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Jun. 10th, 2016 12:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolariI always feel oogy when someone assumes I'm Native American. I don't feel I'm "entitled" to that label. I'm fairly certain I am by blood, sure. But not by experience or education. It's even more oogy when another Native does it, like yesterday. Happens a lot up here.
When I worked at Swan in Pennsylvania, before I transitioned, but had grown my hair out long, I was called "Chief." I enjoyed the comfortableness my coworkers had in me for giving me the nickname, but the nickname felt....wrong.
Or that one time someone from Tulalip asked me if I was Native and I said "Well, if you think Mexicans are Native." His reply? "Weren't no borders back in the day, brother."
When I worked at Swan in Pennsylvania, before I transitioned, but had grown my hair out long, I was called "Chief." I enjoyed the comfortableness my coworkers had in me for giving me the nickname, but the nickname felt....wrong.
Or that one time someone from Tulalip asked me if I was Native and I said "Well, if you think Mexicans are Native." His reply? "Weren't no borders back in the day, brother."
