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   puffball: Stands Defiantly (wgahnagl@www.librepunk.club)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 02:37:32 JST puffball: Stands Defiantly

   ok land acknowledgements are cool and all but as I learn more about tribal history and land use, saying the place I personally live in is Naumkeag land is kind of reductive knowing that this land was used by several different tribes at several different times, especially considering that tribal ownership of land is a colonial concept

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     puffball: Stands Defiantly (wgahnagl@www.librepunk.club)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 02:37:50 JST puffball: Stands Defiantly

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     like not to be a killjoy to the liberals about it, and I get what they mean when they say this is Naumkeag land, but land use was a lot more complex than just people owning the area, and it's important to recognize that the very idea of land ownership for tribes is a tool of colonialism to strip us from it, since it by default buys into the colonial idea that land can be owned, and therefore it can be rightfully taken or bought

     By saying the tribe's land was owned by the tribe, my tribe's land was taken from us because of our "legitimate ownership" forced us to play by colonial rules about land ownership

     by saying it's Naumkeag land, that's kind of an oxymoron

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