#(2024)

Shiraishi Kayuri 🐾💚

Fem! Shiraishi design I made a while back!

Originally I named her Kayuki, but I feel like it was no fun to just shorten the original name (plus Kayuri works too well for a yuri au!)

+ doodles of her base outfit / fandisk outfit 🐈

wasn’t a fan of how they completely removed the cat accessories for the fandisk, so she gets a cute kitty scarf ♡

‘Seré la gata bajo la lluvia… y maullaré por ti’

The absolute betrayal of Shiraishi getting rid of his matching keychain ( •̀ - •́ )

K. Du Val's "Native Nations" (2024) won the highly sought Pulitzer prize, as it shares a collection of work from Native historians & scholars.

This practice ensures the fidelity of the author's account & shifts focus away from predominantly White 'histories.'

The book covers 1,000s of years of history - with only a small part involving America.

It's true that White America did many evil things in their greedy lust for stolen land & their control over others.

Those evils: enslavement, land thefts - even brutal massacres led Whites to ease their guilty consciences thru the use of myths denigrating their victims!

Before the European invasion, there existed many Native nations.

Some forming massive Confederations for safety, others existing in cities greater than European ones.

Most of these tribes later rejected urban life for decentralized communities.

They now face agricultural problems, money hoarding by Native elites & land losses to a society that wants their mineral wealth.

Modern Natives remain a marginalized group of nations.

Their histories were recorded, mostly by White colonizers, so we do have some ideas of what was important to Natives.

For this book, special efforts were made to include Native concerns - from their POV!

Unfortunately, there's some 600+ tribes - just in the US. So, there's not enough room for everyone's story to be included...

At least, not in the present time.

Val tries to connect the past to the present, with tribal scholars working to preserve their languages.

Others are reviving parts of their cultures...

Their efforts enrich what Native material is now available.

Indigenous tribes were long seen, by Whites, as obstacles to American expansionism & for their supposed primitive lifestyles.

This lasted until the 1960s, when Native victimhood was 'overemphasized.'

So, modern studies correct this problem by including as many different tribal POVs as is possible...

This makes for Native material that's a fuller experience.

Yes, terrible things were done to them.

But, Natives have also accomplished great & important things as well.

Their history is a long & complicated one - not much of which actually concerns the invading Europeans...