OPINION | ‘Deep Respect’: An Urban Indian Response to an Article Seeding Anti-Native Racism
, 2023-01-20 15:30:00,
By Atlas Vertry
Recently a friend forwarded a Seattle is dead Article Entitled “Real Estate Rent Payment Policy in Al-Duwaymish” and its sequels Reddit topic, along with an eye roll. The author manages to deflect the very complicated issue of federal recognition of indigenous tribes – to some distortion of reality where proper white people intend to open a casino in the Seattle city limits to steal money away from other tribes in the area. This is unequivocal racism against indigenous people.
The title of this response came from a Reddit thread, where the author says, “I have deep respect for every person, nation, and group that participates in this story” — a phrase that’s obviously fictional, as their ultimate goal is to cheer people up. Not To donate to Real Rent Duwamish OR Duwamish Tribal Services (DTS). Layers of profiling and misinformation are due to a lack of research and understanding of Indigenous issues. To say nothing of sending this article to print days before Thanksgiving, a day that celebrates the genocide of an entire indigenous tribal community, and before the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, a day of the year that generates more total donations than any other. day. Nothing respectable in this article.
To be transparent, I’m speaking from the perspective of an urban native. I am not from a local tribe. My family had similar colonial problems – it had lost cultural history, identity…
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