🧵 Yesterday I posted that the so called united states would eventually make Natives choose between our Native Nations citizenship and that of "america" and it sounds like I am right. They pretty much said the quiet part out loud in today's supreme court hearing on birthright citizenship.

Gorsuch asked if Natives are birthright citizens. The response from the governments attorney

was that they "think so" due to the Indian citizenship act. Gorsuch then asks if the statute were put aside are Natives birthright citizens to which the response was that the children of "tribal Indians" are not birthright citizens. Gorsuch asks for clarification. Then, before Gorsuch interrupts, the government's attorney says "If a tribal Indian gives up allegiance to.... "

While the attorney never got to finish that sentence the implication is clear. Natives are going to be faced with a choice, probably very soon, as to where our loyalty lies if the birthright citizenship executive order is upheld.

This exchange is why you should listen to Natives. We know what's going to happen because we're currently surviving an ongoing apocalyptic genocide which

forces us to be the litmus test of just how much your government can get away with without pushback.

This is the first step in reviving the termination era, a step we've always known would come because blood quantum was too slow and y'all don't have the stomach to hunt us for our scalps like your ancestors did so they've got to do it via the court and legislation.

If what I feel will happen comes to pass

you'll eventually see those of us who refuse to abandon our cultures, traditions, and people and proclaim our fealty to the oppressor rounded up and placed on the nearest reservation (or all of us on the largest). We will not be able to leave without permission and we'll be under the thumb of your government, dependant on provided rations to survive. The rations

will be barely edible if they come at all.

If that sounds preposterous then you still haven't learned your real history. It's what already happened to our ancestors.

https://youtu.be/lTB7g200gE0?si=H9PKvpj5mYdO8tEg

WATCH: Justice Neil Gorsuch asks if Native Americans are U.S. birthright citizens

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@francesdanger

Genuine question, but why do you *still* refer to them (including yourself) as "indians"? Is this not seen as an insult?

Surely Native Americans aren't "Indians" - Indians are people from India.

IMHO Native Americans are the only true American natives, they should be given higher US status than white (and orange) trash ppl of immigrant descent.

@Captain_Jack_Sparrow I don't refer to myself or others as Indian in any other context except for federal Indian law. That's our federal designation inflicted upon us by this illegitimate government currently illegally occupying Native homelands.

I also don't like the term Native american. It's possessive and paternalistic. We don't belong to america.

@francesdanger

Oh I see. What do you prefer then?

@Captain_Jack_Sparrow I prefer to be called by my Native Nations, Mvskoke and Semvnole. It's ok to ask which Nations we belong to and then use that to refer to us as individuals.

As for a group term that's tricky. I personally prefer Native or Indigenous. Not everyone does. Some are ok with Native american. A lot of Elders are cool with Indian because that's what they grew up with. It's largely generational.

You can never go wrong referring to us as our individual Native Nation/s though.

@francesdanger

How is the V in Semvnole pronounced?

@Captain_Jack_Sparrow Vs are pronounced "uh"

@francesdanger

thanks for the info

@francesdanger

I hope things go well for the Indigenous people.

@francesdanger Wow, they really want to turn back the clock to the 1800’s

@francesdanger

Wow, you have to be an absolute full-on KKK Nazi psycho and moron to believe that "Native Americans" don't have more right to belong in America than white-trash GOP arseholes who came from Europe.
Native Americans are the true spirit of North America, GOP trash are self-serving traitors who work for putin via trump.

I'm watching from a distance as the USA tears itself apart through ignorance and prejudice.

@francesdanger #Alt4You image description (you may be able to update): Commentary from francesdanger in response to an NBC News post that references Trump admin citing an 1884 case ruling against an indigenous person’s right to citizenship: “You may think I'm writing with a tinfoil hat on but mark my words: They are going to make Natives choose between their Native Nations and their so called united states citizenship.” (1/2)
@francesdanger “I know they will because they've done it before.
The Natives that enrolled under the dawes act, The
5….Tribes, didn't just give up communal lands for
allotments. Upon acceptance of their allotments
they were made "american" citizens almost 20 years
before the Indian citizenship act of 1924.”