hey I saw your tags on the post about the person claiming to be indigineous who isn't. I went to their blog and I've definitely come across a few of their posts before in the wild but I'm not really familiar with them aside from that. If it isn't too much trouble would you be able to point out the harm their posts have caused? Not even so much about wanting proof, but if I've seen their posts that are misinfo, I'd really want to know so I don't take away something harmful from that!!
thank you for asking about this, i genuinely really appreciate it. it’s absolutely no trouble at all. you weren’t asking for proof but i’ll lightly touch on it for others: there is an active and publicly available thread discussing their claims, but i definitely don’t want to doxx anyone on tumblr dot com so i will not be sharing that. it’s info for people who are in their circles.
as to misinformation, it’s not so much a singular statement of theirs that is misleading, it’s the context under which they are posting. all of their posts come with the spoken and unspoken claim that they are Native American; it’s an act of harm to speak from that place when you are non-Native. it’s a huge breach of trust to begin with, and it calls into question each post of theirs that speaks to that identity and topics surrounding it with any authority. it’s difficult to point to a specific post when the whole lot comes from that place.
this is all alleged, of course– an opinion formed based on publicly available evidence. but when Native people are asking for you to point to a relative, it’s an interesting response to instead say that something has been missed along the way instead of just naming that relative. it would be great to walk this back if they come out with facts that contradict pretendian claims, but they have not been forthcoming with that information when asked by those who are in community with them. i recognize that they’ve since made a post saying they’ll talk about it at some indeterminate point, but it’s surprising that they haven’t been able to talk about it already. asking how you’re connected is a very basic question in Native communities that people are able to answer without much difficulty.
anyway, thank you again for asking about this– curiosity is important and i hope this answers your question!
