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Posting our GoFundMe daily, until goal is reached. Native, disabled family of 6. #Crowdfunding to repair our vehicle. Can u help us reach our goal? #GivingThursday #KindnessNetwork #KindnessMatters #TipaNative

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Honestly ppl shouldn't be saying anything about "peaceful protest" to leverage respectability politics because Standing Rock was the epitome of a peaceful protest movement and water protectors were still brutalized.

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Everyone who thinks their little sage kits are cute needs to look at this

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Lakota medicine man, arrested for practicing traditional sweat lodge healing ceremonies by Father Francis M. Craft, 1880's. Photographed here in iron shackles, ball and chains.

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No Native person should have to pay to enter a National park, access to ancestral homelands or medicines.

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PERSPECTIVE

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never realised how gross and sad mt rushmore looks when you can actually see the whole mountain

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Stop supporting capitalism and mass production of knockoffs which contributes to disenfranchisement and exploitation of Indigenous artisans.

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6 years

I feel like the fact that Maslows Hierarchy of needs was developed by Indigenous ppls is purposefully glossed over to deflect from the fact that capitalistic societal structures are set up to deny everyone of their most basic physical, psychological and spiritual needs.

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The reason settlers can place so much value on "pets" while investing in structures of colonialism which destroy the ecosystem and in turn animal kingdom, is because their ideas of love are about ownership and captivity. And that's the tea on that.

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7 years

They stole and colonized Paha Sapa, the sacred Black Hills and carved their faces in it. 😒

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Do you think the Founding Fathers foresaw a narcissistic liar like Donald Trump? I somehow doubt it.

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The way capitalism has disconnected humans from nature certainly has distorted our understanding of just how much the natural world operates on reciprocity.

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Fetishization is a tool of colonization not a "compliment" Fetishization is a tool of colonization not a "compliment" Fetishization is a tool of colonization not a "compliment" Fetishization is a tool of colonization not a "compliment"

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Ppl who never been through homelessness are blissfully unaware of how much work is entailed in staying afloat and navigating the system to abate criminalization and the ability to ever obtain housing again.

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"Culture should be shared" = a colonizer

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10 years

Cycle of genocide-> Marginalization/ Dehumanization will always lead to state sanctioned violence. #CrimeOfGenocide http://t.co/MAf5Cx6Fyz

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Erasure of Indigenous ppl has been so successful in convincing dominant culture that Natives are mythological creatures that White women in a dystopia narrative are prioritized over the thousands of missing and murdered Indigenous women #MMIW #MMIWG

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Now that you've gotten the costume based on a fictional dystopia removed, can y'all muster up enough backlash to do something about the site's entire "Indian Costumes" section?

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#NoDAPL If you are coming to Standing Rock...

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4 years

Imagine how privileged u have to be to assume that COVID is a conspiracy because u don't know anyone impacted while there are entire Native and BIPOC communities that are being ravaged by the death tolls.

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Happy Indigenous ppls day! Please take a moment be thankful for Indigenous folks for labor put in everyday to educate & assert existence.

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The entirety of my adulthood under capitalism.

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5 years

Stop shaming Black and Indigenous peoples who have children "out of wedlock" and realize that the marriage industry is nothing but state sanctioned surveillance and imposition of colonizer patriarchy/ gender norms.

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Something i learned from live tweeting standing rock is how important documenting is because when the state and police depts are culpable, things start vanishing.

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Can we please stop referring to settlers as "___native" when referring to their hometown residency?

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Call, tell them you are seeing whats happening on the live feed and the world is watching! #NODAPL

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I'd like to see them invest in Native directors and representation instead of misogynist like Adam Sandler

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7 years

Since Netflix is spending $8 Billion on Original Content in 2018, what type of content would you like to see?

