… I doubt any of them have ever even stepped foot on a reservation. White ppl smh
over 85% of native americans in the united states don’t spend any time on reservations (over 60% in canada) and it is a very white people expectation that they do.
in most of the rest of the americas; the distinction between native americans and anyone is too fine to distinguish socially so they don’t bother for reasons other than socioeconomic indicators like americans and canadians do for other brown people.
my dna puts me at a solidly 2/3rds native american, but that doesn’t qualify me under the american or canadian systems; familial relationships are the only things that matter to them; and i think it says something about their perspective that they would rather keep 85% of their own people out in the cold rather than give them access to tribal benefits.
I didn’t mean to imply anything about natives I just meant the people I know that literally grew up on a reservation where they were born, (they had no choice) some of them white people themselves, that have a very different life when contrasted to the lives my family had which is specifically very, very disconnected from Native American heritage and is actually directly in line with colonial racist history to where I even wonder if there’s any evidence my family even is native at all or if my racist ass white grandpa just said that he was because he thought it was cooler than being polish-german-whatever else. It sounds crazy but it’s literally more probable than him having any tribal in him at all, and it’s the same case for a lot of Americans
im endlessly fascinated by the social phenomenon where people claim heritages that they don’t have. our families seem to be the opposites in this regard due to my family insisting that they’re whitest of europeans even both dna and mirrors making it crystal clear that they’re not. lol
over 85% of native americans in the united states don’t spend any time on reservations (over 60% in canada) and it is a very white people expectation that they do.
in most of the rest of the americas; the distinction between native americans and anyone is too fine to distinguish socially so they don’t bother for reasons other than socioeconomic indicators like americans and canadians do for other brown people.
my dna puts me at a solidly 2/3rds native american, but that doesn’t qualify me under the american or canadian systems; familial relationships are the only things that matter to them; and i think it says something about their perspective that they would rather keep 85% of their own people out in the cold rather than give them access to tribal benefits.
I didn’t mean to imply anything about natives I just meant the people I know that literally grew up on a reservation where they were born, (they had no choice) some of them white people themselves, that have a very different life when contrasted to the lives my family had which is specifically very, very disconnected from Native American heritage and is actually directly in line with colonial racist history to where I even wonder if there’s any evidence my family even is native at all or if my racist ass white grandpa just said that he was because he thought it was cooler than being polish-german-whatever else. It sounds crazy but it’s literally more probable than him having any tribal in him at all, and it’s the same case for a lot of Americans
thanks for clearing that up.
im endlessly fascinated by the social phenomenon where people claim heritages that they don’t have. our families seem to be the opposites in this regard due to my family insisting that they’re whitest of europeans even both dna and mirrors making it crystal clear that they’re not. lol