#doesn't express indigenous identity enough to me even tho they're named fucking Peltier]

[voluptuarian]

As landback efforts here become more successful I can't help but wonder how long it will take for indigenous reclamation to be described as the predations of settler colonists

#"They don't even look/sound/act Indian!! [they're not tobacco store Indian or tintype photos] #[they look too white/hispanic/black/clean/well off etc they dont live by the old ways that europeans made inpossible to continue] #“They don't even have Indian last names!” [The surname tradition adopted from/imposed by Europeans with a variety of sources and styles #doesn't express indigenous identity enough to me even tho they're named fucking Peltier] #“a nice local family used to own this land [generations old white or black owned business on the site of an indigenous property] until it w #taken by strangers [the original owners who were forced off] with no connection to here from Oklahoma [the reservation they were removed to #and half of them died on route to.] #like will it be 50 years? 100? Am I going to have to live through it? #we're already getting criticism for tribes getting land back and having the audacity to use it and not just turn into nature reserves #they've already turned one genocided minority into race fakers and colonialists why not natives next??