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DoomsdaysCW<p>The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tonawanda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tonawanda</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Seneca" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Seneca</span></a> Nation’s Fight to Protect the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigWoods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigWoods</span></a> and stop STAMP</p><p>By Margaret Wooster (WNY Environmental Alliance) with Sarah Howard (Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation + Allies of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation) June 16, 2023</p><p>"One of Western <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewYork</span></a>’s greatest treasures is a 20,000-acre <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wetland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wetland</span></a>-<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/grassland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grassland</span></a> complex located mainly in the Town of Alabama, and locally known as 'Alabama Swamp.' It is also known as the Sixth Great Lake, a glacial lake now largely underground but surfacing in the plentiful streams and pools that make this watery landscape essential to the many reptiles, amphibians, mammals and birds who live or pass through, especially during spring migration.</p><p>"This area is also home to the Tonawanda Seneca Nation, a federally recognized Nation and part of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaudenosauneeConfederacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HaudenosauneeConfederacy</span></a>. The extraordinary <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a> of this area is in large part a testament to their ongoing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/stewardship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stewardship</span></a> and reciprocal relationship with the more-than-human beings who also call this place home.</p><p>"But now, this place, and the Tonawanda Seneca Nation itself, faces an existential threat to their well-being. The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeneseeCounty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeneseeCounty</span></a> Economic Development Center (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GCEDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GCEDC</span></a>) has purchased 1,260 acres of habitat and farmland to build a Science and Technology Advanced Manufacturing Park (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/STAMP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>STAMP</span></a>) adjacent to the Nation’s territory. The site is also located within a few miles of multiple state and federally protected areas, including the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Iroquois" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iroquois</span></a> National <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wildlife</span></a> Refuge and the John White Wildlife Management Area.</p><p>"The STAMP plan capitalizes on federal and state subsidies for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/microchip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microchip</span></a> fabrication. To date, however, its only tenant is Plug Power, a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HydrogenFuelCell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HydrogenFuelCell</span></a> manufacturer whose product will have to be trucked many miles to market, undermining its justification as 'green power.'</p><p>"Two other possible developers – semiconductor producer <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EdwardsVacuum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EdwardsVacuum</span></a> and the warehouse developer <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ScannellProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScannellProject</span></a> – would pave or build over the site’s northern 600-plus acres and bring an extra 140 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cars</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/diesel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diesel</span></a> trucks per hour up the narrow country road that leads to the refuge and through the Nation.</p><p>"However, the Tonawanda Seneca Nation and their allies, including other local residents and numerous environmental organizations, are fighting back against this industrial development. In February [2023], the GCEDC applied for a 'Full Campus Incidental Take Permit' that would allow them to remove habitat for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/endangered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>endangered</span></a> and threatened <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> species known to occupy the site, including the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ShortEaredOwl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShortEaredOwl</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthernHarrierHawk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthernHarrierHawk</span></a>. In response to the hundreds of letters it received from the public about this permit, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) required the GCEDC to hold a public hearing, which took place on May 11 in the town of Basom.</p><p>"More than 185 people attended the hearing. All 49 who spoke were opposed to the permit and the majority expressed opposition to the entire STAMP project. Speaking in opposition were numerous members of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation, including titleholders, as well as allies from groups including the Buffalo Niagara <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Waterkeeper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Waterkeeper</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SierraClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SierraClub</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveOntarioShores" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOntarioShores</span></a>, SUNY ESF, University of Rochester, Western New York Environmental Alliance and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CleanAirCoalition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CleanAirCoalition</span></a> of Western New York. In the words of Tonawanda Seneca Nation Sub-Chief Scott Logan (Bear Clan), 'If this permit were to be granted, it would be an immense injustice to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a>. And as a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Haudenosaunee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Haudenosaunee</span></a> person, and all the Haudenosaunee People in here, that is our birthright. It is our, what we are here for, is to protect the earth. And the STAMP Project goes a hundred percent against what we are — what we’re all about.'