flowisaconstruct:thecringeandwincefactory:postsatire:The man crying is George Gillette, tribal
flowisaconstruct: thecringeandwincefactory: postsatire: The man crying is George Gillette, tribal chairman of the Mandan, Arikara, and Hidatsa tribes of North Dakota in 1948. He was forced under the threat of death of all his people to sign over the tribes’ homeland on the fertile floodplain of the Missouri River in order to build the Garrison Dam. The final settlement legislation denied tribes’ right to use the reservoir shoreline for grazing, hunting, fishing or other purposes, including irrigation development and royalty rights on all subsurface minerals within the reservoir area. After the dam was constructed, the three tribes were scattered, their communities and extended families flung to different shores of the 200-mile-long Lake Sakakawea. This is what your freedom and democracy is built on. For anyone who ever wants to tell us to “get over it” - the man crying in the photo is my buddy Orion’s grandpa. The Native people effected by the American government’s consistent attempts at genocide against us are real people with real relationships to these events, who are really, actually, I promise, continue to be effected by them in their aftermath. There is nothing discrete about genocide. It has a wide range of exclusively negative effects for the people it’s carried out on for a very, very long time. White people where I live are still whining about losing the civil war. Fuck their “long time ago.” -- source link