Great essay! It’s interesting how they are policing the identities of the “other side” as I doubt they scrutinize anyone claiming to be native half as much as if they were sharing the same views.
This is accurate. I was not on Tiktok to be political. I did not have anyone try to go after my ethnicity until after I started saying that there were no male women and only women could be lesbians. Someone told me they had a Mohawk friend who said two-spirit was "alive and well" in their culture (Iroquois are rather unique in having minimal evidence we ever had a berdache tradition. The people who acknowledge the lack of evidence are so annoyed by it that one in an academic work about it actually say that the burden of proof is on us to prove we didn't have one!). They cannot discredit my ideas and so they discredit me as an idea-haver by exposing me as a person of mixed pedigree. Also the song at the end came with the software (Movavi) and is called "Camp in the Woods."
Imagine saying "from at least the 1600s" and not realizing what that LIKELY means not even just possibly means. Even if people had come over as whole families from France, to believe that all their sons would wait until the white female population was high enough and old enough to marry is absurd. Even pilgrims couldn't keep it in their pants long enough to not have a ton of shotgun weddings.
Do you think it impossible that a white settler could feel genuine affection, or even love, for an Indigenous woman?
Do you think it impossible for a white settler to desire a local wife and partner with whom to build a life, a homestead and a family?
"...can't keep it in their pants.." and "...shotgun weddings " are phrases which dishonor and disrespect those who entered into these marriages, and it disrespects and belittles their descendants.
I am a descendant of European settlers (also Danish, English, LDS) It was an extremely hard life and community was rare and precious.
My LDS ancestors were literally starving peasants in Europe, they knew all about being oppressed, even despised.
They just wanted to survive and not starve death. The written family records show that the Utah Indigenous locals were respected, and their farming techniques were adopted, "dry farming" on hillsides combined with planting the 3 sisters (corn, squash, beans), for example. That speaks to some level of cooperation between the settlers and Indigenous locals.
When a local was described in writing by my ancestors it was with often with admiration about the unique, beautiful attire and accessories.
I wonder at your ideas about our ancestors. Why such little regard? Why doubt everyone's ability to love and feel genuine affection?
Oh please, get off your high horse. People have sex, young people especially. Nothing about what I said even remotely implied that they didn't fall in love but the only thing we have absolute evidence for is that they had sex. JFC, like people NOW don't get married because they have an accidental pregnancy. I could not roll my eyes harder at your butthurt.
My Métis husband doesn't have official status, despite that his grandmother was a "status Indian" (as is still the legal term under Canada's _Indian Act_). He wasn't "raised with tribal traditions and culture" because, as is the case for _many_ in Canada, his family never talked about that aspect of their ethnicity. It was not a point of pride 30-40 years ago while he was growing up. Would that commenter allow him to claim métis identity on the basis of a little girl pointing at him at the public pool when he was a kid and saying she didn't want to go swimming because there was a "dirty Indian" in there?
Awesome! It beggars belief that you are being attacked in this way, but what a great riposte.
It is indeed a way to 'other' those who do not conform to the stereotypes, racism in plain English!
I hear this word 'métis' often in France to describe children of mixed lineage (they pronounce it with a hard 's', as in métissage.... another of the vagaries of French, and means it sounds more like the insult it is and can be 'hissed' at a person).
I hear it a lot now about my teenage granddaughter whose skin is a few shades darker than mine and whose maternal grandmother is of the 'coloured' métissage people of South Aftica).
That age-old question to 'other' people who don't quite fit the standard model of whiteness; "Where are you from? "
Or about my granddaughter "Where is her mother from?" It makes my blood boil every time!
A participle is definitely easier to make an insult, since it is not just what you are, but what was done to you that made you what you are. It adds a level of reminder of an alleged humiliation.
It seems highly likely that the France pronunciation is original, because it is morphological (i.e., it signifies mixVERB+participleTENSE), so I wonder if there has been an accent shift in French Canada or if this is a product of an error from the English speaking anthropologist who first taught my mother this alternative term for what we are, which is French-Mohawk.
I got "where are your parents from" a lot in Turkey, a country which did the future the courtesy of re-spelling all their French loan words phonetically. The gyros we need. It seemed like I did not get targeted by men looking for foreign girls to approach. I only heard about their experiences and seemed to never run into problems going out. One of them was extra white though: tall and Nordic. I had one generation-jumping Norwegian ancestor long ago but I have never practiced Norse affiliation nor do I display a Nordic phenotype so I can't call myself Nordic because that would break the rules. I have to eventually become so mixed I give up any claim to any culture and then I guess be grateful to be tolerated.
Great essay! It’s interesting how they are policing the identities of the “other side” as I doubt they scrutinize anyone claiming to be native half as much as if they were sharing the same views.
