User talk:Kanimalsom

We represent a voice of Indigenous revolution for social change

We are the people, the unwanted, the ignored, the marginalized, and the forgotten. We do not assume that one is any better than another and have come to the realization that as long as our communities are unhealthy, we cannot consider ourselves to be healthy individuals regardless of what we have been able to achieve or accomplish. Until all are free, we are all imprisoned, and we have committed our selves to leave no one behind in our struggle for the truth and recognition of our purpose to exist as human and spirit. The basis of the movement is to utilize traditional and contemporary wisdom of our Indigenous peoples for the means of empowerment. We represent a voice of Indigenous revolution for social change in communities that are plagued by the social ills created through colonization and genocide.

Our people are under siege every day by a foreign colonial system that wishes to see us removed from our place within the circle. The ones who suffer most are our children. They are forced to live under two difficult levels of oppression. One is from the foreign illegally occupying governmental system now known as the united snakes and the other is at our own oppressed hands. Through our oppression, we have become the oppressor of our own. The voices of our most enlightened, innocent, and un-corrupted are the voice we ignore and suppress. Our children are our leaders and we treat them as nonexistent within our lives. We now exist in a state of foreign government led electoral political systems that enforce the idea that the youth do not matter or have a voice until they are 18 and are worth a vote. This concept is counter to historical/traditional beliefs of our indigenous ancestors who understood the importance of our children. What has come to pass is a youth filled with internalized and externalized violence. We have forced them to speak to us through violence towards themselves and others. We have neglected and abused them for far too long and forced their hand and yet we still lay the blame on them. We believe the youth possess knowledge and wisdom of our people and the contemporary problems that we are faced with and knowledge and wisdom on how to deal with these issues. We are failing our youth as a people and we need to begin to listen to them again. We will not go into what we have done for our people because it is them, there suffering, there beauty that drives us and therefore we are them and deserve no credit.

There is no individual face, name, or voice that can sum up our struggle to be free of genocide. We cover our faces to remind ourselves that we are each other, that everyone of us is both insignificant and significant at the same time, insignificant as an individual but significant as a family. There are a number of different Native peoples represented within Skigen Family and therefore we are nameless beyond the idea of who we are. Until we can understand who we are we will remain nameless. We all share in a voice of struggle against oppression of our peoples and therefore when one person’s voice is heard we are all being heard. Facelessness, Namelessness, and Voicelessness allows for us to be willing to sacrifice without need of recognition but for the purpose of obligation. We stand together as a family not as individuals within a family.