Native ppl worked hard and did tons of manual labor. And yet I would never see that be legitimized by colonizers. (why would they when agricultural labor became the newly imposed standard? And when they needed Ntv labor to run boarding schools? )
January 4, 2025 at 4:24 AM
You won't learn about any of this from Disney erasure!
"“Pocahontas and its coal helped forge the United States as a global superpower."
April 5, 2025 at 4:20 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
May 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Ppl keep leaving out important analysis though cuz they don't want to legitimize #NativeLabor in boarding schools (which were essentially labor trafficking institutions. )
Masculinity ( just like "domestic science" in boarding schools) was affirmed and imposed by institutionalization and forced labor.
April 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Ppl keep leaving out important analysis though cuz they don't want to legitimize #NativeLabor in boarding schools (which were essentially labor trafficking institutions. )
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
They separated the men from the women. Making men focus heavily on manual labor while they forced the women to focus heavily on "domestic science" , sanitation, crafting.
This was all about coercion of gender relations to labor.
#NativeLabor #Gender
This was all about coercion of gender relations to labor.
#NativeLabor #Gender
January 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
They separated the men from the women. Making men focus heavily on manual labor while they forced the women to focus heavily on "domestic science" , sanitation, crafting.
This was all about coercion of gender relations to labor.
#NativeLabor #Gender
This was all about coercion of gender relations to labor.
#NativeLabor #Gender
"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
Settlers undermine Native labor and aptitude, because doing so ensures success of their monetization and merchandising pyramid schemes.
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Proof that topics like "cultural appropriation" intersect with #NativeLabor and Native labor deserves more recognition than a warbonnet clout chasing footnote in Coachella fashion spreads.
April 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I find it fascinating that ppl don't perceive Native discourse around hot topics like "cultural appropriation" or "repatriation as a form of class consciousness. #NativeLabor
My little self was just screaming with discernment. "This field is not *for you*. And I kept trying to make it work but eventually I realized my class consciousness would always create a catch 22.
December 4, 2024 at 1:30 PM
I find it fascinating that ppl don't perceive Native discourse around hot topics like "cultural appropriation" or "repatriation as a form of class consciousness. #NativeLabor
And tbh I feel these internalized capitalism mindsets towards producing is another reason ppl invalidate or "don't count" #NativeLabor
Ultimately this is another reason folks need to "fix their hearts" in regards to anti Indigenous mindsets around technology.
November 19, 2024 at 2:12 PM
And tbh I feel these internalized capitalism mindsets towards producing is another reason ppl invalidate or "don't count" #NativeLabor
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,
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
#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.
Related thread about #NativeLabor and food/ration withholding for labor coercion/trafficking.
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June 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Related thread about #NativeLabor and food/ration withholding for labor coercion/trafficking.
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Related thread about industrial training, domestic science via "mother craft"
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"The Utah Agricultural College is
pioneering the way in home
training called "Mothercraft." This work, which,has never before been
publicly supported trains the young women the complete science of the care of infants and children."
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058...
pioneering the way in home
training called "Mothercraft." This work, which,has never before been
publicly supported trains the young women the complete science of the care of infants and children."
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058...
April 19, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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.
Proof that topics like "cultural appropriation" intersect with #NativeLabor and Native labor deserves more recognition than a warbonnet clout chasing footnote in Coachella fashion spreads.
"As an incident in this “civilizing process” the order directing the
agents to encourage the discontinuance of the Indian custom of wearing long hair and painting the face has been productive of good results."
agents to encourage the discontinuance of the Indian custom of wearing long hair and painting the face has been productive of good results."
April 19, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Proof that topics like "cultural appropriation" intersect with #NativeLabor and Native labor deserves more recognition than a warbonnet clout chasing footnote in Coachella fashion spreads.
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
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/re...
‘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
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.
December 4, 2024 at 5:51 PM
"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
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