CW / descriptions of the assault and murder of an Inuk woman, please proceed with caution
In September of 2022, my cousin was assaulted and murdered in Ottawa by her housemate who she had been living with due to difficulty with getting safe housing.
I have been in a cycle of grief ever since, I miss her so dearly but it is a rarity for families to know what happen to their loved ones. I made this to, in someway, bring some awareness to this issue and to reckon with her passing too soon.
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Today (5 May) is National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirits (also known as Red Dress Day) in the U.S and Canada. The National Indigenous Women's Resource Center (link above) is a really good organization to donate to, learn from, or get involved with (today and all days).
Anyway its FUCKING WEIRD how much y'all white folks and non-natives are obsessed with specifically policing the identities of native Americans. Like it's quite litterally none of y'all's business. 💀
If you're white/non-native, full stop, none of your business. Yes even if you think they are lieing. Yes even if she's talking about Cherokee princesses. Yes even if your native friend is suspects too. Yes even if that person doesn't have tribal sovereignty/doesn't know or identify via their tribe/hasn't had a DNA test. Yes even if they look white/mixed white. I do not care, this is none of your business, we don't need you mfers to tell and warn us and try to gatekeep outside of a community that isn't even fucking yours. Similar to the Hispanic community, a majority of natives are mixed, a majority are mixed with white and a majority pass as white. We can handle appropriators on our own. You are policing and colonizing up our spaces. Its none of your business what tribe they are, what race they look like, who or what makes them native. Its quite litterally none of your business. Us natives can and will handle it. You'd be pissed if you saw us policing white people, Hispanic pple or black people or literally anyone of any race who isn't native. Leave us alone.
And as for fellow natives who do this incessantly because you have a card/arnt wp/rez/raised in culture, you have no business either policing their identities or how they figured it out. You are part of the problem emboldening the colonizers to think they can clock us. They don't have the indicators you do and just because you went through the process doesn't mean you know what it looks like for a totally different tribe. I don't care if you think you can always clock it, you can't. Unless you're from their tribe and their spreading misinformation, you don't know that person, you don't know their card status and you don't know their history. Quit being a dick.
Oh and, just to tack it on here, just because a native may know their tribe or their ancestors or any personal information related to being native DOSENT MEAN you, non native or even other natives, are ENTITLED TO IT. Natives don't have to prove jack fucking shit to you. Be respectful ffs. Everytime anyone who isn't completely native passing says their native, a million non-natives who have no business there worm out of the woodwork like fuckin nasty maggots out of a corpse to ask their tribe, to show paperwork or proof, to get their card or DNA tested and still question them afterwards. Its none of your damn business. You got white papers? You know what specific tribe your ancestors came from? No? Then stfu, god damn.
Oh and to all you white folks knowingly lieing and preying on the kindness and understanding of natives who don't harass you over your race, especially to leverage it to be racist against actual poc? Get a fucking life, colonizer.
And, finally, to all my natives who just learned they were native, who are still learning about their cultures, who are still tracking down their tribe, who aren't capable of getting a government card or don't want to, who aren't capable of getting a reliable test (most dna tests aren't reliable for native American DNA and the only one who is, 23 and me, is ran by Mormons) or don't want to, no matter how much "proof" you want to aquire for yourself, your family or for the world, wether that's all of the above and more or nothing at all, as long as you have enough evidence to prove to yourself and you know it's true, you are welcome in our community. Don't listen to anyone who invalidates you because you don't "look native", wether due to being wp or passing as a completely different race, or the little shits who constantly demand more and more proof from you. You don't have to prove shit to anyone. Fuck the blood quantum purists, fuck the eugenicists. Your tribe loves you and respects you and if they don't, you didn't need that "offical" authority anyway.
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𒁹︶ people affected .ᐟ
many indigenous women, children, and two spirit people are kidnapped, tortured, raped, and murdered every year.
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𒁹︶ statistics .ᐟ
alaskan native and native american women experienced the second highest rate of homicide in 2020. alaskan native and native american men had the second highest rate of homicide compared with males in all other racial and ethnic groups. a study done in 2016 by the institute of justice found that 84.3% of native american and alaskan native women have experienced violence in their lifetime, 56.1% of them had experienced sexual violence. The National Crime Information Center has reported over 2000 cases of missing indigenous women, and these are only the reported cases. in 2016 there were 5712 cases involving missing and murdered indigenous women and girls reported, only 116 were logged on the DOJ database.
