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1. Silver Spook Games (silverspookgames@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 19:11:40 UTC Silver Spook Games

   Since the US banned Hawaiian language and culture, our native language speakers dwindled to the brink of extinction in the 1980s (>100 child speakers). The fact we've 30,000+ Hawaiians speakers now is testament to our struggle to preserve our culture from eradication.

   • Silver Spook Games (silverspookgames@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 19:11:34 UTC Silver Spook Games

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     More on the US ban on our language and culture, stealing of our land, imprisoning our leaders, and destruction of our prosperous, advanced country in the 1890s to support oppressive plantations and use us as imperial military base. https://wandering.shop/@silverspookgames/113528160605915403

   • Silver Spook Games (silverspookgames@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 19:11:36 UTC Silver Spook Games

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     'McKinley School' was named for the US president who backed the US coup of Hawaii, banned our language & culture, removed of our universal healthcare, brought a horrible plantation system. The statue, holding a fake annexation document, is itself anti-Hawaiian propaganda.

   • Silver Spook Games (silverspookgames@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 19:11:36 UTC Silver Spook Games

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     Help us Native Hawaiians at the poverty line not become homeless again or get forced from our own land, and keep doing more educational and resisting colonial oppression. https://ko-fi.com/silverspook https://patreon.com/c/neofeud

     Wonderskeptic repeated this.
   • Silver Spook Games (silverspookgames@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 19:11:38 UTC Silver Spook Games

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     Prior to the US occupation, Hawaii had the world's highest literacy rate, surpassing the US and Europe. We spoke Hawaiian, English, and instructed in our native tongue. After the US invasion, the language was banned in 1896 in schools and we were made to view it as a 'shameful'.

   • Silver Spook Games (silverspookgames@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 19:11:39 UTC Silver Spook Games

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     The US' systematic attempt to erase our culture continues, including through direct punishment of children speaking Hawaiian at any time in school by teachers. The teachers go unpunished by the education department & state, that sanction this culture suppression.

   • Silver Spook Games (silverspookgames@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 19:11:39 UTC Silver Spook Games

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     Hawaii also leads the US in the school-to-prison pipeline - #1 in rounding up children, targeting Native Hawaiians. Part of the continued US attempt to destroy us #indigenous people and lifeways.