you continue to exploit our wealth, our sacred parts, like you exploit the resources of my home in the name of conquest.

I'm dominated every time I'm called Indian, something depicting a completely different nation, far from familiarity to my own.

I am dominated every time I'm called American.

Every time my belonging, here, is erased and replaced it with that of Americanism.

Because around here, we don't speak Lushootseed, or Lakota, or Lingit...

No, around here, we speak American.

Because..... this land speaks English? You know from England?

You will never look at me in the eyes and say....

¨im sorry¨- For what killing murdering and raping 55 million of my people just because my red skin didn't match that of your white privelaged skin you wear with privilege?

I'm dominated when the assimilated wear tribal patterns and feathers and fringed clothing from Urban Outfitters or Forever 21, with no sense of worth or value to them outside of a dollar sign.

Your hyper-sexualized distorted version of what a native looks like is what makes me 3 times more likely than any woman of another race to be raped, and 8 times more likely of being murdered. You know, they say native women are the most victimized group in the U.S.?

and let me tell you about your claim to your grandmother being a Cherokee Princess... Every time you tokenize those words, you invalidate what privilege of identity I have left.

Plus..... I'm sorry love, but Cherokees never had princesses. Because, we didn't have monarchies.

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not your average city native <3

hello my names wyandakunshen  which means i tell a story

i'm part of the wyandotte of Anderdon lake huron tribe


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