ᔅᑕᕐᐗᓪ on Nostr: 23,000 years. That's how old the human footprints at White Sands National Park, New ...
23,000 years. That's how old the human footprints at White Sands National Park, New Mexico was dated to be in 2021. For 23,000 years, people have been living here, on Turtle Island. Previous guesses have been abandoned in light of this new evidence.
There's something to be said about becoming indigenous. What does it mean, to be indigenous? How does one become indigenous? It means to be connected to the land, to originate from it. 23,000 years ago, people came to Turtle Island from the sea, and they became indigenous. To go from immigrant to indigenous, to go from someone from somewhere else to someone who originates, one must tend to the land and community on behalf of their great grandchildren. Land is about people, it's about nature, it's about belonging, it's about thinking about and acting in service of the future, a future you might never see. It's about that deep connection that you build when, through your actions, you make something for not just yourself, not just your children, but for your grandchildren, your great grandchildren. For your grandchildren 7 generations away.
For over 850 generations, people have been here. For so many many more generations have people inhabited, and become indigenous to, many lands across the world. To become indigenous is to act on behalf of your great grandchildren, to steward the land, water, and air for these purposes. Roots. People have roots, nobody is born lacking context, we are all a part of the broader family of humankind, we are the cousins of beavers and crows and even the trees. Though we are clever, we cannot be said to be wise. What is the last action you have taken that will benefit the great grandchildren? What connection to the land can be grown, when capitalism keeps us destitute, divided. When land is privatized, when money is a prerequisite to staying in a place, how can anybody become indigenous? How can anybody stop to fight for the forest when they must, so they have been told, fight only for themself.
I would like to leave this on some hopeful note that we may yet defeat this settlerist mindset, this utter catastrophe of hateful conquerors and cynical bourgeois parasites. I would like to sound optimistic, I would like to reassure you, to hug you and tell you it will be alright, that love and justice always win, that good always prevails. I would like to do all of that but I cannot. No, this monster that was created here in the conquering of this world, the monster called capitalism, called imperialism, called empire, it will sooner eat its own tail than let good prevail.
We must show love, yes, we must dream, yes, but we must fight. I dare you to build what corner you may of the marxist utopia we likewise envision. I urge you to be dedicated fully to this, in labor, in soul, in actions and in words. Every day we wait is a day we cannot afford. Every day we are not demanding clearly an end to genocide, an end to the destruction of nature, every day we do not do this the suffering of our great grandchildren is multiplied. The owning class, the hegemony of the west, it only knows violence. Our leaders are deaf to tears and blood, they only understand money. They answer our calls with silencing us, with tear gas, with bombs and bullets. Now is the time for action, sudden and dramatic change, a revolution to transform society just as MLK envisioned, as so many are martyred for. I swear it, on my life, Palestine will be free, all of us will be free.
There's something to be said about becoming indigenous. What does it mean, to be indigenous? How does one become indigenous? It means to be connected to the land, to originate from it. 23,000 years ago, people came to Turtle Island from the sea, and they became indigenous. To go from immigrant to indigenous, to go from someone from somewhere else to someone who originates, one must tend to the land and community on behalf of their great grandchildren. Land is about people, it's about nature, it's about belonging, it's about thinking about and acting in service of the future, a future you might never see. It's about that deep connection that you build when, through your actions, you make something for not just yourself, not just your children, but for your grandchildren, your great grandchildren. For your grandchildren 7 generations away.
For over 850 generations, people have been here. For so many many more generations have people inhabited, and become indigenous to, many lands across the world. To become indigenous is to act on behalf of your great grandchildren, to steward the land, water, and air for these purposes. Roots. People have roots, nobody is born lacking context, we are all a part of the broader family of humankind, we are the cousins of beavers and crows and even the trees. Though we are clever, we cannot be said to be wise. What is the last action you have taken that will benefit the great grandchildren? What connection to the land can be grown, when capitalism keeps us destitute, divided. When land is privatized, when money is a prerequisite to staying in a place, how can anybody become indigenous? How can anybody stop to fight for the forest when they must, so they have been told, fight only for themself.
I would like to leave this on some hopeful note that we may yet defeat this settlerist mindset, this utter catastrophe of hateful conquerors and cynical bourgeois parasites. I would like to sound optimistic, I would like to reassure you, to hug you and tell you it will be alright, that love and justice always win, that good always prevails. I would like to do all of that but I cannot. No, this monster that was created here in the conquering of this world, the monster called capitalism, called imperialism, called empire, it will sooner eat its own tail than let good prevail.
We must show love, yes, we must dream, yes, but we must fight. I dare you to build what corner you may of the marxist utopia we likewise envision. I urge you to be dedicated fully to this, in labor, in soul, in actions and in words. Every day we wait is a day we cannot afford. Every day we are not demanding clearly an end to genocide, an end to the destruction of nature, every day we do not do this the suffering of our great grandchildren is multiplied. The owning class, the hegemony of the west, it only knows violence. Our leaders are deaf to tears and blood, they only understand money. They answer our calls with silencing us, with tear gas, with bombs and bullets. Now is the time for action, sudden and dramatic change, a revolution to transform society just as MLK envisioned, as so many are martyred for. I swear it, on my life, Palestine will be free, all of us will be free.