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Native ppl do not get college for free even though education was promised in the treaties for the stolen land everyone in this country is occupying. All Native students in the US (enrolled or not with proven Tribal ties) should get university loans forgiven. #CancelMyDebt

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Since Dior wants to try being slick and delete tweets

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Alyssa Milano: "the MAGA hat is the new white hood" Also Alyssa Milano: *Continues selling shirts for a team that maintained White Supremacy in NFL by being the last team to integrate.

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Settler vegans project on Indigenous ppls as if it wasn't their ancestors that brought cattle industry with colonialism

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I hate that capitalism forces everyone to burn out to the point that pent up rage becomes a norm.

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I love how ppl have just stopped being afraid about vandalizing and dismantling colonizer representations like the Columbus statues. I hope to see that extend to other celebrations of colonizers.

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Say it with me: Fetishization of oppressed Indigenous peoples by the ruling class is maintaining colonialism and not an honor.

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Colonialism is psychological warfare on Indigenous ppls.

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Remind white people that they are illegal occupiers on Native land Remind white people that they are illegal occupiers on Native land Remind white people that they are illegal occupiers on Native land #InvisibleNoMore #NotYourCostume #Colonialismisnotcute

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Yet another example of colonialism and post mortem violence. Taking pics on top of burial grounds.

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Heard that Jillian Michaels was invited to an event with Natives and she threw out frybread and shamed Natives for it. This lady is fatphobic colonizer trash.

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. @JillianMichaels on Lizzo: "Why are we celebrating her body? Why does it matter? Why aren't we celebrating her music? 'Cause it isn't gonna be awesome if she gets diabetes."

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Let me remind u that during Standing Rock elders were dragged out of Tipis and prayer circles to get arrested. Ppl were strip searched thrown in dog kennels and numbered. Water protectors received injuries and PTSD that they will be impacted by for the rest of their lives.

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I would like to see this petition reach 10,000 signatures. Will u help Indigenous women in rejecting the colonizers gaze and mass produced fetishization? Please sign and share!

Sign the Petition

Stop Yandy From Using Our Culture As A Costume

www.change.org

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Native and Indigenous ppls / descendants shouldn't be paying rent at all.

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#NoDakotaAccess #NoDAPL #RezpectOurWater

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It was pointed out the whole time and the only reason why Native ppl don't constantly bring up the hypocrisy is cause many of us know how "peaceful" in actuality is irrelevant when you are BIPOC, also because we are aware of how that's been used to dehumanize Black ppl.

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Just a reminder that the US government requires Ndns to be granted permission for eagle feathers to practice spirituality and religion that was illegal until 1978, (when IRFA was passed) but non Native "revivalist" cults continue to colonize regalia of various Indigenous Nations.

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Pride NYC. Having just finished marching with the Indigenous two spirit group, these people emerged. What tribe are you from?, I asked. —We just dressed up for Pride, they replied. It’s just a costume. @NativeApprops would have had a field day. #culturalappropriation

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The more exposure I get to social work, the more I see how women are basically the free caretakers of the world

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Really tired of how everyone keeps glorifying Mt Rushmore like its not emblematic of the colonialism this country was built on.

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9 years

Mass thread on rskn slur, reasons to #changethename .

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Im just tired cause I keep seeing peaceful brought up in response to these gun control protestors and it just looks like erasure to me.

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Being poor is like forever living in deficit. Privileged folks like to compare and say "I have student loan debt" like that's the same thing. But being poor is having debt on top of debt. Like being buried in a hole deeper and deeper that u can't get out of.

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Older folks mad about student debt being canceled because they paid off their debt is part of the reason our economy is such shit.

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“Land back” shouldn’t just be asking Natives to assimilate and repurchase land. Ownership gotta be transferred from national parks and national monuments.

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6 years

Capitalism has really distorted my relationship with time.

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Stop with the "dream catcher" tattoos. If you're not Ojibwe or one of the tribes that have picked up the dream catcher from cultural exchange its appropriation and erasure of its specific cultural origins.

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So miss me with the respectability politics and preaching the "correct" way to do things. Tribal sovereignty is still valid regardless of whether non Natives decide to legitimize it.

