A combo of my own & comrades responses to whitewashed POC & the white folks they're quick to defend/justify being voluntarily connected with - like no one is forcing them into being connected, whatsoever to any type of bigots whatsoever - over past 5 years.

I'm marking it with - them & us exchanges that happened.

Them: You have a lot of Indian friends. You're not worried about being robbed?
Me: I'm worried about people like you, robbing me. I'm not worried about the Indigenous folks trying that on my home.

Them: You hang out with welfare bums! Those Indians get free rides! They should pay taxes too. They need to stop bitching about shit that happened before I was born. I am 65, goddammit!

Me: You're 65 & still ignorant as fuck. I'm 51 & you were around while many of my family was being bombed to death. My friends aren't welfare bums. Most are gainfully employed. They'd stop bitching about injustices if the injustices weren't still happening & if past crimes by white people were actually made fully accountable with real enforced, legal punishments & more land back diplomacy, led by Indigenous folks.

#Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind

Some fab free book scores.

Calling My Spirit Back by Elaine Alec
Elaine Alec, is a #Syilx & #Secwepemc author, based in Kamloops, BC.
https://www.elainealec.com/books

Whose Land Is It Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization provides a variety of Indigenous perspectives on the history of colonialism, current Indigenous activism and resistance, and outlines the path forward to reconciliation.

Originally released as a free e-book, the audio version features renowned Indigenous writers Taiaiake Alfred, Glen Coulthard, Russell Diabo, Beverly Jacobs, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Kanahus Manuel, Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour, Pamela Palmater, Shiri Pasternak, Nicole Schabus, Senator Murray Sinclair, and Sharon Venne. The late Arthur Manuel’s writings are read by his grandson, Mahekan Anderson. FPSE has been proud to partner with Nuxalk Radio to produce the audio version of this essential work.
https://fpse.ca/resources/whose-land-is-it-anyway/

My Indian Summer by Joseph Kakwinokanasum
A novel about survival, reconciliation and identity set during the summer of 1979.
https://www.strongnations.com/store/10103/my-indian-summer
Joseph Kakwinokanasum is a member of James Smith #Cree Nation. Kakwinokanasum's work has been published in the 2022 anthology Resonance: Essays on the Craft and Life of Writing, the Humber Literary Journal and Emerge.
Kakwinokanasum was shortlisted for the 2020 CBC Nonfiction Prize.

The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, by Michael Ondaatje, won the 1970 Governor General's Literary Award. Ondaatje's hauntingly disturbing evocation of the life and death of the 19th-century American outlaw placed him in the forefront of the new generation of Canadian poets emerging in the 1970s. The Collected Works commences with a list of 20 men killed by Billy the Kid and a foreshadowing of his own death. Using a highly visual, visceral poetic style featuring violent surreal images of madness and men killed in gun fights, shifts in time and perspective, and impressionistic fragments of Billy's existence, Ondaatje traces his capture, escape and eventual death at the hands of Pat Garrett, the "ideal assassin." Following the publication of The Collected Works by House of Anansi in 1970, a dozen major productions of a stage adaptation were held across Canada.(from The Canadian Encyclopedia)
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-collected-works-of-billy-the-kid

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