Me too...

She's in fact not white 🤣🤣🤣🤣

We all come from the creator. You use liberal division. Shame. You're probably a prejudice Lakota wasicu. I won't judge though.

Guess who wrote the dawes roll? Yeah exactly.

Do not tell people how to speak, that’s not our ways, it’s wonderful your were taught the traditional ways of life, but we don’t not criticize each other, always walk with kindness and humility knowing your don’t share the same teachings

Fam.... Regalia, costume and outfit are also proper words based on community. It's like the argument of indian or native American or Alaskan native or first nations or indigenous lmao

It's a modern trend. Historically, we used nature to give us pigments and colors, so they were by and far on the side of muted, deep earth tones. Leather could be given many colors in the tanning stage, but they were still muted earth tones as well. As trade with colonizers grew, so did our fabrics, beads and colors.

They made fun of you? Why...there should be no reason im pretty sure outsiders do pow wows

My mom is 25% and my grandfather is an even higher quantum. I'm basically white and it's given me lots of insecurities about it. I grew up away from the reservation, but my grandfather grew up on it. My grandfather is way darker and experienced racism. But often folks mistook him for Italian. Italians tend to have darker skin tones that other Europeans so it makes sense. Basically, I'm just trying to say that race is a flimsy thing to base identity on. Our ancestors don't give a crap about it. They just want to see their cultural legacy live in through their children. Preserving physical looks and aspects can never be an authentic replacement for embracing the old wisdom and keeping the traditions alive. You can be 100% native, but if the knowledge of your family tree and culture is lost, its still a disappearance of Native American identity. I've started to do research and attempt beadwork in the style of my tribe as a way to heal my insecurities. Just live your truth and if your ancestors are calling you, listen. Natives just want to gatekeep the identity because of people who are "pretendians". But having a genuine connection to the identity even if you're majority another race doesn't make you pretending.

Gigi, so sorry that you had a negative experience at the powwows. There is nothing wrong with being mixed. My background feels like United Nations.

I've never met a native american making fun of a person dancing by the color of their skin or the native blood percentage. 75 % aren't even native dancing nowadays. I meet a few people from states away in the church groups and they admit the aren't even native just want to do it for fun. I don't know why they want to. But maybe they smile and you take it wrong? Many light skinned people do that. My kids feel like that but my elders smile and stare because they are proud. Not making fun of them.

It wouldn’t mean much to most viewers, some of it is sacred, and not everyone is History McProfessor. Your kind aren’t wanted. Meanhearted.

@@namedrop721 yeah I know. We're not wanted because we will not be put into categories. Free thinkers who don't need validation from people who need others to do the thinking fort them.

Stop using equation that is a liberal social construct. We are all from creator. If we are all with the land we are indigenous to earth.

Their opinion doesn't really matter. You're indigenous. You're just also mixed