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In this time of pain and self-doubt, we must remember our legacies of resilience and uprising. We must remember our collective moments of triumph, to which I offer the power of indigenous resistance seen in Leith, North Dakota four years ago.  

In 2013, notorious neo-nazi Craig Cobb began to buy up land plots in a desolate, rural North Dakota town in the center of indian country. Despite his wild and unsavory dreams to create an all-white utopia in the middle of nowhere where him and his neo-nazi klan could thrive in peace while subduing the local native populations with intimidation tactics, our relations proved that it would be a cold day in hell that natives simply roll over and take shit from white devils. Members of local reservations banded together, showing up in the hundreds to stare down these genocidal terrorists and chase them off their territory, thwarting attempts to build the “Village Of The Damned.” 

It’s been hundreds of years and white nationalists, klansmen, neo-nazis, náápiikoaiksi, and white devils have never stopped attempting to smear our own red earth clean of our resilience and culture. But there is power in numbers, and when we lean in, hold each other tight, and bite back, we can chase these demons out. If you are alive today despite acts of genocide, colonialism, enslavement, abuse, degradation, conversion – you are acting in resilience. Your ancestors would be proud. I am proud. Do not lose hope.