</p><p>"The STAMP site is located immediately adjacent to the Nation’s present-day reservation boundaries. Indeed, the most intensive manufacturing will be located along the project’s border with the Nation. However, as their Council of Chiefs has repeatedly stated in public comment letters and letters to agencies responsible for granting permits sought by the developers, the project’s approval process has continuously and egregiously undermined the Nation’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sovereignty</span></a>. In violation of their status as a federally recognized <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TribalNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TribalNation</span></a>, the Tonawanda Band of Seneca’s Council of Chiefs – their traditional governance structure – has not been afforded a robust consultation process in decision-making about the project. Instead, opportunities for consultation have been perfunctory at best, and have focused almost exclusively on mitigation.</p><p>"In their official letter to the NYDEC regarding the proposed Part 182 Take Permit (mentioned above), the Nation’s Council of Chiefs wrote that, 'The Tonawanda Seneca Nation opposes this habitat destruction and would directly be impacted by it. The permit would allow for unmitigated incidental take on Nation lands when, inevitably, increased human presence, noise, excavation, light and traffic would disturb these species and turn them away… We do not want our Territory, people or future generations to be burdened by the negative impacts of these projects. This is a human rights issue for the Tonawanda Seneca Nation and the Haudenosaunee, who would bear a disproportionate burden from the industrialization of the land at STAMP.'</p><p>"The Council of Chiefs has demanded that a supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) be carried out to assess the possible impacts on the Nation, its culture and its environment; to date there has been no such study and the 2012 STAMP EIS (which did not analyze impacts on the nation) is badly outdated."</p><p><a href="https://globaljusticeecology.org/tonawanda-seneca-nation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">globaljusticeecology.org/tonaw</span><span class="invisible">anda-seneca-nation/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForestDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForestDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SenecaNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SenecaNation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greenwashing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HydrogenPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HydrogenPower</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>How to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/decolonize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decolonize</span></a> your <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Thanksgiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thanksgiving</span></a> dinner in observance of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NationalDayofMourning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalDayofMourning</span></a> </p><p>Meredith Clark<br>Wed, November 22, 2023</p><p>"Thanksgiving is almost upon us, a time when many <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Americans</span></a> gather together to eat turkey and talk about what they’re most thankful for. Growing up in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a>, almost everyone can recall the 'First Thanksgiving' story they were told in elementary school: how the local <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wampanoag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wampanoag</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a> sat down with the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pilgrims" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pilgrims</span></a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Plymouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plymouth</span></a> Colony in 1621, in what is now present-day <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Massachusetts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Massachusetts</span></a>, for a celebratory feast.</p><p>"However, this story is far from the truth - which is why many people opt out of celebrating the controversial holiday.</p><p>"For many <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> communities throughout the US, Thanksgiving remains a National Day of Mourning - a reminder of the devastating <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/displacement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>displacement</span></a> that occurred at the hands of European <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonisers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonisers</span></a> following their arrival in the Americas.</p><p>"Every year since 1970, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeople</span></a> and their allies have even gathered near <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PlymouthRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlymouthRock</span></a> to commemorate a National <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DayOfMourning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DayOfMourning</span></a> on the day of Thanksgiving. 'Thanksgiving Day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands, and the erasure of Native cultures,' states the official website for the United American Indians of New England. 'Participants in National Day of Mourning honour Indigenous <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ancestors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ancestors</span></a> and Native resilience. It is a day of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/remembrance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>remembrance</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/spiritual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spiritual</span></a> connection, as well as a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a> against the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/oppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oppression</span></a> that Indigenous people continue to experience <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/worldwide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>worldwide</span></a>.'</p><p>"This year, the 54th annual National Day of Mourning takes place on 23 November - the same day as Thanksgiving. While not everyone can support the event in person, there are still many ways people can raise awareness toward issues affecting Indigenous communities from wherever they are - by '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/decolonising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decolonising</span></a>' their Thanksgiving dinner.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Decolonisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Decolonisation</span></a> can be defined as the active resistance against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/settlerColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>settlerColonialism</span></a> and a shifting of power towards Indigenous sovereignty. Of course, it’s difficult to define decolonisation without putting it into practice, writes Eve Tuck and K Wayne Yang in their essay, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Decolonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Decolonization</span></a> Is Not a Metaphor. Rather, one of the most radical and necessary moves toward decolonisation requires imagining and enacting a future for Indigenous peoples - a future based on terms of their own making.