No! No! No! No! Stop it! I’ve written tweets about outside non-Native media, writers and whatever emailing me wanting information, sources, and basically free range access of all the knowledge and connections I’ve acquired over a decade for free!

My knowledge isn’t free! It can’t be bought. It doesn’t mean I won’t help, but I will choose who I will help and this lady isn’t someone I’m jumping to assist.
This is a detailed order of what she expects me to help her with, and no mention of compensation.
I’ve written and

griped about this before! We need to protect our culture, traditions, language from those who only want to use it for their own selfish gain!

It’s not an honor for strangers to waltz onto Navajo making demands like this, and expecting it to be met!!

It’s not an honor for non-Navajos to write about our traditional stories, culture, language. We need to stop being so accommodating.

We can write about what belongs to us, and we can do it better because we are Diné.

This email was just insulting and gross!