Thinking about why non-Native people only consume media about Natives when it involves European conquest and colonization.
What kind of post-modern existential dread are they projecting when they demand to see content about “superior” and “technologically advanced” people coming into your home, looting your land, and spreading disease?
What about simply acknowledging the Americas before European conquest is incompatible with their understanding of world history? Did history not exist prior to European invasion?

Nearly all contemporary representations of Native people has us either murdered, raped, or sickened.
We don’t get anything else. What psychological effects does that have on us and our children? We literally cannot be seen without white people’s knives at our throats.

Let’s do better. More Natives in front of and behind the camera. Reject Modernity, Embrace Tradition.
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