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On Whose Stolen Indigenous Lands Do You Live and Work?
“Where common memory is lacking, where people do not share in the same past, there can be no real community. Where community is to be formed, common memory must be created.”
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People increasingly ask one another, as not to misgender, “what are your pronouns?”
We rarely ask one another though, “Upon whose stolen tribal lands do you now live and work?” “Upon whose stolen tribal lands have you purchased?” Who knows the answer? If not, why not? And who considers these questions significant?
Unless you are a member of a tribal nation who continues to live upon your tribal lands, the land on which you reside has been stolen by white European-heritage primarily Christian men for their personal use and financial advantage.
A concept that some people find extremely difficult to understand is that the notion of “American exceptionalism” and “meritocracy” is a lie, a myth perpetuated by the white male Christian ruling capitalist elite to erase the foundational racist hierarchy of power and privilege on which the country was founded and continues for “function.”
