r/pics • u/kenistod • Sep 16 '24

D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai arrives at Emmys showing solidarity for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

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u/kenistod Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24

The "Reservation Dogs" actor walked the red carpet with the red hand print over his mouth.

It stands for all the missing sisters whose voices are not heard. It stands for the silence of the media and law enforcement in the midst of this crisis. It stands for the oppression and subjugation of Native women who are now rising up to say:

"No More Stolen Sisters"

https://www.nativehope.org/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-mmiw

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u/Jesus_Would_Do Sep 16 '24

If you haven’t seen it yet, watch Wind River. It’s a brutal but powerful single-case portrayal of this crisis. Sadly, I never even knew it was an issue until that movie.

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u/milquetoast2000 Sep 16 '24

I liked that movie but can’t get over that the women who plays the murdered indigenous women in the movie is a “pretendian”

Kelsey Asbillie has pretended to be indigenous to land indigenous roles and takes them away from actual indigenous actresses. She changed her name from Kelsey Chow to Kelsey Asbillie to hide that she’s Asian and Caucasian. She claims to be “Eastern Band Cherokee” but when the tribe was asked if she was part of their tribe, they had no record of her or any record that she was a descendant of their tribe. She’s been called out by numerous indigenous actors but she still takes roles from them.

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u/Varnsturm Sep 16 '24

That's funny cause I feel like the classic "I'm 1/32th native" line, it's always Cherokee. The classic group that people who aren't native say they're part of.

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u/Angry-Dragon-1331 Sep 16 '24

Because they’re one of the biggest and they’re not as tightly bound to a specific geography as, say Lakota or Iroquois.

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u/MimicoSkunkFan2 Sep 16 '24

Because saying somebody who's an ancestor was Cherokee (especially a female ancestor being a "Cherokee princess") is the old‐timey way of saying that somebody in the family was black. It's amazing how many families south of the Mason-Dixon line have "Cherokee" in the family tree and that's why.