20 year-old Native American woman, Brittney Poolaw, was convicted by an Oklahoma jury of manslaughter for the death of her 17-week-old, nonviable fetus. She faces four years in prison for a miscarriage she suffered less than halfway through her pregnancy.
A girl in my class from 8th grade to graduation was named Helen but told everybody to call her Misty.
Every time a teacher took attendance and said "Helen," she would reply with, "It's Misty."
They just called her that. We all did. Thought nothing of it.
It's not difficult.
Someone on Tiktok was like "I knew Twilight was written by a white person when the Natives could turn into werewolves and ya'll are still on their land" hahahahaha
Canadians overwhelmingly agree that it's unacceptable to block traffic, bridges, railways, border crossings, or major ports, during protests
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Pregnant women in the Dothraki horde are expected to ride their horse up until the birth of their child, those who ride in carts or walk are looked down upon by the Dothraki. In addition, if the child is born deformed or too weak, they are thrown behind the horde to feral dogs
Before white women start calling Native women "divisive" over the theoretical abortion clinics on reservations, ask yourselves if you know ANYTHING about Native women and our own history of reproductive injustices that specifically target us and how you benefitted from it.
I don't know why she called herself Misty. Maybe she hated the name Helen. Maybe she loved Pokemon. I personally didn't like her much and didn't care to dig deeper. Bottom line is: that was the name she liked, so we called her that.
Encanto really nailed the multiracial family look. I believe every single one of these characters are related regardless of their differences in skin tone or hair type.
Wow, the Twilight fandom was REALLY quiet about Rosalie Hale's fucking racism. Like this isn't even a matter of "Sure she's calling an Indigenous man a dog, a mutt, a mongrel, etc but it's because he's a WEREWOLF!!!!" like she is straight up using racist language.
a baby colonizer in my nephew's class told my nephew that "Powwows don't exist" and my nephew was like ??????
White parents, what exactly are you telling your kids about Natives? lol
Also CONQUISTADORES and other colonizer MFs fed native babies to dogs. Natives didn't feed their own babies to dogs. Wtf how backwards can you get George?
If you're not Native, don't say "Indians."
If you're not Native, don't think you're equipped to talk about "Pretendians."
And you guys wonder why Natives don't fuck with these racist ass entitled anthropologists.
Taylor Lautner: Non-Native playing a Native character
White Journalists: ๐ค
Johnny Depp: Non-Native playing a Native character
White Journalists: ๐ค
Sacheen Littlefeather: passes away after decades of being blacklisted
White Journalists: I HEARD SHE'S NOT RLY NDN ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฒ
So now that Killers of the Flower Moon didn't win anything are we ready to talk about how the film industry and American audiences/critics love watching Native suffering and pain but not Native joy and celebration?
I don't know how to explain to you that it's not "Anti-Catholicism" to depict what Catholic nuns and priests did to Native children in residential schools especially since killing and abusing Indigenous people has been a fun Catholic pastime since 1492
NEW: "The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians does not endorse wearing regalia as part of a costume or participating in any other type of cultural appropriation,โ Chairman for the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians Kenneth Kahn said in a statement to
@FOS
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"Am I racist if I watch Disney's Pocahontas and enjoy it and show it to my kids?"
Yes you are. You're not getting a watered down "nuanced" answer from me. Do what you will with this new information about yourself but stop asking Natives if it's okay to enjoy racist movies.
Here's the thing: I'm biracial, I'm Indigenous, but I'm also white. It would be like casting me to play Tiger Lily. I would never do that.
Nani isn't meant to represent women and girls who look like me.
Recast Nani.
#ColoristCastingStrikesAgain
There's something kind of strange about how when she does it it's chic and stylish because it's gossamer and and see-through but meanwhile in different parts of the world women wearing something similar to this are literally hatecrimed for it.
