#notyourindianprincess

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did i earn some type of reward for not wearing either of these shirts to work today? is there a "plays well with colonizers and settlers" medal? at least a participation trophy? i went with basic mourning black. and all the colors of the wind blew my hair around. 🪶 #picoftheday #picaday2021 #mercilessindiansavages #mercilessindiansavage #youareonnativeland #honorthetreaties #mmiwg2s #4thofyoulie #lakȟótawiŋyaŋ #notyourindianprincess #invisibleminority #nativeamerican #indigenous @ntvsclothing @stevenpauljudd @urbannativeera (at Touchstone Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ7OCoEhAvP/?utm_medium=tumblr

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are we truly invisible? i thought it was figurative, but today i wondered. i was wearing Robohontas, moccasins, oh, and _my face_ (with a mask, but _my eyes_ were visible) when a pair of shoppers, who'd already spent at least an hour with me, felt perfectly comfortable: 1) calling ceramic garden towers "totems", repeatedly, after i corrected them the first two times, and 2) one shouting to the other as the latter donned a headband around her head (vs. across the top as intended), "all you need are two feathers!" for real‽ are we literally invisible? are we ghosts in this world? ... can i haunt them? ... can i walk through walls and rattle chains the next time they say something asinine? ... i probably don't have enough time to keep up with that. 😁 #robohontas #thentvs @ntvsclothing #amonute #sayhername #mmiw #mmiwg #mmiwg2s #notyourindianprincess @manitobamukluks #lakȟótawiŋyaŋ #invisibleminority #urbannative #nativeamerican #indigenous #racialstereotypes #notatotempole (at Touchstone Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDA5yoLBw2x/?igshid=1h16zf5i8osek

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today's work uniform | 23 June 1995— no, 1595 | her name was Amonute, Matoaka to those her loved her since childhood | she was an 11yo girl when John Smith kidnapped her identity | 17yo when she was literally kidnapped and subsequently married to John Rolfe | ”Rebecca” | early documentation of violence against Native women, and Americans celebrate it | Disney capitalizes on it | #picoftheday #picaday2020 #robohontas #thentvs @ntvsclothing #amonute #sayhername #mmiw #mmiwg #mmiwg2s #notyourindianprincess (at Touchstone Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCAKN3bBkPz/?igshid=xe82t2bcl6xd