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That’s right ,I’m Leonid Brezhnev everyone ,sorry for stagnating the Soviet Union and starting the Afghanistan war but at least I stopped those fascists in Czechia ,I’m sorry I just loved those medals 😭

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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    3 days ago

    It's not relevant to Soviet coins, no: it's a very rudimentary form of what's known as a land acknowledgement, which is something a lot of Native activists in the USA, Canada, Australia, etc recommend that people should do while living in or visiting these regions. It's not a practice without controversy, however, mainly because institutions of power are constantly trying to co-opt this practice and turn it into a sort of "ritualized crocodile tears" to exorcise guilt, or even into a sort of "bragging between the lines".

    Once I'm back home — where I at least know the land wasn't violently swindled from anyone — I'll stop doing the land acknowledgements, but certainly will continue to push for solidary action with the Dakota in my org, and continue with individual actions towards restoring Dakota sovereignty.

    Sent from Mdewakanton Dakota lands / Sept. 29 1837

    Treaty with the Sioux of September 29th, 1837

    "We Will Talk of Nothing Else": Dakota Interpretations of the Treaty of 1837