Decolonization Is for Everyone | Nikki Sanchez | TEDxSFU 

We all need to be engaging in land and water defense. Not only indigenous people.

I love "the eyes of the serpent can see through the eyes of the Eagle"!! Very inspiring and thoughtful!

Beautiful work! Thanks for your clarity, gentleness, and invitation for all of us to join in the work of decolonizing. :-) ...Having the conversation this morning with the locksmith.

Excellent talk! Very inspiring, thank you!

This is so powerful! Thank you so much!

such an eye-opening talk- thank you

Deforestation is something that needs to be blocked too

Hear! Hear! Well done, Iyolo La'es.

What are the past and current barriers and enabling factors of decolonization?

I love this💗 amazing speech

Hiy hiy. Nânaskomowin. I study Indigenous social work. What you say resonates and you is incredibly energizing

I thought I wrote this before but I don't see it. Thank you Nikki. I use this video a lot, sharing with anyone who is asking me about Decolonization. I do workshops, have been for 40 years now. .and This video helps so much!! Wopila Tanka! Tlazokamatli

Thank you so much for preparing this presentation. I've been trying to figure out what I can do to help and this is very hopeful.

Appreciate you so much, Nikki! This was really powerful. Yes!

Thank-you so much for a powerfully inspiring and transformative speech. Thank-you greatly for sharing your MEDICINE and further neutralizing the psychosis of colonization.

Thank you for your excellent talk

I was wondering what I was feeling. It’s historical bystander trauma. Glad to start the healing process.

Thank you for doing this good work. Deeply appreciate you.

What if I’m biracial? What if I come from a white mom and a Mexican dad? But I look more like my dad’s side and was raised by only my blonde haired blue eyed mom?

Thank you for teaching this about how we are all a part of it and being so kind about teaching us how to start decolonization. I am currently struggling to find the best ways to teach my son and this has helped.

I would love to hear about her “Pipil” heritage…

Thank you so much for this...!!

Barely started to look into this work. Thankful for this video, thank you sister ❤️ Slow and steady wins the race. Turtle 🐢 powerr!!!!!

what a ray of light, I needed this, being African American its painful to look at the past, but I know that this will guide us all to freedom

I did my research, and found on my mother’s side I have grandmothers and grandfathers born as Indigenous people in Michigan, Canada and Wisconsin as well as from France. But I am still sad because while I have the exact names and locations of my indigenous grandparents, history and tribes everyone I spread the word to down plays. At work, they think it’s a joke. I am not wanting to become mean about it, but how can I prove to people this is serious, and that indigenous people really do exist? Even though I guess I would be called Métis, the US doesn’t use this term and I live in Detroit right by Canada, and my peoples been here 100’s of years! Nobody listens and shrug me off. I feel very alone and confused to who I am, even though I have my history documented! I see the reason people want to die and are depressed, I am a living proof of a misfit lost. But my ancestors do come to me literally and tell me to keep going and I am solid. Sorry for the long posts, I was just wondering if anyone else is hurting and confused

Great talk. Thank you so much.

Wise words! Thank you!

@12:00 I got chills from her reaction

We need more talks like these.. very insightful

Thankyou for your kind and honest heart. Thankyou for sharing the truth

YEssss 😍💚🙏🏽✨

amazing talk

One side of my family were German Catholic farmers who bought lands legally from Mennonites who bought from the six nations who got it from the English. The other side were Metis trappers who got screwed over by script treaty. I still love Canada.

Beautiful speaker. She gives me chills

Thank-you Nikki for the incredible, thought-provoking discussion that gives us all reasons, steps and clear motivation to move forward together. Five starts. Meegwetch!

Thank you 🙏🏾

This is the same for the people of Mexico, we are so colonized that we don’t realize that our ancestors are also indigenous. We just see ourselves as Mexicans, Chicano/a or LatinX, Mexican American, etc. Thank you for sharing this topic! 🖤

Perhaps another talk on colonization of Mexico and South America would be interesting.

Miigwetch for sharing. I have been working on the idea of decolonization for over a decade, when I began my American Indian Studies journey back in 2006.

I guess the point to take from this video is that we need to help the people now, who were left out when these cities were being built, i.e the first nations people.

Man oh man this is it... I have l listened before and Ibwill again, today I am receiving a much needed hug from this talk. Thank you for your life... ❤

I stumbled across this because I’m on a path of discovering what decolonizing means to me. This was a perfect video that the universe put in front of me. I once heard that sobriety is decolonization, and I’ve been looking up racial slurs and how indigenous people are portrayed with alcohol and how Hollywood made a mockery of us, and still do to this day. Thank you for your words. It feels less of a weight/burden when I think of decolonizing as an all together thing, because we are on this planet together, at the end of the day we all want shelter, love, and sustenance. Miigwetch!

