Just a note of clarification

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As i have mentioned previously, i’m in a work crunch right now so i am unable to post regularly, even though stuff keeps happening worth posting about!

(i hope you’re all keeping up to date on the SISIS site!)

But i do have to just put this note here, as i am aware that a new site dedicated to opposing indigenous sovereignty and stirring up anti-Native sentiment has added a link to me describing Sketchy Thoughts as a “Native blog”.

Now, it’s obvious whose side i’m on when it comes to anti-colonial struggles, including the struggle going on at Six Nations and Caledonia at the moment. Nevertheless, as i keep on repeating, i am not indigenous… for better or for worst (and ninety nine times out of a hundred, i’m sure it’s not for better…) i am a white guy in Montreal who is sympathetic to the Haudenosaunee struggle for national liberation and self-determination.

In other words, i am an impressed onlooker, jealous of the level of political consciousness that exists in the First Nations. Wishing that those oppressed people within the corrupt and morally bankrupt imperialist nations (like the one i belong to) might learn something from this much-more-advanced liberation struggle.

Call this a “white anti-racist blog”, a “metropolitan leftist blog”, even an “anti-authoritarian anti-patriarchal communist blog” if you must, but for the sake of accuracy you shouldn’t confuse the First Nations people with all of us non-indigenous folks who are inspired by their struggle.

It’s not an important point, but i gotta make it anyway or next thing you know some right-wing bloggers will be using stuff i say to discredit other people.

Enough said.