My writing about #NativeLabor in industrialization, boarding schools, sources about "wife savers" and "mothercraft" is all very much just discussion about how Institutions have indoctrinated certain labor associations, and social expression expectations,with gender.
July 27, 2026 at 5:59 PM
My writing about #NativeLabor in industrialization, boarding schools, sources about "wife savers" and "mothercraft" is all very much just discussion about how Institutions have indoctrinated certain labor associations, and social expression expectations,with gender.
But I have written slit of threads about #nativelabor, gender conditioning that occurred as curriculum. May have mentioned a few times before that there was labor necessity to keep institutions running. Cuz alot were run by the "students".
June 14, 2026 at 6:03 PM
But I have written slit of threads about #nativelabor, gender conditioning that occurred as curriculum. May have mentioned a few times before that there was labor necessity to keep institutions running. Cuz alot were run by the "students".
It just further drives points home about the exploitation of that name. Coal mine explosions. Stolen tobacco. And then for them to downplay Native autonomy in construction. Another aspect of #NativeLabor to unpack in the labor bargaining convo.
While doing research on this I stumbled on some references to "Pocahontas" and the adaption of settler log cabins by VA natives. But I'm not east coast Ntv so I left it alone.
For example they were made to give up the tipi for the "substantial homes" (which settler descendants now refer to as shitty to justify doing more disaster capitalism)
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June 13, 2026 at 5:38 PM
It just further drives points home about the exploitation of that name. Coal mine explosions. Stolen tobacco. And then for them to downplay Native autonomy in construction. Another aspect of #NativeLabor to unpack in the labor bargaining convo.
"They have been given the rights of citizenship, furnished with practically a livelihood; given free schools, free police protection, roads, etc. For these benefits;
the Indian does not give proper recompensation. He enjoys the benefits of civilization without paying the price."
the Indian does not give proper recompensation. He enjoys the benefits of civilization without paying the price."
May 19, 2026 at 3:32 PM
History of settler data collection tied to lumber. Industrial Labor history, #NativeLabor
"Members of the Pensacola Medical Society also viewed industrial-accident data with concern. Lumber mills and work on the docks and railyards were producing high statistics in loss of limbs and deaths."
May 10, 2026 at 7:49 PM
History of settler data collection tied to lumber. Industrial Labor history, #NativeLabor
Westward ho
"scheme developed for the Allied resettlement of refugees and displaced persons after the Second World War, 6 April 1948." Lots to be said about labor and agriculture mentioned
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"scheme developed for the Allied resettlement of refugees and displaced persons after the Second World War, 6 April 1948." Lots to be said about labor and agriculture mentioned
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‘Westward Ho’ scheme - The National Archives
Extract from a document describing the ‘Westward Ho!’ scheme developed for the Allied resettlement of refugees and displaced persons after the Second World War, 6 April 1948. Catalogue ref: FO 1052/48...
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January 18, 2026 at 4:22 AM
"Feeling abstract in your own home"
When entire institutions were formed to change and exploit Native relationships to labor.
#NativeLabor
When entire institutions were formed to change and exploit Native relationships to labor.
#NativeLabor
August 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"Feeling abstract in your own home"
When entire institutions were formed to change and exploit Native relationships to labor.
#NativeLabor
When entire institutions were formed to change and exploit Native relationships to labor.
#NativeLabor
I've broken down quite a bit about how Institutions reinforced gender roles with #NativeLabor as a requirement of boarding school assimilation. Haven't seen folks bring the convo to the table about labor and gender in other context outside of the typical "emotional labor", "domestic labor" convos.
July 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I've broken down quite a bit about how Institutions reinforced gender roles with #NativeLabor as a requirement of boarding school assimilation. Haven't seen folks bring the convo to the table about labor and gender in other context outside of the typical "emotional labor", "domestic labor" convos.
Like the reason they kept calling Natives devils was cuz they wanted gold and other acts of genocide. As well as forcing #NativeLabor via assimilation, real estate expansion and Industrialization,
Kind of amusing that associations of "demonic" evolve with whatever the current labor trafficking controversy is in mainstream news.
