solution for this too). Out of the community center we also will be starting a traditional drum group that will transition into reestablishing the former We Will Remember Survival School which AIM started back in the day in the same town we are building outside of. The people also believe we can bring back a toy drive once the community center is done that made sure every kid got a gift on christmas. They believe in us already so I think you should too. So $ZitkatosTinCan for cashapp, @zitkato for venmo, bandsofturtleisland@gmail.com for paypal or use the gfm link or patreon on the linktree. Thank you for your time > >

Aho hau mitakuyepi (hello my relatives) I am Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, my name is Sungmanitu Bluebird and I founded the Chunka Luta Org. Theres a lot of questions our agent who was handling our instance on this website couldn't answer for one reason or another. However I will be doing my best to handle posting and replying on here. I never really used reddit or any old forum, I frankly didnt use the internet actively besides Minecraft and steam games til I was 16 maybe? I am currently 24 and this came about as last year a major winter storm hit Pine Ridge  And we lost a lot of people. I knew winters were hard so had already started raising money before the emergency happened, but when it did we were able to raise 5k and bring a uhaul full of blankets and wood and water to the Rez  it was a terrifying drive and by the time we got there my uncle had dug out an elder name Eli Tail Sr. who unfortunately passed this fall to the cold despite all our efforts to try and better prepare for winter this year. His fire went out while he slept. That was the impetus, since then we raised another 10k to help the people and put on an important ceremony known as Sundance which hosted 200+ people and fed them for 4 days, and bring organizers from across the continent there to meet in person and have the discussions we cant here, as well as taste the pear of decolonization. After that ceremony the leaders approached us about buying the land for 10k which took us 2 weeks to raise in the previous fundraiser. We did this, raised money for a camera mans labor to take professional photos and video with a drone, helped get kids school supplies and clothes helped save someones life from a black widow bite, helped move a house for the traditional headsmen of the nation  which ended up being more costly due to its strange architecture, and are still raising the last bit for a wheelchair for a comrade who asked for help getting a new chair as theyre facing down homelessness with ever worsening sores. linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork will bring you to all our social media efforts where you can learn more (and eventually our website where we will host all our stuff) as well as a go fund me and a patreon where you can become a monthly supporter of these people. Every dollar I make 25 percent goes back to my homelands like many immigrants here, except my homelands are occupied by the United States and people like Hinkle and Haz pretend colonization is over. Another portion of my income also goes to my homeless mom in Eureka. Another way you can help us is we are building a community center on that land and part of the 30k we are raising goes towards the labor involved in constructing it.  This is the approximate land we need to get a land survey done, and the forest to the left we also manage on behalf of the tribe and use the wood for ceremony or keeping people alive.  These are the first iteration of the blueprints, and I am sure there is something I forgot to mention we did this year. Along with this mutual aid, the community center is part of our steps toward dual power and national liberation. The building will let us feed the people, by cooking the food we will also be growing utilizing the land for food forests, and community gardens. Our most exciting project imo is the regeneration of prairie land to host buffalo and foodstuffs for ceremonial use and to feed those in need, this will lead to the decommodification of our ceremonies which currently white ranchers will charge up to 2k for a buffalo and let parts go to waste. We would do it for free and not waste a thing. We will also be utilizing this land base to reclaim other family allotments of similar size next to the bad lands and a bombing range that was stolen during WW2 under the Indian Reorganization Act, where we will plant trees to combat the desertification of the reservation due to the badlands erosion and the prairie dog problem (yes we have a solution for this too). Out of the community center we also will be starting a traditional drum group that will transition into reestablishing the former We Will Remember Survival School which AIM started back in the day in the same town we are building outside of. The people also believe we can bring back a toy drive once the community center is done that made sure every kid got a gift on christmas. They believe in us already so I think you should too. So $ZitkatosTinCan for cashapp, @zitkato for venmo, bandsofturtleisland@gmail.com for paypal or use the gfm link or patreon on the linktree. Thank you for your time

