Saturday, January 6, 2024

Time to rethink the Navahist occupation

The Navaho, or Navajo in Spanish, are Athabaskans from Alaska who got to the American Southwest after the Uto-Aztecans did. Once there they occupied the territory, daring to rename the indigenous communities "enemies (anasazi)". Their Apache warriors thence embarked upon an imperial rampage until the Comanche struck back in their inimitable style.

Now these settler-colonials squat on ancestral Hopi / Pueblo lands. And claim to own the... Moon.

The Athabaskans did not discover these sub-40° more-ecliptic latitudes of the Americas; let alone the Moon.

I reckon the Navahists' reward for tying up our courts and culture with their nonsense should be to head back northwest, such that we who belong here can continue our launches from closer Equator. Maybe the Navahists can consider claims more orthogonal to the ecliptic.

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