6 Misconceptions About Native American People | Teen Vogue

hi my name is Donna Trejo my my Native American girl and today you're about to get schooled we've evolved in you know not all of us lived in teepees teepees we're made for only travel uses well we own one but we don't live in removing it you just camp in it whenever we want to we use them for things like ceremonies or camping and such but we don't live in them I have to say to that where is my check we really don't get anything for free everything we everything we get we have to work for it just like everybody else if we had free health care then the diabetes and heart disease rate would be very very low but at this point in time is very high our dad works to provide for us we you don't get like money or anything we get schooling for free that's not true either we have to meet the same academic requirement as any other ethnicity you start to apply for scholarships I thought it was a Donald Trump that didn't pay taxes if we were rich off of casinos why would we government money I like to be just mostly lose our money to casinos we all gamble not all Native Americans wear headdresses and some tribes they don't wear them at all in my tribe we don't wear headdresses and we never did women don't wear headdresses and you have to earn them it wasn't just given to them or handed down to them you have to earn every feather that makes up that headdress if you were to buy a headdress there would be that would be disrespectful because there's no meaning behind it you didn't do anything to earn it all you did was pay for it that's racist and a lot of people say that the term comes from the color of our skin but if you look at me I'm not red society is just played into it like the word white skins is okay when it's not the word came about from the scalping of Native American means the blood that was dripped from down on their faces that's a major league sports team and their their argument as the argument against changing the name would be just like me having a conversation with my mom and my mom asked me why don't you like Brussels sprout because I don't it's not like we have a mascot that's called white man yes in a way that's making fun of our culture and who we are and we're human beings just like everybody else

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Length: 3min 4sec (184 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 29 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/jingeee]

"we have to meet the same academic requirements as any other ethnicity"

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[u/psylee123]

We are not being erased by any measure of the word. Look at Philippines, colonized by white people for 5 centuries and they still look pretty Asian to me lol.