Yes, my wife has had so many people go oh yeah my great grandma was Cherokee( she jokes that the Cherokee must have really gotten around because every third person who does this is Cherokee- and we don’t live near Oklahoma ) and while she is nice to them it’s just- ugh.

There was a great segment on the CBC not that long ago about (lets face it, white) people taking DNA tests and then suddenly identifying as partially non-white/”ethnic”/nonsense. Like, “I thought I was white but I am of Icelandic and Aboriginal and Persian decent.” It was pretty hilarious.

Debbie Reese would be a great person to interview for this discussion: https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com

Needs a reboot or adaptation.

I loved Animorphs and it feels like such an unsung brand. Boo.

Osiyo, u-lv!

Saying “water is life” only makes a difference when the entity to whom you are saying it cares whether or not you live; it has no effect on people who regard your being alive as an impediment to their pleasures or profits.

I feel this so much as a Menominee woman. In my family, we went from just my grandmother being the only one to finish high school to all of her daughters having college degrees. The majority of my generation has been lucky enough to go to college. Still it’s not enough.

This is one of my fave shirts that I own, this story just makes me more proud to wear it

Crash taught young me never to trust white people’s recommendations on movies about race.

How did they do against Washington?

Well that hoe can go to jail too.

I can’t wait untill I hear that he exhusted his appeals.

And the Wednesday Addams monologue is part of a great song by A Tribe Called Red so...

Yes, it is well known in Indian country that Trump has financial ties with these assholes. Why anyone would do business w/ Trump is a mystery though - he drives numerous business to bankruptcy, while bleeding off just enough $ for himself so he walks away relatively untouched.

I guess this makes me a racist, right?

The Republicans don’t have anywhere near the amount of national surrogates to do something like this on Trump’s behalf. Hell, Dubya still can’t show his face in a room with more than a few dozen people without attracting massive amounts of negative attention.

Thanks for this response. I never understand the “We’ve got more important things to worry about” line of thinking. That’s like saying you can’t worry about the cable bill because you’re focused on the gas bill.

Isn’t this precisely why people dismissed your original comment? You quickly came forward as one individual Native American, and you flatly said the names are OK. One voice out of millions doesn’t mean a whole lot. If, however, you could come here to say, “I spoke with my whole family / neighborhood / class, and 80%…