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Sep 6, 2023Liked by Freya Rohn

"I’ve stood up because I can’t contain the energy the poems put in me." Ò Tuama

Yes to that!

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yes—oof, totally.

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On Land Back, this was a small bright spot in the last week: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/03/native-tribe-upper-sioux-agency-us-dakota-war

Though the line "where does it end?" from a white settler pissed me off. Maybe it ends when all the land is back, my dude? Maybe white people should have been asking that question of themselves many generations ago.

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Sep 5, 2023·edited Sep 5, 2023Author

I had the exact same response to that article--the ending infuriated me. I can't stand that people still have such entitled attitudes to the lands they live on. But I was heartened to read that the land transfer was happening...

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