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  • I think those ‘aspects of occupation’ are quite relevant. The treaties weren’t respected and Americans would just remove the people, bury tribal lands in fill material and build on top.

    For example, emphasis mine: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tse-whit-zen

    This village site, which includes longhouse areas, ceremonial areas, places for fish and clam drying, was** occupied by the Klallam until the 1930s.[4] During the early 20th century, businesses owned by European Americans built a number of lumber mills on top of the village site** at the waterfront during the expansion of the lumber industry. Because the ground was covered with 15 to 30 feet (4.6 to 9.1 m) of fill, the village and cemetery site was preserved through this period.[3]

    Notice that timeline: ‘occupied until 1930s’ and ‘Early 20th century.’ The people were removed and they buried everything until 2004 when they started excavating skeletons. This isn’t all ancient history and it hasn’t really been… amicable.


  • It is a negotiated treaty from the 1800s, though it took until the 1970s to get clarity on a big part of their rights. But they’re still on reservations and their ancestral lands are partitioned up. They’ve acquired some of those lands back through various ways: legal battles and just plain buying it back.

    Though mind you I’m relating something I remember as a teenager, from teenagers with politically active parents.

    But more importantly my point was to highlight a lens into a different perspective. They knew they would have been just like the Kurdish villager in the comic had those planes been invented back then. I had never considered that viewpoint at the time.







  • I live sandwiched between military bases of all branches. I’ve lived with the sounds of warplanes and target practice most of my entire life.

    These bases cut swathes through tribal lands, leaving whole areas uninhabitable due to live ordnance.

    I knew some kids from the reservations and I’ll never forget how casually they’d say with every blast they’re reminded that they’re occupied.



  • Was a component of my job in counties neighboring Kitsap Co.

    The answer is likely: Maybe. A lot of the times people do stuff like this without critical thinking and stop pretty much once notified or after some shit like this happens.

    But a few certainly, explicitly, do not and will continue with a vengeance until effectively run out of the area. Like out of one county, like Kitsap, into another county so it became my jurisdiction to handle the belligerent wildlife feeder. shakes fist into the ether (no personal experience at all nosirsee)

    Public Health and/or Water Quality programs usually wild up with the bag in those situations.