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Why authentic representation feels impossible in diaspora

My daughter's school wants her to do a presentation about 'our traditions' for Indigenous Heritage Month, but we're urban Indians and I buy her regalia online from other tribes.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Cultural displacement creates anxiety about legitimacy that compounds across generations.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous identity and land?”

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