White terror, Las Vegas, & Paiute homelands w/ Kristen Simmons
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🗓️ 9 December 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Paiute scholar Kristen Simmons talks about the white terror that dispossessed Natives to create the state of Nevada w/ settler militias, the Bundys, the Nevada Test Site, Las Vegas, & mass shooters.
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| 0:00.0 | So, Kristen Simmons. |
| 0:05.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:07.0 | You're in Paiute homelands. |
| 0:08.8 | How many rabbits did you kill today? |
| 0:11.6 | Too many to count. So, Oh, go go on here. So, Hyut homelands are in. |
| 0:50.0 | So Hyut Homelands are within the boundaries of a lot of settler bullshit such as the Bundy occupation, the Nevada test site, and now Las Vegas. Yeah, we really lucked out. |
| 1:06.0 | Like hyper like fantasy capital world and then also hyper fantasy capital world. |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah, it's really I know sorry I'm like trying also trying to look out the window because like my favorite views are of the mountains and so you guys are facing towards like |
| 1:27.8 | Like our site of creation is over there. It's Mount Charleston where there's a |
| 1:31.6 | Block which is being blocked by Trump town being blocked by Trump Tower and is the site of our ski resort here in |
| 1:38.7 | southern Nevada. It's the highest peak in the Vegas Valley. |
| 1:44.0 | So that was your site of origin as people? |
| 1:46.0 | Yeah, Mount Charleston. |
| 1:48.0 | And also it's like Pinet picking time too, |
| 1:50.0 | so it's supposed to go Pinet picking this weekend. |
| 1:52.0 | But instead I'm at this academic conference. too, so I was supposed to go Pine Up Picking this weekend. |
| 1:52.8 | But instead I'm at this academic conference, |
| 1:56.6 | I'll have to go Pine Up Picking just like a couple days later. |
| 2:00.4 | We're going to go last week, but my aunt got sick and we have to go up anyways because a lot of people go |
| 2:08.7 | pineet picking more and more and because and try to like sell them because they're very expensive. |
| 2:16.0 | So we're going to go actually up a bed up north to where my aunts live up in Killiani, |
| 2:22.0 | which is in Knight County. |
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