Small facts:
I’m Cherokee, Scottish, English, Irish, and German.
Where does the German and Irish come from? Great-great grandparents were Irish and German. They met on the boat on the way to the US.
The Scottish? Scottish immigrants. Mainly Jacobites.
English? A Cherokee man went to England and took home one of the English royal ladies.
The Cherokee? Nancy Ward herself. Her son is my grandfathers great-grandfather. I and my cousins are direct descendants.
Cherokee affects me most, everything else descends from percentage. I’m dedicated to history and heritage.
I subscribe to Cherokee religion. I believe all things are sacred in a way, even trash.
I am not vegan. I respect vegans but my dietary and financial needs are not conducive to a vegan diet. Sorry. Know that I respect all animals the same way I would respect my main goddess, or even myself, and that I make sure their sacrifice does not go to waste.
I’m an activist. I don’t think it’s possible to be directly descended from indigenous, Scottish, and Irish ancestry and not be. At least not in good conscious.
I stand with Palestine. As an American I sympathize with the Jewish people and israeli people (not to separate the Jewish people from their homeland) in the sense that I want to believe that my own country and government (the United States) is good and righteous and has my best interest at heart as I’ve been told and taught my whole life. I understand the heart break to religiously and morally look at a home/family/country and say “your actions are wrong”. But as an indigenous person living on colonized land I have WAY more in common with the Palestinians. And I would be wrong to not acknowledge genocide when it’s happening before my eyes as powerless as I am to stop it. If the United States had the weaponry Israel has now to use against the indigenous people in the 1800s I would not be here right now.
I know the Israeli government is not the voice of the Jewish people as a whole. No I do not blame the Jewish people.
All religions are safe here, even Christianity. Keep in mind I grew up in the Protestant and baptist churches and have read the Bible. I KNOW Christianity intimately, i went to church camp every year with my ultra pious grandmother since I was seven, my uncle is a preacher, I have a Bible that is highlighted and tabbed, do not think I’m incapable of coming back full force should you decide to prescribe to anti-Christian Bible thumping in the name of God himself.
I was called a faggot throughout my school years, all of them. So, no, I won’t be removing it from my URL. If it makes you uncomfortable I will not refer to YOU as such.
I am, in colonial terms, LGBTQ+. In indigenous terms I’m “That one, over there.”
I’m an aromatic asexual whose genderqueer.
I can’t give you my pronouns, they change day to day. They/them or it/it’s are safe options and sometimes trigger euphoria but don’t always fits. She/her or he/him can trigger euphoria but more often than not make my skin crawl. For some this is extremely triggering, for me it’s mildly uncomfortable.
I am NOT a minor and do not want minors trying to interact with me at all. Reblogging my posts I cannot control but do NOT dm me under any circumstance.
I am learning everyday through my own trauma and experiences. I will make mistakes.
I am still suffering the affects of a head injury from a year ago.
You can try to suicide bait me but I promise my own depressed OCD brain has come up with worse in the 15 minutes it’s taken you to come up with a good line.
If you have an issue just unfollow. Not because I’m unwilling to change but because it will likely take me time to figure out HOW and it’s better in the long run for you to unfollow than having to suffer through me stumbling clumsily through the mess of unlearning behaviors.
