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I think this is poorly stated, mostly correct, and irrelevant because I don& #39;t think it matters if there& #39;s much of our culture in American culture.
The responses to this video are demoralizing. A total debasement of our heritage and legacy. https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1386685340522536961">https://twitter.com/JasonSCam...
The responses to this video are demoralizing. A total debasement of our heritage and legacy. https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1386685340522536961">https://twitter.com/JasonSCam...
I can& #39;t imagine what our ancestors would think seeing a bunch of mixed breeds begging for white validation because we had canoes... while Europeans and Asians had ocean-faring ships.
Or we had subsistence corn cultivation... while Europeans and Asians had mass-scale agriculture.
Or we had subsistence corn cultivation... while Europeans and Asians had mass-scale agriculture.
These arguments reflect a complete rejection of everything that was once essential to our culture, which is why I consider them debasing and embarrassing.
Our ancestors wouldn& #39;t have thought it necessary to argue that our canoes were more sophisticated and that made us important.
Our ancestors wouldn& #39;t have thought it necessary to argue that our canoes were more sophisticated and that made us important.
And I don& #39;t think it& #39;s necessary because it shouldn& #39;t matter whether our canoes were good. It makes us no less American.
Perhaps this perspective is informed by my heritage in a western, nomadic tribe - but that heritage is shared by the majority of meaningfully Native people.
Perhaps this perspective is informed by my heritage in a western, nomadic tribe - but that heritage is shared by the majority of meaningfully Native people.
It& #39;s ironic to me that the people who claim to reject "white" values and "white" systems are the most obsessed with seeking validation from those values and systems.
I can concede that we contributed very little to American culture because I reject the idea that it matters.
I can concede that we contributed very little to American culture because I reject the idea that it matters.
And objectively speaking - we took far more from Euro-American culture and technology than they ever took from us.
You could name everything European settlers took from us in North America in a 160-character tweet, but most of our culture and technology is syncretic.
You could name everything European settlers took from us in North America in a 160-character tweet, but most of our culture and technology is syncretic.
People are welcome to cite their "dunks on the white man," but they& #39;re embarrassing in context if one subscribes to the values that motivate those dunks - if not against Europeans, than against our neighbors to the South.
And I say this as someone with a deep love for my culture.
And I say this as someone with a deep love for my culture.
