RE: Wealth Taxes Aren’t For The Rich

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It's like trying to explain that Mexico is a European concept. Generations of orgullosamente mexicano and then one day its clear that the Tlascalans, and the Aztecs, and the Yaqui, and the (now considered Mextizo - Native "Californians') were all clumped together and given a piece of culture. The Nuances of the different tribes now all clumped together with a red and a white and a green. It was expected that through the generations we would forget that we were Original People and take up the Culture the Europeans gave us.

Now we forgot who we are and now we are the New Colonizers.

But it is too difficult to fully forget, especially when we are still living among our original trade routes, when we are still eating the same foods as our grandmother's grandmothers, many times with the same tools which still have the same name (comal, molcajete).

We remember more and more everyday. And now, people who were fully educated in the Colonists system, whose parents were also fully educated in the colonists system, are now remembering that the "First Nation People" of Canada, the "Plains Indians" who are many times considered the only Native Americans (and presumed mostly dead) and the "Mexicanos" are all cousins still living on turtle island, conneced to the nose of the elephant ("South America) who is slowly getting carried back.

We are all connected but the most important part is that we are all "stewards of the land" and that is what we must remember.

Thank you for being here. I don't write too much about this on the blockchain, the people here have banded against a similar form of oppression, the banking system, and that's a really good thing to fight by not being a victim of too.



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Plains Indian here to say, not dead! lol

I'm also thrilled to have found another Native person here! I made a community about sharing Native perspectives on current events, right now it's just me of course, but @hive-136941

I was actually thinking about making another community called "land stewardship," as a place for Indigenous gardening/agriculture to get shared - the past three days have been warm here so I've been out in my little garden, pulling out the weeds and getting ready to plant new stuff! Do you do any land stewardship yourself? I know a lot of folk are in positions where they can't really do anything, not even a windowsill.

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I suggest you don't create another community, but make "land stewardship" as related to the Original People of Turtle Island as part of the community you built. The blockchain is a great place but it can be easy to thin your efforts here.

I already joined, I'll see about sharing some stuff.

I do have a tiny garden I also take land stewardship and I make it part of our meals. Every once in a while I like to eat original food, with only foods that could be found here thousands of years ago. In those times I really miss watermelon and oranges!

Nice to meet you, I will see you in the community you built and have a beautiful day.

Thanks @chekohler I really appreciate the introduction.

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I'll change the community description to make it more clear that anything an Indigenous person does counts as "news" to the community, lol!

Thanks for your tips - I'm... overwhelmed by some of the social blockchain stuff! I saw you have @spinvest, which sounds like a great idea: part of what drew me into blockchains is the possibilities of using them to help organize a community as an "investment club," - I just count stewarding the land as a real solid investment!

And yea thanks @chekohler for making the introduction!

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