{"id":141736,"date":"2023-09-03T05:30:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T09:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=141736"},"modified":"2023-09-03T05:30:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T09:30:33","slug":"sterilization-was-the-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/sterilization-was-the-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sterilization was the Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>Sterilization was the Plan<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Natasha Romanoff.<\/p>\n<p>You know that name,<\/p>\n<p>the spy from Marvel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She saw herself as a monster<\/p>\n<p>because she was sterilized.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The question is:<\/p>\n<p>Did you know<\/p>\n<p>Indigenous females<\/p>\n<p>were also sterilized?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The brown skin,<\/p>\n<p>black hair,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cforeign\u201d language<\/p>\n<p>and pagan beliefs<\/p>\n<p>were not ideal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Native Americans<\/p>\n<p>were still seen as \u201cdirt\u201d<\/p>\n<p>and the less there were<\/p>\n<p>the better it was.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Paper ads tricked<\/p>\n<p>soon to be mothers<\/p>\n<p>and females to gather<\/p>\n<p>for free screenings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The staff looked at them<\/p>\n<p>as heathens, disgusting creatures<\/p>\n<p>that needs to wiped off the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Procedures without consent happened.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Native ladies<\/p>\n<p>were no longer \u201cwomen\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>They were now sterilized<\/p>\n<p>and could not bare children.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Future torch bearers<\/p>\n<p>for our cultures were<\/p>\n<p>whisked away in mere seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sterilization was the Plan Natasha Romanoff. You know that name, the spy from Marvel. &nbsp; She saw herself as a monster because she was sterilized. &nbsp; The question is: Did you know Indigenous females were also sterilized? &nbsp; The brown skin, black hair, \u201cforeign\u201d language&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141747,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141736\/revisions\/141747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}