Benjamin Kucher
4,189 posts
Benjamin Kucher
@TruthInTheSoil
Graduate Student | Indigenous Archaeologist & Rights Advocate | Focused on Community-Led Research
Joined August 2013
- 1/ As an Indigenous person and rights advocate, I’ve seen a lot of racism. But Ann Coulter’s post: “We didn’t kill enough Indians” is one of the most vile, dehumanizing things I’ve ever seen online. Let’s be clear: this is genocidal rhetoric. Period.
- 1/ Residential School Denialism is violence. And we need to start calling it what it is. There’s been a disturbing rise in denialism, and it’s only getting stronger. Let’s stop pretending this is a “difference of opinion.”
- 1 / As a citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta and a descendant of the Michel First Nation, I’m calling on the @AlbertaMetis to speak out. Bill 54 is a threat to Treaty rights, Indigenous sovereignty, and the constitutional order of this country. Silence is not neutrality.
- Bill 54 is a direct assault on Indigenous sovereignty. It violates our Treaties, disrespects our Nations, and rebrands colonialism as “autonomy.” #Bill54 #StopSeparatism #TreatyRights #IndigenousSovereignty #abpoli #cdnpoli
- 1/ In my last thread, I spoke about Residential School denialism and why it’s not “debate” but violence. This is a follow-up, because the denialist attacks have only reinforced the point: confronting this hate is not optional.
- Replying to @TruthInTheSoil5/ We will challenge this. We will organize. And we will not be quiet while our rights are under attack. Danielle Smith has declared a political war on Indigenous sovereignty. And we’re ready to fight back. #StopSeparatism #IndigenousSovereignty #TreatyRights #Bill54
- Replying to @TruthInTheSoil2/ Let’s be clear: Bill 54 is an attack on Treaty rights. It’s an attack on Indigenous sovereignty. And it’s a reckless attempt to give Alberta powers it was never meant to have. This isn’t “autonomy”—this is colonialism rebranded.
- Honoured to have stood alongside so many powerful voices at today’s Treaty Nations and Rights Holders’ rally against Alberta separation. The turnout was incredible — a sea of ribbon skirts, drums, signs, and solidarity. This land is Treaty land. We’re not going anywhere.
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- Replying to @TheBreakdownABShe has nothing but contempt and disrespect for Indigenous nations. Everything she does is performative and tokenized
- 1/ Denialists frame their demands for proof as if they’re pursuing truth. But what they’re really doing is reenacting the same colonial entitlement that built the Residential School system in the first place…
- 1/ Today is #RedDressDay. We remember and honour the lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People. We wear red. We grieve. We resist. We remember.
- Replying to @TruthInTheSoil4/ Passing Bill 54 doesn’t make it legitimate. It doesn’t rewrite the Treaties. It doesn’t erase our Nationhood. What it does is prove—again—that this government has no respect for the Constitution, for Indigenous Peoples, or for reconciliation.
- Replying to @TruthInTheSoil3/ Treaty 6, 7, and 8, the Blackfoot Confederacy and the Métis Nation of Alberta have all condemned this bill But the UCP chose to ignore every Indigenous voice in this province. That’s not democracy. That’s state-sanctioned erasure.