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Instead of focusing purely on theoretical aspects of "cultural appropriation" i think we need to be more unapologetic about recognizing the fact that descendants of colonizers are getting corpses of groups their relatives starved, displaced, imprisoned and killed tattooed on them

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In general our society is soooo dishonest about how capitalism fuels the resentment that destroys relationships.

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And for people who still want to argue about by arguing the correct way to protest is lobbying and legislation, there were Native ppl who did that while this movement was happening.

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Remember when Hilary Clinton ignored Native youth advocating for clean water?

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No longer do people need to dwell on Wounded Knee as ultimate tragedy, when the same state sanctioned violence is occurring today. #NoDAPL

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Can u imagine how much people could actually be mobilizing to address global imperialism and colonialism if Native ppl weren't having to focus on these stereotypes, mascots, and all visual expressions that glorify colonialism and Ntv genocide?

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It's funny how settlers laugh at the violence against Natives and water protectors like it won't eventually effect them too.

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Its interesting how ppl talk about abolishing capitalism until it comes to talking about how corporations acquired their wealth. (Genocide, slavery)

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I don't know who needs to hear this but if you are an urban or displaced Indigenous person you are valid. No matter how many folks juxtapose experiences to yours to make themselves or others feel valid. Your struggle is just as real and im rooting for you ❤

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I want to see ppl seize properties with the same energy that the guy who was hoarding money and hand sanitizer was tracked down and forced to donate it to community.

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Its shameful that there are homeless Native elders. Period.

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The media back peddling we are witnessing in response to Nathan Phillips today is an example of how the media becomes a tool to utilize white rage™

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"The victim card" isn't real. The individuals who weaponize it against Indigenous ppls are just exposing their view that Native genocide isn't grievable.

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7 years

Settler.

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Congrats to the Pioneer Woman for being the 23rd largest landowner in America

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Being Native and learning about your history makes you a firm believer in blood memory.

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8 years

So now apparently Morton County is asking for donations. I think im going to be sick. #NoDAPL

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My Tribe has a film called We Are A Horse Nation and theres parts where they talk about the ways horses been colonized so we have to repair our relationships. Def in support of this and something I view as intergenerarional healing for our Black relatives ❤️

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UPDATE: Brianna Noble just launched a GoFundMe for horseback riding for underprivileged youth. "Horseback riding's phenomenal motivational and therapeutic qualities are often out of reach. At Humble, we are removing these barriers."

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#DearNonNatives stop perpetuating erasure by dismissing Native/Indigenous issues as "left wing" or "liberal".

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The irony that ppl acting surprised by what's happening at the border are the type to normalize the Anti Indigenous stereotypes in the US that are currently being leveraged to criminalize Indigenous asylum seekers.

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Stop demonizing Natives who weren't raised with oral traditions for not knowing.

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Non Natives please do not throw your hands up in the air and lament about how terrible this all is without action. #NoDAPL

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Native women reclaiming bodily autonomy and agency is not the same as the colonizer gaze of fetishization.

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9 years

Where can I get this on a shirt?

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Imagine thinking White supremacy and colonialism will be dismantled by everyone having to post a disclaimer coddling White passing / light skinned ppl everytime they want to challenge power dynamics.

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They have already burned through $6 million in emergency funds terrorizing water protectors and now they are asking for donations.

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The mindset of "we have bigger issues to worry about" to silence Native discourse is inherently capitalistic and paternalistic.

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U can tell ur in a white institution when everyone is eating but they don't offer food

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5 years

Let it be known that Dior is not "being accused of cultural appropriation" as the media keeps trying to spread for damage control PR. Dior is being rightfully checked for its proliferation of eugenics and xenophobia.

