New community: Landback - Reclamation of everything stolen from the original Peoples
New community: Landback - Reclamation of everything stolen from the original Peoples
Reclamation of everything stolen from the original Peoples LANDBACK Organizing Principles [https://landback.org/manifesto/] 1. Don’t burn bridges: even when there is conflict between groups or organizers remember that we are fighting for all of our peoples and we will continue to be in community eve...
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What does this mean
Colonisation was unfair but what makes people assume that pre-colonization systems were automatically better, more just, more tolerant? In one word, more desirable? Many "indigenous political authorities" were gerontocracies sometimes with segregated gender roles.
I am suspicious of movements that have their political references in a mythical past, they usually are just reactionaries in disguise.
The movement isn’t saying that every precolonial society was better than ours in every metric, or that we should roll back the clock a thousand years, all it’s saying is that we should work towards giving back what was lost through the countless genocidal policies and violent colonialism that indigenous people across the world have faced.
Also I will say, at least in North America, which I’m most knowledgeable of, many indigenous societies were absolutely far more egalitarian and democratic than most western democracies, but are painted in a far different light when reading of them from the colonial perspective.
I wish I could be more positive than this, but problems already start with defining who 'original peoples' are.
Which original land would a person of mixed origins like me (and probably every other person on the planet) move back to?
Please, before writing manifestos grab a history book or two.