June 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Like the reason they kept calling Natives devils was cuz they wanted gold and other acts of genocide. As well as forcing #NativeLabor via assimilation, real estate expansion and Industrialization,
Just as I explained many years ago on my #schemesbecomeschema series, settler acts to supplant Natives are not unintended and accidental, but an extension of colonialism to render Native relationships to the land and their own labor as invalid and therefore justified to exploit/extract.
June 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Also why I've specifically begun naming #NativeLabor
Because again these nuances get left out. But just because society pushes exceptionalism towards Natives doesn't mean the capitalism and colonialism we experience through extractive and retail industries isn't real.
Because again these nuances get left out. But just because society pushes exceptionalism towards Natives doesn't mean the capitalism and colonialism we experience through extractive and retail industries isn't real.
June 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Also why I've specifically begun naming #NativeLabor
Because again these nuances get left out. But just because society pushes exceptionalism towards Natives doesn't mean the capitalism and colonialism we experience through extractive and retail industries isn't real.
Because again these nuances get left out. But just because society pushes exceptionalism towards Natives doesn't mean the capitalism and colonialism we experience through extractive and retail industries isn't real.
Specifically began writing about #NativeLabor because I see the hierarchies and validation/invalidation of labor as another form of reinforcing caste structures via colonialism.
A topic majorly left out of anti capitalism discourse (esp as it relates to the gendered hierarchies that are encoded on labor.)
June 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Specifically began writing about #NativeLabor because I see the hierarchies and validation/invalidation of labor as another form of reinforcing caste structures via colonialism.
June 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
#NativeLabor is a form of labor trafficking that is considered permissible by dominant society.
June 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
#NativeLabor is a form of labor trafficking that is considered permissible by dominant society.
There's a lot of ways that #NativeLabor has been perceived as monolithic as a result of Native labor being undervalued, and Native displacement being deemed ungrieviable.
June 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
There's a lot of ways that #NativeLabor has been perceived as monolithic as a result of Native labor being undervalued, and Native displacement being deemed ungrieviable.
...The Indian, even the -wildest, are beginning to understand that they are being hemmed in by the inroads of civilization, and that they must prepare themselves for work or
perish." #NativeLabor
perish." #NativeLabor
June 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
...The Indian, even the -wildest, are beginning to understand that they are being hemmed in by the inroads of civilization, and that they must prepare themselves for work or
perish." #NativeLabor
perish." #NativeLabor
Another reason that I suspect that #NativeLabor is discounted, and ppl tend to talk about boarding schools more from a trauma porn assimilation standpoint , without also incorporating the forced labor involved.
May 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Another reason that I suspect that #NativeLabor is discounted, and ppl tend to talk about boarding schools more from a trauma porn assimilation standpoint , without also incorporating the forced labor involved.
At boarding schools the owners of the Institutions would own huge heated houses with a fire place while Ntv children froze to death in their bunks after shifts of manual labor to keep the Institution running.
May 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
"A class-action lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania argues that Native tribes have never been compensated for the child abuse or for money taken from tribal trust funds to operate the schools." #NativeLabor
Two Native American tribes on Thursday filed what they called the first major lawsuit against the U.S. government’s notorious system of Indian boarding schools, which for decades splintered families and stripped Indigenous children of their language and culture. nyti.ms/3Sh0LVZ
May 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"A class-action lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania argues that Native tribes have never been compensated for the child abuse or for money taken from tribal trust funds to operate the schools." #NativeLabor
Other threads where I've discussed how "Arts and Crafts" is used as a pejorative towards Natives
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"We had to overcome many obstacles because whenever the tribal people do something in America they call it “arts and crafts.” Well, that cheapens the whole thing. It’s called artifacts."
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May 15, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Article mentions involvement of "alumni association" and a "crafts society". Just reiterating how much Institutional exclusion and sabotage in the public gaze towards Natives pivoted off settlers creating a category relegating Native "crafts" as lesser.
May 15, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Society also erased the role "Indian Head cotton" played in mutual aid expansion of red cross
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More things to pay attention to as far as the expansion of hospitals, non profits, social fraternal orgs and material production, mutual aid, tied to cotton.
May 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM