4. Juli 2026 – 250 Jahre “Unabhängigkeit der USA” …
…sicherlich kein Grund zu feiern für viele Menschen, die in den USA aber auch außerhalb Opfer kolonialistischer und imperialistischer US-Politik waren, sind und sein werden. In zahlreichen indigenen Medien finden sich daher hierzu Beiträge, die wir hiermit verlinken. Und wenn heute Präsident Trump zum zweiten Mal in den Black Hills, jenen für die Lakota heiligen Bergen, am Mount Rushmore ein pyrotechnisches sowie verbales Feuerwerk des weißen Patriotismus zünden wird, dann wird es einigen Nachfahren der Cheyenne, Lakota und Arapaho einfallen, dass anlässlich der 100 Jahr Feier 1876 unter Georg Armstron Custer ein weiteres Massaker geplant war – nämlich bei Little Big Horn. Aus unseren langjährigen Kontakten und Freundschaften zu Indigenen wissen wir, dass diese 250 Jahre genauso wenig ein Grund sind zu feiern, wie die Jubileen anlässlich der Eroberung dessen, was Amerika genannt wird (1492).
Unser Beitrag hierzu ein neuer Song “250 Years” (Lyrics/Music: M. Koch)
Honor the Earth:
| In two days, people across Turtle Island will be celebrating the 250th anniversary of the founding of the so-called United States. They think they’re celebrating freedom and democracy. But many of us are not and have never been free, and the United States is not and never has been a true democracy. At Honor the Earth, we instead recognize over 250 years of Indigenous Resistance to this colonial project. Saturday is Land Back Day, a day to uplift the return of Indigenous Land to Indigenous hands and a day to celebrate our centuries-long commitment to Mother Earth. Our cultures are ancient and our struggle on Turtle Island is over 530 years old, which extends far beyond the 250 years of this so-called country. |
| The foundations of democracy are found in principles like that of the Haudenosaunee, whose Law of Peace was established during a solar eclipse and whose political reality is defined by the Tree of Peace. These sacred relations to the Land and their matriarchal structure were severed when the Haundenosaunee system of governance was stolen, only to be perverted into a political system that serves to conquer, displace, and extract. The United States is not and has never been a democracy. On July 4, we don’t celebrate the violent history of genocide, extraction, and enslavement that built this country or it’s continued deference to the ruling class. We will never be free under this framework. We celebrate Indigenous Sovereignty everyday with Land Back as our North Star instead. Our liberty comes from Creation and is an extension of the life-giving force that defines the world around us, our Mother Earth. Living in an in-right relationship with the Earth is what will sustain our independence as communities who respect our relationships with the Land, non-human relatives, our elders, and with future generations. This is what leads us to fight for our freedom and resist unethical corporations and governments that seek to exploit us. When we resist data centers in the city centers and town halls across Turtle Island, that’s creating democracy. When we organize the people against corruption, that’s creating democracy. When we educate each other and mobilize together, that’s creating democracy. True democracy comes from Indigenous Sovereignty and Land Back; we will continue to uphold both those who resisted ethnic cleansing and displacement and those who still resist today. |
| Our civilizations will endure long after this country exists. As our Executive Director Krystal Two Bulls puts it, “The United States is just a little project, and it’s a very young project.” “As Native peoples on Turtle Island, our culture predates that, and we’re still here,” she says. “We are elder nations.” It was the Clan Mothers of the Haudenosaunee who served as an example of what liberation and participation in ethical governance could look like and inspired the colonial suffragists to fight for their right to vote and influence the political system they were represented by. We continue to struggle for a world where we remember what our ancestors fought for and what we could collectively achieve when we maintain our relationship to the Land as our center. Join us as we continue to build an Indigenous Future, together. |
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