What song plays at the end? It’s really pretty
This is accurate. I was not on Tiktok to be political. I did not have anyone try to go after my ethnicity until after I started saying that there were no male women and only women could be lesbians. Someone told me they had a Mohawk friend who said two-spirit was "alive and well" in their culture (Iroquois are rather unique in having minimal evidence we ever had a berdache tradition. The people who acknowledge the lack of evidence are so annoyed by it that one in an academic work about it actually say that the burden of proof is on us to prove we didn't have one!). They cannot discredit my ideas and so they discredit me as an idea-haver by exposing me as a person of mixed pedigree. Also the song at the end came with the software (Movavi) and is called "Camp in the Woods."
Imagine saying "from at least the 1600s" and not realizing what that LIKELY means not even just possibly means. Even if people had come over as whole families from France, to believe that all their sons would wait until the white female population was high enough and old enough to marry is absurd. Even pilgrims couldn't keep it in their pants long enough to not have a ton of shotgun weddings.
Do you think it impossible that a white settler could feel genuine affection, or even love, for an Indigenous woman?
Do you think it impossible for a white settler to desire a local wife and partner with whom to build a life, a homestead and a family?
"...can't keep it in their pants.." and "...shotgun weddings " are phrases which dishonor and disrespect those who entered into these marriages, and it disrespects and belittles their descendants.
I am a descendant of European settlers (also Danish, English, LDS) It was an extremely hard life and community was rare and precious.
My LDS ancestors were literally starving peasants in Europe, they knew all about being oppressed, even despised.
They just wanted to survive and not starve death. The written family records show that the Utah Indigenous locals were respected, and their farming techniques were adopted, "dry farming" on hillsides combined with planting the 3 sisters (corn, squash, beans), for example. That speaks to some level of cooperation between the settlers and Indigenous locals.
When a local was described in writing by my ancestors it was with often with admiration about the unique, beautiful attire and accessories.
I wonder at your ideas about our ancestors. Why such little regard? Why doubt everyone's ability to love and feel genuine affection?
Oh please, get off your high horse. People have sex, young people especially. Nothing about what I said even remotely implied that they didn't fall in love but the only thing we have absolute evidence for is that they had sex. JFC, like people NOW don't get married because they have an accidental pregnancy. I could not roll my eyes harder at your butthurt.
This is excellent.
My Métis husband doesn't have official status, despite that his grandmother was a "status Indian" (as is still the legal term under Canada's _Indian Act_). He wasn't "raised with tribal traditions and culture" because, as is the case for _many_ in Canada, his family never talked about that aspect of their ethnicity. It was not a point of pride 30-40 years ago while he was growing up. Would that commenter allow him to claim métis identity on the basis of a little girl pointing at him at the public pool when he was a kid and saying she didn't want to go swimming because there was a "dirty Indian" in there?
Awesome! It beggars belief that you are being attacked in this way, but what a great riposte.
It is indeed a way to 'other' those who do not conform to the stereotypes, racism in plain English!
I hear this word 'métis' often in France to describe children of mixed lineage (they pronounce it with a hard 's', as in métissage.... another of the vagaries of French, and means it sounds more like the insult it is and can be 'hissed' at a person).
I hear it a lot now about my teenage granddaughter whose skin is a few shades darker than mine and whose maternal grandmother is of the 'coloured' métissage people of South Aftica).
That age-old question to 'other' people who don't quite fit the standard model of whiteness; "Where are you from? "
Or about my granddaughter "Where is her mother from?" It makes my blood boil every time!
A participle is definitely easier to make an insult, since it is not just what you are, but what was done to you that made you what you are. It adds a level of reminder of an alleged humiliation.
It seems highly likely that the France pronunciation is original, because it is morphological (i.e., it signifies mixVERB+participleTENSE), so I wonder if there has been an accent shift in French Canada or if this is a product of an error from the English speaking anthropologist who first taught my mother this alternative term for what we are, which is French-Mohawk.
I got "where are your parents from" a lot in Turkey, a country which did the future the courtesy of re-spelling all their French loan words phonetically. The gyros we need. It seemed like I did not get targeted by men looking for foreign girls to approach. I only heard about their experiences and seemed to never run into problems going out. One of them was extra white though: tall and Nordic. I had one generation-jumping Norwegian ancestor long ago but I have never practiced Norse affiliation nor do I display a Nordic phenotype so I can't call myself Nordic because that would break the rules. I have to eventually become so mixed I give up any claim to any culture and then I guess be grateful to be tolerated.
Well. I didn't realize this series was caused by an unfortunate Tik Tok incident. But I enjoyed it.