GenZedong ChunkaLutaNetwork • 12 months ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/802896 > On this Indigenous Peoples' Day please consider using the holiday as occasion to spread the word of Chunka Luta Network's efforts to raise the quality of life on Pine Ridge, and build a Socialist future right here on Turtle Island. > Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and coworkers about the conditions on the Reservations, and the duty of Settler families to help. > > With the parcel of land we have secured we will be able to bring many much needed services to the community, and you can help bring them about faster. > Please consider contributing to the completion of our GFM goal, or joining our Patreon. > Thank you all so much for your support so far! We can't wait to show you all the things brewing for the future. > > https://linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork

politics ChunkaLutaNetwork • 12 months ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/802896 > On this Indigenous Peoples' Day please consider using the holiday as occasion to spread the word of Chunka Luta Network's efforts to raise the quality of life on Pine Ridge, and build a Socialist future right here on Turtle Island. > Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and coworkers about the conditions on the Reservations, and the duty of Settler families to help. > > With the parcel of land we have secured we will be able to bring many much needed services to the community, and you can help bring them about faster. > Please consider contributing to the completion of our GFM goal, or joining our Patreon. > Thank you all so much for your support so far! We can't wait to show you all the things brewing for the future. > > https://linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork

Comradeship // Freechat ChunkaLutaNetwork • 12 months ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/802896 > On this Indigenous Peoples' Day please consider using the holiday as occasion to spread the word of Chunka Luta Network's efforts to raise the quality of life on Pine Ridge, and build a Socialist future right here on Turtle Island. > Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and coworkers about the conditions on the Reservations, and the duty of Settler families to help. > > With the parcel of land we have secured we will be able to bring many much needed services to the community, and you can help bring them about faster. > Please consider contributing to the completion of our GFM goal, or joining our Patreon. > Thank you all so much for your support so far! We can't wait to show you all the things brewing for the future. > > https://linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork

chapotraphouse ChunkaLutaNetwork • 12 months ago • 100%

On this Indigenous Peoples' Day please consider using the holiday as occasion to spread the word of Chunka Luta Network's efforts to raise the quality of life on Pine Ridge, and build a Socialist future right here on Turtle Island. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and coworkers about the conditions on the Reservations, and the duty of Settler families to help. With the parcel of land we have secured we will be able to bring many much needed services to the community, and you can help bring them about faster. Please consider contributing to the completion of our GFM goal, or joining our Patreon. Thank you all so much for your support so far! We can't wait to show you all the things brewing for the future. https://linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork

indigenous ChunkaLutaNetwork • 12 months ago • 100%

Friends and Comrades, Another Organization has been inspired to take up the cause of improving living conditions on the Pine Ridge Reservation. After seeing the paltry "meals" currently being served to the Elders by a "charitable organization", they knew we must and Will do better. Help us treat these Elders with the respect they deserve by spreading and contributing to this fundraiser to start a kitchen operation on our newly acquired land. Thank you all for your time and attention. We appreciate your help in bringing about a better world.

politics ChunkaLutaNetwork • 12 months ago • 100%

Friends and Comrades, Another Organization has been inspired to take up the cause of improving living conditions on the Pine Ridge Reservation. After seeing the paltry "meals" currently being served to the Elders by a "charitable organization", they knew we must and Will do better. Help us treat these Elders with the respect they deserve by spreading and contributing to this fundraiser to start a kitchen operation on our newly acquired land. Thank you all for your time and attention. We appreciate your help in bringing about a better world.

chapotraphouse ChunkaLutaNetwork • 12 months ago • 100%

Friends and Comrades, Another Organization has been inspired to take up the cause of improving living conditions on the Pine Ridge Reservation. After seeing the paltry "meals" currently being served to the Elders by a "charitable organization", they knew we must and Will do better. Help us treat these Elders with the respect they deserve by spreading and contributing to this fundraiser to start a kitchen operation on our newly acquired land. Thank you all for your time and attention. We appreciate your help in bringing about a better world.

