example of the lands lost due to the dawes act
The Dawes Act of 1887 was a post-Indian Wars law that illegally dissolved 90 million acres of Native lands from 1887 to 1934. Signed into law by President Grover Cleveland on February 8, 1887, the Dawes Act expedited the cultural genocide of Native Americans. The negative effects of the Dawes Act on Indigenous tribes would result in the enactment of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, the so-called “Indian New Deal.”
It authorized the U.S. to divide indigenous tribal land into allotments for heads of families and individuals, leading to a loss of 2/3rds of land (~100 million acres) over the next 50 years.
The law converted traditional systems of land tenure into a state-imposed system of private property by forcing Native Americans to “assume a capitalist and proprietary relationship with property” that did not previously exist in their cultures, according to historian Kent Blansett. The act declared remaining lands after allotment as “surplus” and available for sale, including to non-Natives.
Between 1887 and 1934, indigenous people lost control of about 100 million acres of land, or about two-thirds of the land base they held in 1887, as a result of the act.
The loss of land and the break-up of traditional leadership of tribes had such devastating consequences that many scholars refer to the Dawes Act as one of the most destructive U.S. policies for indigenous people in history.
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I have friends in the impacted gov divisions being targeted by doge. They’re worried about their career and asked for advice. They didn’t like when I said fight back though.
I’ve gotten a lot of eyebrow raises from telling lib friends to buy a gun lately lmfao
It seems they want to hear “don’t worry ___ will save us”. They’ll not get that comfort from me
I got in a lot of trouble ranting at my aunt like a week ago ranting about how much the Democrats fucking suck and how much I hate them
She’s like 64 and a big lib and vet but a lesbian and I was really drunk and kept wranting about how the Democrats knowingly ran a senile octogenarian segregationist and then replaced him with an incoherent Xanax addict against the MyPillow Fox News Hamburgler Nazi and now she won’t return my calls lmfao
She had a fucking framed picture with Michelle Obama lmao
Death to America
I was talked down on for saying we’re in “funny times, very very sad but also funny”. Which makes me believe liberals really were just going back to brunch. They’re desperate to go back to the Obama years unaware that the Obama years is what got us here.
Very funny times! Very very sad, but, frankly, very funny! We love it, don’t we folks?
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for like a year I have tried to convince my wife we should get a cassowary. THINK ABOUT IT THO IT’D BE SICK. it’s literally the most deadly living dinosaur. and also I have a special interest in birds so it’s actually ableist if she won’t let me get a cassowary
I would meet you in the middle with an Emu.
I think the best course of action is to take it in small steps. Talk her into guinea hens first, then move into the emus and finally a menagerie of all sorts of flightless birds. Don’t stop with just a Cassowary, get some Rheas to fill out the Emu flock and a Shoebill for comedic effect possibly.
How much walkies do you gotta take one of those on?
enough to become a problem for the neighbourhood
Self limiting problem. After it it eats a few neighbors it has much more room to spread out
hiring managers just don’t understand when you have a gap in your resume. it’s not my fault i was stranded in the sierra nevada mountains in winter along with the rest of my party, and we eventually had to resort to cannibalism to survive
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Damn, can’t escape the patriarchy.
What if it was called Roku’s Basilisk and it let us install whatever streaming services we want in the afterlife
absolutely
Despite it being evil Roko’s basilisk is still better than congress
Between DOGE and the tariffs, Felix described this second term as the US doing shock-doctrine to itself.
it’s a good observation, and i’m a little mad i didn’t think of it myself
witness me only get 3 hours of sleep and work a 10 hour day of delivering cases of 9.5pH bottled water to single digit millionaires in sporadic raine: lol please disregard. Hours cut again
I had to explain to a doctor what the deal with alkaline water was. She didn’t know why the patient was doing that, because there’s no actual scientific basis at all. That was a fun convo, plus she was the prettiest fucking person I had ever spoken to
i hold my breath and go >_< while walking past smokers
They are so gross.
i take a deep breath and enjoy the crisp sensation of my cells dying
The communist barista asked me if I was a podcaster and I was instantly terrified that I was giving off rancid vibes but they only were asking if I listened to podcasts.
me at 6pm:
me at 2am:
Since the new Monster Hunter lets you choose if the cats speak your language or just meow, they should go all the way with it and give me the option to have the cats speak Italian
They would just meow while moving their paws emphatically.
it feels weird to have roots in a country where your mom only moved to amerikkka to avoid the oppression from a fascist dictatorship, but your dad moved to amerikkka because he happened to have enough money and connections from working for that same fascist dictatorship
My coworker apparently likes Lynch dune more than Villeneuve, and I was like fair enough, and then he said he did not like any other lynch movies.
opinion 1 in isolation I can handle, that combination is insaneWe need this man to run for office. Contradictions that heightened must be weaponized for the people.
How??? I guess Lynch hated it so much that he released it under Alan Smithee, so maybe the guy really just doesn’t Lynch at his best
Both of you are wrong, the syfy miniseries is the superior version. I’m not joking.
Sometimes when I read some cutting edge theory or whatever from some academic, I can’t help but think three things: this is just Marxism with out the understanding of the logic of capital and without the radical conclusions, no westerner can see in front of their own nose (I.e. No internationalism, poor understanding of global exploitation even when they need to note Marx failed to consider race, they fail to see anyone outside the Imperial core), and this is just Deleuze and Guattari in slightly different words.
And at no point is there any discussion of mass politics, just distributed points of organization which somehow(???) supplant the military death cult of capital. It’s “All the Power to the Soviets”, but there are no coherent Soviets for the power to be excersized.
Liberals just want to brunch and for the cab driver and waiter not be mean to them when they tip poorly. Where the banannas on the breakfast platter came from doesn’t matter, but they should be affordable for me.
Unless people shed their petite bourgeois aspirations, so much of this work is just fucking useless. I should make a rule that I won’t read anyone’s work who hasn’t done political organizing. Why were Marx and Engels, and Rosa, and Kollontai, so interesting? Because they weren’t academics, because the words they wrote had meaning in action, not just for pontificating.
And to extend the rant. Where the fuck are these writers now? Are they putting fucking anything at stake? Tenured profs have more job stability than a lifetime Congress ghoul. So what do they do? They write a fucking oped in some liberal magazine about taking the high road or about the “need to ask questions” about how we want society to be. MOTHER FUCKERS, there are groypers in the white house dreaming up anti-trans laws and how to reify patriarchy, warping the nightmare world they dream of into existence. A fucking oped isn’t even worth the fucking pixels it’s displayed on at this point.
Because they weren’t academics, because the words they wrote had meaning in action, not just for pontificating.
When I started reading alot more books, I picked up on a difference between the people who had interesting life experiences and put it into their writing and people who were mostly shut ins and I found the former much more coherent and interesting. For philosophy this was really obvious but I could even see it in fiction.
I don’t want to say absolutely that people who only write have nothing interesting to say and can’t make good observations or analysis, but its pretty rare imo. However I do tend to use it as a rule of thumb if a book/author is worth picking up or not.
