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Instead of explaining why scholars of “Indigenous religion” are so indebted to colonial thinking, I’m really tempted just to accept their misplaced theories & use them to “interpret” normative religion.

My ancestors fought alongside Andrew Jackson before he became president. They didn’t know that Jackson & his business partner Gen. John Coffee had been illegally engaged in secretive Native land

I think perhaps the biggest misconception about Native identity in the US involves race. [THREAD] I think this is in large part due to the history of _not_ teaching/ educating