Unfortunately, I lost my draft links due to a copy/paste error and didn't manage to recover all of them. This is what I found in my Raindrop but inevitably some stuff that didn't go through there (or which did not have the "Indigenous" keyword) is missed. Big Tech censorship is all lost.
Meme - "IN MOST INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES, GENDER ROLES WERE A FOUNDATIONAL PART OF CULTURE AND SOCIETY. These societies were also hierarchical, authoritarian and often patriarchal in authority. PLEASE STOP ROMANTICIZING ANCIENT CULTURES THROUGH A MODERN WESTERN UTOPIAN LENS"
Meme - "Them: "I am a Native American I DEMAND decolonisation! Americans are living on STOLEN LAND!!" Their location: Bangladesh Their account: now deleted"
"Native American Soul @native_ame_soul. Account based in Bangladesh"
John Carter on X - ">Maori show up in New Zealand in 14th century
"We are the indigenous people, this country does not belong to anyone else, whites go home."
>English have been in England since the 5th century
"England belongs to everyone!""
Mark Hemingway on X - [On Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee] "Reading Empire of the Summer Moon really drove this home -- the Comanche started out in Canada, and ended up controlling much of the plains and Texas through total conquest. And they do "land acknowledgments" to the Comanche at SXSW!"
Democrats on X - "On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor our country's first people and celebrate their culture, traditions, and contributions. We remain committed to honoring Tribal sovereignty and working in true partnership to strengthen Native communities every day."
Drew Pavlou π¦πΊπΊπΈπΊπ¦πΉπΌ on X - "You really have to pause to reflect on how utterly insane this is. American leftists fundamentally wish that Europeans had never settled in the Americas. Meaning that at a core level they wish the United States never existed. American leftists wish they had never been born."
Governor Tim Walz on X - "Today is Indigenous Peoples Day – a time to honor the 11 sovereign Tribal Nations and robust urban Native communities that continue to enrich our state’s cultural landscape, economy, and heritage. It was a beautiful morning to celebrate on the shore of Bde Maka Ska."
Drew Pavlou π¦πΊπΊπΈπΊπ¦πΉπΌ on X - "I’m actually extremely happy that JD Vance is VP over Tim Walz because at least JD is happy that the United States actually exists. Walz feels guilt and shame for the fact that Europeans moved to the Americas and built new countries"
Meme - Vintage Maps @vintagemapstore: "Map of the World's Indigenous Peoples. Designed by Bhabna Banerjee and published by Visual Capitalist, based on data from the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) and World Bank (2010- 2022)."
Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630: "What does this even mean? Why aren't Bantu "indigenous" to Africa, or red-headed post-Yamnaya Celts "indigenous" to Europe? What could they possibly be talking about?"
Adam Menszer @adam_menszer: "Also, the Norse arrived in Greenland before the Inuit."
Dan The Man π¦πΉπ§²ππ± on X - "Indigenous just means non European"
Wilfred Reilly on X - "Well...no. Blacks, at least the kind with steel and horses, aren't indigenous to Africa either. It seems to mean "never won a war.""
Mike Lemmer on X - "The ones who lost, apparently. Technically, seems like part of the criteria is self-identification and "distinctly different from everyone else", hence why the Han Chinese aren't identified as indigenous despite having a history in China stretching back before writing."
James O'Keefe on X - "$100 Billion Federal Contracting Scam Exposed: 8(a) Firm Admits to Violating Federal Law, Using Minority-Owned Status as a Front to Obtain $100M+ No-Bid Government Contracts While Outsourcing 80% of the Work. ATI Government Solutions Contract Manager, Melayne Cromwell Admits to Exploiting 8(a) SBA Program Through Pass-Through Scheme & Breaking Federal Law. “I tell you pass throughs are a great thing!” “We only do 20%… The rest goes to subs..." “And remember, there's no competition…”"
Matt Swaim on X - "1. White guys start small tech company,
2. White guys sell 51% of that company to a Native American tribe.
3. Company awarded a no-bid government contract because of their Native American ownership.
4. White guys take a cut. Tribe takes a cut. The remainder of the money is used to subcontract a different—likely not underprivileged—company to do most of the actual work.
5. When the original company reaches funds limit, white guys create new company to sell 51% of the ownership.
Taxpayers paid white guys and a tribe money for very little work. Subcontractor cost was the real cost of the work. Multiply over and over and over."
Native American on X - "YOU'RE ON LOOTED LAND"
Robby Starbuck on X - "Actually more than half the country is made up of legal purchases of land and the rest was conquered, which by the way, is the same way many Native tribes won their land before losing it."
