by Rachel Carey-Harper | Dec 30, 2020 | Resistance
As explorers sought to colonize their land, Native Americans responded in various stages, from cooperation to indignation to revolt.
Below are events that shaped Native Americans’ tumultuous history following the arrival of foreign settlers.
by Rachel Carey-Harper | Dec 24, 2020 | Resistance
If indigenous history is covered, at all students are likely to hear a tragic but vague narrative of massacre, disease, and death, a narrative devoid of the specific political and tribal context that is vital to understanding the colonial and imperial relationship between Native communities and the U.S. This renders indigenous bodies invisible.
by Rachel Carey-Harper | Nov 20, 2020 | Appropriation
Red Men’s Society The Improved Order of Red Men is an organization of white people whose rituals and regalia are modeled after those assumed by white men to be Native American. Despite the name, the order was formed solely by, and for, white people....
by Rachel Carey-Harper | Nov 20, 2020 | Appropriation
Taking From the World Tree: Mythology and Cultural Appropriation Defining the boundaries of cultural appropriation is a difficult matter…. by Rajan Khanna | August 28, 2012 The full article on the LitReactor website is here… Excerpt from the article… Cultural...
by Rachel Carey-Harper | Nov 20, 2020 | Appropriation
Why I’m Not a Shaman, and Neither Are You Seven Questions for Would-Be Shamans by Jai Medina The full article on the Two-Spirit Shamanic Healing website is here… Excerpt from the article… Because there are increasing amounts of folks interested in learning to do...
by Rachel Carey-Harper | Nov 20, 2020 | Appropriation
What Exactly Is Cultural Appropriation? Cultural appropriation is more than the continuation of the colonializing process and racist behavior. It not only is a part of white supremacy but reinvents it. The attitude of “What is mine is mine and what is yours is...
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