#dearnonnatives

Today on bs @dearnonnatives and i deal with on twitter

so anyway @the-wiccan-glossary is a piece of shit who likes talking over natives about what is and isn't cultural appropriation.

Stop. Doing. Redface.

It's very telling when non-natives are more concerned about whether it's still appropriate to stuff their face than they are about our continued suffering.

Dear non-natives, Native people are united in many ways but there is no such thing as a collective "native culture. A DNA test saying you have native blood does not mean you're native. Blood does not give you a claim to the hundreds of native cultures that exist. Blood quantum as what determines who is native is a settler colonist idea. Stop. If you take a DNA test and it comes back saying you have some native blood or if you find out you had a native ancestor and your response is "how can I profit off this" then you're a piece of shit. You don't give a fuck about native people and it's obvious. I get so many messages asking how people can get a tribal card to get scholarships. If you're one of these people then I have zero respect for you. You have no problem using native claim for profit while you could care less about native struggles. "But I have a lot in common with native culture" no, no you do not. Again, there are hundreds of native cultures, not just one. Your fascination of the more popularized aspects of only a handful of these cultures does not give you a connection. Thinking something is cool is not a connection. Blood quantum does not give you a connection. I'm using this message I got last night as example but this is something I deal with a lot. #dearnonnatives we can always tell when you love our cultures but could care less about our peoples.

Fort Gibson High School sophomores used historical events of native people being used in human zoos as a way to show "school rivalry". This school is Cherokee nation, at a school with a large number of native people, and they mocked the trauma and oppression of native people. The school principal and superintendent brushed off the issue. I'm tired of white people getting away with this stuff. White people and POC (including natives) with a colonized mindset will always use the excuse "well I'm not offended so you shouldn't be" as a way to silence racism. Guess what? Native American oppression is not an accessory.

Déjà vu…

Dismissing racism is so lazy. The "you're not going to change anything" speech has been used against every form of activism. Yet, change has still occoured. Just because you don't care about our oppression doesn't mean we should stop speaking on it.