Wounded Knee Occupation (1973) in February 27, 1973, a 71-day uprising began when approximately 200 Oglala Lakota and American Indian Movement (AIM) members seized the town of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to demand treaty negotiations. Paul Manhart S.J. and ten other residents of the area were apprehended at gunpoint and taken hostage.
The town was promptly surrounded by an army of U.S. personnel. John Sayer, author of "Ghost Dancing the Law: The Wounded Knee Trials", wrote - "The equipment maintained by the military while in use during the siege included fifteen armored personnel carriers, clothing, rifles, grenade launchers, flares, and 133,000 rounds of ammunition, for a total cost, including the use of maintenance personnel from the National Guard of five states and pilot and planes for aerial photographs, of over half a million dollars."
Although the Department of Justice (DoJ) prohibited media from the site, the occupation received support from the Congressional Black Caucus and prominent public figures, including Marlon Brando, Johnny Cash, Angela Davis, and Jane Fonda. Angela Davis was turned away by federal forces as an "undesirable person" when she attempted to enter Wounded Knee in March 1973.
Marlon Brando asked Sacheen Littlefeather, President of the National Native American Affirmative Image Committee, to speak at the 45th Academy Awards on his behalf. She appeared at the March 27th ceremony in traditional Apache clothing and stated that Brando declined the award due to "the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry...and on television and movie reruns and also with recent happenings at Wounded Knee".
Tribal leaders called off the occupation after 71 days after the killing of Lawrence "Buddy" Lamont, a local Oglala man, by U.S. sniper fire. The terms of ending the occupation included a mandated meeting at Chief Fools Crow's land to discuss reinstating the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, which stated that the Black Hills of South Dakota belonged to the Sioux people.
In the 1980 Supreme Court case United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians, the Court held that the taking of property that was set aside for the use of the nation required just compensation, including interest. The Sioux have not accepted the compensation awarded to them by this case, valued at $1.3 billion as of 2011.
"If we accept the money, then we have no more of the treaty obligations that the federal government has with us for taking our land, for taking our gold, all our resources out of the Black Hills...we’re poor now, we’ll be poorer then when that happens."
former Oglala Sioux Tribe President Theresa Two Bulls
I hope you nerds have a great next week and also first week of March. 
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Those tourrettes threads were bullshit and I regret reading them. Intersectionality is hard but does it have to be this hard?
I'm reminded how last thread some of us were talking about how race is the primary contradiction in our lives, the primary thing that oppresses us. Yes I'm disabled, yes I'm queer, but the racial violence of the system has been so much more deleterious to my life that those former two are mere blips for me. And that's something that white people seem to really struggle with understanding when I tell them, because to them disability and queerness are the biggest oppressions they've experienced so they struggle to understand when I go "yeah those are small problems for me." Kind of like how I used to have a partner with such bad chronic pain that to them, the chronic pain I suffered from on my worst days was a good day to them.
Also fuck that guy weaponizing Palestinians' suffering to harass someone living in Africa, like that guy exemplified several harsh things I've seen about "white allies" all in one go.
Something that bothers the hell out of me is when white queer people expect me to be queer first and Black second.
I did that, and it led to immense self-hate and feeling like I belonged literally nowhere.
My queerness and androgynous presentation greatly impact how I move through the world, yes, but no matter what, anyone who looks at me will see that I am Black FIRST. Not only that, but unlike my queerness, the fact that I am Black is literally tied to an entire fucking history and lineage, and that shapes the conditions of how I and other Black people as a whole exist today.
There is not a single thing about me that is actually more important than my Blackness, honestly. People will say, "Why do you make everything about race?". Well, it's because the system did it first. That's why, motherfucker.
No white person (or non-Black person, period, to be honest) I have dated has been able to make me feel seen in terms of race. Even the very person who would be in what is supposed to be the most intimate position they could ever possibly be in my life could not truly grasp this extremely important thing about me and how I exist in this world. Their intentions could've been the best, and they could've been the nicest people, but it made my relationships hurt and devoid of joy.
I am even very careful about having white people as just friends, let alone me refusing them as partners.
To this day, I think of the first partner I ever had and how she, as a Black woman, made that relationship feel like literally no other relationship of mine that came after that. She is actually the only Black person I have dated so far, and that is something I intend to change when I am far more stable.
White leftists are a fucking joke.
Well said and thank you for enunciating these things, reading your thoughts has been very helpful for me in coming to understand my own related experiences!
100% this. They think us saying how much worse the racism that affects us is compared to the queerphobia and ableism we also suffer from is us saying that queerphobia and ableism are irrelevant or that they don't suffer when it's not that at all. Until they get that through their heads we won't get anywhere. The racism is embedded literally everywhere and no place is safe, not even our countries are safe when the empire can just bomb and invade us and the white dominated queer/disability spaces aren't safe for poc either until white minorities unlearn all the racist bs they've been taught from birth, starting by acknowledging it.
They have the absolute nerve to say this while ICE is kidnapping random people with skin color darker than printing paper and the US is about to bomb Iran.
Yeah. Oh no a white person got humiliated publicly meanwhile poc are getting put into camps. These are somehow the same in their minds.
For the reddit thing, was that because reddit has a large and active Minneaoplis board while we don't? (And I don't know that we should have such hyperlocal boards given what a small userbase this is, it makes doxxing easier)
The conversation veering into debating whether or not the white dude should feel bad about compulsively shouting a racial slur was disappointing. That's not what matters, it's the 2 high profile Black actors being publicly humiliated by the BBC at their own awards ceremony who decided to leave in the slur even though Delroy Lindo and Micahel B. Jordan took it as gracefully as they could in hopes that the system would respect them.
It's a reminder that the racist society sees POC as having a higher "pain tolerance" for disrespect and that the BBC will not suffer any consequences from this because of said racist society. If the actors were white this would not happen and we know this from how quickly they shutdown any mention of Palestine.