Tiktok and the indigenous community
Lateral violence is everywhere, even within our community. You can't be indigenous enough, you aren't white enough and you definitely can't use an app if you want help. If you ask for help, there is none from an elder. If you use technology, people ask you why you never asked a person to do it correctly and make so many assumptions. I have seen so many people be divided in this realm, and so many across upper turtle island and below; looking for answers that they can't have due to residential schools and others who aren't willing to share. Gatekeeping and putting the information in a safe box. One indigenous creator started a rhetoric that if you identify as "white passing" or "White presenting" you are white. Which, causes major shit to those who are reconnecting or getting the recognition they deserve over the years of being outcasted by not just white colonist society, but by also those who were of the indigenous community. Such clans, tribes...