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Next tweets come from "How To Talk About #NoDAPL: A Native Perspective" transformativespaces.org/2016/10/27/how-to-talk-about-nodapl-a-native-perspective/
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"Standing Rock is part of ongoing struggle vs colonial violence. #NoDAPL is a front of struggle in a long-erased war against Native peoples"
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"we are not simply here in those rare moments when others bear witness. … We are not simply here when you see us."
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"In discussing #NoDAPL, too few people have started from a place of naming that we have a right to defend our water and our lives."
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Talk about "the fact that Native communities deserve to survive, because our lives are worth defending in their own right." #NoDAPL
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"Begin by acknowledging that this pipeline was redirected from an area where it was most likely to impact white people." #NoDAPL
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"Every Native on this continent—has survived genocide … That means that every Indigenous child born is a victory against colonialism"
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"This moment is, first and foremost, about Native liberation, self determination and Native survival." #NoDAPL #StandingRock