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wordglass-homeless Still Indig @Mari_Kurisato@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

Big Tech Is Now Targeting Native American Land for Massive Data Centers The data center boom has roiled communities across the country, but on Native land, a Big Tech push for quick approvals has pitted the need for development against a history of exploitation. 1/13

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wordglass-homeless Still Indig @Mari_Kurisato@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

Video: ‘Merciless Indian savages’: How the Declaration of Independence portrayed Indigenous Americans As the U.S. marks its 250th anniversary, scholars examine what the nation’s founding meant for those who already called North America home 1/25

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wordglass-homeless Still Indig @Mari_Kurisato@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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wordglass-homeless Still Indig @Mari_Kurisato@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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wordglass-homeless Still Indig @Mari_Kurisato@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

In Indian Country, Data Centers Come With a Familiar Threat of Colonialism. These Organizers Are Fighting Back. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/data-centers-indian-country/

motherjones.com

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wordglass-homeless Still Indig @Mari_Kurisato@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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references to slavery, Native dispossession and other dark chapters of U.S. history in parks and museums and on government websites. “It’s not just a line in an old document,” Peters said. “It’s a reminder that this country was built by declaring us less than human. 12/17

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wordglass-homeless Still Indig @Mari_Kurisato@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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The document’s portrayal of Indigenous people helped establish a moral and legal framework that justified decades of devastating U.S. policies toward Native communities, according to historians. 10/17

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wordglass-homeless Still Indig @Mari_Kurisato@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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for Indigenous people in 1776. Many note that while the Declaration promises that “all men are created equal,” its ideals were not extended to everyone. 9/17

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wordglass-homeless Still Indig @Mari_Kurisato@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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By Dana Hedgpeth McKaylin Peters, a 24-year-old Native American graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, still recalls when she first heard the words “merciless Indian savages.” 2/17

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wordglass-homeless Still Indig @Mari_Kurisato@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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Celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration’s signing come amid a striking contrast: Native tribes are working to reclaim ancestral lands, revive lost languages and preserve cultural traditions, while the Trump administration has sought to remove or downplay 11/17

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wordglass-homeless Still Indig @Mari_Kurisato@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration — a document fundamental to the nation’s founding and still revered — Peters and other Native American scholars and tribal leaders are reflecting on the Founding Fathers’ use of the derogatory description 8/17

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wordglass-homeless Still Indig @Mari_Kurisato@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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We were like, ‘Did she really just say that?’” 7/17

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wordglass-homeless Still Indig @Mari_Kurisato@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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It just rolled off her tongue very easily,” recalled Peters, a citizen of the Menominee Nation who is getting her master’s in organizational leadership. “It seemed like no one else was shocked except for us, the Indigenous students in the classroom. 6/17

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wordglass-homeless Still Indig @Mari_Kurisato@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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Peters said she and the six other Native students in the class looked quietly at one another. “I was upset. 5/17

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wordglass-homeless Still Indig @Mari_Kurisato@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.” 4/17

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wordglass-homeless Still Indig @Mari_Kurisato@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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Sitting in social studies class at her predominantly White middle school near Green Bay, Wisconsin — a school that once used an image of an Indian as its mascot, she cringed when the teacher read a passage deep in the Declaration of Independence: “He has excited domestic 3/17

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wordglass-homeless Still Indig @Mari_Kurisato@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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When the Declaration of Independence calls us that, it’s a message that Native youth sadly still hear today in classrooms, policy debates and in how society talks about us.” 13/17

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wordglass-homeless Still Indig @Mari_Kurisato@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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Many historians and Indigenous historians say the term “savages” did more than reflect 18th-century attitudes. 14/17

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wordglass-homeless Still Indig @Mari_Kurisato@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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Drop-Off Location: The Outset, 610 Simpson Street, Thunder Bay, ON Drop-Off Hours: 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM EST (Daily) Contact: Courtney Mohring, Ingaged Creative Productions, 807-620-5324 Monetary donations are welcome via e-transfer to: an7gc@anishinabek.ca 2/3

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wordglass-homeless Still Indig @Mari_Kurisato@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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wordglass-homeless Still Indig @Mari_Kurisato@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Tribes in Montana lose millions after USDA kills farm grants https://montanafreepress.org/2026/04/02/tribes-in-montana-lose-millions-after-usda-kills-farm-grants/

Montana Free Press

Tribes in Montana lose millions after USDA kills farm grants

Montana-based awardees called the terminations ‘devastating’ — and based on a false presumption that tribal initiatives fall under DEI.

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wordglass-homeless Still Indig @Mari_Kurisato@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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