Stupid hat? Check.

Damn, you weren’t kidding

Do you take issue with the wording or the sentiment? You’re basically saying #Notallfolks. As long as some people are directly or indirectly contributing to the injury of Native American people and the destruction of land for financial gain, then the sentence is true. You protesting that you are not one of the…

Ummm, yes it.

thank you for the support and encouragement <3

That’s fine. All the destroying is being done in your name, citizen of the USA. You don’t have to be there to be partially responsible :)

Pretty sure “white identity politics” just won the White House.

Is paying attention to marginalized people interfering with your economic anxiety? Sad!

Of course it’s not new. But in a way this is a perfect example of crisis=opportunity. People are finally paying attention to Native American activism and the issues that underpin it. I want to believe that attention will extend beyond this brief historical moment/issue.

oh, Barke Jurgensen. never change. (not that you could, because change requires self awareness, reflection, and a willingness to truly and honestly examine one’s behaviors, viewpoints, and privileges. which you obviously don’t have the patience or self awareness to do.)

I’m getting a little frustrated with people asking this question in a “devil’s advocate” way when there is information available on the subject. Here, for example, is an excellent piece by an archaeologist that explains why the survey the Army Corps relied on to document historic and cultural sites was flawed and…

To me, there’s at least one potential answer - social media. The mainstream media quite simply hasn’t, and doesn’t, really give a shit about Native American issues. Never has.

Pretty unfair of you to ask him to think. It’s Thanksgiving. Not Thinksgiving.

Are you fucking kidding me? First of all, consider whether or not that seems like an accurate and complete account of what happened, and who might have the money and motivation to buy YouTube ads discrediting the tribe. Then do some fucking research, and don’t carelessly repeat something like that.

are people not allowed to be angry and irritated by the subject matter in the quotes that Hachi highlighted?? that gif looks appropriately salty in correlation to how shitty the quotes are, and how shitty the realities behind the quotes are.

I love it when privileged people deign to preach unto me from on high.

You are interpreting it wrong.

They’ve been fighting this from the beginning, and protests began when it became clear that the Corps was just steamrolling the Standing Rock Sioux through the permitting process: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/09/dakota-access-pipeline-protest-timeline-sioux-standing-rock-jill-stein

Okay, let me say before I say anything else that I speak solely for my own half-Native self and nobody else. And this is just how I feel, personally.

Translation: I’m white, so I’m not getting called racial slurs in the streets, having swastiskas painted on my car, having my hijab pulled off, or being told to sit in the back of the bus now because Trump won.*