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We Can't 'Get Over It': 4 Ways Understanding Past Wrongs Can Create Better Indigenous Allies — Everyday Feminism

28.12.15

We Can't 'Get Over It': 4 Ways Understanding Past Wrongs Can Create Better Indigenous Allies — Everyday Feminism: The pressure to spend money I don’t have to buy crap my loved ones and I don’t need for the sake of “Merry Christmas and Nothing Else” isn’t my kind of party. I’m also not here for year-end benders, professional sports worship, and furniture sales honoring a POTUS birthday.

The glow of plastic happiness and ignorant observation of historically suspect people and occurrences contrast starkly with very real and very dark events in Native American (and United States) history — many of which happened during these cold months.

I described some of these horrors to my friend, explaining how the onslaught of toys and alcohol ads overwhelmingly clash with my need to grieve and process atrocities like those at Sand Creek, Wounded Knee, Mankato, and others.


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