because the horse, 800-lb gorilla, and pink elephant ain't dead yet and i'mma keep beating all three of em with my stick until they are... and so are my kids... and their kids... and their kids... and their kids... and their kids... and their kids... and gawd bless the seventh generation.

period.

nin danaki awaki.

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Your daily historical service announcement, brought to you by animikwaan, hostile ndn:

With the aid of the agricultural engineering of the Western Hemisphere's Indigenous peoples, like the cultivation of maize among other indigenous fruits and vegetables (e.g. tomatoes, potatoes, squash, cocoa, bananas, a variety of beans, etc.) as well as lifestyles, the survival of the continual waves of European settlers for over a century afterwards was enabled. So, today's spirited subject heading is a toast to the bitter drink of cynicism regarding the whitewashing of North American history.

"...But if you do not do this or if you maliciously delay in doing it, I certify to you that with the help of God we shall forcefully enter into your country and shall make war against you in all ways and manners that we can, and shall subject you to the yoke and obedience of the Church and of their highnesses may command; and we shall take away your goods and shall do to you all the harm and damage that we can, as to vassals who do not obey and refuse to receive their lord and resist and contradict him; and we protest that the deaths and losses which shall accrue from this are your fault, and not that of their highnesses, or ours, or of these soldiers who come with us. And that we have said this to you and made this Requerimiento we request the notary here present to give us his testimony in writing, and we ask the rest who are present that they should be witnesses of this Requerimiento."

--text from El Requerimiento (c. 1511), as read in Spanish to the dozens of Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean (who, notably, did not speak Spanish) before their slaughter and/or enslavement by agents of the Spanish Crown to "allow" their surrender.

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i'll take back rent with interest if you wanna try and argue with me that one-third of the entire contiguous united states wasn't found by the federal indian claims commission to have no lawful title and thus, judically recognized as unceded... or, i might consider this t-shirt...