Mylan Murdo

Nêhiyawpwat from the prairie, living on the homelands. Narrative Podcast is the side project

[Mylan Murdo @MylanMurdo]

To all the settlers who are complaining about the snow and how cold it is here on the prairie, Don’t live here then, you can always leave and move elsewhere. We’re from here and always been here. and we know winter is vital and needed

[Mylan Murdo @MylanMurdo]

Remember fam, Under settler colonial conditions there are major differences between liberation and representation.

[Mylan Murdo @MylanMurdo]

If you're going to hark on the morality of Canada, a settler state. It's coming at the cost of indigenous peoples histories and presence here. Really irks me when I see that card being played.

[Mylan Murdo @MylanMurdo]

So really, when it comes to whats going on here on these lands, find those who have the political and economic analysis to speak to this. Also be mindful of new age indg influencers and grifters, they tend to know toe the line of neoliberalism and capitalism

[Mylan Murdo @MylanMurdo]

I'm pretty tired of settlers of all types, all spectrums talk down to me and my people in condescending ways. We get it, a lot of you fled and have these global identities, but we're still here on our homelands holding it down.

[Mylan Murdo @MylanMurdo]

Also, Indg peoples face racism and stereotypes from a lot of communities and ethnic minorities here in Canada. We are aware of our conditions, we are aware settler colonialism and high key observing the ongoing colonial dynamic from the position of our homeland.

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

In honor of this day, please join us, Gabor's family and friends, in donating to the following causes (chosen by Gabor), benefiting vulnerable persons in Gaza: the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (Gaza). More information can be found here: https://t.co/Cpl1nNTh3k

[Mylan Murdo @MylanMurdo]

Gabor Maté is popular in treaty six territory and on the prairie now, I really encourage people to dive into his work and read it, the books go deeper than what you hear from the front of the room, it helps and is more comprehensive, correlates and creates shifts

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

Today we are celebrating my dad @DrGaborMate's 80th birthday. He was born in Budapest on January 6th 1944, two months before Nazi Germany occupied Hungary.

He was able to escape the Jewish ghetto after his mother, Judy, gave him to a stranger on the street, who agreed to take him to cousins in a safer area.

Staying in a cold, overcrowded flat, they kept him warm by sleeping on each side of him. After reuniting with his parents, who managed to survive, they fled to Canada along with his brother Janos in 1956. Living in Vancouver, he became a student activist, writer, high school teacher, doctor, healer, and renowned author.

He and my mom Rae taught me and brother Daniel and sister Hannah from an early age to be uncompromising about the truth, both the personal and political, and to stand up for the oppressed, especially the Palestinians occupied in our name.

On his 80th birthday, I honor his life and all that he has given to me and to the world.

And my wish is that today's modern-day Jewish ghettos — the Gaza death camp and occupied West Bank — will be liberated from today's modern-day Nazis, the Israeli government, so that every Palestinian can have the same freedom to follow their life path that my dad has been fortunate to have.

[Mylan Murdo @MylanMurdo]

The original indigenous principles and project is sound from our perspective, but bastardized, implemented and eroded on the settler side of things. Which is why we need to invest time and thought into our politcal re-emergence and overall project

[Mylan Murdo @MylanMurdo]

I don’t believe in the renegotiation of treaties takes that seem popular amongst reconciliation and neoliberal types. You’re telling me, my ancestors who never been to residential school, fluent in language and world view to the core, were wrong?

[Mylan Murdo @MylanMurdo]

A ruse of reconciliation in a neoliberal era has appointed experts and voices for indigenous peoples as way to minimize and marginalize grassroots voices and history. The loudest voices are often the groomed, educated and those appointed by settler colonialism.

[Mylan Murdo @MylanMurdo]

One of the things that irks me with folks who are just coming to learn of indigenous political thought and traditions is their assumptions, we didn't exist in a vacuum, territories were fluid and our history can be measured in peace and diplomacy amongst one another

[Mylan Murdo @MylanMurdo]

If someone has been disconnected, we need to be mindful of their interpretation. Because people don't know what they don't know. Especially if they are operating and adhering to multiple world views and cosmologies.

[Mylan Murdo @MylanMurdo]

The original indigenous principles and project is sound from our perspective, but bastardized, implemented and eroded from. Invite time and thought into our project

[Mylan Murdo @MylanMurdo]

I don’t believe in the renegotiation of treaties takes that seem popular amongst reconciliation and neoliberal types. You’re telling me, my ancestors who never been to residential school, fluent in language and world view to the core.

[Mylan Murdo @MylanMurdo]

We need to be louder with critiquing these random ass takes coming from settler colonialism itself. It's hilarious to certain extends, settlers attempting to speak to the conditions of their creation. Indg roots are always deepest here in the americas, why uplift the invasives