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TO ANYONE WHO WAS TAGGED IN A LOUIS VUITTON POST, DO NOT CLICK THE LINK. MY ACCOUNT WAS HACKED. THE POSTS HAVE BEEN DELETED AND MY PASSWORD CHANGED. SORRY FOR YOUR DASHES

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Anyway.

For those of you aren't aware and aren't involved in NDN circles, the Supreme Court just declared that tribal territories and reservations are part of states and are under state jurisdiction, including in regards to charging someone and putting them on trial in state courts for crimes related to the tribe (as opposed to this being left up to tribal courts), undoing decades of precedent for the separation of tribal and state governments.

In a few months, the Supreme Court is also going to be giving a verdict on whether or not the Indian Child Welfare Act, the only thing keeping indigenous children with their families and communities instead of being "adopted" (trafficked) to white Christian families at every chance, is unconstitutional. This act is also dependent on the belief that tribes are sovereign nations and that giving our children to people outside of our tribes is akin to the US government taking Canadian children in the Canadian foster system and trying to adopt them out to American families.

If the ICWA falls, we're going to see a modern Sixties Scoop, with Native children being stolen from their tribes and families and cultures and assimilated into white Christian society. This is not only traumatizing for the children and their families, it's also a form of cultural genocide that has been used against us before and has devastating effects.

There are family members I never knew because they disappeared into the foster system as children.

This is the beginning of what's going to be wave after wave of attacks on indigenous sovereignty and tribal governance. The Supreme Court, even with a Democratic majority, has historically decided against upholding indigenous sovereignty and tribal protection. We're seeing genocide and forced assimilation become federal policy again.

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When the last tree has fallen and rivers are poison You cannot eat money

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That Ben Affleck was Adele all this time has left me amazed. Truly his greatest role.

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I don't listen to country music because I'm not aroused by tractors

#SCREAM #so true tho

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We need to keep making 9/11 jokes until some corporation tries to jump in on the meme and gets promptly executed by the public

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harvesting cinnamon

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#LET THEM SWEAR

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ppl who don't face material oppression see marginalized communities as fun clubs you wanna join for cool points instead of oppressed groups who face constant legislative, violent, financial, systematic attacks. I enjoy representation and visibility as much as the next black lesbian but not at the expense of my safety and security, which actually is in danger when you see liberation as corporations being able to sell you your identity and not as supplying folks with the funds, protection, housing, etc that they actually need.

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Its always "why is this mom selling her daughter" and never "why is one direction buying a person" smh

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Once upon a time…

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The collab no one asked for