it’s about so much more than cultural appropriation, Yknow? (that’s important too) but to wear fake versions of our traditional dress from a white company when traditional dress & practices were illegal for us 50 years ago in some places is ugly
also, hypersexualization is a big contributor to the MMIW epidemic—it’s about keeping our women safe, women who are 12x more likely to go missing & be victims of violence.
i guess i’m thinking either i’ll keep it, sew it onto something bigger later, give it to my future children
or i could make myself a necklace, a smaller one, with the same beads 🤔
brooooo this comment in Indigenous bead life on a post asking for price suggestions u gotta be kidding me. this is like fed behavior or something why would you ever give the worst advice ever given