Why you should remove ‘spirit animal’ from your vocabulary:
heard the phrase"spirit animal," it was 2012—around the time she noticed that non-Native Americans started appropriating Native culture by wearing headdresses to music festivals, buying dream-catcher earrings, and putting stylized tipis in the backyards of their beachfront bungalows.
. In a lot of these cases,"spirit animal" didn't even reference an actual animal. Instead, one person may proclaim Harry Styles as their spirit animal, while another reserves that title for pizza.But therein lies the problem with this phrase. Even though"spirit animal" isn't a term widely used in Indigenous cultures—if at all—it takes the concept of their sacred connection with and reverence for nature and twists it into a catchphrase and a commodity.
"It's this complicated thing because within Native communities, of course, we still use the term. It's hard to erase the meaning of something that we have been using for 500 years. But when white people use the term in a playful way now, then we feel further delegitimized in our nationhood and that's why it's offensive.
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