A strong, beautiful, young, Indian lady, dances to honor her people, her ancestors in the spirit world, and perhaps according to her (as is the case for most Indian people), for her creator as well, as highlighted in the thumbnail.
These are my people. My Kin. My family. My Nation. The colonial boarders of the colonial US and colonial Canada, currently disrespectfully and oppressively, divides the Wabanaki Nations today. You are not viewing "Canadians" You are viewing people who pre-date colonial Canada by thousands of years. You are viewing Wabanaki people. People of the first light, and you shall recognize these people as distinct people, not people who are part of colonialism.
The people you see are not playing "dress up". They are wearing their regalia; sacred ceremonial dress. Our songs and dance are to celebrate our people, our sovereignty, our nationhood's, and to honor our ancestors in the spirit world who watch over us, guide us, provide us strength, and encourage us to walk in a good way and to respect, care for, and honor mother earth and to many who also believe to honor their creator. Settlers shall understand, these things are not simply entertainment, but our dance and songs are used for methods of worship, prayer, ceremony. Just as it would be wrong for non-Christians like myself to mock holy scripture, by making up silly lyrics in their place, make silly hand gestures, etc. to undermine Christianity, so too is it wrong of Christians to mock Indian worship and shamanship with racist acts such as red face, wearing war bonnets and doing the "tomahawk chop" as it implies that how the Indian worships is not real, while emulating a spirit man named Jesus is; The supremacist, corrupt mindset that lead to colonialism and Genocide.
These things are never to be emulated by settlers, for any reason whatsoever. Settlers emulating our sacred spiritual clothing and dance, dishonor us living people and dishonor our ancestors who have moved beyond this world. They never honor us in doing so, under any circumstances. This includes settlers with Indian heritage, which also means settler groups playing Indian with the fraudulent support by colonial governors of state colonies, who are not federally recognized Indian Nations. Who says so? We do. Our Indian governments. We set our own laws, for we are sovereign people. Laws that pre-date colonial laws by thousands of years. Laws which no colonial nation holds any authority to overrule. The Catholic churches "discovery" doctrine currently being used to do so, which is current International law, shall be considered racist, fraudulent, null and void by us all. We should all be appalled by it's very existence and current use by colonial so called "supreme" courts worldwide. A shame not only by the Catholic church but should be considered a failure of humanity itself. Our ancestors who live in the spirit world demand it to be just as the one whom Christians call Jesus would. This shall be enough for you to honor our demand.
We are not the settlers mascots, nor settlers Halloween costumes. You shall not measure yourself and deem yourself as Indian, by measuring your blood, as Indians are neither dogs, nor horses.We are citizens of nations that pre-date settler colonialism and Europeans hold no power to "breed us out" like dogs. Real Indians never self claim. We are always claimed by a federally recognized, inherent sovereign Indian Nation. If you see your friend playing Indian, please inform them that it's racist, shameful, harmful (particularly so for our ladies) cultural appropriation, Anti-Indian, socially unacceptable and deserves nothing shy of social condemnation in the colonies of Canada, the USA and worldwide. Thank you allies and relatives.
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