This historic photo captures not just a moment, but an abuse that has lasted centuries on native tribes across the Americas.
Indigenous culture and history exist outside of capitalism and Western norms, making us extremely vulnerable to abuse by the systems and governments that serve everyone else.
To the capitalist machine, we are expendable.
Before 1492, it's been estimated that nearly 100 million people lived and thrived in the Americas [citation], accounting for about 20% of the global population.
Twenty. Fucking. Percent.
Today, Indigenous Americans account for less than 0.01% of the global population.
Europeans brought us plague and infighting, established themselves as superior, and began centuries of abuse and mistreatment toward indigenous populations across the Americas. It still persists today.
But we also persist. We are still here.
Indigenous existence is resistance.
I've had to fight my own government back home since I was a kid. I can give you first-hand retellings of the dangers I've had to face when defending our ancestral land. The police and government barely care about us, only moving against criminal/illegal activity when it's safe enough for them or looks good on a headline.
My duty as Wari is to protect my people, our land, and all those who rely on it. I am a keeper of ancestral knowledge and traditions. I am a leader of my people, just as Mr. Gillette, and I am fighting hard to make sure that history doesn't repeat itself for us.
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