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In tzonteyōtl monequi. Viva la Huasteca!

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You think we could get 500k people to rush an immigrant detention facility?

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An Indigenous perspective on Trump's militarized parade in Washington, DC and the settlers' #4thofJuly celebrations. https://t.co/mF5qxVweDF

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@DanDanTransient

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@bluemazatl @shane_burley1 MAGAts been gunning for this since they were called the Tea Party. Pun intended. Be vigilant.

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@imiuswi Great music but it doesn’t prove anything.

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@skip2thelou1 @toniromiti It’s not my criteria. It’s the criteria for most indigenous communities where I come from. It has nothing to do with skin color, too many people are claiming indigenous identity these days using ridiculous forms of evidence: memes, 18th century paintings, etc...

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@skip2thelou1 @toniromiti Proof of what? My indigenous identity? I have language and customs that predate the establishment of all the colonial states and cultures here in the Americas. I also have a community that claims me.

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Finally someone at the top grasps what’s happening here.

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It is important to note that many of these children speak indigenous languages. Some I met were budding trilingual (speak K’iche’, Spanish & learning English).

We are caging indigenous people.

(HHS shelters, if kids can get to them, have translation lines they call to help.)

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@4kongs @AOC It was bad then. It’s getting worst now. What are you doing to help them today?

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@LaurenDownSouth @I_A_M_AmeRican @toniromiti For example. WTF is this animal?

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@I_A_M_AmeRican @LaurenDownSouth @toniromiti The people who made those drawings never came here:

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@skip2thelou1 @toniromiti Sure. But that doesn’t prove you’re indigenous.

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@I_A_M_AmeRican @LaurenDownSouth @toniromiti I showed you a 21st century scientific study based on genetics that counters your narrative. You’re showing me drawings created by colonizers from the 19th century. Okie dokie...

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@_K3dar @thedrsec @toniromiti It’s actually not truth. It’s a false narrative being perpetuated to counter white supremacy. It’s an overreaction based on misinterpretations and psuedo history.

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@I_A_M_AmeRican @TayeSuave @toniromiti The indigenous tribes of the Americas aka Native Americans are the First Nations.

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@TomiLahren Dear Colonizer Barbie, keep your anti-Native insults to yourself. Thanks.

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@skip2thelou1 @toniromiti So you agree with this false meme?

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@skip2thelou1 @toniromiti For example, this meme does EXACTLY what ignorant whites did back in the day. It assumes by looks that these people are the same simply by appearance and skin color. It disrespects the actual heritage of each of these individuals.

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@skip2thelou1 @toniromiti Yes, many ignorant whites did label all dark people. But that doesn’t automatically make a black person today an Indian. To make that assumption is just a reversal of the originally flawed logic. Been seeing a lot of that these days especially online.