Post #3541413
2026-07-02 20:01 UTC
lol. I’m there with you, maybe the opposite. My grandfather was like less than 25% Cherokee (like everybody else in USA) and with all the art my grandma made and collected and all of my aunts and uncles and dads interests they act like they’re fucking native while I doubt any of them have ever even stepped foot on a reservation. White ppl smh
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@eldavi@lemmy.ml 2026-07-06 15:38
… I doubt any of them have ever even stepped foot on a reservation. White ppl smh over 85% of native americans in the united states don’t spend any time on reservations (over 60% in canada) and it is a very white people expectation that they do. in most of the rest of the americas; the distinction between native americans and anyone is too fine to distinguish socially so they don’t bother for reasons other than socioeconomic indicators like americans and canadians do for other brown people. my dna puts me at a solidly 2/3rds native american, but that doesn’t qualify me under the american or canadian systems; familial relationships are the only things that matter to them.