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Hey--If you're non-Indigenous and follow this artist, don't. Reconsider. So many Indigenous artists struggle with their art and trying to support themselves, then we have to see artists like this (who are non-Indigenous) using our culture as a "cool aesthetic" become well-known. 
I just think about my thread about how Indigenous people are represented/drawn within Japanese media and the answer is that, with a combination of lack of knowledge and respect, easy access to our visual culture, and disregard to our struggles, artists like this can easily garner
a large following by other non-Indigenous people who find it OKAY for art like this to be made. Its really not. This art evokes old stereotypes about us within western media. Making your Indigenous characters' skin distinctly red is reminiscent of racist depictions.
There is modern-day Jim Crow in Indian Territory against Black descendants of slaves owned by Native masters. @RepDebHaaland has supported policies that will allow these policies to continue.
“We are being discriminated against by our own Nation because we are Black.”
“We are being discriminated against by our own Nation because we are Black.”
“Not because we’re Indians, but because we are Black, we have Black blood. We are counted every year for the money that they get for ALL the government programs and they vote us out every year of those programs.”
“Investigate our nation for the problem that they’re having right now with the Blackness of our skin and the crook in our hair. We ARE Seminoles and we will always be Seminoles. We were born Seminoles. We will die Seminoles and we stand with Seminole Nation.”
