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I've been on a couple of calls this week during which other NDNs talk about colonization like it started in the 1800s, and get uncomfortable when I say they're erasing Eastern tribes.
Eastern voices are not inconvenient. Eastern nations are not less than just because our cultures, as coastal and woodland peoples, are not legible to folks out in the Plains and Southwest.
It is not our responsibility to make our Eastern ways legible to other NDNs. We do not have to justify that we survived an additional 200 years of genocide.
Tribes in the East do not have to shrink ourselves because yall don't have historical or cultural context for us.
and let's be honest a lot of this is rooted in anti-Blackness, as folks believe our tribes are all "mixed" up here. I can tell you as someone who is Black and Native that isn't as common as yall think.
**a lot of NDNs out West and in Canada are "mixed" with all manners of colonizer and settler: French, German, Scottish, the whole damn EU. That's fine. What's not fine is when folks deflect and talk about the East instead of confronting and reconciling their own history.
anyway, I think sometimes other NDNs are uncomfortable with Eastern tribes bc in a way, federal Indian policy is based on the assumption that we were all killed off here. In other words, there is an investment in our invisibility.
I don't like to get on here and talk crazy about Indian law, but let's keep it a stack 
Eastern people, keep speaking your truth. Keep reminding our relatives who don't know that we are still here.
