Timeline
This announcement was made across social media in the last few days, urging the community to organize small scale direct actions rather than participating in a larger demonstration:
Black & Indigenous ppl are calling for a national decolonial day of action. They want ppl to participate by decolonizing their city with autonomous/anonymous DA. Fuck thxgiving & black friday! Decolonize by dismantling capitalism & white supremacy. No peace til our genocide ends! pic.twitter.com/SKXX6IqpAO
— safePDX (@safe_pdx) November 24, 2020
A small vigil for Indigenous people who were killed by white settlers in Oregon is held downtown.
There’s a small, vigil in Director Park tonight—tea lights surround small placards that describe massacres of Indigenous people by white settlers in 1850s Oregon. pic.twitter.com/YhI52swDhF
— Suzette Smith (@suzettesmith) November 26, 2020
“Each sign has one candle by it for each Indigenous life lost. Candles next this sign represent the countless slaughters that were not recorded in history, and to the many thousands lost to diseases that colonists brought with them.”
— Suzette Smith (@suzettesmith) November 26, 2020
“This was hardly the start of the massacres, but resulted in a series of organized attacks on Indigenous peoples. Often the US army was sent in to slaughter a group of Indigenous peoples. The Indigenous peoples fought back, but eventually most ended up surrendering.”
— Suzette Smith (@suzettesmith) November 26, 2020
“Most of those that did were sent by steamboat to Portland and from there to the Grande Ronde Reservation. Many were forced to make the journey on foot. By 1857, the Indigenous peoples of Oregon has been cut down to less than 2,000, now on reservations.”
— Suzette Smith (@suzettesmith) November 26, 2020
“Nasomah Massacre
— Suzette Smith (@suzettesmith) November 26, 2020
Jan 28th, 1854
40 white settlers attacked the sleeping village of the Nasomah at the mouth of the Coquille River in Oregon, killing 15 men and one woman.” pic.twitter.com/g8SUFAhR2n
” Two Chetco who tried to resist with bows and arrows were burned alive in their houses. Shortly before the attack, the Chetco had been induced to give their weapons away as ‘friendly relations were firmly established.’”
— Suzette Smith (@suzettesmith) November 26, 2020
“Lupton Massacre
— Suzette Smith (@suzettesmith) November 26, 2020
October 8, 1955
A group of white settlers and miners launched a night attack on an Indeginous village near Upper Table Rock, Oregon, killing 23 Indigenous people (mostly elderly men, women, and children). The tribal name of these people has been lost.” pic.twitter.com/iUDgzhcW6Z
“Little Butte Creek Massacre
— Suzette Smith (@suzettesmith) November 26, 2020
December 23, 1855
An impromptu white militia launched a dawn attack on a Tututni and Takelma camp on the Rouge River. Between 19 and 26 Tutuni and Takelma were killed.” pic.twitter.com/ygE5o673Jf
“Grande Ronde River Valley Massacre
— Suzette Smith (@suzettesmith) November 26, 2020
June 1856
The Washington territorial militia under Colonel Benjamin Shaw attacked a group of peaceful Cayuse and Walla Walla peoples on the Grande Ronde River. 60 Cayuse and Walla Walla were killed, mostly women, children, and old men.” pic.twitter.com/0Z6NidoKOA
The next morning, some results of the call for autonomous direct actions:
Good morning to everyone but colonizers. Especially this one who seems to be having a particularly rough morning down at the war monument in Lone Fir pic.twitter.com/gKIDuZJYtB
— Alissa Azar (@R3volutionDaddy) November 26, 2020
Multiple businesses vandalized along Hawthorne Blvd. No word on who did it, but have seen multiple Antifa logos graffitied on buildings. Seen here is Bagdad Theatre, Dosha Salon, Twill Boutique (women’s clothes/ accessories made local), Road To Tibet Imports gift shop. #Portland pic.twitter.com/5cjFfWIa2D
— Independent Media PDX (@NDpendentPDX) November 26, 2020
Media
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- Alissa Azar @R3volutionDaddy – CashApp: $pdxalissa / Venmo: @R3volutionDaddy
- Independent Media PDX @NDpendentPDX
- Suzette Smith
Articles
CNN
OPB
- Investigators release footage, new details in Kevin Peterson Jr. shooting
- New fund for Black Oregonians faces mounting legal pressure
The Oregonian
- Portland spends $65k to remove protest graffiti from businesses, homes
- Deputies fired 34 times at Kevin Peterson Jr. as he ran from them with a gun, investigators say
- Police arrest 3 after protest-related vandalism in SE Portland
Portland Mercury
- Activists Fundraise for Oregon Inmates Who Fought Fires this Summer
- Good Afternoon, News: New “Post-Freeze” Restrictions, Police Oversight a Bureaucratic Mess, and Trump Pardons Known Asshole
- Good Morning, News: Frontline Workers Pushed to Limit, Senate Ignores Biden, and Mayor’s Holiday Homeless Sweep
- Portland’s New Police Oversight System Faces Limitations Within City Hall
Searchlight New Mexico
Willamette Week
- Black Portlanders Are Killed Crossing the Street at Three Times the Rate of White Pedestrians
- Leftists Want to Recall Mayor Ted Wheeler and Commissioner Dan Ryan
- Portland Lawyers Allege Oregon Sen. Rob Wagner and Lake Oswego School Officials Failed to Investigate a Student’s Claims of Racial Discrimination