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'๐๐ธ๐พ ๐ท๐ญ ๐ฒ, ๐๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ป๐ฎ๐ผ๐ผ, ๐ฏ๐ต๐ธ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ผ, ๐ท๐ญ ๐ช ๐ผ๐พ๐ฒ๐ฝ ๐ท๐ญ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฎ'
แฅซแญก. ๐ถ๐ฒ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ~ ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฎ/๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ป ~ ๐ท๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ท๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ท แฅซแญก.
~ hii.! welcome 2 my page.! my name is nayati, but yal can call me yati, nana, tii, or any respectful nicknames. i'm native american nd black.!
~ i like monotone colours and pink, hello kitty, anime, r&b music, drawing, dancing, and reading, I'm currently in medical school, so post won't be often, i'll still be interacting.!
~ thx 4 visitin my pagee.
๐๐ธ๐๐ธ, ๐๐ช๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ช๐ป๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฎ. แฅซแญก.
pretty latina native baby ๐ฐ
Anyone got these two?
At work.
Reblog for a surprise ๐ซถ๐ผ
anyone have kl chino
There are some VERY interesting dynamics in mixed whitewashed Native culture and Iโm here to be pissy about them.
To start, Iโm a mixed Sicilian/Tsalagi person. โOh but what or who is a Tsalagiโ great question! Cherokee folks.
With that in mind, letโs continue!
I think it very interesting how society treats native folks. My grandpops moved from the Rez when he was like two. He never knew his culture, because his parents didnโt want him to. They wanted him to be a tan white guy. Because that assimilation into the white culture of the 50โs and 60โs was a good choice in their eyes. So he didnโt get stories, he didnโt get tattoos, he didnโt get to go to powwows or hang around with the cousins and their dogs. He was in rural Oklahoma. So how does that relate to me?
I didnโt know Iโm Native American. I didnโt know I was anything until one day my grandpops told me that his parents didnโt move him off the reservation so I could go around acting a damn fool. I didnโt know that there was people to connect with, stories to tell. I didnโt even know what Tsalagi meant. I didnโt know what the nut porridge we ate in winter was called. Iโve learned more from my school experience than my home experience on what it means to be native. Iโve learned more from the perspective of trying to be a โwhiteโ ally than anything else.
So give people grace. If grandma was a Cherokee princess, whatever. Yeah, donโt gotta listen to them. But if grandma was adopted out to a white family, leave them alone. So what if they call themselves Cherokee? So fucking what if they have no clue what the language is or what the stories are or what the food is or the culture or what the fuck a ribbon skirt is. Leave them alone. Better yet, educate them. (Not you white people, Iโm talking about actual native people here) Tell them your stories! Tell them the traditions! Show them the food and the regalia and everything else they missed in their familyโs choice to assimilate. Show them our culture.
There will be a part two to this about Sicilian culture and how it translates to being American where you arenโt dirty or โcoloredโ (direct translated quote) youโre just fucking white and get over yourself (thatโs the view on Sicilians not the view I hold as a Sicilian)