Updating Our Language - Day 16
Tribe
Tribes are significant cultural and political groups for Indigenous people.
When used by white people to describe their groups of friends and/or family, it can be a form of colonization through appropriating sacred words used by and for Indigenous people.
Throughout July we will be making posts about updating our language.
We live in a society that has normalized using many words and phrases with racist origins.
Part of the anti-racist work involves acknowledging you have used them, beginning the process of eliminating them from your vocabulary, and gently correcting others when you hear them used.
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