We Natives see you pretendians and we may not say something but we are judging you. You are not "Aztec",Muxe are not two spirit, and Curanderas are not "pagan". We see you and you are shaming the ancestors you claim you love so much! We see you wearing our traditional clothes and regailia. We see you wearing our culture like it is yours all while ignoring our pleas to ask you to stop. We see you and we don't accept your fake desire to understand us or be part of us. That is because you don't want to learn or hear from us you want to be complacent in your wrongness.
-M a tired native who is sick of chicanx appropriating the culture I had to earn to claim. When I reconnected I had to prove ny worth and had to listen and learn from my elders.
