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Sigh. What’s awful about the Latimer situation is that her arrogance causes tradish &/or enrolled Natives to scream for blood (understandably)-erasing those disconnected, or lineal descendants (who can’t enroll b/c of BQ) & those who are Black or Brown, and/or whose parents...
Or grandparents are Black &/or Brown, & aren’t enrolled b/c of the effects of colonization. It makes it so much harder for all of us, within all of those spectrums, to just do our art because most of us are already fearful that we’re doing it wrong.
& maybe that’s the thing to look at: a. The art. I’ve been called naive for saying this, but if the art doesn’t illustrate a complicated version of what’s Indigenous, I don’t feel great about that being out in the world anyway-& I think you can tell. B....
If someone is worried about doing it right. I’m always worried about this because I think that native artists need to have freedom to really go to the imaginative lengths that we deserve to go to. But we should at least show that we’ve been in discussion...
That even if our communities don’t look like people expect them to look, because sometimes they’re very urban and that’s what connects some, That there’s been a discussion with peers.
1 more thing: There are people who are enrolled who are extremely disconnected. To be clear!!! I believe in legitimate reconnection. But there are Black &/or Brown ppl who will never be enrolled b/c of colonization, whose communities are not being talked about, who are connected.
