{"id":54619,"date":"2017-07-23T16:36:06","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T16:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54619"},"modified":"2017-07-23T16:36:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T16:36:06","slug":"its-not-my-job-to-teach-you-about-indigenous-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54619","title":{"rendered":"It’s Not My Job to Teach You about Indigenous People"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Not My Job to Teach You about Indigenous People<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Walrus<\/a>
\n2017-07-18<\/p>\n

Melanie Lefebvre<\/strong><\/a>, Red River M\u00e9tis\/Irish writer and visual artist
\nKanien\u2019keh\u00e1:ka Territory<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t have time to educate yourself, then I can\u2019t help you<\/em><\/p>\n

I recently spent the evening with someone who is half Indigenous and half white. \u201cSally\u201d was eager to learn more about her history, her family, and traditions. She was raised white and from what I learned, has a white perspective and approach to the world around her\u2014meaning, her lens is very colonized.<\/p>\n

Sally and I had just finished up dinner and were well into a bottle of M\u00e9nage \u00e0 Trois<\/a> (the name of a good wine, not the situation). Sally proceeded to ask me where she could learn about Indigenous peoples and cultures\u2014you know, as a starting point. I said, the library. Obvious answer, right? Open a book and ye shall find information. Sally wasn\u2019t keen on that response. Apparently, she was tired of reading and needed something a bit more readily available.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t enjoy research like you do,\u201d said Sally, sipping. True, I spend a lot of time researching. I\u2019m a writer. It\u2019s what I love to do. And I look for positive Indigenous stories, but they often get overshadowed by ones like the recent murder of Barbara Kentner<\/a> in Thunder Bay<\/a> or the crisis of suicides among Native children. I attempt to read all of the stories on my feed because I am a witness to what has happened before, what is happening now, and what will happen to my children in the future. Still, many choose not to see…<\/p>\n

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If you don\u2019t have time to educate yourself, then I can\u2019t help you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,459,8,3015],"tags":[27351,6544],"class_list":["post-54619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-canada","category-history","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","tag-melanie-lefebvre","tag-the-walrus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54620,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54619\/revisions\/54620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}