Tokenization

There are a lot of popular claims like “Indigenous peoples are anarchists / communists” and over-simplifying history and circumstances. Some actively avoid using Marxist or anarchist labels as descriptors for their political ideology.

## **(Blank) Group Is (Blank) Ideology**

* “A Zapatista Response to ‘The ELZN is Not Anarchist’” https://iaf-fai.org/2019/05/05/a-zapatista-response-to-the-ezln-is-not-anarchist/ [EN]
* “I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of this planet” “http://www.struggle.ws/mexico/ezln/2003/marcos/etaJAN.html [EN]
* “Marxism and Native Americans – Reviewed by Howard Adams (1984)” https://mgouldhawke.wordpress.com/2020/07/25/marxism-and-native-americans-reviewed-by-howard-adams-1984/ [EN]

### **Blog Posts**

* “What Is Anarkata?” https://anarkataastatement.wordpress.com/what-is-anarkata/ [EN]

### **Books**

* “Kayanerenkó:wa: The Great Law of Peace” by Kayanesenh Paul Williams https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/kayanerenkowa [EN]
* “Anarchism in Latin America” by Angel Cappelletti https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/angel-cappelletti-anarchism-in-latin-america [various formats, EN]
* "Warrior's Hand Book" by Karoniaktajeh http://mohawknationnews.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/louis-hall-Warriors-hand-book-1-3.pdf+%5BPDF, 20 MB, EN]
* "Bad: The autobiography of James Carr" by James Carr https://libcom.org/library/bad-autobiography-james-carr [EN]

### **Videos**

* “Stolen Anarchy: Playing Indian & The Roots of Collectivism” uploaded by Twin Rabbits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBFvxkvpi2w [46:12, EN SUB, EN]
* “Kanenhariyo on the Roles and Responsibilities of the Rotiskenrakehete” uploaded by Real Peoples Media https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7L9e3JINNc [26:21, EN, EN SUB]

### **Websites**

* “The Great Law - KAYANEREHKOWA” http://www.ganienkeh.net/thelaw.html [EN]
* “Kaianere’kó:wa – THE GREAT LAW OF PEACE” https://iaf-fai.org/2021/01/06/kaianerekowa-the-great-law-of-peace/ [EN]

### **Archived**

* https://archive.vn/YfE3a [EN] - concept of “Land Back” in contrast to the European concept of the nation-state
* https://archive.is/SaYmR [EN] - How Diné society is structured
* https://archive.is/122lc [EN] - white Marxist-Leninsts tokenizing famous people from the Black Panther Party don’t read BPP history

### **Notes**

* Point out Indigenous peoples are still alive today with cultural knowledge, laws, systems etc still intact and it’s wrong to impose political labels onto them allowing them to speak for themselves
* A lot of Black and Indigenous leftists are uncomfortable with labelling their ideology of [anti-state] communism due to how white Marxists and white anarchists co-opt their struggles and prefer to use descriptors such as “communistic”, “communal”, “anarchiac” etc
* Most people do not want to recreate a second version of the Soviet Union, nor do they want to preserve United States of America, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela or any other settler-states— despite settler leftists desiring to preserve their countries
* Communist and anarchist thinkers misunderstood Haudenosaunee Confederacy as well as the Lenape Confederation and they need to read the original source
* Read more on the history of anarchism in Latin America before assuming European ideologies can be transplanted:
* Zapatistas does not prescribe to any ideology (despite western anarchists via Ricardo Flores Magón and western Marxists via Fuerzas de Liberación Nacional [Maoism] trying to take credit for their struggle)