#i dislike when media flippantly adds indigenous things and doesn't bother to understand or explore the cultural depth of what they're using
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was thinking abt sweet pea's government name, blinked, and now i'm researching ny state reservations and the demographics of early colonizers and oh how far away from nyc that i think riverdale would be and i can pull up a map and compare the reservations that exist near the radius that i've deemed a likely distance from the city and then i can read about those tribes and note the surnames of the tribal leaders and make note of which ones start with M and i can look up the origins of those surnames and then ill look up popular baby names from 1999-2001 that start with N but that feels incomplete so i'll look into-
#aaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!#all this ignoring that uktena is a cherokee word#and the cherokee historically lived in the southeast united states#and the rvd writers probably just googled native american snake legend#and are sp's initials even NM? i don't remember where that came from#ignore me because i'm losing my damn mind !!!!#is this problematic i'm still confused about the race relations within the serpents#why is white man FP serpent king#i have a lot of questions#i mean the show certainly made the serpents a mode of tribal survival and pride#so what happened ?#idk i just went back and looked at exactly what toni's grandfather said about the creation of the serpents#and i actually have some more questions okay#i dislike when media flippantly adds indigenous things and doesn't bother to understand or explore the cultural depth of what they're using#(but what should i expect given hollywood's treatment of native americans)#i don't understand why writers wouldn't want to know every single thing abt an interesting subject#and also i don't understand why people are racism and reduce native americans to tropes and shallow characitures#these are very introspective tags#say hello to the inside of my brain i guess#anyway i decided on norman as a first name for a million different silly reasons
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