Good Morning Beautiful Families and Relatives! Thank You so much for this phenomenal video! We are truly Grateful for all the lessons. From Massachusetts with Unconditional Love for HUMANITY, where GLOBAL HEALING is possible, following please find our GIFTS, and messages from all the way across the world. UNITED WE ARE STRONGER... (****) "MAZINHA FALA UM POCO SOBRE FOME 47 Parte 1 & 2" ~ Bem Ri Bem Have a Wonderful and Productive Day! Respectfully, Ms. Eunice

Yo everyone who watches this, don’t just share it. Start talking about it with your peers. Find out which ones in your community will listen to your ideas about change. Listen to the ones who are talking about the things that are wrong.

Thank you so much, I appreciate this video I am looking for more resources to show and teach my small children I truly want a future that empowers and respects indigenous people I want peace and healing for the planet and for all those who have been oppressed I am a settler living on stolen Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute) land, I want to teach my children true history, I was only taught white washed history and it’s so and wrong and so sad I feel deep sorrow for all the trauma caused by my white ancestors and I also feel so angry for not being taught the truth about anything in American schools, change should not take hundreds and hundreds of years!! We need to teach the truth, talk about it, take accountability, respect people and give in accordance with the privilege we have…

Beautiful speaker; beautiful person-thank you.

Indigenous people have concrete beauty.

@2:07-2:15 Sankofa

Thanks so much.

The colonization of the "Philippine Islands", I think, is the cause of the majority of the problems of our society. We have to really look into "decolonising" our minds, our structures from how we look at gender and family and political systems, our design principles and aesthetic, and every single aspect of modern life. We were highly civilized prior to the arrival of the Europeans: economically and socially robust. Maybe we need to start appreciating that and work from there.

Thank you so much for this presentation! This is so helpful for all my students to accept themselves and their part in colonization.

I have learn a lot more about decolonization

I cannot name the place my grandma was born on. Her parents were murdered and she was an orphan who lost her name and identity. Her people were colonized in what is now called Ukraine and Poland. She was enslaved in concentration camps and had come to the Americas on a Red Cross ship as a refugee. She came to these lands because it was the only path forward to survive.

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Excellent Presentation!

I wonder if the subjects of ancient Rome or other expansionist empires were having these same conversations?

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Took away a lot from this Iyolo La'es .. great presentation

So what does decolonize mean?

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission spent years studying mortality rates and other conditions in the Residential Schools. At no time was there a mortality rate of 50%. For a few years in the late 19th century it hovered around 25%. For the first half of the 20th century, the death rate was about 3x that of children in the general Canadian population (6 per 1000 vs 2 per 1000) . After WWII the rates are virtually the same. Indigenous populations were more susceptible to smallpox, but the practice of immunization was inconsistent. The worst outbreak among non-indigenous Canadians occurred in 1885 when thousands died. It's one thing to avoid discussing past events and call it historical amnesia. But history from any perspective can be tainted by ideology.

2:20 - What point is she trying to make here?

@tedx Hmm 36+million subscribers, and this only has 107k views.

Learn who you are and where you came from ? How long back are they supposed to go? Some people don't have documents for that to show etc... Adress the opressive histories that enable you to occupy the terriortry you now do ? (You do realize that could easiy go back to (before) BC times, in some countries & continents ?) Learn whose land you live on and what has been done to them , pfft again when do we start since it was called a state or even beofre that? Find out how you benefit from that history and activate one strategety (probably being raised middle-middle class) wherein you can use your privilige to dismantle that ? (I don't know if I understand the last part actually) Share the work that Decolonization is for everyone. (probably the asiest one with all the sociald medias being on 24/7)

I can't find any indigenous sources for Memphis , TN area peoples. It's all awkwardly colonial museums....

History is no one's responsibility. What does that even mean, we are not responsible for what has been done.

What if hypoticatically you were in favor of Colonization, where does that leave you in this narative?

Thank you. Abolish Indian Act

I can buy 90% of this. I object to the idea that indigenous somehow magically knew that climate change is bad in their "respect for the land." We cannot know how North American First Nations cultures might have culturally evolved if they had discovered industrialization for themselves. They get to pretend that they would have been enlightened rather than being a product of their stage of cultural development. We do need to address the current inequalities from the damage caused by historical atrocities. This, I respect.

We need this decolonization and indigenization of Canada. Much Indigenous land is occupied in 'Canada'. I don't think the solution is everyone moving home to their country of origin, but rather walking forward together, accepting responsibility for the wrongs of the past, and partnering to make a better future together. Truth and reconciliation can bring Indigenous peoples and settlers together in an equal, just, and mutually beneficial relationship. I'm writing this from the unceded territory of the Sto:lo people.

more like her in this world pleaseeeeee

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I agree that it is important to know who we are, but since I believe in evolution, I know who I am. I am a descendent of apes. I am a descendent of hunter gatherers out of Africa. Our languages might be good. But they might also divide us. Our original human language was likely a click language. A fascinating book titled The Master and His Emissary about how language, though beneficial in many ways, may have resulted in us favoring our Left brain over our Right.

