Please go educate yourself! Start with the “Doctrine of Discovery” which was a papal bull that legalised white “Christian” men to carry out all sorts of atrocities on THE WORLD! Particularly indigenous nations who occupied lands they wanted access too. It’s like, your neighbor deciding your less Christian than them because you danced naked. So he goes and make it law that because you dance naked you’re a “savage” who doesn’t deserve a house.. so he’s gonna take it off you and the law is completely on his side. So if you don’t obey he can kill you. This is the legacy colonisation has left in my family – yours too because even though you have only “a little native blood” you are STILL native. You can’t escape it. I feel sorry that you need to put unimplied words into this well informed piece of evidence. It’s unfortunate that you missed her point entirely (the power imbalance of colonial settlers and Government) and still tried to put blame on the powerless, the Natives AND your own people... This piece wasn’t about blame so much as it was about giving the HISTORICAL TRUTH a platform in modern times, so we can understand the impacts such historical misinformation has on their present day. And hello do you not see the same shitty power dynamics playing out? Where those in power are totally taking advantage – still trying to divide people with thing like “we are great; they are not”. And this affects perception of self, self worth and the value of their culture, your culture, our culture as humans – 2019 and we still haven’t evolved as humans?! Really??. Justifying your statement’s position by proclaiming you’re “white with a little native blood” just makes it worse. I feel empathy for you because you’re statement suggests you value being white over your native heritage, which is a tremendous loss. Connect yourself to your ancient wisdom – We don’t know, what we don’t know but we also don’t know how great our lives will be enriched by that which we don’t yet know… #ItMightSupriseYou #StartWithEmpathyForYourHeritage #ThatBringsEmpathyForSelf #UnderstandingTheirStoryRevealsYou
