Something a little comical about people trying to speak for some unified transtemporal indigenous American consciousness against “white people”. Like, famously, a lot of what got recorded as tribal names were various languages for “the people”, terms that developed when North America was all indigenous. So, who was everyone else?

Like, I’ll freely accept that there’s something of a unified native consciousness now, product of the encounter with the colonialists, that quartered red/white/black/yellow dreamcatcher (which symbolizes that Native identity crosses racial categories) and all, but projecting that backwards and trying to claim legitimacy from it is dumb.