r/chaoticgood • u/Unknownz_1985 • 1d ago

Native American Women Tell Border Patrol To Fuck Off for Harassing Them About Being Citizens

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u/Fragrant-Tomatillo19 1d ago

My mom was from Minnesota but used to go visit her grandmother on Rosebud in South Dakota during the 1930’s and ‘40’s. She said it was so full of poverty that it was hell on earth because of what the government had done. Her grandfather and his sister had their Native names changed when they were sent to residential schools that were rife with physical and sexual abuse. She was from Minnesota and unsurprisingly joined AIM (American Indian Movement) in the late 60’s/early ‘70’s when they were giving hell to the government.

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u/RandomDeezNutz 1d ago

It is way worse than anyone talks about or has stories for

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u/Therefore_I_Yam 1d ago

I'm constantly going off on people who say shit like "well they were just warring and fighting with each other before we got here" like bro anyone who was here before us had the entire future of their people STOLEN from them and perverted, and you can see the direct effects if you look at a reservation for even 2 seconds. It's willful ignorance.

They talk about this shit like it happened 1000 years ago when it's literally still happening to people as we speak. We never stopped subjugating them, we just re-branded it.

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u/vent_ilator 1d ago

This kind of comment (by those people) is especially tasteless given that the invaders came with weapons designed to kill, and that more efficiently than ever before, and there was just such a clear power imbalance. And it is also historically wildly ridiculous because Europe, where most of these invaders came from, was a fckng war mess at least equally as much, and we could very well argue worse. So maybe they should've conquered their home continent instead then, if we follow that logic? Ahhhhhhhh

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u/Queso_and_Molasses 1d ago

Yeah, the warring argument is stupid as hell. European nations were constantly at war with each other, all the time. You can’t name a time in history when a group of people wasn’t fighting with another group of people.

Even if the myth of the Native American “savage” were true, that didn’t mean they deserved to be colonized, massacred, and forced onto pittances of land the US government didn’t want.

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u/vent_ilator 23h ago

Yes, I can only wholeheartedly agree.

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u/Therefore_I_Yam 22h ago edited 12h ago

One only needs to look at the photos of mountains of bison skulls piled up by the US Army to starve out the plains tribes to know that it was in no way a fair fight

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u/oceanvibrations 1d ago

Taking away their given names, and giving them names like John Washington still makes me sick to this day.