Johnny Depp:
-Isn't native
-made a joke about how he might be native if there was a rape in his family tree
-played a stereotypical racist character
-promoted a cologne literally named after a derogatory slur for Natives
But INSISTS he's respectful to Native Americans.
as hard as this is to watch iโm really glad they made it more explicit that david was going to rape her so we donโt get anymore of the โnoo he was just gonna kill her to eat herโ bullshit from people cause this is a very important moment in ellieโs arc
lol remember when the US Government issued out bounties for collecting the scalps of Native women and children and it was so lucrative that it became an easy way for bounty hunters to make money but sure tell me how much you give a shit about this woman's miscarriage.
And the rest of what she's saying about how babies "didn't have caregivers with an idea of what the baby needs" sounds AWFUL REMINISCENT of how the Mormons thought when they were stealing Native children from their familes.
Remember when government and church funded residential schools would torture Native children literally to death and we're still digging up their remains TO THIS DAY but sure, you care SO MUCH about the child she could have had.
It's fucked up that Ezra Miller can be deliberately and publicly violent and vicious and cruel to multiple people and still have a career, still have fans, still have people coming to bat for them, meanwhile all the fucking hearsay about Amber Heard was enough to crucify her.
"Woke craziness" what the fuck does that even mean? Who the hell is this white non-Native woman to challenge NAGPRA laws? Give Indigenous remains back to their communities you Jeffrey Dahmer motherfuckers.
More woke craziness in science: anthropologist Dr. Elizabeth Weiss denied access to fossils for...wait for it...tweeting a photo of her holding a Native American skull barehanded. Also accused of being anti-Indigenous & racist for challenging NAGPRA laws.
Anyways now is an excellent time to tell everyone that if you have an elderly loved one who has to stay in a hospital or nursing home, WATCH. THEM. LIKE. A. HAWK.
nah but what backfired was ya'll trying to be all "IT'S NOT RACIST BECAUSE HE'S NATIVE' and then his own community was like "Yeah no, this is wrong."
Die mad and wrong :)
The radical left came after this little kid for โwearing blackface.โ
They are literally coming after a LITTLE BOY.
He's also a descendent Chumash Indian Tribe. It BACKFIRED horribly.
"This Superbowl will have the FIRST NATIVE REFEREE!"
Okay. Are you gonna change the mascot?
"AND A NATIVE MAN WILL PERFORM THE PRE-GAME SHOW!"
But will you change the mascot?
"TWO NATIVE PLAYERS WILL TAKE TO THE FIELD--"
areeeee youuuuu gonnnaaaaa chaaaaaange theeeee mascot
Dudes watch Juno and be like "There's nothing sus about this grown ass married man hanging out all alone with this 16 year old girl while his wife wasn't home but when he tells her that he's going to leave her after they slow dance to a song together SUDDENLY he became creepy"
Indian Country showed up for Nex Benedict faster than their damn school did. We mourned and cried and showed support with our words and our platforms while the school couldn't even be bothered to do a fraction of that. And y'all KNEW them. Y'all saw them every day. You are evil.
This is why there is a demand for a national inquiry on MMIW in Canada and the United States because even when a celebrity in a billion dollar film franchise who is a household name kidnaps a Native, it doesn't make the news and there's no public uproar at all.
The left hates Indigenous people as much as the right does and therefore has a lot of anti-indigenous racism that they need to unpack if they plan on making any real change but never will because it's all about power and control.
I didn't realize March For Life was happening the other day. I would've shown up with the sign I made when Roe v. Wade was overturned had I known ahead of time.
You know what Taylor Sheridan does for Native women? He casts non-Native actresses to play Native women in his shows/films. He brutalizes them on screen physically and sexually. He depicts colonial violence so graphic and with very little respect that it's almost unwatchable.
But Twilight was "harmless," right? We only hated it because we hate teen girls, right? People didn't hate it for the racism, right? It sure sounds like you guys didn't hate it for the fucking racism either.
Reminder that
#TheFlash
uses groundbreaking new technology.
It is the first film utilizing very new technology in terms of getting multiple versions of the same actor on the screen rather than using locked-off cameras or motion control.
