For #IndigenousPeoplesDay I'm gonna have to tweet some of my Narragansett, Lenape, Iroquois, and Abenaki knowledge

— Someone, Somewhere (@CapobiaNB) October 12, 2015

First Nations were not a monolith!

— Someone, Somewhere (@CapobiaNB) October 12, 2015

Nor were they nations really they were tribes itsa whitizization of our forms i hate it https://t.co/MYgReolAti

— cari machet (@carimachet) October 12, 2015

Some of my favorite comrades produced these films called the Radical Resistance Tour. Good watches for today. https://t.co/rL4LuIizDU

— Someone, Somewhere (@CapobiaNB) October 12, 2015

Especially this one from Albuquerque!! #IndigenousPeoplesDay @RadResist https://t.co/7aGQjUjcx9

— Someone, Somewhere (@CapobiaNB) October 12, 2015

This episode is from Pine Ridge, SD. #IndigenousPeoplesDay Also very good. https://t.co/ft4KBAg0Ua

— Someone, Somewhere (@CapobiaNB) October 12, 2015

I grew up on a tiny piece of land called Potowomut translating 'the land of fires' & wampanoag remnants were everywhere

— Someone, Somewhere (@CapobiaNB) October 12, 2015

I distinctly remember finding a tiny orange arrowhead, and it was definitely real stone, in a birds nest in the park when i was 5

— Someone, Somewhere (@CapobiaNB) October 12, 2015

It seemed obvious people were living there because they had left things behind. But as a child I didn't understand the gravity of this.

— Someone, Somewhere (@CapobiaNB) October 12, 2015

And then the assimilation school system taught us that the Wampanoags were peripheral characters in American history, an off mention at best

— Someone, Somewhere (@CapobiaNB) October 12, 2015

Until it was Thanksgiving of course when we got taught all that bullshit about the friendship between the Wampanoags and the pilgrims

— Someone, Somewhere (@CapobiaNB) October 12, 2015

It's necessary for me to know what actually happened to the land of fires & its people. I choose to remember the things they left.

— Someone, Somewhere (@CapobiaNB) October 12, 2015

Truth is, as early as 1614 the Wampanoags were being sold in Spain as slaves, and kidnapped & forced to convert to Christianity

— Someone, Somewhere (@CapobiaNB) October 12, 2015

By 1675 40% of the Wampanoags & the Narragansetts who were their southern allies were dead due to the massacre & disease

— Someone, Somewhere (@CapobiaNB) October 12, 2015

Male Wampanoag and Narragansett survivors were reportedly sent to the West Indies to be sold into slavery

— Someone, Somewhere (@CapobiaNB) October 12, 2015

Only 400 people survived the war and today there are roughly 2,000 Wampanoag's registered, most living close to the rez on Marthas Vineyard

— Someone, Somewhere (@CapobiaNB) October 12, 2015

Then I moved to NYC and obviously I needed to know what indigenous history is here and there is plenty!

— Someone, Somewhere (@CapobiaNB) October 12, 2015

I moved to Bushwick on the corner of Evergreen Ave, only to find out this was a major Lenape trail, where cabbage & potatoes were grown

— Someone, Somewhere (@CapobiaNB) October 12, 2015

I used to smoke in my room trying to imagine Bushwick as a giant field lol, amidst the trash floating through the streets

— Someone, Somewhere (@CapobiaNB) October 12, 2015

Many roads in NYC were already here, carved out by the Lenape. The most famous being Broadway in Manhattan, originally Wickquasgeck Trail

— Someone, Somewhere (@CapobiaNB) October 12, 2015

Lafayette St, Park Row, St Nicholas Ave, and Jamaica Ave in BK/Queens are also Lenape routes

— Someone, Somewhere (@CapobiaNB) October 12, 2015

After the Dutch figured out there was a huge beaver population in NYC they decimated it in just one year, disturbing Lenape way of life

— Someone, Somewhere (@CapobiaNB) October 12, 2015

Similarly to the Wampanoag, the Lenape lost 90% of their tribe to disease & massacre by the Dutch by 1750.

— Someone, Somewhere (@CapobiaNB) October 12, 2015

Do not let white historians revise history to let you believe this disease epidemic was an accident. It was intentional-decimated population

— Someone, Somewhere (@CapobiaNB) October 12, 2015

Jeffery Amherst 1763: "I will try to inoculate the Indians by means of Blankets that may fall in their hands" Sound accidental to you?

— Someone, Somewhere (@CapobiaNB) October 12, 2015

Col Henry Bouquet wrote back that he should, "as well as to try every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable race"

— Someone, Somewhere (@CapobiaNB) October 12, 2015