Meme - the Rich: @Duderichy: "remember kids the And to last person to steal something is the rightful owner"
Jordan @JordanTrails: "The Potawatomi took it from the Wagasooki who took it from the Tramikae who took it from the Skopifooga who took it from the Callugpoy who took it from the Jiti-duchawu who took it from the Regathidebo who took it from the Budjekkaq"
Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune: "Chicagoans and Northwest Indiana residents should know they are living on land that once belonged to Potawatomi Indians."
Adam Johnston on X - "Less than 3 minutes into the Ken Burns documentary on the American Revolution, and we get: 1. White people are bad. 2. Native Americans had a centuries-old democracy before British colonists arrived. 3. Benjamin Franklin copied the Native American blueprint."
Julia Claire @ohJuliatweets - "The League of the Iroquois being a framework for the Constitution is pretty basic middle/high school history textbook stuff my guy sorry you didn't pay attention!"
PolitiFact | Viral meme says Constitution 'owes its notion of democracy to the Iroquois' - "The Facebook meme said "the U.S. Constitution owes its notion of democracy to the Iroquois Tribes." There’s a grain of truth here: The Iroquois system of government was known to 18th century leaders in the colonies and the new republic, and it shared some similarities with post-revolutionary attempts at governance. However, the meme overstates the consensus among historians. Major elements of the Iroquois system are altogether absent in the U.S. government, including hereditary, clan-based governance, and the meme focuses on Iroquois influences to the exclusion of European precedents that are at least as important, and likely more so. On balance, we rate the claim Mostly False."
wanye on X - "These guys really need to decide whether the founding fathers were irredeemable racists or woke Native American enthusiasts"
Bugman Hegel on X - "By the way, this dance bears virtually no resemblance to historical native dances and is basically just hip hop and other modern dance styles with feathers. A lot of the resurgence of “traditional” cultural practices and movements of minority groups originate from the 60s and they were recapitulated for political motivations and emotional blackmail. The 1960s ushered in a “retvrn” movement for non-whites that served as the vehicle for white demoralization. It served as the leverage needed to frame “white culture” as containing within it the antithesis of authenticity and character and as only possessing the essence of violence and oppression: “hey look at all of these beautiful cultures with all this vibrancy that you and your oppressive Christian ilk lack.” Predictably, the “retvrn” movements only ever revive the endearing happy feather dances and never make mention of the scalping, perpetual tribal conflict, rapes, murders, human sacrifices, and when they are brought up, they coyly and falsely try to claim that before the white man came and taught the non-whites violence and evil, humanity was basically in an Edenic like state, and any claim to the contrary of “natives lived in peace like harmony,” is framed as post hoc narrativization by the white colonizers which must be “reexamined” and “critiqued from new perspectives and other ways of knowing.” It’s all just one big, fat, f*cking grift."
Skeptic Research Center Team on X - "Happy Thanksgiving! We all have an incredible amount to be thankful for. One of the things we're thankful for is the capacity of human beings to think critically and discard false beliefs in favor of accurate ones. So, in that spirit... Nearly 80% of Black Americans and around 2/3s of Hispanic Americans incorrectly believe that "Prior to the arrival of the European Settlers, Native American/Indigenous tribes lived in peace and harmony." Nearly 1 in 3 Americans identifying as "very liberal," along with around 1 in 3 GenZ and Millennial Americans, incorrectly believe that "People around the world would be living in peace and harmony if it weren't for European colonization." (See charts below) In reality, Europeans didn't destroy the world and we all live today in the most peaceful and abundant era of our species' history!"
The Dark Fiddling Pirate Jussim on X - "You know where Chesapeake Bay got its name? From the Chesapeake Indians. No European ever met one because the Powhatans exterminated them b4 the Europeans arrived."
Court rules University of Washington violated professor’s First Amendment rights - "The University of Washington violated the First Amendment rights of a professor who mocked land acknowledgments in a course syllabus, a federal court has ruled. On Dec. 19, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in a 2-1 decision that the university’s retaliation against Stuart Reges — which included an investigation and the creation of a rival course — violated his First Amendment right to free speech. In 2022, Reges included a satirical “land acknowledgment” in a course syllabus: “I acknowledge that by the labor theory of property the Coast Salish people can claim historical ownership of almost none of the land currently occupied by the University of Washington.”
