Bands of Turtle Island
Ep 18 Yoted Cross Upload: COINTELPRO P1
Dec 5, 2022
The podcast explores FBI surveillance and repression of social movements from an Indigenous Marxist perspective, as well as the continued impact of COINTELPRO. It delves into US government control of Native American communities, white people's relationship with nature and US imperialism, the historical context of paranoia and fear, the FBI's surveillance of indigenous people, and COINTELPRO tactics during the Vietnam War era.
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- The FBI targeted indigenous peoples as a potential threat to the capitalist system, labeling them as communistic and employing tactics of disruption and infiltration.
- The FBI's surveillance and repression of indigenous movements aimed to suppress the memory and history of indigenous resistance while promoting its own image as a crime-fighting organization.
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Historical context of the FBI and repression of indigenous movements
The FBI was founded in 1919, with the US military as the primary mode of repression against indigenous peoples. Indigenous resistance to land grab policies and the implementation of civilization regulations were met with forced assimilation and micromanagement by the US government. The professionalization of the Indian scout service and the implementation of the civilization regulations aimed to culturally, politically, and economically destroy indigenous nations.
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