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𒁹︶ what you can do .ᐟ
where red to spread awareness may 5th, which is missing and murdered indigenous women, girls, and 2spirit peoples day. repost everything that you see involving awareness towards mmiwg2s. repost the mmiwg2s people in your area, do what you think will help.
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𒁹︶ sources .ᐟ
Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Crisis | Indian Affairs
Missing-and-Murdered-Indigenous-Women-and-Girls-Report.pdf
Missing Indigenous Women Statistics Statistics: Market Data Report 2025
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POCAHONTAS: Colors of Colonization (The Dangerous and Manipulative Romanticization of Indigenous
Women, Children & Ongoing Genocide)
Before reading: This post deals with many mature and NSFW themes and imagery. Additionally, this is a political post.
"POCAHONTAS:" Her Real Story
est. 1596 - 1617
Let’s say it like it is...
“Pocahontas” was a nickname given to Matoaka, a First Nations SA,
kidnapping and human trafficking victim, in mockery. The name
Pocahontas translates to “the naughty one.” According to John Smith himself, Matoaka was only 10 to 11 years of age when they encountered one another for the first time. This pedophilic turn of events altered the lives, images and wellbeing of Indigenous children and women forever.
Matoaka is known by many names. Amonute was a less private name used by her. In this post, I will refer to her as Matoaka as that is how many of her community members remember her by & share her story.
Matoaka was imprisoned at the Jamestown colony for over a year
by English colonizers, where she was repeatedly physically and
sexually assaulted as a jailed sex slave. She was held captive as
an attempt to force her father who was the chief of her tribe, the
Pamunkey people, to give up their land and people.
Matoaka was forcibly displaced and taken to England as a
“showcase” of both the “exotic nature” of Indigenous women, but
how a Native could be whitewashed and taken advantage of for
the sole benefit of Englishmen. She was given diseases, neglected
and malnourished, and repeatedly forced into sexual relations
with white men.
*This unfortunate story also helped to popularize some well-known slurs which are derogatory towards Indigenous women and girls.
Due to this constant abuse and misogynistic, genocidal treatment, Matoaka died at only 21 years old. She had no idea that white people (and their supporters) would go on once she passed to create the myth of Pocahontas, a myth in which Matoaka was a “good Indian” who would defend white people and rescue the “love of her life” from her savage, sadistic family & tribal community. From this stereotype came the colonial myths that we follow and defend today, that impact Native people individually as a whole and shape how others justify the past and ongoing genocide that we experience. As a way to dehumanize us and ignore the struggles our women go through - even to indoctrinate our children, and alter their image of their own self-worth (another attempt to “Kill the Indian, Save the Man” which was the motto for residential boarding schools) - Pocahontas is a story that is passed down to children and audiences as an “innocent” showcase that completely erases the femicide Indigenous women grapple with in hyper-invisible society today.
Please take a moment to review this post made by popular rap artist Nicki Minaj:
What is that?
The image / post above was shared by Nicki Minaj on Instagram.
*When originally posted by Nicki Minaj, Matoaka's chest was not censored as shown here, of my memory.
When called in & called out for how dangerous this post was, Nicki Minah bullied, cursed out, harassed, abused, etc, Indigenous women and defenders in the comments, and then turned comments off as a way to - admittedly by her - silence Native advocates. She expressed that she had a right to sexualize Pocahontas and that she didn't care about the impact it had on First Nations women, as well as emphasizing other controversial points.
*Nicki Minaj has also been known to use an Indigenous slur in her music, proving controversial to Native communities.
*You can learn more about how Nicki Minaj supports predatory behavior (in general) here. You can learn about how her brother was sentenced to prison for child rape here. You can read about how she was in full support of her brother here. According to this Facebook update here, Nicki Minaj even testified for her brother against the victim. Her brother pleaded guilty, but she was still in support of him (read here). Nicki Minaj has been known to support other offenders throughout her life and career.
More Examples (with a few notes)
As long as you recognize the impact of Pocahontas and Disney’s dangerous story, it’s okay to enjoy things. Life is a balance. However, this user was profiting off of the anti-Indigenous & racist misogyny on her platform. When Native fans (and allies) expressed discomfort or tried to share knowledge about Matoaka’s true story, they were met with extreme backlash and verbal violence. Unfortunately, some of the users were continuously harassed for many days (or longer) after commenting under this post. Almost all comments were polite or considerate, until this user proved to be apathetic to the plight of Indigenous women.
