I’ll never get over the fact that for centuries. CENTURIES. Colonizers thought and convinced the world that Indigenous Peoples were uncivilized and unintelligent.
And now, they expect us to save the world.
And now, they expect us to save the world.
A lot of knowledge and ceremonies were explicitly banned until a few decades ago.
Many practitioners literally had to survive imprisonment and death to salvage what we know.
And a lot of y’all just expect us to freely share this knowledge?
Many practitioners literally had to survive imprisonment and death to salvage what we know.
And a lot of y’all just expect us to freely share this knowledge?
No.
The internet may be free, but our time and livelihoods are not.
Return the land that your colonizing ancestors stole.
The internet may be free, but our time and livelihoods are not.
Return the land that your colonizing ancestors stole.
For some context in, what is now known as, the US, google the American Indian Freedom Religious Act (1978).
