The diversity of the Indigenous community is underrepresented and misunderstood. Four young Black Indigenous activists working to change that spoke about their heritage and building solidarity.
The struggle to represent the community's diversity
"Just because you grew up on a [reservation], that doesn't make you culturally better than — or knowing more of — your particular history or culture. And vice versa," said Kyle T. Mays, a Black Native member of the Saginaw Chippewa. There are so few high-profile Black and Native people that the rare exceptions can feed stereotypes or suggest a homogeneity that isn't accurate.
"We ignore the history of past experience and past strength in solidarity movements," she said."There is the Red Power movement and the civil rights movement that went hand-in-hand with each other in the United States and that both groups supported each other."
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