Dear Settlers

Before you go sporting Redskins gear, think about the young native woman who was murdered and scalped not too long ago. Here, present day America. Before you go prancing around in Pocahottie costumes, think about the thousands of missing and murdered indigenous women (including Pocahontas herself, who was kidnapped, raped and forced into marriage to a white dude). Before you go spouting off settler colloquialisms (“off the reservation”, “low on the totem pole”, “lets pow wow”), think about how it was American LEGAL policy Which displaced entire communities from their homelands, into territories that the government deemed useless. Before you go around wearing moccasins, “native makeup”, war bonnets, smudging….think of the hundreds of American laws that banned Indigenous people from practicing their traditions for generations. Before you go around slapping your mouth and making “war cries”, just take a moment to appreciate the hundreds of tribal languages that were beaten and raped out of tribes from missionary/boarding schools. Walk a mile in someone’s shoes. Bet your fragile ass wouldn’t last a day.