Indigenous heritage claims backlog grows despite $18m funding - "Forty-six applications under three key sections of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act filed prior to 2025 have yet to be settled, according to records obtained by this masthead using freedom of information laws. Eight were first lodged with the Environment Department before 2020. Adding in applications made last year, unresolved matters under these sections stood at 63 on December 31, even though the 2024 federal budget gave $18 million “to reduce the backlog”. New applications in 2025 included objections to the Brisbane Olympic stadium and two raising the “threat of drilling exploration” at a remote South Australian tenement once owned by billionaire Clive Palmer... Regis Resources is currently challenging a 2024 decision by then minister Tanya Plibersek to accept evidence of a Blue Banded Bee Dreaming story, which halted the company’s already-approved NSW gold mine project. The Albanese government spokeswoman said it was important to protect culturally significant sites... a total of 17 heritage protection applications had been resolved across the four sections. But there had been 35 new applications, thereby confirming the backlog had increased. The Opposition’s environment spokeswoman Angie Bell said the heritage protection law was “outdated” and “failing both Indigenous communities and the national interest.” Ms Bell said the “government’s failure to deliver these reforms leaves Australia with a messy, unclear and adversarial system riddled with backlogs and failures.”"
Thread by @k_mahlburg on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Tony Armstrong told ABC viewers the First Fleet committed genocide by intentionally introducing smallpox to Aboriginal people. The foremost historian on the subject disagrees. So does the virus itself. A thread on what happens when ideology replaces evidence π§΅
Armstrong's case rests on one primary source: Captain Watkin Tench, 1791. Tench didn't accuse the British of intentional introduction. He listed it as a speculative origin — then called the idea "unworthy of consideration." That's the foundation of the ABC's genocide claim. The science alone dismantles it. Smallpox cannot survive three weeks at 35°C and 65% humidity. The First Fleet took eight months to reach Sydney Cove. Summer temperatures before the 1789 outbreak regularly exceeded 40°C. The virus would have been dead long before landfall. Not one member of the First Fleet developed smallpox during the voyage or after arrival. Smallpox leaves permanent facial scarring. It's one of the most visually documented diseases in history. If it was on the fleet, someone would have shown it. Then there's Tasmania. If biological warfare was British policy, Tasmania — the site of the most violent colonial conflict — should have seen it deployed. It didn't. Early Tasmanian settlers had zero smallpox cases. Armstrong's theory has no answer for this. Judy Campbell wrote the definitive history on this topic: Invisible Invaders (1998). Her conclusion: "In the absence of any reliable evidence that smallpox was introduced into the Aboriginal population by the British in 1789... other sources must be explored." Those other sources point to Indonesian fishermen. Around 2,000 Macassan sailors traded with Aboriginal communities in the north every year. They had sustained, documented contact with Aboriginal communities across the coastline. The timeline fits. Skilled Indonesian navigators could reach northern Australia from South Sulawesi in 10–15 days — within smallpox's incubation period. The First Fleet took eight months to cover the same distance. The virus cannot survive eight months. This actually happened. Smallpox did reach Aboriginal communities through Indonesian contact — in 1830 and again in 1860. Campbell documented both outbreaks. The transmission route from the north was established and repeatable. The 1789 outbreak followed the same pattern. An Aboriginal man named Jack Davis from Port Essington recorded in 1870 that his people called smallpox "Meeha-meeha" — and that the disease had been on the Cobourg Peninsula "a long time ago." That's the northern coastline. Closest to Indonesia. Furthest from Sydney Cove. British doctors treated Aboriginal smallpox patients after the 1789 outbreak. If the goal was extermination, this requires explanation. Stuart Macintyre and Manning Clark — two of Australia's most eminent historians — both reject the intentional introduction thesis. Armstrong's final claim: Australians won't confront their colonial history. Colonisation is in the national curriculum. The ABC covers it extensively. Tens of thousands march on Australia Day every year. The silence Armstrong describes does not exist. What does exist is a public broadcaster presenting contested ideological claims as settled historical fact — without engaging the most authoritative scholarship on the subject. That's a different problem. And it deserves a direct answer. The problem isn't how much we talk about colonial history. It's how rarely rigorous historical evidence is used by the people loudest in that conversation. Read Luke Powell's excellent coverage of this topic here:"
RAW EGG NATIONALIST on X - "I think we all need to think a little bit harder about what’s going on here and what function these atrocity narratives, tied to the founding of European nations in the New World and Australasia, actually serve. These alternative narratives—the 1619 Project in America, the residential schools hoax in Canada, the First Fleet and smallpox in Australia—all serve one purpose: to undermine the established positive narrative of the foundation of these nations. Simply put, they were illegitimate from the beginning and therefore they deserve to be overthrown. These narratives all establish the case for “reparations” and radical redistribution of land from the descendants of European settlers to so-called “indigenous” peoples and even people who came after the foundation of these nations, so long as they are not white. The truth of these narratives doesn’t matter, only that they gratify the seething resentment of non-whites and the guilty consciences of whites fed a steady diet of self-hatred propaganda for the better part of a century."
