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[nativeamerican]

What can come off as offensive to Native Americans?

Please don’t ask someone ‘how much Native’ they are. I am not a dog. You are not entitled to check out my pedigree. If you must, ask the person what tribe they are. I say American Indian/Native American as a default, to avoid overwhelming people who are not familiar with Indigenous americans. If you seem interested I usually break it down further. If you are Native, I break it down to tribe/region. If you are from my tribe, I break it down to clan/fam.

Please stop using the word ‘pale face’ to describe yourself in jest. Just don’t. I don’t use it. I don’t know any Native that uses it. But I see a lot of people using it in jest online and have run into people who jokingly refer to themselves as it. I find it offensive because it is a stereotyped patois that is based on a stunted form of ‘tonto-speak’. This also includes words like “squaw” “fire water”.

Please stop asking me about sweatlodge. Chill out. Go to the sauna at 24 fitness if you want to feel dry heat. You don’t ‘need’ to experience an ‘authentic native ceremony’. I will invite you to something if I want to or am allowed to. I don’t have an obligation to expose every part of my life to you. I don’t constantly ask hipsters I have just met to take me to Urban Outfitters or brunch at a microbrewery.

Please don’t act like I am your personal historian/expert on ‘all things Native’. It isn’t my responsibility to educate you. Asking is different than expecting.

Please stop asking me what my thoughts are on the ‘reds**ns” or “#nodapl” when you first meet me. I understand you might be trying to demonstrate an awareness of Indian Country (thanks!), but you don’t have to feel like proving it to me. This makes me feel like you are being super conscious of my ethnicity and not of me as an individual.

Please don’t ask me if I know “John, he is like Cherokee or Chickasaw or something”. We don’t all know each other.

Never, under any circumstances, call me: Squaw, Thunderbird, Indian Princess, Warrior, Chief, or any other racial slur that you find cute. Don’t. 

Understand that if I don’t want to talk about something, it is my right. I really enjoy talking about my culture and sharing it with others. But sometimes I don’t want to discuss certain topics. Asking me about alcoholism on reservations while I am trying to chill out at the pool or prompting me to discuss land rights during intermission at the Symphony is weird.

Which reminds me, please don’t assume correlations based on stereotypes. If I tell you I don’t want a drink, do not automatically assume it is because ‘I am Native”. This seems so outlandish - yet if I had a quarter for every time someone has said this, I could probably afford to separate my laundry at the washateria.

Please don’t compliment me with a “for a Native”-qualifier. I love compliments! But when someone tells me “I speak really well for a Native” “Smart for a Native” that hurts on a lot of levels. You are basically saying you have lowered expectations of me and my community while having the gall to patronize me with your unwelcome approval.

Be aware of your own culture. When I am being nice enough to share stories of my culture with you and you automatically respond with “that’s so weird!” think about what you are saying. You are calling my culture weird because it is not your culture. It’s a default of a lot of people to assume that their culture is the ORIGINAL! AUTHENTIC! OG BEDROCK! culture and that everything else is backwards or a subgroup.

Also put some thought into your questions. When you say something like, “Why are reservations so poor?” “Why don’t Natives get jobs?”. You are basically assuming that these are issues we don’t discuss ad nauseum on the rez. You are also showing off your ignorance of basic American History and Policies, like the Indian Termination Policy and historical oppression.

Please don’t immediately ask me about casinos. Not all tribes have them. It is just a stereotype. Don’t ask me about ‘free money’. Not all tribes get per capita payments. It is just a stereotype.

Please don’t feel the need to ‘top my nativeness’. When i tell someone who asks what tribe I am, and they reply ‘Never heard of it’ and then proceed to continue with “…But I am a Cherokee Princess”. I don’t know what you want me to do, Congratulate you on something impossible? Genuflect?

And this is more personal and perhaps it is just indicative of the phase of life I am in right now, the annoying ‘opinionated-Tribal college-educated-politically active’-phase, but people using the word ‘savage’ bothers me so much. I get that it has become super mainstream slang and it is not uncommon to see sorority girls with “savage!!!! <3 <3” captioned all over their instagram. But I find this usage so offensive. If your people were never considered ‘savages’, if you have never been called ‘a savage’, if it is a slur that has never been applied to you, don’t suddenly reclaim it as a positive word.

[mixdgrlproblems]

YoNasDa Lonewolf also known as #QueenYoNasDa is an activist, hip hop artist & curator of #African and #Lakota heritage. YoNasDa (pronounced Yo-Naja-Ha) means “Precious Jewel”, & shes an enrolled member of the #OglalaLakota Nation. “No Nation Can Rise Higher Than Its Woman,” is a saying that breathes truth for her as she epitomizes this energy. Shes committed to continuing the work of her mother Wauneta Lone Wolf-Cox (1951 – 2003). “Its an honor to have two rich heritages running through my veins, but it was hard as well. Because I am brown skinned (not looking like the stereotypical mixed person) I was constantly in defense of #AmericanIndians in school, when the children didn’t think I was #NativeAmerican, and they would poke fun of us during Thanksgiving by calling us “red skins,” “Indian givers,” and making “hey ya ya” sounds. The same way I felt as a child by standing up for who I am, I still am today” Yonasda’s mother was an Oglala Lakota social activist, youth counsellor & motivational speaker who also was part of the #AmericanIndianMovement (AIM). She worked with Muhammad Ali, the Nation of Islam as well as with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan to bring closer relations between Black American and Native American Indian communities. Her father was the fine artist Theadius McCall, a Black American from Brooklyn, NY. Her grandfather is the world renowned Minister #LouisFarrakhan. As a kid YoNasDa stood by her mother’s and grandfather’s side speaking to the hip hop nation. She feels strongly about her responsibility to use her music as a mouth piece to educate and uplift young people. “Growing up, as a single mother, my mom did her best to raise my brother and I to make sure we knew our Native and African American history. Just imagine, at the age of 10 learning the story of the Trail of Tears and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade at the same time, and people thought seeing Roots was horrific. I had double punches of battery of the struggles of my people” Shes the estranged wife of Wu Tang Clan’s Cappadonna and mother of two. Shes in the process of completing her memoir. 🏴🇺🇸#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #mixedgirls https://www.instagram.com/p/B4tdVjWFiuW/?igshid=11udg3ne9o4xs

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(via » Native Portraits: Photographer turns focus to Cherokee Nation WalkingShield)

Reagan Longbird, Cherokee citizen, stood outside of an abandoned house.

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[ptseti]

The 5 tribes that enslaved black People. What are your thoughts on this?