native/natives

Native kids do the same thing today.

Native groups, like the American Indian Movement and Red Power Movement, had risen up to try to make change.

Alaska Natives agreed to give up their claim over the whole state, all 360 million acres.

No Native nation in the lower 48 had done anything like this.

But Native communities were already keepers of their own cultures.

But many Native nations had never stopped fighting for their inherent right to self-govern.

We Natives gotta stick together.

I read perspectives from some Native people who say land acknowledgements can come off as hollow gestures.

Anyway, there’s more about Native identity in Episode 4.

This sprawling body of law affects individual Native people, our communities, and even our land.

King João the Fourth listened to what Vieira had to say, and outlawed the forced labor of Brazil’s native population.

And it didn’t make Vieira a saint either: as a Jesuit, he actively worked to erase Native culture and religions by converting the Indigenous population to Catholicism.

During this stage, we gain a sense of belonging and are able to fully participate in the new culture, even while maintaining our own native identity.