Tiny House Warriors – Our Land is Home
Please note the founders of this movement – they themselves write: "The Tiny House Warrior movement will be the start of re-establishing village sites and asserting our authority over our unceded Territories."
Meaning the land was unused, vacant, and/or abandoned but they are here now to "re-establish" the area as a place for poor homeless Indians to live.
They are using building materials and products derived from oil byproducts, mass produced engineered lumber, and putting them on wheeled trailers and equipment that is dependent upon oil and/or gas burning engines as a means of transport – to fight "big oil"...
If anything had been learned from Standing Rock it should be that native people fighting for their native land is much different than advertising to the masses of city dwellers to create an influx of white activist youth that will come, party, and trash the place.
While it is nice to help poor families have homes, is placing them strategically in the path of a battle over a pipeline helpful to them?
If it is a claim to preserve the people and help the homeless, why were you not building houses for them and "re-establishing village sites" before?
Perhaps it is simply the modern way people attempt to place themselves as righteous but this appears to be a publicity stunt at the final expense of the poor families being put within a conflict zone.
These people need a home not activism.
This is disingenuous and a misrepresentation of intent.
Indians did not build teepees and wigwams filled with poor and helpless families on the horse trails of white settlers to impede their trek to California.
Activism hurts intent by deflecting the issue – and refocusing to a new problem with new victims.
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