Live tonight at 10PM ET on @johnfugelsang.bsky.social ’s SiriusXM show (Ch. 127): @simonmoyasmith.bsky.social & I will be talking Pete Hegseth’s cowardice, the brilliance of Jane Goodall, & why dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery is climate action. Call in & join us. 866.997.GRIT📞 #WereStillHere

It really does come down to this: Be kind to one another. Everyone is going through something, right now. They may be suffering physically. They may be suffering emotionally. They may be lonely. They may have lost a loved one days ago or even years and they’re going through that pain. Just be kind.

Folks, not every tribe had a flute. Yet, when you watch a documentary about Natives there’s invariably a flute playing. Fact: White people would photograph all Natives in a headless regardless if that tribe knew what a headdress was. What they wanted was to sell a picture of an “Indian.”

Every fucking ghost hunting or UFO show on the History Channel or in a Stephen King novel: “Native Americans believed …” Firstly, we’re still here. We’re still here *to* fucking believe. Secondly, which Natives are you referring to? Oglala? Tulalip? Cree? Choctaw? Rarámuri? Maya? Yup’iq? Diné?

From Ann Coulter calling for more dead Indians, to Pete Hegseth glorifying the brutal massacre of more than 200 women & children, to all of you justifying the culture of racism in your fucking sports teams on Sundays, murdered Natives is the American theme. Clearly. Prove me wrong. Try.

A white man once asked me, “How did you guys knock on a tipi door?”

If you don’t like us, then don’t eat our food. Don’t eat our tacos, burritos, tostadas, caldo de camaron, caldo de res, huevos rancheros, chilaquiles, quesadillas, tortas, menudo, fajitas, nachos, guacamole, taquitos… Stick to your mayonnaise & racism. We’re not going anywhere.

Say it louder for the people in the back: *Your* people crossed an ocean. Your back is way wetter than ours, darling. 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🇮🇹 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇩🇪 🇫🇮 🇫🇷 🇦🇹 We are not the immigrants. We never left the land. ✊🏾

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Lewis & Clark wouldn’t have gone 10 yards into the forest without Sacajawea. 🖕🏽

White people: “This is uncharted land…” Natives: Bitch, it’s charted! It’s been charted for thousands of years. Just b/c a white man hasn’t been there doesn’t mean it’s “uncharted.” We just don’t share shit with you anymore. We won’t. You poison the water & you desecrate our sacred sites. Nope.

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Cinema plot twist: An Indigenous family is living in a house on some “Pilgrim burial ground.”

Via @simonmoyasmith.bsky.social circa 2017

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I’m writing this w/ Rae: Plot twist: A Native family lives in a haunted house built on a ‘Pilgrim burial ground.’ Mom walks into the bathroom & the slur ‘redskin’ is written with ash on the mirror. A day later, the buffalo stew flies off the stove. ‘Get off our land’ is etched into the floor boards.

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Read anything by Vine Deloria Jr. Read, ‘Lies My Teacher Told Me,’ by James Loewen. Read Howard Zinn’s ‘A People’s History of the United States,’ and read ‘The Lakota Way,’ by Joseph Marshall III. You have your homework.

Chihuahuas are sacred to the Mexica. Dogs were here long before white ppl. Dogs are essential to a Native community’s way of life. To the Inupiaq, dogs are imperative for travel, protection, & hunting. Now, shelters are past capacity because of Trump’s racist removal of Native families.

“The low end of the totem pole” is, in fact, the strongest. The top is the weakest and most vulnerable. If you’re “the low end of the totem pole,” you carry the weight and are the strongest in the community.

My sister, Tawnee. Please donate if you can. Lila wopila.

“I’m sure this has been said plenty of times, but it’s SO DUMB that white ppl came to this land, took it, killed the Winnebago people, took their name, slapped it on an RV so they can continue to explore/travel on the stolen land with a stolen name.” -Rae, Yup’ik/Inupiaq

I figured a way to get rid of it was to draw the words thuggish and finish it with fancy. It worked.

“Everybody came to America for a new life.” Umm, no. Some of us were already here on the land which your people labeled ‘America.’ We’re not “everybody.” We’re the first peoples of this land. We are Indigenous. A country was built around us, against our wishes. Against our will, and against us.

