It’s only the second week of October, why is the Christians stole Christmas from pagans discourse already starting on my facebook feed? I am a beautiful soul who has done nothing wrong ever in my whole life and I Do Not Deserve This.
Across the United States, there are 556 federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native nations. Each one has it’s own unique history and culture. American education has not bothered to tell us that Native people lived in peace and effectively governed themselves before the Europeans came along. American education has not informed us that Native Americans have been slighted ever since, not even being recognized as citizens (despite the fact that they were here first) until the 20th century.
But we don’t have to push these facts aside. We can stop celebrating a man that began a genocide and a terrible theft of land and culture, and start celebrating Indigenous Peoples for their rich history and their equal contributions to society.
To all Indigenous Peoples out there: we’re glad you’re here!
We will stand with you in your continued battle to be recognized as legitimate human beings instead of the stereotypes perpetuated by Columbus and those that came after him.
I haven’t seen this cross my feed yet, so I’m posting it here:
Sarah Anne Lawless recently made a post where she discussed (and in some cases, called out by name) people who were predators in the pagan community, specifically in Canada.
Because this is the country I live in, I feel it’s doubly important to share this information because I feel like the pagan networking in Canada is not the same in the US; predators can move to other communities and be almost unknown because travel between provinces isn’t quite the same as travel between states.
It also … makes me feel horrifyingly lucky that there wasn’t much of a pagan community presence in the city I grew up in. I can’t imagine what my life would’ve been like had I grown up in other larger pagan communities where these kinds of things were allowed to grow and no one did anything to stop it.
It’s gross. It’s inhumane. I think we need to do exactly what Sarah says: rip the weeds out of the garden to let it grow. We’ve gone long enough letting them strangle us into silence and permissibility.
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