I don’t get followed in stores
Jim Stauffer, Canada An Indigenous adult student in my class once remarked, “I’m so tired of being followed around in stores.” My co-worker who is...
Poor Wandita she looks very “Indian”
Wanda Luna, Canada. Wanda Luna. 41 years old. Mestiza, Chilean born. When I was 4 while playing with my little brother I over heard my...
Natives Can Have Curls Without Admixture
An Indigenous Native American’s with Curly Hair, USA Western Hemisphere Indigenous Natives The “straight hair myth” started by The English Settlers in North American, and...
I was always already right here
Marta Elena Muñoz, Austin, Tejas (TX) Go back to where you came from. Imagine telling an American citizen of Mexican heritage (indigenous and Spanish mix)...
White indigenous girl adopted white family
Hannah Anderson, Southeastern Community College, IA >My upbringing was different than most, I visited a majority of North America by 13. As a child I...
We are living on stolen land.
McKayla Milam, Powder Springs, GA The six words that I chose was to remind people, including myself, that everyday we live our lives on land...
Stop With The Cherokee Syndrome, Already
Jemmie Valencia, San Francisco, CA. Proudly that they are Cherokee and they know this because their great great grandmother had long black hair- was a...
You do not look Puerto Rican.
Beatriz McConnie Zapater, Jamaica Plain, MA. I am Puerto Rican with white, indigenous, Spanish, and African ancestry. When I hear that I do not look...
Yes, those Indigenous children are mine.
Wendy Usher, Canada I am a white woman of Irish, Scottish, English, and Welsh descent. My children — now adults, with one deceased) were all...
Indigenous and religiously evangelical equal colonized?
Chantilly Mers New York, NY I am the daughter of parents who migrated from Palau, a small cluster of islands between Guam and the Philippines....
You’re Native American? Well, how much?
Kaitlin Reed, Poughkeepsie, NY. I am a Yurok Indian. We are the salmon people and my ancestors have lived by the Klamath River in northern...
It’s been centuries; get over it.
Tiffany Barta, Bemidji, MN. I’m honestly tired of indigenous people always saying, “YOU took OUR land!” Oh, really? I took your land? I personally had...
