how do you feel when white people take an interest in learning about Native American history in school/college? (besides the cringing?)

In the end, it’s good. All Americans should know about the history of the people indigenous to these two continents. At the very least, everyone should have some knowledge of the tribes indigenous to the area where they live.

The apprehension I have comes from worries about misinformation, intent, etc. There is a lot of information about Natives out there that is just wrong, incomplete, or is manipulated by academics to portray Natives in whatever way they want to at the time, but it’s still circulated. Like a lot of others, I really wish that the field of Native studies, whatever it’s called now by white academics, was dominated BY Natives. We should be the ones writing the papers and the books, and filling positions at universities and conferences, and controlling the information that gets out there. But we’re not. So to see more non-Natives being interested in keeping that cycle going is unsettling to me.

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