danceswithfaeriesunderthemoon:

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mymothertongue:

Yes, yes, yes to the message, but…

how can you be sure the the person pictured isn’t Native? I hesitate. Braids, one feather, and one pink line of paint isn’t exactly “obvious” appropriation to me. I’d love to find the image source!

TW- MISCARRIAGE, SEXUAL ABUSE, EFFECTS OF SEXUAL ABUSE

 WHETHER SHE IS OR ISN’T NATIVE IS FUCKING IRRELEVANT.

WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK WHEN THEY SEE THIS? WHY IS IT TAGGED ‘NATIVE’?

BECAUSE COLONIALISM TAUGHT WHITE PEOPLE (AND NATIVE PEOPLE ALIKE) THAT UNLIKE THEIR TRADITIONAL DICHOTOMY, NATIVE WOMEN WERE TRASH: EASY, DISPOSABLE, GOOD-FOR-NOTHING… BECAUSE THAT’S HOW THE EUROCHRISTIAN MENTALITY FUNCTIONS. WOMEN ARE USELESS TO THEM, AND SINCE THEY CAME HERE AND NOTICED THAT WOMEN HELD POSITIONS OF POWER AMONG ABORIGINAL CULTURES, THAT THEY WERE WELL-RESPECTED AND WERE VIEWED AS AUTHORITY FIGURES, IT WAS NECESSARY TO CREATE A STEREOTYPE TO STOP THIS FROM CONTINUING, AND TO EASE THE PROCESS OF ASSIMILATION. HENCE, THE ‘SQUAW’, THE SEXUALIZED, WANTON, USELESS NATIVE WOMAN, BECAME THE IMAGE OF ALL NATIVE WOMEN. THAT’S WHERE THIS COMES FROM, THAT’S WHERE ENDEMIC SEXUAL VIOLENCE TOWARDS NATIVE WOMEN COMES FROM, IN FACT IF YOU GO TAKE A LOOK DEEPLY AT ANY ABORIGINAL RELATED TAGS ON HERE, I PROMISE YOU’LL FIND MANY SCANTILY CLAD NON-NATIVES WITH FEATHERS AND BUCKSKINS, AND SOME EVEN HAVE THE CAPTION ‘SQUAW’ UNDERNEATH THEM.

SO TO RECAP: IT DOESN’T MATTER IF THE GIRL IN THE PHOTO IS NATIVE OR NOT- SHE IS PERPETUATING A DESTRUCTIVE STEREOTYPE.

AND IF NONE OF THE OTHER IDIOTS WHO CLAIM TO ‘NOT CARE’ AND NEED TO TELL US ABORIGINAL WOMEN ON HERE, WHO HAVE PREVIOUSLY BEEN OR HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS (MY MOTHER, FOR EXAMPLE, WHO WAS SO BADLY DAMAGED BY THE ABUSE SHE SUSTAINED THAT SHE HAS HAD 8 MISCARRIAGES IN HER LIFE AND NEARLY DIED GIVING BIRTH TO MY BROTHER) WHO HAVE BEEN ABUSED THAT WE NEED TO ‘SHUT THE FUCK UP AND STOP BEING A LITTLE BITCH, STOP CARING, YOU DON’T MATTER, NONE OF YOU MATTER’ http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2011001/article/11439-eng.htm

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