i also need white feminist to realize that many woc find being mothers empowering because in more ways than one our ancestors had the right to be mothers taken away from them by white governments.
*cough* slavery *cough*Yep. Also forced sterilization and genocide…
Residential schools taking your children away. Native children being put into white foster homes so their culture is stolen from them from their first moment of life.
ICWA wasn’t enacted until 1978 when the federal government gained recognition that Native children were undergoing removal at much higher rates than non-Natives. As someone whose mother was forcibly removed and placed into a new home far away from her birthplace at 3 months, it’s important to never overlook the struggles Native mothers have undergone since colonization.
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