#however keep in mind that giving all your native muses typically european features isnt okay either yo

[ladyimaginarium]

tbh this should go without saying but just a casual reminder that native people, like any minority, do not all look and think the same, and they are certainly not a monolith.

Natives can have any skin color, whether that’s white passing, light skinned, tan skin, brown skin and dark skin, and that doesn’t make them any less Native.

Natives can have any natural eye color, be it brown, amber, blue, green or otherwise, and that doesn’t make them any less Native.

Natives can have any hair color, be it brown, black, blonde or red, or dyed any other unnatural hair color and hair texture, be it straight, wavy or curly, and any hairstyle, be it long, medium, short, traditional braids, pixie cuts, dyed bobs, blunt bangs, shaved heads, undercuts, fauxhawks, etc. and that doesn’t make them any less Native.

Natives can follow any religion and/or spirituality, there are Native people who follow their tribe’s traditional beliefs and nothing else, there’s also plenty of Native Christians, but Natives can also be Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Satanist, Shintoist, Kemeticist, Wiccan, Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Pagan, animist, Atheist, Agnostic, etc. and that doesn’t make them any less Native.

Natives can be any gender, whether that’s male, female, both or neither, or Two Spirit, their tribe’s own specific names for those outside of the “gender binary”, or any other genders in Western terminology like trans, non-binary, genderfluid or agender, among others, if they so wish to use those terms, or mix them up, and that doesn’t make them any less Native.

Natives can be any romantic and sexual orientation, whether that’s straight, gay, lesbian, bi, pan, poly, aro, ace, queer, etc. etc. and that doesn’t make them any less Native.

Natives can be mixed with any race or ethnic group such as white passing Natives / Metis, Black / African Diaspora Natives, Central Asian Natives, East Asian Natives, East African Natives, Central African Natives, West African Natives, Southern African Natives, North African Natives, Mestizo Natives, Latinx Natives, Central American Natives, South American Natives, Caribbean Natives, Alaskan Natives, Greenlander Natives, Australian Natives, Southeast Asian Natives, South Asian Natives, Middle Eastern Natives, or indigenous in other ways too such as more than one Native ethnicity, Polynesian Natives, Inupiaq Natives, Inuit Natives, Micronesian Natives, Melanesian Natives, Eurasian Natives and Natives who have multiple ethnicities, who’re the children of interracial couples with mixed race parents ... and that doesn’t make them any less Native.

Natives can be in any social class, whether that’s lower class, middle class or upper class and that doesn’t make them any less Native.

Natives can be in any subculture, whether that’s anime, goth, punk, scene, lolita, grunge, or otherwise, and that doesn’t make them any less Native.

Natives can listen to any music genre, whether that’s their own tribe’s traditional music, country, rock, punk, hip hop, rap, etc. and that doesn’t make them any less Native.

Natives can be born on a reservation, in a small town, in a suburb or in a big city, or even outside of their home country, and that doesn’t make them any less Native.

Natives can be knowledgeable in their tribe’s culture/heritage, still reconnecting to it, or disconnected from it for many reasons, and that doesn’t make them any less Native.

Natives can be neurodivergent and/or disabled and that doesn’t make them any less Native.

There’s no one “Native look” and that Natives can dress however they want, wear their hair however they want, etc. etc. - one’s clothes aren’t what makes someone Native, one’s hair isn’t what makes someone Native, one’s coloration isn’t what makes someone Native and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, it’s the connection and willingness to learn that matters.

There’s literally no reason why y’all can’t write modern Natives.