Comradeship // Freechat ChunkaLutaNetwork • 12 months ago • 100%

Friends and Comrades, Another Organization has been inspired to take up the cause of improving living conditions on the Pine Ridge Reservation. After seeing the paltry "meals" currently being served to the Elders by a "charitable organization", they knew we must and Will do better. Help us treat these Elders with the respect they deserve by spreading and contributing to this fundraiser to start a kitchen operation on our newly acquired land. Thank you all for your time and attention. We appreciate your help in bringing about a better world.

indigenous ChunkaLutaNetwork • 12 months ago • 100%

www.gofundme.com

Indigenous climate activist, artist, musician, and father Jacob Johns was shot in the chest during a peaceful protest by a white supremacist. Please circulate this GFM for his recovery! We must stand in Solidarity with Native activists!

politics ChunkaLutaNetwork • 12 months ago • 100%

www.gofundme.com

Indigenous climate activist, artist, musician, and father Jacob Johns was shot in the chest during a peaceful protest by a white supremacist. Please circulate this GFM for his recovery! We must stand in Solidarity with Native activists!

news ChunkaLutaNetwork • 12 months ago • 100%

www.gofundme.com

Indigenous climate activist, artist, musician, and father Jacob Johns was shot in the chest during a peaceful protest by a white supremacist. Please circulate this GFM for his recovery! We must stand in Solidarity with Native activists!

chapotraphouse ChunkaLutaNetwork • 12 months ago • 98%

www.gofundme.com

Indigenous climate activist, artist, musician, and father Jacob Johns was shot in the chest during a peaceful protest by a white supremacist. Please circulate this GFM for his recovery! We must stand in Solidarity with Native activists!

politics ChunkaLutaNetwork • 12 months ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/703641 > cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/703640 > > > cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/703638 > > > > > Comrades, > > > > > > Thanks to the generous contributions of dozens of folks, we were able to raise the funds for our Construction projects on the Pine Ridge Reservation. We will be building a distribution center on the newly acquired land! > > > > > > However, a small setback has popped up, and we Need your help Urgently! > > > With the guidance of the traditional Headsman of the Oceti Sakowin, some of the Construction funds were used last night to save the life of a Native person. > > > They had been bitten by a Black Widow spider and needed to immediately be transportation to be tested and administered Anti-Venom. > > > > > > This leaves us about $300 short of the funds for a project to provide housing for a Native family. We need to replace those funds Urgently to get this done while we have our representative there. > > > We know this may be frustrating to those who contributed, but well-being of The People must always be our overriding priority. We refuse to put a price on a Native life, and we support the decision made by our agent on the ground. > > > > > > Please share and contribute if you can to this time sensitive need to help the community! Thank you so much for your time and attention. > > > > > > Cashapp: $ZitkatosTinCan > > > Venmo: @Zitkato

indigenous ChunkaLutaNetwork • 12 months ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/703640 > cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/703638 > > > Comrades, > > > > Thanks to the generous contributions of dozens of folks, we were able to raise the funds for our Construction projects on the Pine Ridge Reservation. We will be building a distribution center on the newly acquired land! > > > > However, a small setback has popped up, and we Need your help Urgently! > > With the guidance of the traditional Headsman of the Oceti Sakowin, some of the Construction funds were used last night to save the life of a Native person. > > They had been bitten by a Black Widow spider and needed to immediately be transportation to be tested and administered Anti-Venom. > > > > This leaves us about $300 short of the funds for a project to provide housing for a Native family. We need to replace those funds Urgently to get this done while we have our representative there. > > We know this may be frustrating to those who contributed, but well-being of The People must always be our overriding priority. We refuse to put a price on a Native life, and we support the decision made by our agent on the ground. > > > > Please share and contribute if you can to this time sensitive need to help the community! Thank you so much for your time and attention. > > > > Cashapp: $ZitkatosTinCan > > Venmo: @Zitkato