*Please also take notice of how this user took a racist character design, and morphed it into an “Indigenous fashion aesthetic” (furthering the harmful depictions of Native culture in a media / day of age where accurate depictions are ridiculed and minimized - Native people do have fashion, both traditional and modern, so calling this an "Indigenous fashion aesthetic" was objectifying and erasive of our efforts to be seen as real people, which is unfortunately still a struggle for us today). This was quite harmful, and was done specifically during a time where MMIW movements were being silenced on platforms like Instagram and Facebook, assault + murder rates going up, and Pocahontas was a hot topic in Disney discourse.
*Notice how a lot of art is overly sexualized, depictions of the relationship with Matoaka and John Smith are depictions of romanticized abuse ("love beyond limits"), and that common cosplays of this character are no less racist than Asian-fishing or Blackface.
From the Pamunkey Nation: Leave Matoaka alone!
Aside from the Pocahontas Myth detrimentally impacting Indigenous
women & youth, and sharing a dangerous story that is still a real, shared experience today, many members of the Pamunkey Nation are asking you to Leave Matoaka Alone. Let her rest in peace, and let her tribe HEAL! Consider supporting & uplifting Pumunkey voices, art, women, children & lives.
Did you know that Matoaka's tribe - though such a widely known people, thanks to Disney - was federally unrecognized? This made it difficult for the tribal community to establish economic security, and prompted various concerns across the nation of well-being, survival, and cultural preservation. You can read about it here. You can learn about their victory in finally becoming federally recognized just a decade ago here.
Though the tribe in recent years as attempted to separate themselves from the Pocahontas Myth and its mainstream popularity, you can learn about their collaborative efforts to teach Matoaka's true story and educate others about Native women here.
I also recommend checking out this "Pamunkey Recognition" article here, and visiting the Pamunkey tribal website here.
Statement on White House Use of “Pocahontas” Slur
Read about it here:
The National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center stands with the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) the Native American Journalist
The Enduring Legacy of the Pocahontas Myth
Read about it here:
Four hundred years after her death, misperceptions of the Native American icon continue to shape the cultural image of indigenous peoples—th
Now, what can you actually do about all of this?
Here are a few options and resources if you’re looking to get involved and combat modern Indigenous femicide, modern-day genocide, and violent colonization in the U.S.
Donate:
Check the list of where to donate here:
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Act
Check the list of where to start acting here:
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Share:
This resource. Share Indigenous posts. Share our
stories, shops, profiles, news, etc to combat hyper-invisibility and destigmatize our culture and women.
Not only share, but listen. Learn*. And be unified with us.
*There are dozens of statistics on the MMIW crisis, but it is too personal and disheartening for me to report in this post. Since the government does not properly keep track of the MMIW femicide, please get your facts from Native organizations who work to provide accurate statistics and records. Please follow MMIW hashtags and share flyers of missing people - as police do not usually look for them.
Also on that note familiarize yourself with MMIW2S. On pain of death. Familiarize yourself with MMIW2S now. I know its not popular to be a feminist anymore but if youre any kind of feminist you better be familiar with MMIW2S.
Earlier this month, the federal government were criticized by the Assembly of First Nations for a lack of follow-through on reconciliation p
Commissioners Marie Wilson, Chief Wilton Littlechild and Murray Sinclair spent six years gathering accounts from parents, survivors, and their children to understand the truth of this era. Their work culminated with 94 calls to action.
“I’ve very often said, when newcomers come to Canada, ‘We don’t get to cherry pick the parts of Canada that we like,’” said Wilson. “Yes, [there is] universal health care and education, things we take as normal, but so too [there] are the mistakes of our country and the regrets of our country.”
Wilson’s new book, North of Nowhere, is aimed at people who weren’t here for the for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, or were too young to remember it.
“I made promises over and over again to survivors when they asked us, ‘Make sure Canada knows what happened to us, make sure the world knows what happened to us,’” said Wilson. “And I want to leave my book as one more tool that will allow us to remember and not forget.”
But the government that put reconciliation on the national agenda is often under fire for “forgetting”. Earlier this month, the federal government was strongly criticized in a report released by the Assembly of First Nations for a lack of follow-through regarding the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry.
“Regrettably, the report’s findings indicate that only two of the calls for justice impacting First Nations have been fully implemented over the past five years, with the majority showing minimal to no progress,” said AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Neepinak, at a June 3rd press conference.
