Not saying they were perfect, not saying they were geniuses, not saying [insert obligatory criticism of every single group of people for the colonized ones]. They were just more knowledgable in our traditional pre-contact ways, thats facts. Our culture was shaped by them, to us.
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Idk. I'm over having to acknowledge that some of our ancestors were "bad people" every damn time I talk about them as if white people get this same treatment when bringing up theirs. I choose to perpetuate a narrative that acknowledges but doesn't emphasize our wrongs & trauma.
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Y'all do realize that most of our entire pre-contact history focused on our wrongs/ trauma from a colonizer's POV? Chiefs hardly mentioned except when killed. Entire lives erased. Were they playful? Were they fotte'? What about caring? We don't hear those narratives enough.
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How we see our history is how we see ourselves, & many of us are introduced first to the sad, traumatic history of us as the uneducated, the victims, the thieves, the colonized. Na påra ennao. Be the change. Acknowledge when necessary but don't emphasize what's BEEN emphasized.
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