I’m just going to assume everyone is a pretendian from this day onward.
You’re all just pretendians
Just plum pretendianing
Bunch of indiain’ts
Nothing but Native American’ts
You say you are but you Indige-not
Not to be confused with indige-knot

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Racialism is a result of colonization. Dismantling racism is paramount to a good life, but dismantling racialism (the belief that race is a real thing) seems to be something most do not want to do.
It’s justified to demand white people to dismantle white supremacy but it’s plum houngie if continue to center race when talking about indigeneity.
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Today is the anniversary of The Bakers Massacre and here on the Blackfeet Rez we have an open discussion of the trauma colonial violence left us with. However, it isn’t just us who suffers this trauma... white america suffer from this trauma, too... albeit in a different way
It is unhealthy the way america glorifies violence and sings songs of being ‘land of the free’ without taking any time to examine the negative toll that comes with raping and murdering an entire continent
This young soldiers who were directed to stomp on infants in order to save bullets did not come out of these massacres unscathed. They went home with anxiety and PTSD. Many, I’d wager, went home and beat their kids and wives and created a cycle of violence
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Instead of a pretendian list I’m going to make a list of ndns who act white. Lol jks. No need to worry
If I did that I’d have to add my name to it lol
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English language is a transaction language. It’s a trade language and no longer has a land to call it own. It’s a drifter language. Don’t get me wrong, there are beautiful expressions and adjectives and adverbs... but most English verbs are dull and bland and lack description
English places emphases on nouns that many other languages don’t. My mentor, who created the best writing system for our language (Blackfoot) creates his own literacy rules as well. He doesn’t capitalize anything... If you don’t understand the significance of this move then ookss
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Why I think Rez dogs are important
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Piikuni (Blackfeet) have always had a good relationship with the mutt.
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