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elriabrunnr:

HUGE NEWS!! THE SUPREME COURT JUST HAD A MASSIVELY IMPORTANT RULING THAT RESULTED IN NEARLY HALF OF OKLAHOMA BEING RETURNED TO THE NATIVES!

HERES AN ARTICLE ABOUT IT

So! I see a lot of the notes saying weird shit about how this is “misleading” or that it’s not “actually being given back” and I want to say:

Those takes are incorrect.

This is, at its very core, the basis of land being returned to us. We don’t want to make all white people/non native people leave the land or whatever. This is just step one, but it’s also important to recognize that this is fundamentally what the LandBack movement has been trying to achieve. As far as I can tell? This is the first step to granting Indigenous people autonomous control over our own nations and land once more. I don’t know much about how US law works, but I’m intimately aware of the aim and goals of the Indigenous (read: my) community.

So: please listen to actual native people on this. So so many of us have been sobbing tears of joy over this, crying and being in shock, because we can barely believe that we got SUCH an incredible and major win. This is what we want. Do not write over that with your white misinterpretations of what it is we mean by Land Back.

Niá:wen, listen to natives, have a nice day.