Hazel Alexis
Hazel Alexis is a Choctaw Nation Citizen.
Pieces created by Hazel Alexis
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Fuck Your Land Acknowledgements! A Guide to Avoiding Performative Passivism
Hazel Alexis #indigenous #opinion
Hey, you! You realize you’re on stolen land, right? Who am I kidding, of course you do. But, how do you feel about that? Seriously! How does it feel to live on stolen land? Are you uncomfortable? I encourage you to think about these questions and keep thinking about them until you die. If you’ve spent much time around the University of Oregon, you’ve certainly heard that it’s “located on Kalapuya Ilihi, the traditional indigenous homeland of the Kalapuya people,” who were dispossessed of this land in the 1850s, forcibly removed to the coast, and whose descendants “continue to make important contributions in their communities, at UO, across the land we now refer to as Oregon, and around the world.