Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21

**Posts pre Nov 13,2021 are from the past host of this account.

[Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21 @SyilxConnection]

This is what happens when you label indigenous pollinators “pests” & “bugs.” Literally every single creature was put on this earth with a purpose & the only losers to forget their purpose is the stupid humans. Run by who again? Imagine if there were just males in the world. DEAD

[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

“Apocalyptic” decline in insects is already causing malnutrition, pioneering new research concludes. It’s long past time to take this ignored crisis very seriously indeed.

https://t.co/lxT5PkOuG9

[Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21 @SyilxConnection]

Erasure happens when a government acknowledges Indigenous peoples in speeches but expects us to disappear from decisions about land, water, education, governance, and the future of this place. We remain visible as symbols but invisible as Nations.

[Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21 @SyilxConnection]

Erasure happens when a government acknowledges Indigenous peoples in speeches but expects us to disappear from decisions about land, water, education, governance, and the future of this place. We remain visible as symbols but invisible as Nations.

[Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21 @SyilxConnection]

This woman keeps insisting on erasing us and acting like she is at war with people. How do you expect to appease the rest of us who are not conservative? You can’t, because conservative values are rooted in hate, greed and extraction

[Kerry-Lynne Findlay @KerryLynneFindl]

David Eby can call me whatever he likes. His desperate labels only highlight the failure of his NDP government: record debt, out-of-control crime, collapsing health care, and eroded property rights.

I am proud to be a principled conservative who stands for freedom, family, safer communities, lower taxes, and putting British Columbians first. That is not extremism. That is common sense.

My focus remains on solutions for our province. Together, we will defeat the NDP’s failures and restore hope and prosperity to British Columbia.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

A 17-year-old valedictorian, Leen Hijaz, used her graduation speech to speak for the voiceless: "Millions suffering in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Afghanistan. Families torn apart by ICE."

The school administrator cut her mic. Told her: "If you don't stop, you're not graduating." They withheld her diploma for four days.

[عَزِيز Aziz @woolyonezeez]

Only in a corporate media landscape does theft of food become a crisis, instead of people’s inability to afford food

[AFN @AFN_Updates]

November 24, 1980: All aboard the Constitution Express! In 1980, nearly 1,000 First Nations advocates boarded two trains dubbed the Constitutional Express from Vancouver to Ottawa to protest the lack of recognition of Aboriginal rights in discussions on the proposed patriation of the Constitution by the Pierre Trudeau government. When the government refused to listen, they took their fight to the UN and Europe. Unity and perseverance paid off — Aboriginal rights were ultimately recognized in section 35 of the Constitution. Today, First Nations remain united in calling for full recognition of their rights, title, and jurisdiction. #NIHM2026

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

"You don't get freedom peacefully. Anyone who is depriving you of freedom isn't deserving of a peaceful approach." —Malcolm X

These words that still resonate today.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Fireflies spend the first 2 years of their lives underground. Lawn chemicals kill them.

During those early years in the soil, they're working double time dealing with your pests. They eat slugs, snails, earthworms and other soft-bodied insects.

The three biggest threats to fireflies are habitat loss, light pollution, and pesticides, pretty much in that order according to experts surveyed across 350 firefly researchers worldwide.

What actually helps: stop all lawn chemicals, leave the leaf litter in the fall, mow less frequently and higher, and turn off outdoor lights at night.

How are the fireflies doing in your yard?

[Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21 @SyilxConnection]

The fact that you think complexity is an admission tells me you're looking for confirmation, not understanding. Indigenous histories don't become simpler because colonial writers gave them English names. You're arguing labels. I'm talking about realities.

[VanCityPOV @VanCityPOV]

@SyilxConnection Well I guess that’s an admission through your low end wordiness. I’ll take it though. An admission is an admission.

[Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21 @SyilxConnection]

You're not describing Indigenous reality. You're describing a colonial translation of it. Europeans saw unfamiliar practices and interpreted them through their own fears and assumptions. Similarity is not sameness, and translation is not truth.

[VanCityPOV @VanCityPOV]

@SyilxConnection Well that is one wordy… excuse?
Take a read of this story exposing a little more truth… “Slave killer” clubs and “cannibal bowls”.
Seems like the FN tribes really were savage after all. Good thing this land was made civilized by the “colonizers”.

https://t.co/WZ97gS47f6

[Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21 @SyilxConnection]

Colonizers often looked at Indigenous societies and named things according to what they already understood. That doesn't mean the systems were identical. Similarity is not sameness, and the Northwest Coast was never one culture with one set of intentions.

[VanCityPOV @VanCityPOV]

@FakeSurrey @SyilxConnection @DanielHame50590 @grok They sure did! Read this book. The truth of what the First Nations were is actually out there…

[Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21 @SyilxConnection]

The problem is people keep assuming their story is everyone's story. Your ancestors were pressured by their own people. Mine were targeted by colonizers on our own lands. Assimilation isn't the same when it's imposed by those trying to replace you.

[David McQueen @DavidMc71590985]

@SyilxConnection Assimilation is not genocide.
The corollary of assimilation is appropriation.
I'm Scot/Irish background, ancestors under an English thumb. Mon's approach to raising me? You will assimilate your betters until they cannot distinguish you from themselves. It was good advice.

[Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21 @SyilxConnection]

That’s progress? To abandon family? Sick

[Harsha Walia (she/her) @HarshaWalia]

Indigenous Plant Walk with T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss

This walk is open to Indigenous, Black, and racialized refugee & migrant peoples, with priority for BIPOC queer and/or trans Elders and youth.

Details, accessibility & registration process by June 21

https://t.co/eiaW3wG4LX

[Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21 @SyilxConnection]

Apparently the orange man made some decisions the Texans are going to regret

[CityNews Vancouver @CityNewsVAN]

Canada temporarily blocking livestock from Texas due to New World screwworm https://t.co/ik55T0rbAS

[APTN Investigates @APTNInvestigate]

The longest trial in Canadian history recognizes Aboriginal title for a former Cowichan Nation village in Richmond, British Columbia.

With appeals pending, including one from the Musqueam band, Return to Tl’uqtinus explores what it all means.

[Green Party of Canada @CanadianGreens]

Canada is falling behind because our government keeps choosing Big Oil over what Canadians need. Our future is renewable, it’s time to invest like it.

[Russ Diabo @RussDiabo]

For Indigenous History Month I'm sharing this chronology I prepared for AFN National Chief Roseanne Archibald in a discussion paper, before she got knifed and removed by AFN Executive Committee to please the Trudeau gov't! 5/6

[John O’Sullivan #FreePalestine #neveragainisnow @JohnOSullivan36]

When I told my Dad I was gay in 1995 he said something that will always stay with me. He told me about his best friend in the army that was in the closet and had children and was from a deeply religious family where the “Gay was prayed away.” My father started crying (he has only ever cried twice in my presence) and said that he found his friend hanging from the rafters in the barracks. Suicide at aged 29, three kids, an oblivious wife. He said “As long as you are safe, happy and loved that is all I want for you son. I would prefer an alive gay son to one that kills himself because he is gay.” #PrideMonth2026

[KelownaNow @KelownaNow]

Save the southern mountain caribou, implores the Syilx Okanagan Nation
Under the Species at Risk Act. 🔻
https://t.co/twK9LYmsNC

[Westbank First Nation @westbankfn]

June is Indigenous History Month, a time to honour and uplift the stories, cultures, languages, and contributions of Indigenous Peoples. At Westbank First Nation, we celebrate the strength of our suknaqínx, sqilxʷ, syilx Okanagan people, reflect on our shared history.