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Towards Peabody's Demise

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The mountains -- our strength and guides -- gesture for us to return.
Sitting within a house made of dawn made of glass. Our mother's liver torn and burnt black...
like ash for protection, only to offer the slowest possible ending.
Coal dusted breath and barbed wire hand shakes
while pockets lined…
...relocation is genocide.
We forget that no law can be above nature.
We forget that this system was imposed through violence and that current still flows through, its power lines.

Yellow dust offerings, cancer.
Born for fractured water.
It's jobs some say, and I wonder, what are those some willing to destroy to feed their passing hunger?

Diichishi’ nisłii’ (Hunger is. killing. me.)

No. It's capitalism.
We used to recognized ourselves as children of Yołgay Asdaan.
Amidst empty footprints, she weeps softly in quite folds of scarlet canyons.
The holy ones still know us in all our contradictions, our steps are theirs carrying us through desecrated seasons.
They cradle us as we dream in this nightmare.
As we fall into wet concrete and are beaten into nothing by our own children.
They make sure we are never home. less.
They make sure our words are meaning. less.
Can we remember what it is to be with our own power?
Colonial politics can only define what we are not.
The political discourse of sacred mountains, of sacred pollen, of sacred ground corn, of sacred tobacco, and sacred minerals, is the politics of liberation.
This is the language that still lives within us.

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from Appropriation, released July 27, 2021

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Appropriation Flagstaff, Arizona

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Appropriation is an anti-colonial music & performance art project by Klee Benally.

"We agitate towards collective disruption of the dehumanizing forces attacking Indigenous existence. We seek creative and direct ways to stimulate aggression against the spectacle of settler colonial order. We manifest to negate colonial existence, to destroy what destroys us." ... more

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