White Papers Policy Institute on X - "Native Americans are some of the most enthusiastic for reducing legal immigration. A majority also view diversity as a threat to the United States. They were also the only group besides White Americans to vote for Trump in 2024. 68% cast their ballot for him."
Syracuse lacrosse pulls ‘Burn the Boats’ shirts after complaint term ‘glorifies Indigenous genocide’ - "Syracuse University men’s lacrosse team will stop wearing shirts before games with the phrase “burn the boats” on them after the term was accused of glorifying “Indigenous genocide.” The tradition was only a few months old, implemented by defensive coordinator John Odierna, who sought to inspire the athletes to push as hard as they could through games as part of the team’s national title aspirations, Syracuse.com reported. “The origins of ‘Burn the Boats’ trace far back to the 1500s and Spanish explorer HernΓ‘n CortΓ©s, who famously ordered his men to burn their boats as a sign of no retreat in battle,” the outlet reported. The term is also the title of the 2023 book “Burn the Boats: Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash Your Full Potential,” focused on how to eliminate any thoughts of retreat as a successful life strategy."
Colin Wright on X - "π¨NEW: A recent Nature profile highlighted a scholar who made a literal river the first author of her academic papers. The profile, titled “Why I made a river my co-author,” explains that Anne Poelina gives first authorship to “a source with deep knowledge about water — the river itself.” Nature actually treats this as a serious challenge to “Western and colonial views of what knowledge is and who holds it.” It gets...more insane. The river now has an ORCID (a unique researcher ID used to track an academic’s work), so its papers and citations can be catalogued like a normal human scholar. One example (among many) is a paper in PLOS Water. In the paper's author note, we are told the “Martuwarra, RiverOfLife” is “a living Ancestor Being,” that this is a “multi-species approach,” and that the river was made the first author because “without Country, without the River… there would not be a paper.” The abstract tells readers that the paper is “led by the sacred ancestral River, Martuwarra, who is given agency as a published author,” and then the human authors explain their authority is gained through “lived experience,” kinship, friendship, and a “deep and enduring relationship.” The paper concludes by rejecting “colonial approaches” to science, makes appeals to “Mother Earth,” and a calls for an ethic of “care, love, and peace” guided by Indigenous wisdom and planetary citizenship. Our science journals have become laughingstocks."
Bonchie on X - "As the first humans to ever step foot there, Americans are indigenous to the Moon. It would be a violation of our human rights for any other country to colonize it by going there and violating our sovereign right to the land."
Francynancy on X - "South Australia was the highest no vote of any Australian state in the indigenous voice referendum. 64.17% said No to the voice to parliament yet the Malinouskas government went ahead regardless. Now calls are growing to repeal the SA Voice after two delegates were elected with just 15 votes and six female delegates were elected without needing any votes to satisfy gender requirements."
Will Australia ever effectively "Close the Gap" for Indigenous Australians? : r/australian - " Not until Aboriginal culture changes. That's the big elephant in the room that won't be discussed. The problem isn't money, it's trying to make a thousand year old, very different, very problematic culture fit into a modern western society neatly. It never will until it changes... The ancient hunter gatherer culture is just fundamentally incompatible with modern culture and morals. For example, look up humbugging, attitudes to women, children, group conformity, kinship duties, work ethic, private property, sorry business, lateral violence, anti-accumulation, demand sharing"
"It's funny because this is all the stuff the Close the Gap Initiative talks about yet it all seems to get ignored. You also left out one of the big ones "Pay back": they never let go of a grudge. I.e. guy breaks into a house and dies fighting the owner, the relatives come in to burn the house down and kill the occupants. Doesn't matter who was in the right. Only that there is revenge."
Graham Platner for Senate on X - "The first bill I intend to introduce as Senator: true sovereignty for the Wabanaki tribes, whose rights have been trampled on for far too long, and the extension of federal beneficial laws."
ππππ π― on X - "The United States negotiated with the Wabanaki tribes to settle their land claims. It was fair, even-handed, even generous. Among other benefits, we gave them over $300 million in today's money. And ever since, the tribes have been trying to renege on their end of the deal."
