Posted on 12/23/2023 5:13:58 PM PST by Libloather
A professor at the University of Minnesota (UMN) has sparked backlash online over her comments at a recent teach-in regarding the Israel-Hamas war, during which she said that the "goal" is to "dismantle the settler project that is the United States."
The professor, Dr. Melanie Yazzie, was speaking at a panel event hosted by The Red Nation, a Native American advocacy group "dedicated to the liberation of Native peoples from capitalism and colonialism," according to the group's website. Yazzie is a professor of American Indian Studies at UMN and co-founder of The Red Nation.
Several American universities have been caught in the middle of the growing tensions surrounding Israel's response to the Hamas attacks on October 7. Instances of antisemitism and Islamophobia have increased in recent months across the U.S., and pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli groups have repeatedly clashed on college campuses, leading to the federal government's crackdown on how higher institutions are handling instances of discrimination.
The Red Nation event, titled "From Minnesota to Palestine," took place on December 3, featuring several indigenous American leaders and pro-Palestinian voices who spoke on Native Americans relating to Palestinians in the Israel-Hamas conflict. During panel discussions, Yazzie, a member of the Navajo Nation, spoke about the land-back movement, which advocates for the return of land to the indigenous tribes.
"Land-back is going to happen," Yazzie said in a clip that was shared to X, formerly Twitter, by conservative media outlet Alpha News. "That's going to happen, the indigenous perspective in Turtle Island, and how we also understand was is happening in Palestine."
Turtle Island is a name commonly used by indigenous groups to describe North America.
"And what we really want you to take away tonight ... We're all indigenous people who come from nations that are under occupation by the United States...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Wait until the US crumbles into total chaos and we’ll talk about a “Predator Empire”.
Which tribe had the land before her tribe took it from them?
I’m afraid it’s too late for Melanie the Perfeser. Minnesota became an African Colony last week and they are flying a stylized African Flag now to prove it. They are no longer connected to the United States.
Which tribes is the correct question.
“dedicated to the liberation of Native peoples from capitalism and colonialism,”
Okay, you win...close the casinos.
Ugly antisemitism: this and the attack on sculptor Moses Jacob Ezekiel in the same week.
Satan has been busy.
The NPC Professor hasn’t got the latest from “The Cathedral” that the Woke now must support the DC Globohomo Regime and Empire.
No wonder she is stuck at the University of Minnisota.
She sounds like she is running off obsolete programming from the 2005, same as FR NeoCon nostalgists.
Dr. Yazzie can get out ahead of things by attacking Latin America, which is in the early stages of colonizing the United States. They’re the evil predators, and we citizens of the U.S. are merely victims of their ongoing settler project.
See? We can play the victim card too, and it comes across just as silly.
Sioux had it then the Ojibway kicked them further west.
Someone should remind her of our laws against treason and the penalty.
Yazzie is a Navajo name. She’s a long way from home up in MiniSoooooooooda.
“...and co-founder of The Red Nation...”
As in communist red.
Everyone in the world is living on stolen land. Every inhabited acre of land has been fought over, and won and lost back and forth several times. Can anyone, anywhere, name an area where the first known group of people to have lived on it are still living there?
Powerline covered this: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/12/the-face-of-evil-4.php
” Minnesota became an African Colony last week and they are flying a stylized African Flag now to prove it. They are no longer connected to the United States.”
Wow, so can Texas now leave this mess?
These idiots are not going to like what comes after America.
Not one little bit.
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“Which tribe had the land before her tribe took it from them?”
They really don’t want to talk about that.
She’s a Navajo. Her language family is Athabaskan. She is an invader from the Eskimo zones and conquered ancestral Puebloan lands.
Get off Hopi lands…. Bitch.
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