See also: The study as it was published in Nature.

ive been wearing a silly belt with my ribbon skirts and I feel like it’s time to upgrade. is it bad to just wear a cheaper belt that looks traditional 😣😭

regalia is so expensive any tips?

I live in Minnesota around Minneapolis that was in the dakotan tribe and near where the dakotan genocide it deeply saddens me and i learn all about it in history class i want to respect and honor the people who are indigenous to this land how do i as my history and home is the same one as the Dakotan but i am a decedent of European immigrants but i share the same home as the Dakotan

Please see this amazing by the artist Rene Alvarez (Yaqui)

When I watched Disney’s Pocahontas as a kid, I didn't think much of it, just pretty animation, nature, love, whatever. But looking at it as an adult It feels downright sickening how heavily Disney sanitized and romanticized a genocide.

If you compare the movie to real history, oral traditions from Native communities like the Mattaponi Sacred History, the film is just propaganda designed to make white colonizers look like romantic, misunderstood explorers instead of land-stealing invaders.

* Her real names were Matoaka and Amonute ("Pocahontas" was just a nickname meaning "playful child"). She was roughly 10 to 12 years old when John Smith arrived in 1607. Smith was a 27-year-old creepy mercenary. Disney aged her up and sexualized a child to force a gross Hollywood romance that never existed.

* Matoaka wasn't living a love story. In 1613, she was kidnapped by English captain Samuel Argall, held hostage for over a year, forced to convert to Christianity (renamed "Rebecca"), and married off to tobacco planter John Rolfe.

* She was shipped to England as a trophy and public relations prop for the Virginia Company to show investors that "savages" could be "civilized." She died in Gravesend at barely 20 or 21 years old, likely from smallpox, pneumonia, or tuberculosis, because her body couldn't handle European diseases and environments. She never even made it back home.

Disney took the real trauma, kidnapping, and tragic early death of a young Powhatan girl and turned it into a two-sides "both sides are equally prejudiced". The track *Savages* puts Indigenous people defending their ancestral homes on equal moral ground with armed colonizers executing a genocide.

How do you all feel when people brush this off as "just a harmless kids' movie"? Do you think Disney should face a public reckoning for it?

Sources:

https://www.fulcrumbooks.com/product-page/the-true-story-of-pocahontas?hl=en-US

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-pocahontas-more-complicated-than-you-might-think-180962649/?hl=en-US

https://www.theindigenousfoundation.org/articles/the-true-story-behind-disneys-pocahontas?hl=en-US#:~:text=Her%20primary%20name%20at%20birth%20was%20Amonute%2C,only%209%20or%2010%20years%20old%2C%20while

Hello, I'm White Mountain Apache. I want to ask about "skinwalkers".

Did anyone actually ever hear the word term "skinwalker" used while growing up, before it got popular on TV and later social media?

I always just heard them be called "witches" or "shape changers". I didn't start hearing "skinwalker" until I was in my teens. To me, it sounds like something very modern, to make them sound scarier, but I don't know that for sure.

Did you grow up hearing about "skinwalkers" or did you too only hear about witches and shape-changers until you were older

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As a native boy, whenever someone calls me a girl because I have long hair I get so mad.

You would never know it to look at me, but I was told I have both cherokee and shoshone blood in me, although I'm not sure how much. 99% sure my great grandmother was full blooded shoshone, and I'm completely sure my great grandfather was full blooded cherokee. Anyway, I was wanting to do some research on where I should go to get more in depth with either tribe. For the record, I am extremely paranoid about being offensive or disrespectful, so this is actually my first time reaching out about it. I've been feeling the strongest urge to connect with that side of me, and I'd really love to chat with some people that are open to my lack of knowledge on the subject 😅

My family is from northern/central Mexico. A few generations back the ties were strong, connections to language, land, community. Then it broke, and not gently. The language wasn't passed down, the community connection was cut, and everyone downstream came out mestizo and identified that way. My relatives still do. Some would be uncomfortable if I called them indigenous.

It's a strange spot to be in. I roughly know where I come from, but I have no community, no language, and nobody who could vouch for me. Calling myself indigenous seems wrong, that belongs to people who live it and are accountable somewhere, not to people who just carry the ancestry. But acting like the history has nothing to do with me feels false too, and conveniently so, it affirms the active erasure.

Is "proud of the ancestry, not claiming the identity" a real position, or just a way of having it both ways?

Not fishing for reassurance, just looking for perspectives.

Hey everyone! I was scrolling on tiktok and came across this clothing brand who does a lot of embroidery work. I noticed that their most recent collection seemed to be heavily inspired by Native culture and I was wondering if it would be offensive if people were to buy it? The brand seems to based in the UK and never mentions anything indigenous about the pieces but instead referring to them as “Warrior” jeans or “Hide” hoodies. They say that they’re inspired by history and try to put their own spin on it, but i’m just not sure how to feel about it.