#natives experience homophobia and transphobia from their OWN KIND because those were western inventions that were forced onto them.
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hey yall uhhhhhhh happy can uh duh turtle island day lmao
#OUT OF THE GALAXY. ( ANGIE SPEAKS. )#anyway i hope my canadian ..... or should i say turtle island mutuals enjoy today !!#even if ...... im not necessarily a fan of ...... canada's treatment of indigenous peoples. at all#and plus its like saying that before canada everything that came before wasn't important and that's no coincidence either#people just pretend that indigenous cultures are extinct or no longer authentic past a certain point or no longer relevant#but im celebrating today bc of the resiliency of the first nations metis and inuit people !!#and what immigrants in more than the past century have achieved !! a lotta dark shit happened and is still going on rn#after all for the last few centuries ?? it was years of colonization for native peoples !!#it's really insulting that there are more than 15000-20000 years of history in this content.. yet canadians are celebrating this#and completely erasing and ignoring the thousands of years of indigenous experiences !!#this is a time to highlight the history of resistance resilience rebellion resurgence and restoration !!#hopefully one day we can all celebrate together as equals tho !!#so many indigenous peoples are suffering to systemic erasure from mainstream k-12 education mainstream news and pop culture#police brutality ( indigenous peoples are far more likely to be shot by the police than any other race ) racism from all other races#( yes even other poc - not just by cishet white men ) bc natives have long been are still are ''the group its still ok to be racist to''#97% of indigenous peoples experienced violence perpetrated by at least one nonnative person and the lgbtq+ community is like.#really anti native and racist to them. but no one likes to talk about that bc it makes them look bad. and like.#natives experience homophobia and transphobia from their OWN KIND because those were western inventions that were forced onto them.#while before contact anyone who would be considered lgbtq+ by western terms would be happily accepted and were incredibly revered.#hell the majority of the tribes even thought they had magical powers for god's sake LOL#they endure societal discrimination colonization intergenerational trauma cultural appropriation cultural genocide resource exploitation#and destruction of sacred land. native youth have the lowest graduation rate than other races. many native babies are still taken away#from their families and put into foster care systems without parents' consent or reason of child abuse/neglect.#many suffer from alcoholism disease poverty sometimes equivalent to third world countries inadequate housing unsafe drinking water#and unemployment. indigenous youth are twice as likely to be incarcerated for minor crimes than teens of any other race.#they face imprisonment and their child mortality rates are high. the suicide and rape rates are skyrocketing ESPECIALLY for native women.#4.3% of the population are native girls or women but 11% go missing over 50% of women end up as sex slaves and 16% of women who show up#murdered? are native. that's higher than any other race. some reservations are even tainted with the aftermath of NUCLEAR WEAPONRY TESTING.#and no one ever talks about that. and the cruel irony is that natives survived removal forced assimilation and attempted genocide ...#only to be told that they didn't. only to live in countries that pretend they no longer exist.
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