defiantsuggestion:

if you’re nonnative and you come at a native person with “oh we should celebrate the GOOD things that europeans brought over–”

no. fuck no. absolutely FUCKING not. do NOT pull that shit. that is racist bullshit and you’ll be fucking eaten alive. you’re telling a native person that the amount of DEATHS, the genocide of people and culture and the erasure and violence that we STILL bear on a DAILY BASIS, is somehow justified by the corrupt, anti-indigenous governing structures that europeans decided they would use. you’re telling us that the ends justify the genocide that we still suffer from.