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1) #NativeTwitter As someone who is Native and close to being done with a PhD in history, can we have a conversation about the damage historians have done to Native communities? #HATM #twitterstorians
2) As Noenoe Silva points out in Aloha Betrayed, it’s possible to get a PhD focusing on Native history without interacting with ACTUAL Native people.
3) My first day in the program, a fellow student studying Native history told me he was excited to meet me because I was the first actual Native he met. It never occurred to him that maybe he should interact with the actual people he was studying.
4) This isn’t a call for people to go gawk at Native people but rather to challenge a system that studies Natives from afar without ever giving back to or visiting Native communities. No one asked you to write about us or use your white washed histories to get you tenure.
5) History, especially white washed history, is complicit, in upholding colonialism. If you’re going to write Native history then write about the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism. Acknowledge your settler privilege. And most importantly, never talk over Native people.
6) This conversation extends beyond historians, especially fields like anthropology, to basically all academic fields. So #NativeTwitter let’s hear your stories.
