Despite generational trauma, #NativeTikTok is sharing their mutual history and calling for action.
"I consider myself a detribalized Native American Indigenous person — there's millions of us in foster care, who have been severed of the ties of their roots," Coyotl said, adding that his story is"so unique but not unique" in that he and others have been pushed away when trying to claim a tribe and instead opt to identify as detribalized so they don't"step on anyone's toes.
Coyotl thinks division between tribes stifles progress."There's some identity politics ... a little bit of a clash of certain things. And people butt heads, and it can be a lot of crabs in a bucket. So it's kind of hard," he shared, adding that he's hopeful that the hashtag can turn into a movement on the same scale of #MeToo or #BlackLivesMatter.
Coyotl, Sila and Kicknosway said there are unifying common threads that transcend debate and bring the community together, regardless of tribe, such as singing, drumming, praying to the ancestors and dancing in traditional garb. "There's this teaching that I was taught at a very young age," Kicknosway said."And it's that when our children are first born and they have their first cry, those are the first songs that they sing. So when people ask me how long I've been singing, I always tell them since the day I was born."
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