Shannon Baker

Halloween is almost here:
-Don’t wear a headdress 🙅🏽‍♀️
-Don’t be an “Indian Princess” 🙅🏽‍♀️
-Don’t dress up as an “Indian Warrior” 🙅🏽‍♀️

We are not your costume.

Tolerating racism IS racism. 💁🏽‍♀️

Indigenous women make up about 1/4 of human trafficking victims in the United States. In Canada, Indigenous people make up 1/2 of human trafficking victims. Compared to other races, Indigenous women are 2.5x as likely to experience sexual violence.

There are 8 Métis Settlements in Canada, all in Alberta. They are legislated & self-governing. 🪶✊🏽

The 8 settlements are:
Fishing Lake, Kikino, Elizabeth, Paddle Prarie, Gift Lake, Buffalo Lake, East Prairie, & Peavine.

Alberta is the only Canadian province with a legislated Métis land base.

Natives have been here for thousands and thousands of years and we didn’t need signs that say to not feed the bears. 🤦🏽‍♀️

The last residential school closed in 1998 and was called the Lebret Indian residential school.

White passing Natives experience less racism and discrimination than their Black and brown, or visibly BIPOC relatives. Their lives will be easier. Looking white does not make a Native person less Native but it does make them more privileged.

“But they are still your family”
is how abuse gets normalized. 🙄

Pretendians claiming they are Métis are the same people that have never heard of a Métis settlement. 💁🏽‍♀️

You can’t break a person who gets their strength from their ancestors. 💪🏽

Dear Natives,
We often hear that we have trauma in our DNA. Don’t forget that we also have strength. 💪🏽

Learn our history because we’ve spent our whole lives learning yours. 💁🏽‍♀️
-Indigenous & Black people

If bannock can rise so can you. 😜

In the Americas, no matter where you go.
There you are. On Native land.

No one gets angrier faster than a non-Native when you tell them they aren't two-spirit. 🤪

Some of you don’t know that in Canada our colonizers are either English or French. Not Spanish. Not all Native people have Spanish decent. Also, not all Natives have colonizer DNA in them.

MMIW: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

In Canada, you needed written permission from an Indian agent to leave the rez even for a funeral or wedding. (Some elders that have had to do this are still alive today).

In the U.S., punishment for being off reservation could include a hanging.

Stop saying “off reservation” as a punchline. 🙅🏽‍♀️

Indigenous people in Canada and the U.S. were forcibly put onto reservations, and legally were not allowed to leave.

Squaw is a deragatory term.
Esk*mo is a slur.

If you didn’t know before. You know now. 💁🏽‍♀️

IF 👏🏽YOU 👏🏽 ARE 👏🏽 NOT 👏🏽 INDIGENOUS 👏🏽THEN 👏🏽 YOU 👏🏽 AREN’T 👏🏽 TWO-SPIRIT 👏🏽

-We are still finding bodies of murdered Indigenous children in residential schools
-The last residential school closed in 1998
-There are thousands of missing and murdered Indigenous women

Canadians stop telling Natives it happened a long time ago:
-50% of human trafficked victims in Canada are Native despite them making up only 5% of the population
-Thousands of Native women were forcibly sterilized against their will due to eugenics legislation in Canada

It’s the try hard for me. 🫣
#pretendians

We lost one of the greats. Graham Greene was not only an actor but a trail blazer. He opened doors for so many of us Natives. I'm proud to say that the very first pilot I ever acted in was with Graham Greene. The pilot was never picked up but I get to say that I got to work with one of the greats.

When someone starts to say, “My great-great-grandmother is a full-blooded…” I just shut my ears off. 😑

Stop telling your Native relatives that they sound “white” when they are just sounding educated. 🤦🏽‍♀️ Stop enforcing the idea that white people are the only educated people. Decolonize.

I’m the BI in BIPOC and I’m the bi in bisexual. 🫶🏽🏳️‍🌈 Black, Indigenous, and bisexual.

Pocahontas’s real name was Matoaka.
She was 9 years old.
John Smith was 27 years old.
She was kidnapped and was a S/A victim.

Calculating all that “free money” that YT people say I’m getting because I’m Native. 🤑