How many millions displaced, hunted, cheated, lied to, dispossessed, raped, harassed, assimilated, enslaved, murdered? EDUCATION! REPARATION! RECONCILIATION! SOLIDARITY! Learn the truth of indigenous struggle!! Make it your truth, your struggle!
(Source: vastwilderness, via insaniyat)
An in depth book on the true story of American history and why lies are taught every day in classrooms all over the United States. Download link is below
http://www.sharebeast.com/8hw55ki5laz0
PLEASE RE-BLOG!
An earlier edition was a very important book for me as a 13 year old.
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Here’s why some Anons are motivated to send you hate.
Whether you meant to or not, when you took the photograph you were doing the following:
- Sexualizing Native women—turning them into a fetish.
- Reducing feathers and warbonnets to cute fashion accessories.
MAKING NATIVE WOMEN INTO A FETISH: Why it’s shitty, and what makes me think that you’re doing it.
[Trigger warning: sexual assault, rape, genital mutilation]
Why I think you’re doing it (I’m using this photo as a specific example, but almost all of them fall along these lines):
- you’re wearing revealing clothing
- you’re posing sensually
- you presumably took the photo in Native regalia in the first place to make yourself seem more attractive
You look super hot! And you’re trying to make yourself seem more hot by adding the warbonnet. It’s exotic. It implies that you’re in touch with your inner Sexy Spirit.
Why this is a harmful (or at the very least, in extremely poor taste)
Let’s put your Native-is-sexy mentality into context.
- Tribes cannot prosecute non-Native rapists because of laws made by the United States government. (read the link for more info) This means that non-Native persons assault Native women in their homes regularly and get away with it. 88 percent of all violent crime against Native people are committed by Non-Natives.
- Native women were routinely raped, sexually assaulted, and mutilated by White “settlers” as a way to exert control over Native communities. (My source for this is the same as #1). Here’s an eyewitness account from 1864:
“I heard one man say that he had cut a woman’s private parts out, and had them for exhibition on a stick… I also heard of numerous instances in which men had cut out the private parts of fmeales, and stretched them over their saddle-bows and some of htem over their hats.”
You’re portraying Native women as sex objects, something to fantasize about, in a society in which they have a 33% chance of being raped. If they live on a rez, and the rapist does not, they have no effective way to prosecute their rapist. Do you see how portraying Native women as sex objects—how making them into a fetish—could possibly, maybe, contribute to the rates being so high? Or even going up in the future?
I’m not going to get into #2 here, because this post is long enough as-is. To sum up why it’s bad, though: consider the implications of Osama Bin Laden’s grandchildren posing for pictures wearing a badly-replicated Medal of Honor. Or uploading photos of their new smexy crucifix tramp stamp.
Do you see the issue here?
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“The great God of Nature has placed us in different situations. It is true that he has endowed you with many super advantages. But he had not created us to be your slaves.” Read this short speech, share it, pass it on.
For some reason Tumblr wouldn’t upload this as a photoset o-o
If someone could upload this as a photoset that would be great <3 *please link to me though* <333
so many facts
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The best surprise there is.
27/white/guy/pseudo-tankie Robin Hood Transitional Programme-ite
Ask me something (seriously, do it)
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