izanzanwin:micdotcom:Watch: Jakobe’s story has a happy ending — but the issue goes way b
izanzanwin:micdotcom:Watch: Jakobe’s story has a happy ending — but the issue goes way beyond this one incident.And at a school named “arrow head”. This is what happens. These institutions appropriate Native identity while suppressing and assimilating Natives from that culture. This is why im so adamant about mascots and stereotypical tropes. When Natives are being denied access to their own culture but institutions are appropriating it, that is an assertion of conquest, its about maintaining settler colonial hegemony. Its about Native people being supplanted for Colonial narratives/ identity. Its gotten to the point that everyday im seeing a story about Native children being suspended, for practicing their culture. Or they are reprimanded for refusing to participate in racist school activities or for speaking up about racist curriculum that erases them. Genocide and forced assimilation continues. -- source link