1/11 It is important to note that with the Queen’s recommendations, there is NO insistence on “card’s only” in #indigenous verification processes. In fact there is an acknowledgment that institutions need to develop processes that DO NOT rely on what some refer to as “colonial”…
2/11..And/or “race-based” cards. So why are some folks suggesting that there is? Perhaps they are more put out that the report suggests that it isn’t ethnical to go back to “native ancestors” born centuries ago and that a person taking up an #indigenous position should at…
3/11..Least have a grandparent who lived as an Indigenous person? But what I don’t get is the rhetoric that is supporting the notion that Indian status/status card = colonized = bad. Let’s pause for just a second and consider that Indian status…
4/11…Is indeed an imposed mechanism based on blood quantum hence why many (not all) #indigenous ppl in this country who have #indian status cards are visible/racialized individuals. And let’s consider how many of these individuals rely on these cards…
5/11…To make ends meet (exercising tax exemptions on goods) as they are on fixed incomes and how they also rely on these cards to access basics health care and medications they need to survive as they don’t have extended health benefits (I could go on). Imagine if…
6/11…The folks so offended by “status cards” or the idea that it isn’t ethical to claim indigeneity based on an archival relationship with one person that didn’t live within one hundred years of you put the same energy into anti-racist, equity-related, intersectional…
7/11…Practices as it relates to #indigenous hiring into very privileged jobs like #professorships? Does your indigenous employee complement adequately include visible/racialized native people from Turtle Island? & yeah, they likely have cards..or More than cis-gendered folks…
8/11…etc. pls Be mindful of how inappropriate it is to say things like “being Indigenous is not about race”. There are millions of native people across Turtle island who can walk into rooms and speak volumes as an #indigenous person without even opening their mouth…
9/11…And learn/work in settler institutions where they don’t see themselves reflected back at them. Ppl who have lost their relatives to anti-indigenous racialized violence. But if we must, let’s spend more energy on vilifying cards, justifying far-stretched claims…
10/11..To #indigeneity based on root ancestors than anti-racist, intersectional, equity measures…we don’t call it the ivory tower for nothing, do we. But again, there is no indication in this report that institutions need to rely on “cards”…
11/11..The report emphasizes connection to living communities and the importance of demonstrating a credible link (not just thru cards) to a living community that extends from a specific nation (eg Cree, Ojibwe, Dakota, etc.) #academictwitter #nativetwitter #AcademicChatter
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