Extra Credit Whiteness

Listening to Dr. Debbie Reese speak was very changing and opened up a lot of new perspectives. To listen to it for me was specifically changing due to me being a “white” male. She started off by stating that “Tv Indians” are not what indigenous people are like at all. That they’re “dancing” is dancing but rather prayer. Their culture was completely misunderstood and now it has become almost colloquially known incorrectly. Calling them Native Americans is not correct, because they lived here before there even was an America. The schooling system shows books and movies which are misinformed teaching children the wrong image of indigenous people. This is described as whiteness. The selfish perspective in which they view everything based on what they have learned or witnessed. Not giving a thought about what the indigenous think. This talk was very moving and it definitely gave me some takeaways to think about in the future.