Comments by "yotin pimohktiw" (@yotinpimohktiw7766) on "Middle East Eye"
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Hey Ireland, can you tell me which states united to form the United States? Have you forgotten about the people that have lived on Turtle Island since the dawn of time, before any European became an “American”? Have you forgotten that WE are still here, intact with culture, language, and values? Non of them are European in nature. We Turtle Islanders have been experiencing the longest most deadly genocide in history. I say “experiencing” because it’s ongoing and so is the occupation and theft of land and resources that are being exploited by former Europeans calling themselves “Americans and Canadians” now. We are the highest suicide rate on the planet, the most imprisoned, the most with substance abuse problems, the least travelled, and educated. All the while we are the owners and natural governors of this whole continent. Israel only exists today, because it’s funded by the theft they commit against me and my people of Turtle Island. I see people protesting the atrocities in Gaza on the very land that belongs to us, the most marginalized people in history. Without so much as acknowledging the people of the land they are protesting from. Why has the world forgotten such noble and spiritual people? What has the people of this world become?
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Tansi wakomakan? Yotin pimohkitew napew nitsikason. wapsewsipi, Miskinak Ministik niya ochi. Tanti ochi kiya? Namoya Miskinak Ministik. Nihiyawak askihk kakikiy. instotin nihiyawewin chi? I said, " how are you all my relations? My name is Windwalker man. I am from Swan River, Turtle Island. Where are you from? Not Turtle Island. This is the homeland of the Cree people and will be forever. Do you speak or understand the Cree language? If your from the United States, tell me brother, which states united? How did Turtle Island become a man from Italy's name? Amerigo Vespucci. Its not a place, and your not American. There is no such thing. How can you call yourself an "american" and sit on our land and talk of genocide? Do you know what that is? Try over 100 million Turtle Island people murdered and displaced, so you can sit and pretend you have a heavy heart? How can you talk of history being erased, when you don't even know that this is not america, and you speak european english. Your no different then the occupiers, who are only on our land today, because they begged us for peace. So we signed their peace treaty with an X, becuase we did not even speak or write european languages. This ongoing genocide and occupation of our homeland is the worlds worst crime ever committed against a peaceful people, us the native Turtle Islanders. Gaza doesen't even come close. I had empathy for your plight, until you ignored ours.
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