Lum-🐝 | He/Him/His | #MMIW | I talk about Native things on TikTok
Washington, DC
Joined February 2019
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Non-Natives portraying Indigenous* characters in media since I had trouble finding a record of it, a thread🧵:
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they completely stripped all of his cultural jewelry for fish scales & waves ?! how do you manage to colonize a fictional indigenous character 😭
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Ok let’s do this! Every Pocahontas played by a Western / non-Native American / White actress. Let’s go! Thread time!
1) Pocahontas: The Legend (1995), played by British actress of French and Chinese heritage, Sandrine Holt
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After bombing a school and massacring young girls, the war criminal in the White House is threatening genocide.
It's time to invoke the 25th Amendment. This maniac should be removed from office.
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What the f*ck is wrong with these people. Wounded Knee was a bloodthirsty massacre of Lakota Sioux, including dozens of women and children
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Alligator Alcatraz is built on land that Natives use for ceremonies. Sacred sites are around it on 3 sides. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/all…
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What’s missing from a lot of the discourse I’m seeing is that Jonathan is Native American. He’s Comanche & Apache. His husband is Latino (unsure if he is also Amerindian).
This is not just a homophobic attack but a racist one as well, against an indigenous man.
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All these reality game shows casting former reality stars nowadays and I'm still waiting on these two icons to return to TV
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BREAKING: The Trump administration just issued an executive order that redefines 18-year-olds as children in order to block their access to transition care by threatening to completely defund hospitals that provide it.
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Trump calls into question U.S. citizenship for Native people. Justice attorneys argue because Indians “owe immediate allegiance to their tribes, they are not ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the U.S. and are not constitutionally entitled to Citizenship.”
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Hard to put into words just how disheartening it is seeing a fellow Native like Peltola vote against Lumbee federal recognition.
What Indigenous leaders do matters, and this vote only validates false claims that the Lumbees aren’t “real” Natives. Incredibly disappointing.
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Vile thing about western “democracy” that indigenous people are expected to sit quietly in the name of decorum as their rights are stripped away.
All power to Te Pāti Māori. Mana Motuhake.
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While many are talking about losing hope or moving to other countries, Native people have survived under U.S. government leaders that wanted us dead since the very beginning. This is still Native land, and will always be Native land. We never had the luxury to stop fighting.
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"But then you what happens? People forget. They don't remember. They don't care"
