#i am also very flattered someone w/ catghost as an SI has sent this bc...u r like. the Lore Keeper. ty for ur input n ur service king

[a-flickering-soul]

hey i wanted to say thank you for making that post abt some of the racist shit in catghost. CG is a huge special interest for me personally but it makes me wildly uncomfortable how the fans are completely unwilling to discuss the problematic elements in the series

Thank you for sending this in, it really means a lot to me!! I’m not trying to say CatGhost is bad or problematic because I don’t think media can be analyzed in a black/white view like that--I just, like you mentioned, wish we could engage with all aspects of that series, good and bad, without brushing the HUGELY racist shit it pulled under the rug!!!

For anyone looking for context, what I specifically would love to address is how Naarah, a Native American character, was canonically stolen from her tribe as a baby by a white woman who couldn’t conceive. This is combined with the appropriation of the Skinwalker, as well as the heavy implication in the meta aspect of the series that the (white) author drew heavily from Native American culture to create his video game, appropriating Native culture and lore without giving it the respect nor the research it deserved.

I would like to give a reminder stating I am not Native American! I am just a tired POC! If you are American-Indigenous and would like to offer your take/correct me, please please do so--I would love to center Native voices in this topic.

Some (non-exhaustive) jumping-off sources listed below, because honestly even though I’ve been in many fandom spaces before, the lack of discussion of the overtly racist concepts in CatGhost super disturbs me.

Wikipedia page on the forcible assimilation of Native Americans

The US’s history of stealing Native children and stripping them of their culture

A Cherokee woman’s explanation of why the Skinwalker + Native culture cannot be used by white authors (centering around JKR’s writing but still applicable here imo)