{"id":45003,"date":"2016-01-09T20:14:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T20:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45003"},"modified":"2017-06-13T00:39:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T00:39:11","slug":"here-comes-honky-why-i-married-a-white-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45003","title":{"rendered":"‘Here Comes Honky!’: Why I Married a White Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Here Comes Honky!’: Why I Married a White Guy<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Indian Country Today Media Network<\/a>
\n2016-01-06<\/p>\n

Terese Mailhot<\/strong><\/p>\n

When my sister\u2019s dates pulled into our driveway my mother would yell, \u201cHere comes Honky<\/a>!\u201d My sister was always livid, embarrassed, but still, she went out with white men most of her adult life. I always thought she was a traitor. I thought someday my Indian prince would come: the son of an activist in braids, with a mind full of theory and a stoic wisdom. But surprisingly I fell in love with a white man, with dusty blond hair and blue eyes.<\/p>\n

I was always told we were a dying breed. \u201cMeet a Native man,\u201d my mother said. Blood quantum<\/a> is important where I\u2019m from. Land rights, healthcare, housing, and assistance all deal with blood quantum and how Indian one is \u2018officially.\u2019 Besides that, marrying Native was always what I dreamed of.<\/p>\n

For generations Native women could not govern their own bodies, because white men and officials dictated we were their wards. We were subject to exploitation, objectification, and degradation at the hands of white people. Why would I ever want to give my body or love to a white man, a man who could never understand my grief or lineage?…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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