Nsrgnts

I just heard that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said in a debate last night that it's untrue that the U.S. was built on stolen land, and it's inappropriate to teach it in schools. 

Funny you should mention that, Governor DeStuntis. I just got some buttons from Nsrgnts today, and they have something to say about that. 

I didn't get one of their buttons that says land back. There were a couple of designs for those important words, one of which used the lettering style of the Candy Land game. 

That subversive use of a friendly design motif is similar to the way Nsrgnt muralist Povi Marie put the words "Land Back" into part of her mural, in the midst of Kawaii-style fruits and other elements:

There's a little bit more painting to come on this side of the building (a hummingbird in the upper left, some details on the fruit faces), but you get the idea.

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If you wonder what the Wagon Burner button is about... I thought it was just a clever parody of a well-known logo, and assumed "wagon burner" was an inside joke that arose during conflicts with settlers. That was kind of close, but I had it backwards: it's a term that Indigenous people were called by settlers. So just as the so-called Dakota War in Minnesota is always told from the point of view of the immigrant settlers whose ancestors were harmed, rather than the people whose land and resources had been taken until they were desperate, the term wagon burner comes from the point of view of the ones whose wagons were burned, rather the ones whose land was being invaded by people in wagon trains. By wrapping the words around a well-known logo, Nsrgnts reclaims the term with defiance, pride, and justifiably angry humor.