Hi, just because charges were dropped doesn't mean that shit didn't happen. Fuck him and fuck everybody who tried to sweep his abuse and grooming under the rug to support a shitty movie that ya'll didn't even fucking like.
UPDATE: Grooming charges against Ezra Miller were completely dropped by Tokata Iron Eyes' father, Chase Iron Eyes.
"...I made that statement...based on information from a witness who then recantedโฆ Thus, I immediately withdrew the court filings"
Supergirl dies. George Clooney is Bruce Wayne in the end credits. There's a deepfake of Christopher Reeve and the Supergirl from that time. Nic Cage Superman fights a giant spider.
THE FLASH is currently playing in cinemas overseas. To all those watching the film, please don't pull a Barry and Spoil the Timeline.
Be cautious until your viewing so you can experience worlds colliding in FULL EFFECT!
#TheFlashMovie
Treat hospital staff like they are there to help YOU do YOUR job. That was the best advice Mom gave all of us. She said it when she was taking care of her grandmother, but it REALLY resonated when we were taking care of her and Dad.
Unpopular opinion but I fully support making Non-Native white people as uncomfortable as possible consuming "problematic" media that depicts anti-Native racism.
The Flash production designer Paul Austerberry believes the upcoming DC Studios film will make people forget about star Ezra Miller's crimes and legal issues.
@AliNahdee
@hankgolfer
No one is more innocent than a child in the womb. No one is more deserving of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Yet there are people who still wish to execute them anyway โ just for existing.
Itโs very sad.
Annual reminder that Elisa Maza is black NDN and passes the Aila Test! She's also super gorgeous without being sexualized and is just an all around badass character.
#KeepBingingGargoyles
Owasso High School hasn't said a damn thing about Nex Benedict on ANY of their social media platforms. Not on their Facebook, their Youtube channel, their Twitter, or even their main website. There are no memorials. There are no remembrance posts. Nothing.
These are fucking strangers and it's safe to assume some of them are racist ass strangers. Watch your loved ones. At all times. Let these people know that they DO have someone who loves them who is keeping an eye out for ANYTHING suspicious.
@ineffablejoy
@GrassAdie
Maybe read up on what "grooming" is. Hell, read up on what fucking Stockholm Syndrome is. Jesus ya'll can't wait to sweep this under the rug when it comes to Indigenous girls.
So many white people are coming at me for calling a white kid a "baby colonizer" but have nothing to say about the Native kid who was subjected a racist microaggression, as if that isn't going to harm him directly as oppose to a tweet the white kid will never see.
a baby colonizer in my nephew's class told my nephew that "Powwows don't exist" and my nephew was like ??????
White parents, what exactly are you telling your kids about Natives? lol
Never forget how Warner Bros deliberately, knowingly, and actively tried to sweep Ezra Miller's abusive and dangerous actions under the rug to sell you a movie and how so many actors and big name personalities went right along with it.
Hey Non-Natives, if you find yourself wondering "Hmm, is this woman of color REALLY indigenous or is she pretending," consider:
1) minding your business
2) not worrying about it
3) leave that conversation to indigenous people.
4) NOT MAKING MONEY OFF OF IT.
Fuck you, Edward. Who the hell are you to talk about a Native woman being "deliberately malicious" when you're grooming and manipulating a SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD.
Remember when Native women spoke up in opposition to your appropriation of Indigenous cultures in Magic in North America and you went radio silent because I remember.
It still amazes me that wanting safety and fairness for girls and women is your idea of hate. It still amazes me that people are cheering on a medical scandal, despite mounting evidence of harm. It still amazes me how cowardly and complicit so many, including you, have been.
I'm sorry, did the TV writer for RESERVATION DOGS literally come at me for calling out Netflix for deliberately whitewashing a visibly non-white Native actress? Like colorism and the White Sokka incident isn't a problem we've been discussing at length?
Never forget how quickly the press came down on her barely even a month after she died based on the "research" of someone who crashed her funeral and livestreamed it on Instagram.