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Tweak says, "NOOO MOREEE WIRE HANGERS"

maya lopez is more than an echo (ashtawawidiwin) wrote in somerealityweb,
@ 2019-07-18 16:26:00

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God, this place is bullshit. I miss the rez.

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ashtawawidiwin
2019-07-18 06:20 am UTC (link)

Reservation. When white people came to North America they forced the native tribes out of more and more of the best land, and the okay land, and the pretty average land. Eventually they drew a few lines on the map and dumped anyone who hadn't been slaughtered, executed, died of plague or starved inside them, then wrote in the history books about how generous they were to the barbarian savages who did uncivilised things like keeping their side of treaties, letting everyone have a say and valuing people more than money and power. I spent parts of my childhood on one. In a material sense they're pretty hellish, but I never felt ~~lonely~~ out of place there.

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	forcepowers 2019-07-18 06:32 am UTC (link)
	Ah, I'm sorry that sounds rather horrific. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtawawidiwin 2019-07-18 06:37 am UTC (link)
	Mostly before my time. The last forced-assimilation school closed in 1973, which was a few years before I was born. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	forcepowers 2019-07-18 06:41 am UTC (link)
	The question isn't when they closed but how long they were open for. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtawawidiwin 2019-07-18 06:53 am UTC (link)
	Probably depends how loosely you define them. The worst ones were a century or so, I think. They were less sophisticated before that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	forcepowers 2019-07-18 06:57 am UTC (link)
	That is not good though in the scheme of things a century isn't that long. Still I'm glad that they are closed. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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