Hank Green doesn't know anything about Tribal Government or Indigenous people and he should really shut the fuck up. He ignored several Indigenous people trying to tell him not to speak on something he knows nothing about.

full on shit talkin phrases for anyone trying to decipher it

Man, imagine running a server farm on our own land using the old version of the languages as encryption. Folk trying to peek in would be so screwed 😄

"Canadian digital sovereignty" puts Indigenous Peoples here in a really awkward position. Do we trust Canadian tech companies any more than we trust American tech companies? Why would we? Ironically our stuff might be safer with (some) European companies that take privacy and encryption seriously.

Note how the "Reconciliation" buzzword was abandoned in favour of "Economic Reconciliation". In other words, help Canada find and extract resources to send to foreign (mostly American) markets, or else. Just look at all the bills Canada and its provinces recently introduced: bsky.app/profile/jeff...

You want a nuanced analysis of "digital sovereignty?" Ask Indigenous people who have been thinking about this long before settlers have who take the notion of "sovereignty" for granted. That's why Canadians are flailing about panicking now. They didn't barely considered this a "thing" until Trump

I've yet to see a single discussion of "Canadian digital sovereignty" include any Indigenous experts, at best we're given a token mention that at some point they'll "consult with Indigenous Peoples" like we're some sort of monolith. Umm, y'all need to consider all our lands, and our distinctiveness.

It's as if there's some sort of weird cognitive algorithm in the minds of settlers that Indigenous Peoples = backwards and savage therefore anything tech related doesn't apply to them.

Ummmm, you do realize all this "Canadian digital sovereignty" stuff requires unfettered access to Indigenous land.

What is it about tech that gets a pass when it comes to respecting Indigenous rights?

Why is it that the Internet itself depends on trespassing through Indigenous territories yet it's framed as something that we're given access to through some sort of charity?

Why are we never even considered?

the number of times I've seen Canadians give land acknowledgements at tech conferences and then immediately launch into discussions about "Canadian digital sovereignty" that completely excludes any concept of Indigenous rights or even us as Peoples at all. It's absurd, I can't wrap my head around it