oppression
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The Native Elite: A (Re)Introduction of Access & Power
9 months ago, I wrote The Native Elite. A blog post commenting on and introducing the concept of a subset of peoples within native communities who possess strands of power that differentiates themselves from the rest of native communities. I wrote that blog post in an attempt to name an issue that I was seeing […]
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A Promise & 23rd Celebration
I did it. I made it to my 23rd birthday. This is a celebration because I promised myself it would be. “But today is different. From now on, my birthdays will be different. Today, I plan to celebrate this day to celebrate myself. Because turning 22 is an achievement.” – Today is My 22nd Birthday I […]
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Indigenous Hypervisibility
In the spring of 2016, I proposed a research project, Indigenous Hypervisibility: Examining Frameworks of ‘Success’, to examine how we portrayed ‘success’ and the effects of that this portrayal has on my fellow Indigenous youth. I re-wrote it as a blog post. Historical and contemporary portrayals of Native/Indigenous Peoples often exist in the margins of […]
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Anti-Blackness in Native Communities
About a year ago, I wrote a paper titled ‘Bondage, Resistance, and Belonging’, outlining the relationship between Indigenous Peoples within the ‘US’ and enslaved Africans, with a particular focus on the Choctaw, Seminole, Cherokee, Creek, and Chickasaw or known as the “Five Civilized Tribes”. My paper was an attempt to analyze it from the […]
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The Native Elite
Hey, folx. I think it is the time that we talk about a particular trend that I am seeing in our community. But first, a story. In 2013, I was one out of 6 (known) Native scholars who were projected to graduate in 2017 from an elite institution, Brown University. From the onset […]