Yeah, I get where you are trying to go. But I don’t feel like I or Natives should have to be patient with other peoples’ racism.

The answer is yes. The Redskins name needs to go, but so does the mascot. There should be no Native mascots or team names. Look at the Blackhawks. Offensive name like the Redskins? No. Offensive logo like the Indians? No. But do assholes still don redface and headdresses? And do other assholes on the opposite team…

Well yes, go ahead and tell Natives that we’re just like those Nazis. Totally make sense, considering how knowledgable you must be on the subject. Hot take. Good job, you really got us there big guy.

Bullshit.

Yeah, but Natives actually want the team name to go to. When teams are named after Natives, nonNative fans inevitably dress up in redface and wear headdresses. Name Cleveland a whole new name, or go back to the goddamn Spiders. But the Indian name does not honor and dignify us. No Native mascots or names do.

Um, Native here. Wahoo and all Native team names and mascots have to go. We’re not just protesting the Redskins.

The racist part is that we are a people, not a mascot. Whenever a team has a Native mascot, even if the logo mascot isn’t a racist caricature (FSU, Blackhawks), it leads to fans who dress in redface and wear headdresses and other bullshit. It’s never about respect or honor, it’s about people not caring that they are…

Well, let’s me pull the sarcasm and say: Fuck you. We’re holding back humanity because we’re telling you to use a different goddamn mountain?

Thank you for telling me that my indigenous religion is childish and primitive, because we haven’t heard that for the last 500 years. Hot take. Good job.

Yeah, in one of his books he claims a “source” told him that Chelsea Clinton was the result of marital rape... He’s overall pretty tabloid and gross, and pretty obviously makes up shit and attributes it to anonymous sources.

While no one may bat an eye in the UK, we Natives are well aware of Europe’s fetish with dressing up in gross, stereotypical and not at all authentic Indian costumes, and none of us are impressed. We think folks that do it in Europe are just as racist and gross at the people who do it in America.

Her boyfriend’s costume is racist. The racist part of Hillary’s costume is that she’s dressed up as a puritan/colonist, who were responsible for violence and oppression against Native peoples... So paired together, the whole shebang is quite goddamn racist.

Eh, that article was writen by Ed Klein, whose been leading a witch hunt against the Clinton’s since 2005. Not a huge Clinton fan (Bill or Hill) myself, but this dude has published 4 books in a decade all maligning the Clinton’s. When his books are fact-checked, most claims are found to be false. And most of his…

The makeup reminds me of traditional Maori face paint that I have seen. As Waititi is Maori, I can imagine he’s drawing inspiration from his culture and experience and bringing into his design for the movie.

Yes, you are right the Standing Rock reservation did not exist as it does today. In that time, it was the Great Sioux reservation.

Well, it’s not that the treaties were never recognized. They were by the government in 1851 and 1868. It’s just that when Native resistance began to be a thorn in the side in the 1870s (Custer & Little Bighorn in the Dakotas, organized Dine and Apache resistances in the SW), the American government decided to say…

“but if the pipeline location has been deemed legally available to them and not in violation of any tribe treaties, there’s not a lot that can be done.”

Treaties in 1851 and 1868 grant the land the pipeline is on to the Standing Rock Lakota. The American government has never honored this treaty, or really any other goddamn treaty, and forced the Standing Rock Lakota onto their current reservation after the Battle of Little Bighorn.

As an actual Indian, I have to watch this bullshit every time I turn on my goddamn TV.

“Native Americans have darker skin, appearing reddish.”