The settlers continue resorting to tried-and-true tactics to eradicate The Indian Problem in the new world. No word yet on whether the next stage will escalate to smallpox blankets.
Officials say North Dakota law enforcement will begin to prevent supplies from reaching the Standing Rock camp.
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Analytical Grammer
I love Analytical Grammar for the most part, but this group of their posts is tiresome and willfully ignorant.
My first language should actually have been Gitk'sanimix, but because my parents saw how brown-skinned people who spoke their indigenous language were treated in Canada, they decided their chlidren would be raised in an English-speaking household.
Now, as a grown, mono-lingual Gitk'san woman, I've seen how brown-skinned people who speak English less than perfectly are treated in Canada. I happen to have been supported extensively by my family and community in my education; I happen to have seen a point in pursuing my studies in school. As a result, I happen to express myself in English quite well. I'm protected from prejudice and dismissal of my thoughts and perspectives because English verb conjugation and complex sentence structure come quite naturally to me. This doesn't make my experiences in life any more or less valid than anyone else's. Not everyone realises this.
It pisses me off when other First Nations people, or other people of colour, are mocked and spoken down to as mentally incompetent once individuals from the dominant culture in Canada realise a person with brown skin does not speak pristine English. A person's perceived fluency in English should not affect their health care in Canada in 2016, but it does. It makes the difference between being admitted and treated for double pneumonia, or being sent home from the emergency department with a brochure on COPD. It makes the difference between being treated for a complex, chronic illness, or being sent home with some Tylenol 3s and backhanded comments about being a drug-seeker.
So fuck you, Analytical Grammar, and your fucking ignorant, elitist fucking trope.
My first language should actually have been Gitk'sanimix, but because my parents saw how brown-skinned people who spoke their indigenous language were treated in Canada, they decided their chlidren would be raised in an English-speaking household.
Now, as a grown, mono-lingual Gitk'san woman, I've seen how brown-skinned people who speak English less than perfectly are treated in Canada. I happen to have been supported extensively by my family and community in my education; I happen to have seen a point in pursuing my studies in school. As a result, I happen to express myself in English quite well. I'm protected from prejudice and dismissal of my thoughts and perspectives because English verb conjugation and complex sentence structure come quite naturally to me. This doesn't make my experiences in life any more or less valid than anyone else's. Not everyone realises this.
It pisses me off when other First Nations people, or other people of colour, are mocked and spoken down to as mentally incompetent once individuals from the dominant culture in Canada realise a person with brown skin does not speak pristine English. A person's perceived fluency in English should not affect their health care in Canada in 2016, but it does. It makes the difference between being admitted and treated for double pneumonia, or being sent home from the emergency department with a brochure on COPD. It makes the difference between being treated for a complex, chronic illness, or being sent home with some Tylenol 3s and backhanded comments about being a drug-seeker.
So fuck you, Analytical Grammar, and your fucking ignorant, elitist fucking trope.
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