Dear Non-Indigenous people, White sage, Haka, spirit animals, tribal dances, etc. are not there for you to just take as your own just because you think it’s powerful looking. Indigenous cultures. languages and people are not a trend. - ThreadSky

realshannonbaker.bsky.social • 102 days ago

Dear Non-Indigenous people,

White sage, Haka, spirit animals, tribal dances, etc. are not there for you to just take as your own just because you think it’s powerful looking. Indigenous cultures. languages and people are not a trend.

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kellylynnedang.bsky.social•101 days ago

yesss you're here! :) adding you to my Native Pack!!!

thomboo.bsky.social•101 days ago

please include Ayahuasca, peyote and other sacred ceremonial substances in that bag too

and I'm NOT saying science shouldn't engage and learn from those ancient practices.

mangrovespite.bsky.social•101 days ago

Heck, I would even push to decolonize barbeques, hammocks and canoes just further put them in check. 😂

anarmandameg.bsky.social•101 days ago

I've smelled enough of my neighbor's bad barbecuing to endorse this

wanderwyrm.bsky.social•101 days ago

On a selfish note, It annoys me to no end that culturally we have this insane impulse to colonise other peoples’ traditions as though we don’t have our own. The idea of ‘whiteness’ has ruined our sense of heritage so much we need to leech off of everyone else to replace what we abandoned.

wanderwyrm.bsky.social•101 days ago

It’s like, I ain’t white, I’m Welsh-Scottish. I’ll admit I have very limited connection to my heritage but I identify a hell of a lot more with them than I do any occupied territory, derelict colonial empire, or arbitrary racial identity. This manufactured US Frankenculture is inherently parasitic

manticorn.bsky.social•101 days ago

This is the way.

umbraborealis.bsky.social•101 days ago

This is one of many reasons I volunteer in a fairtrade store. While not indigenous myself I get to learn so, so much and share that with customers. A lot of our stores have closed since webshops like temu sell cheap fakes which worries us cause we just want people to get paid for their art.

iwasborngood.bsky.social•101 days ago

did NOT know this about white sage! happy to have learned. 🙏🙇‍♀️

auntbenjy.bsky.social•101 days ago

Interesting perspective from a Māori academic
https://www.webworm.co/p/haka

celestialblue.bsky.social•101 days ago

As a practioner, I rarely ever use white sage or palo santo out of respect for its rarity and indigenous practices. I use my own that come from cultures that my heritages come from.

Plus there are spirits in our home we don't wish to harm or drive out, so other cleansing methods are used.

prefect.bsky.social•102 days ago

What's the ruling on hoodoo, juju, and mojo? (Serious question, which probably means I'm a dummy.)

catlance.bsky.social•101 days ago

Not for you

malloh.bsky.social•101 days ago

Hoodoo is a Black closed practice!
Source: me, I practice it

quillworkforbeads.bsky.social•101 days ago

LOUDER🗣📢

manticorn.bsky.social•101 days ago

And a lot of white sage is endangered and not every merchant sources them ethically.

You can get synthetic white sage scent made from eucalyptus which is a close relative.

And if you really want a spirit animal, try therianism, become a furry, or just... have a favorite animal. Sheesh.

humanstargazer.bsky.social•101 days ago

I think ppl have to realize that culture, as we see it, will disappear. Just like the Aztecs & Romans are gone, so will "our" culture. So share it, teach it, have it meld into others so its not forgotten. That's how our species survives, we merge & evolve. Teach respectful participation instead.

barrhavenist.bsky.social•101 days ago

Keep your ahistorical kumbaya nonsense to yourself

rockwalker.bsky.social•101 days ago

Jay Kay from Jamiroquai has been getting away with this for far too long. His net worth approx $20M

houseofhazz.bsky.social•101 days ago

Unless of course they're keen on everything else that comes with it.

tweetrinkets.bsky.social•100 days ago

Respectfully, there's no way anyone who doesn't have Indigenous heritage could earn the right to use the cultural practices that were robbed from us. They'll never have the same generational trauma and history. There is no "everything else that comes with it". (1/2)

tweetrinkets.bsky.social•100 days ago

Because modern, non Indigenous, Americans aren't going to be sent to Boarding schools or Reservations, and beaten or even murdered for speaking the language.

Colonizers tried to forcibly end these practices; steal them away. Their ancestors shouldn't get to use them after that.

agreenriver.bsky.social•101 days ago

💯

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