Every Native woman has been compared to Pocahontas - a 12yo child sex trafficking victim who was sold to white men in Britain to keep her people in line.
What do you think it does to Indigenous women to be constantly compared to this real girl Disney turned into a "princess"?
What do you think it does to a country to massively rewrite history in this way? To pretend that any 12yo could have the capacity to not only consent to rape, but to consent to being a pawn in a political game solely meant to keep her powerful people from stopping US expansion?
This country has many sins to account for.
The use, abuse and misuse of "Pocahontas" - whose real name was Matoaka - is only one. And yet it's one that this country seems consistently unable to even look at, let alone reckon with.
Native women know what it does. That history lives in our bodies, in our breath, in our blood. It lives in the faces of our sisters, cousins, nieces, aunties. It lives in the fear that at any moment we may lose those closest to us - and no one will do anything to stop it. Ever.
We have begged countries to stop killing us, raping us, abusing us, misusing us, manipulating us, controlling us.
All we've gotten are thousands of unimplemented policies, multiple "task forces" that have no real power, and systemic, unequivocal denial of our pain. #MMIWG2
So yeah. Make another joke about Pocahontas, you absolutely heartless pieces of shit. Your ancestors wouldn't have even survived on this land if it wasn't for us. Which means you wouldn't be here. We know the score. And we will not let you kill our sisters any longer. We can't.
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