So, being a Navajo..

It’s interesting seeing some of these comments which are pretty kinda not how we should be homogeneous in our thinking…

Natives come in all shapes and sizes

Even colors

Hair styles

Hair types (Not just straight or black)

Varying cheek bones

Statures

Etc…

Also if you’re Navajo you’re sacred name is

A. Not for Anyone (but close family) to know as it could be used against you
B. Not going to be a simple animal name. It’s much more linguistically complex
C. Going to be withi the 4 sacred mountains

Some of y’all asking about these stereotypical nonsense attributes…

I just don’t get it…

Also, you’re great Great grandmother who was a Cherokee princess?

Not real. (More than likely your family wants to be a part of history in some way and made this shit up)

If you grew up singing the sacred songs, eating/cooking the food, hearing the stories, doing the ceremonies, speaking/reading/writing the language w the community then you have/are a part of tribe.

It’s not in your blood. Blood quantum is ridiculous. No ones 100% or 1/2 or .25 Native blood. That’s colonizer nonsense.

Your culture is in your spirit.

If not.

Don’t claim it until you have.

My opinion. That is all.

Top | Newest First | Oldest First

PepsiColaP

[quote]If you grew up singing the sacred songs, eating/cooking the food, hearing the stories, doing the ceremonies, speaking/reading/writing the language w the community then you have/are a part of tribe.

It’s not in your blood. Blood quantum is ridiculous. No ones 100% or 1/2 or .25 Native blood. That’s colonizer nonsense.[/quote]
I love that

View 2 more replies »

AnthroKenji · 36-40, M

@PepsiColaP Yes, I agree w that, you make your own way and navigate your identity within the culture you’re around.

Culture is a shaky concept but applies here.

I don’t like it when other claim the one I’m part of and don’t show it the proper respect.

PepsiColaP

@AnthroKenji I feel the same way,I dont consider myself a patriot in any way whatsoever but I have a deep sense of love and respect for the past and current teachings I accepted as my identity ,so when I hear people say they are this percent of that and this percent of this or completely disregard my roots as my own because of my familys complex migrating history I feel upset and hurt . I know what I grew up learning and I have met Greeks that are more Greek than the "blood born ones".

AnthroKenji · 36-40, M

@PepsiColaP Oh man I feel that completely. I have a cousin and I can’t describe him any better than a Navajo Supremist. He says everyone else are mutts and he’s “pure”. We get into arguments over his attitude of other people he doesn’t accept someone that doesn’t have ancestry completely of Navajo and that’s ridiculous thinking. That’s not a Diné way of thinking. It’s Nazi thinking. The most colonized way of thinking that you’re “pure”.

QueenandCrown · 41-45, F

Everybody wants to be Native until it's time to go live on the Rez.

Aho! These are not opinions, these are Facts! I don't know how many times I have sat through buffoonery, by those who claim this heritage but their lifestyle is totally the opposite.. Either way, I normally don't discuss my Ancestors' ways amongst outsiders, just too Sacred..

And that Indian Princess thing..soooo cringe worthy..

View 4 more replies »

AnthroKenji · 36-40, M

@QueenandCrown She was being naive. She could have done this so much more tactfully but she went the typical white romanticization of people’s.

I hope she learns from this ignorance.

QueenandCrown · 41-45, F

@AnthroKenji I understand but unfortunately that's all people know about our culture is through the eyes of the outsiders.

AnthroKenji · 36-40, M

@QueenandCrown That’s what sucks. She said “my spirit name is sparrow” and then posted a pic of Jack Sparrow. She doesn’t understand the significance she’s a child playing w a very important artifact that people of the tribe have even lost and wish they could get back. The Inuit of Alaska have had the names beat out of them and don’t have clans anymore in some places.

ozgirl512 · 26-30, F

Nicely said... Thank you!

View 7 more replies »

ozgirl512 · 26-30, F

@AnthroKenji Ah, there's the problem right there... You're expecting logic!

AnthroKenji · 36-40, M

@ozgirl512 Yeah I’m expecting people to
inquire, I expect them to talk and I expect them to negotiate their identities and learn. Why is that so much to ask these days!!?

QueenandCrown · 41-45, F

@AnthroKenji For different reasons..many are not really interested in learning about the cultures of others, even if they like to 'borrow' some aspects of it.
And then there's the accountability for certain people. If they learn about our history then they also learn about theirs which doesn't always paint the pretty picture they've been taught to believe in.

KiwiBird · 36-40, F

That is the same for the First Nation peoples of Australia and the Māori Hapū and Iwis of Aotearoa.

AnthroKenji · 36-40, M

@KiwiBird Oh yes, the Indigenous of Australia and Aoteroa. Also the islanders of Guam, Hawaii etc.

Nanori · F

I wish we had "top post" like back in ep :/

AnthroKenji · 36-40, M

Awe thanks 🥰@Nanori

Nanori · F

ILY 🥺

Add a comment...