if you are not indigenous and you are writing or playing as an indigenous character, i implore you to be really, really careful about the tropes you write with your characters that would seem innocuous on other peoples; i.e., the dead wife and daughter trope, especially if either were murdered.
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https://www.nativehope.org/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-mmiw
https://apihtawikosisan.com/2012/10/the-stereotype-of-the-drunken-indian/
I have some ideas about it as a matter of forensic psychology, namely what the United States has been doing to indigenous cultures.
do you have a way of recommendation on what resources (besides just searching) would help w this info? bc its also a matter of—
ty again tho dani for bringing these issues to light, i am glad to learn these things!
it didnt even register as a trope, but that makes total sense!!
ty! :) op also gave me some ways to help learn more, i appreciate it!!
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Where ?