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And this country has a history of this: see all of the broken treaties. In 1870 Oceti ppl were shamed and called redskinned parasites when they traveled to dc to lobby for rations promised in the treaties because ppl were starving to death

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In 1870 they called Oceti people "redskinned parasites" when they peacefully asked for rations promised in treaties

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My family doesnt know our Native name because my relatives had it beaten out of them in boarding schools and replaced with a scottish name. Stop speaking on things you know nothing about and trying to silence Indigenous ppls.

J. McCrackan

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@KnikCage @danny_mangoes @hayBEARS @SarahTaber_bww I'm of Scottish descent. It was once illegal for my ancestors to wear tartans; now, everyone does. I'm not offended; why should I be? There are plenty of valid reasons for the Scots to hate on the Anglish.

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Natives quoting "experts" quoting Natives , stating what Natives already knew.

The New Yorker

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A number of experts believe that reclaiming land for indigenous people is the best way to protect the Earth’s forests:

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Being displaced from your ancestral homelands is like yearning for a relationship with a relative that you never had.

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When u continually express that something is harmful and ppl turn around and do it anyway that's them testing your boundaries and trying to push u to retract them.

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#HTTR is trending while Native and Indigenous peoples are being hosed down in 20degree temps, experiencing hypothermia. #NoDAPL <-trend that

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Seems the only time settlers care about bringing up "peaceful" Natives is to tokenize us, fuel lateral violence, to shut down criticisms of mascots, genocide and injustice, to maintain the violent status quo.

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So at any point of this anti gun movement are we going to talk about westernized settler conditioning like cowboys and Indians that glorifies gun violence against Natives?

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Disturbing clip follows where the little boy points a gun at the mother (dressed as pocahontas) saying reach for the sky pocahontas!"

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Descendants of victims of genocide who were forced into boarding schools to forget their family and language.

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The fact that ppl keep focusing purely on the over harvesting aspect over colonizer consumption of sacred plants (such as sage), is why settlers and their corporations will continue to commodify spirituality with impunity

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Sephora will start selling entry-level witch kits in October

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I say the same hot take about Thanksgiving each year. Feasting is a Native thing. Before colonization and after. Period.

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Non Natives want to keep pretending that Native people rejecting settler colonial tropes is about "being offended" instead of structural power and erasure.

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School sues Indian parents (Oxendines) for protesting Thanksgiving charade http://t.co/JZtTUDZhAk

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There was a proclamation of support which all Tribal Nations in support signed

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Fact: The Declaration of Indepence still refers to Natives as "Merciless Indian Savages"

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Stop trying to force poor people to have parasocial bonds with the wealthy.

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The irony of serial appropriators getting mad at brands appropriating their likeness for sales....

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BREAKING: Ariana Grande sues Forever 21 for $10M for look-alike ad campaign. “The resemblance is uncanny and Forever 21’s intent was clear: to suggest to the viewing public that Ms. Grande endorsed Forever 21, its products, and was affiliated with Forever 21.” @wbz

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So apparently white women with ties to #spunkysquawboutique are now arrogantly announcing their niche industry on racial slurs and mobilizing. So too should we.

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There is a whole ht ( #BuyNative ) to make it easy for ppl to find Native brands and artidans. There is no excuse to support settler industry knock offs over authentic creations.

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So ppl in my mentions telling me to be grateful because Standing Rock brought awareness, I am well aware. But knowing that is not enough when I know my relations are actively living an ongoing fight for our sacred lands and resources.

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If ppl are ready for the convo about Mt Rushmore perhaps now would also be a good time to remind ppl about the link between resource extraction, architecture and real estate. For example a lot of those huge buildings down in St Paul are made with marble.

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When I say colorism I'm speaking to the hierarchies that benefit whiteness. So idk why lightskinned/ white passing ppl are saying they suffer from colorism. Isn't that contradictory like reverse racism?

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Non Native people should not be selling and profiting from dream catchers. Mass producing and Commodifying Native cultural symbols is an extension of global systems of power like colonialism and capitalism.

Chief Cryden: Bridgette 🦌

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Unpopular Opinion: Native Edition

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