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Standing Rock, 9 yrs ago to the day — Morton County Sheriffs, armed to the teeth, blocked the road. A white badge w/ her K-9 strolled the perimeter. You could smell the frybread in the air b/c it was time to eat. They were there to protect oil & gas. We were there to protect the people & the water.

White ghost hunters: “This place was built on ancient Native American burial grounds…” Well then get the fuck off it.

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I never knew abuse from my father. Only absence. But absence is its own abuse. I don’t know what’s worse: the sting of the belt or the constant sting of absence.

If you missed this week’s segment with @simonmoyasmith.bsky.social & me on @johnfugelsang.bsky.social ’s show — we covered a lot: a female judge hitting pause on “Alligator Alcatraz,” stolen artifacts finally going home, land back in LA, & more. Listen FREE here: open.spotify.com/episode/12nR...

A few facts. Why not: -Alaska doesn’t have reservations; they have villages. -Unlike the U.S. & Canada, Mexico doesn’t have an enrollment system to count its Native population. -It’s not all “uncharted land.” You’re just new. We’ve already charted it. We’re just keeping it to ourselves now.

@simonmoyasmith.bsky.social & I are live tonight at 10PM ET on SiriusXM Pro Ch 127 with @johnfugelsang.bsky.social for our segment. We’ll be talking land back wins, museum reckoning, and why breakfast isn’t always the most important meal. Bring your heart, your questions - & maybe a snack. #Native

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Q: Sports fans have been very supportive of doing back to the Cleveland Indians, the Washington Redskins-- TRUMP: Oh, I love that. I love the sound of that. I'd do the Washington Redskins. I think they should do it. I told the mayor.

Caption: The Tohono O’odham, the TO’s, the 1st ppls whose land was cut in two by the white man’s manufactured border invited me to speak on police brutality in their community. *They* have been fighting ICE before this continuing hate of our skin became mainstream news. @uarizona.bsky.social.

“You Indians were godless sun worshippers!” First, hear yourself — you can’t be godless if you have a sun god. Some did, absolutely. Meanwhile, other tribes consider the sun sacred — like water. But unlike water, you fuckers can’t poison the sun. It’s out of your reach. But you would if you could.

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Daughter of street vendor asking why police aren't helping!! Broken heart 💔 🖕🏽 LAPD

“Why is your name Moya-Smith and not like Yellow Eagle or Runs with Bulls?” Easy: Because the Spaniards came from the south and the English came from the east. The invaders didn’t come to sustain traditions or names, but to force theirs on us. They hated our names, and our names were tradition.

At present, mainstream NBC News, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, and even Democracy Now!, and The Young Turks have not reported on this call by a racist MAGA pundit for more dead Indians… Hey, hi, newsrooms — all of you — hire more Indigenous journalists! Or any Native! Ffs. B/c we saw it. Do better.

Racism & hate against Indigenous peoples is alive & well with these rotten jackals.

The Fourth of July is a celebration of this group of white people separating from that group of white people — slave-owning white people. On stolen land. Meanwhile, today, we’ll hold our dogs close. Fuck your fireworks.

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Do you know how I know that ICE & ICE wannabes are indiscriminately targeting anybody with brown skin? Because they are going after Native Americans near reservations, too! With no paperwork, only masks & guns. That’s how I know.

Farm-to-table isn’t some Saturday farmers market w/ hippie honey & white guys w/ dreads selling mushrooms — it’s Mexicans picking your grapes, tomatoes, cabbage every single fucking day in brutal heat for 12 hours for shit pay & no healthcare. Your everyday produce comes from the backs of Mexicans.

People keep comparing our time to the Nazis. We don’t. We, Natives, have seen this before, here in the U.S.: Separation of families, prison camps, forced removals, aggressive raids, nationalism… Folks, it happened here. Google ‘the Trail of Tears’ and ‘Indian boarding schools.’ Learn a thing or two.

I don’t want to hear white people bellow, “I was born here!” as a flex anymore after today’s Supreme Court decision. Apparently, it doesn’t fucking matter. Btw, these white asshats are the first anchor babies. They created anchor babies.