Abusers are natural public relations pros. Experts at spin. Expert at narrative. Experts at painting themselves as the victims even as they do immense damage w/more than enough evidence to prove that they’re absolute pieces of shit.

And if it’s not “defamation,” it’s “harassment.” All while these same abusers are ACTUALLY defaming and harassing their victims into silence, implementing every dirty trick in every dirty playbook to do it. And people wonder why I do comms strategy for survivors. This is why.

Cherry pie, with crumb/icing top!

The poisoning continues in the forms of White Supremacy, policy, and law.

The outcomes kill more Indians in a proportional administrative sense.

Colonizers never stopped, they just outsourced more of it to Indian Country.

Conflict continued before and between the Anglo-Powhatan War Trilogy, to Bacon’s Rebellion, to the American Revolution, to the Civil War, through Jim Crow, up to the Federal Recognition Purge, and up to today.

It includes shifts to incentivized/sanctioned internal violence.

What strikes me about the “big event” characterization of conflict is it creates the impression that low-intensity conflicts ever stopped.

Support from the state as well:

> On a bigger scale, Gov. Jay Inslee is taking part in a fentanyl summit hosted by Lummi Nation. The goal is to draw up a plan of action for tribal communities to combat the opioid crisis by addressing the specific challenges Native Americans face.

> “Wherever they are, whether it be near our clinic or elsewhere, they have the tools they need to save a life,” Love-Thurman said.