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Subtitles in English! Please....

Ethiopia was not colonized. Sorry I didn’t know how to say this while I really support the cause and am glad I came to this vid.

Did she say ( MAYA PIPIL CUSCATLAN ? ) True knowledge

Respect ✊🏽👍🏽🙏🏽🙌🏽✌🏽🤟🏽💪🏽🙏🏽

I truly agree with the need to acknowledge past and present iniquities and find positive ways forward but presenters need to be more factual and have more accurate historical context than this. It’s going to turn people away.

What was her main point of this video? Like the overall main point?

I'm horrified by the information. Thank you for educating us.

So my parents’ tax dollars went towards the residential schools in Canada unwillingly? That’s absolutely horrible...

I would ask that these leaders offer concrete solutions and strategies now. In this 13 minute talk the only solution I saw was "dismantle that" referring to past injustice and the changing of land ownership away from indigenous people. It is too vague. What about a specific material reparations package? What concrete wins will restore the economic comfort and political and social pride of First Nation people?

I really like colonizers

Nikki Sanchez is a pretendian. She is NOT “Pipil”, we do not even call ourselves “Pipil”. She is NOT part of our community!

I’m assuming this lady has ancestry from El Salvador since she mentioned Cuzcatlan in her opening statement. In that case I also assume she claims Pipil ancestry even though she is likely from a Mestizo/a origin due to the surviving Pipil population in El Salvador being extremely small. I am unaware if she was actually speaking Nawat or perhaps a somewhat corrupted version of Nahuatl, however it is clearly not her native language as her poor pronunciation would show. Also, the Nawat language I believe only has a few hundred or few thousand speakers left as it was recently on the brink of extinction. The strange thing is that this woman also claims Maya ancestry as she incorrectly refers to her ‘Mayan’ prophecy. This echoes of appropriation and I am not attempting to criticize her but simply trying to speak the truth. If she has descent from El Salvador then it would be logical to claim descent from the Pipil, or to a lesser extent the Lenca. The fact that she also claims Maya ancestry when the Maya population of El Salvador is minuscule if not non existent in the present day. The land itself was home to Maya groups in the past, but the Pipil became the largest group in the area upon their arrival. That speaks to another important notion, the fact that the Pipil themselves were not indigenous to the land of El Salvador. The Pipil migrated all the way from Central Mexico around the 10th century AD if I am not mistaken. Therefore, it may be that she is appropriating Maya ancestry as a means of romanticizing her own heritage, especially since she refers to her ‘Mayan’ prophecy. This would be logical yet slightly diabolical if she is attempting to profess a more spiritual and historic connection to indigeneity, as the Maya are far more renowned for their achievements and civilization as a whole. If she is appropriating Maya culture or even an indigeneous background in general then that is definitely problematic. Of course she has some degree of indigenous ancestry but the fact that she’s claiming Pipil and Maya when she’s probably just half Salvadoran is certainly dubious. Once again I am not trying to be divisive or critical but there seem to be a few issues with her identity, and that can be very detrimental despite the good work she may do for the indigenous community overall.

Beautifully Put,..........We need Help to Decolonize the Mind first then the Lands,....its to Save Everything and Everyone,...!

So will Canadians pack up and go back to Europe or they'll just talk about it? Because you know, talk is cheap.

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I love seeing how hard those Israelis got "decolonized." 😂😂😂 Also, what nations? What territory? Are you speaking of the people who failed to invent the wheel? The ones who failed to write? Its ours now. 😂😂😂

A prophecy has been fulfilled and we can see through each others' eyes now? Damn I must have missed out on the magic blessing. I guess I'm not allowed to protect the environment either.

we are here and now in a place to do this work...

I'm too dark skinned to comment

She's being vague about what she saying being that the US "Indigenous people" is being claimed by African Americans who are identified by

colonising women, mother, children, then the land ....please love your children enough NOT to create them into a life of agony... please stop child abuse... men please take hold of your manhood and stop colonising women.... women please protect your womanhood and stop letting men colonise you... teach the truth of what is happening to children and our magnificent planet and then keep fighting to stop reward, punishment and grow back with nature towards nature cultures...

What if people can't figure out where tehy came from because documents burned in the conflicts and wars under their nations and other nation stars? Just an ask it's not like everyone can afford a "Where die your genes one belong" Kit ;)

This is genocidal language, as we just saw in Israel

does anyone know where I can read more about the prophecy she mentioned?

I'm the descendent of white settlers and I support giving back vast areas of this land back to it's rightful hands. Lived in NM where there is more native land than most of the country. Was very conscious of feeling kind of like an invasive species. And of how recently this has happened on this land. Reading the comments from some of the white people, It's like people don't want to face it because it's too terrible. They react like angry children who are told Santa Claus isn't real. It's a lack of empathy.

Stunning and beautiful.