If you want to read a book by someone who REALLY represents an indigenous person’s perspective on life, I highly recommend “For Joshua: An Ojibwe father teaches his son” by Richard Wagamese.
my theory
success on the internet is a skill, eg writing threads is not the same as writing an old fashioned essay and in the last 20 years many of the dominant voices have vanished because they lack this skill, even tho they were superb at longer form writing
I always found that account a little sus. It was never teaching anything about Native Americans. It was always just asking for accolades after it claimed somebody said something mean.
I was just reading that. I used to be a genealogist and finder of lost living relatives, so I did a quick scan and found there was a Melvin Martin enrolled at Pine Ridge who was 3/4 Native American. If that is his father, he is definitely Native American. No idea about the rest of the claims.
My Great Grandmother was full Sioux - I have a bunch of MAGA in my family. I thought about going to Thanksgiving and telling them I’m the only one sitting at the table that has the actual rights of this land but I support immigration. 😊💙
My hometown is called Wetumpka, which is a Muscogee Creek name that means “rumbling waters”. (It’s on a river.) It has a population of ~ 7000 people. The local high school mascot is… The Wetumpka Indian. https://www.gowhs.com/#
Wetumpka’s white population is super conservative, very MAGA, especially the older people are. So when the paper posted the op-ed to Facebook a bunch of people my parent’s age lit into Abigail, demanding that she be fired. (These are people who claim to love free speech, of course.)
But even more predictably, there were a ton of white people claiming to have “Indian blood”. This is not unusual in the Deep South. A lot of white people were told growing up that they partly descended from Native Americans. (Which is why when Warren thought she was, I think she was being sincere.)
one of the criticisms I saw (along with the insults, etc) is that she doesn’t mention the opinions of any Natives from the Wetumpka area, but with a reaction like that, who would want to go on the record opposing the mascot?
You might be interested in this new podcast episode, which further complicates the problems with publicly investigating whether or not a person is a pretendian.
Unfortunately, a write up like this could be done on half the members that travel in that SM group of influencers.
But doing so is never received well by their large and adamant fan base.
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never understood why long threads like th is don't also appear as a blog post
surely there is software that lets you go from one format to the other easily ?
success on the internet is a skill, eg writing threads is not the same as writing an old fashioned essay and in the last 20 years many of the dominant voices have vanished because they lack this skill, even tho they were superb at longer form writing
Seems to me that someone steeped in Lakota culture should be able to easily distinguish between the two.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianCountry/comments/101nv8w/lakotaman1_on_twitter_uses_pine_ridges_winter/?rdt=45927
https://open.spotify.com/episode/04bpEMl7XV68yYqFpAe4qm?si=5UWrzfdZRa-vULmJtkSPyQ
But doing so is never received well by their large and adamant fan base.