#like. i guess its the 'only exposed to nstive stuff in history class and activism posts abt ongoing colonization | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

bucephaly · 7 months ago

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"Here's a cute video of a cherokee baby speaking cherokee, yay language!"

Randos on tumblr: "sucks that my ancestors killed so many of yall and nearly wiped out the language :/" "I want to see more celebration instead of colonization and murder, which is why I'm currently bringing up colonization and murder on a celebration post" "hate to see that the language is dying and is continuing to die and is being killed :/"

Like yall it's a cute baby. You can be happy and celebrate without going settler guilt in my activity

#like there are places to talk about the ramifications of colonization and continued colonization #but it gets tiring having it brought up constantly under a happy video of a cute baby speaking her language #you can also reblog it without announcing 'IM NOT NATIVE!!' lol #like. i guess its the 'only exposed to nstive stuff in history class and activism posts abt ongoing colonization #but never engages with actual regular native communities and celebrations of culture and language learning' type stuff ? idk

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