#mean absolutely nothing! all of that is very common with natives near the texas border. HOWEVER.
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wait i had a whole rant about this i didn’t tag the other day because again, there’s just so few indigenous people in the rtv fandom i don’t love the idea of talking about something as controversial as pretendians but it’s been gaining traction on twitter and…..like if you want My Opinion As Someone With Indigenous Heritage i think brooklyn has a lot of red flags that are typically associated with people lying about indigenous heritage whether it was a family story she just never looked into or a lie she concocted herself. At the same time, I don’t love the idea of a bunch of people who are not Indigenous weighing in on Brooklyn’s background because there’s been several high profile “pretendian hunters” who went after people who ARE indigenous but are basically not The Right Kind Of Indigenous and it’s been a massive issue in the community and I feel like if I start saying “i think brooklyn might be lying about being apache and cherokee” that’s going to help open the door for some really racist discourse especially if she IS just part of that Not The Right Kind Of Indigenous group.
#once again….i wish there were more native americans in rtv fandom#i’ve met one (1) other person and she’s on twitter. we’re both from the same region too actually she’s nish first nations!#anyways my full opinion here is that i think she’s not indigenous#but this exact situation seems messy and i don’t think we could say conclusively#bb26#i feel nervous tagging this idk#and like ‘not the right kind’ is several categories. not having documentation doesn’t inherently mean anything. not being on rolls doesn’t#inherently mean anything. never living on a rez doesn’t inherently mean anything. the fact that she Never talks about her heritage could#mean absolutely nothing! all of that is very common with natives near the texas border. HOWEVER.#like there’s a lot of anti latino and anti black racism in the ndn community specifically & there’s always The Cherokee Thing#and she Could be a victim of that. at the same time….
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