</p><p>"Matt Hooley is an assistant professor in the department of Native American and Indigenous Studies at Dartmouth College, where he teaches about US colonial powers and Indigenous cultural production. 'Decolonisation is a beautiful and difficult political horizon that should guide our actions everyday, including during holidays like Thanksgiving,' he tells The Independent. 'Of course, Thanksgiving is a particularly relevant holiday to think about decolonisation because the way many people celebrate it involves connecting ‘the family’ to a colonial myth in which colonialism is inaccurately imagined as a peaceful event in the past.'</p><p>"By decolonising our Thanksgiving, we can celebrate the holiday with new traditions that honour a future in which Indigenous people are celebrated. This year, we can start by understanding the real history behind Thanksgiving as told by actual Indigenous communities.</p><p>"While Americans mainly dedicate one day a year to give thanks, Indigenous communities express gratitude every day with the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Haudenosaunee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Haudenosaunee</span></a> Thanksgiving Address - often called: 'The words that come before all else.' The Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address is the central prayer and invocation for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HaudenosauneeConfederacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HaudenosauneeConfederacy</span></a>, which comprises the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SixNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SixNations</span></a> - <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mohawk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mohawk</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oneida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oneida</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Onondaga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Onondaga</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cayuga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cayuga</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Seneca" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Seneca</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tuscarora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tuscarora</span></a>. When one recites the Thanksgiving Address, they’re giving thanks for all life and the natural world around them.</p><p>"According to Hooley, one of the most straightforward actions people can take to decolonise their Thanksgiving includes supporting Indigenous land acknowledgments and land back movements. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandBack</span></a> is an ongoing Indigenous-led movement which seeks to return ancestral lands to Indigenous people and the recognition of Indigenous <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sovereignty</span></a>. While the movement is nowhere near new, it received international attention in 2016 during protests against the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DakotaAccesSPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DakotaAccesSPipeline</span></a> - which continues to disrupt land and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a> sources belonging to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingRockSioux</span></a> Tribe.</p><p>"This year, sit down with family and friends to discuss an action plan and highlight the concrete steps you plan on taking to support Indigenous communities. 'Another, even simpler way would be to begin participating in what’s called a ‘Voluntary Land Tax,’ whereby non-Indigenous people contribute a recurring tax to the tribal communities whose land you occupy,' said Hooley.</p><p>"Food is perhaps the most important part of the Thanksgiving holiday, with turkey, stuffing, and mashed potatoes taking center stage. However, there are many ways we can make sure our dinner tables honour Indigenous futurisms too. Donald A Grinde, Jr is a professor emeritus in the department of Africana and American Studies at the University at Buffalo. Grinde - who is a member of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/YamasseeNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YamasseeNation</span></a> - tells The Independent that crops such as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corn</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/beans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>beans</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/squash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>squash</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tomatoes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tomatoes</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/potatoes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>potatoes</span></a> are central to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousHistory</span></a> and future.</p><p>"'A good thing is to be thankful for the abundance in the fall and note that Native people created over 60 percent of modern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/agricultural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>agricultural</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/crops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crops</span></a>,' he said. 'People can be thankful for the crops that Native people created, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/medicines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicines</span></a> created, and traditions about <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WomensRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensRights</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> rights.'</p><p>"Rather than buying food from major corporations this year, Hooly also recommended people consciously source their Thanksgiving dinner from Indigenous producers. 'Industrial agriculture is one of the most devastating contributors to the destruction of land and water everywhere, including on Indigenous land,' he said. 'Instead of buying food grown or made by colonial corporations, people could buy their food from Indigenous producers, or even simply make a greater effort to buy locally grown food or not to buy meat harvested from industrial farms.'</p><p>"Thanksgiving is just a day away. While it’s important that we’re actively working toward highlighting Indigenous communities on this special holiday, decolonisation efforts are something that should be done year-round.</p><p>"'People can also learn about political priorities of the Indigenous communities near them and support those priorities by speaking to their representatives, participating in a protest, or by making sure that their local school and library boards are including Indigenous texts in local community education,' Hooley said."</p><p><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/decolonize-thanksgiving-dinner-observance-national-213225020.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">yahoo.com/lifestyle/decolonize</span><span class="invisible">-thanksgiving-dinner-observance-national-213225020.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Decolonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Decolonization</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandTheft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandTheft</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalPreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalPreservation</span></a></p>