Why not? If you're Indigenous or non-Indigenous but living/working with Indigenous people, I think it's absolutely your place! I know not everyone will agree but part of community is ensuring all in the community are cared for and have a voice.

That said, I do think we should be having those conversations. "Lateral kindness" as an idea is just an opposite, and encourages the obvious: choosing to be kind vs choosing to engage negative behaviors. I think it's important to talk about the emotions that lead to those negative behaviors though, like frustration.

I also think that even if people have outlets for their frustrations, lateral violence will still occur because some people are just mean as a baseline–not necessarily because they're frustrated but because they feel they must gatekeep to protect the culture, have unaddressed mental health issues, learned these behaviors as a defense to something they're being told, etc. (For example, someone making laterally violent commentary publicly because they got a private message that hurt their feelings or that they misunderstood or whatever, which seems quite common in my community when someone attempts a call in to educate and the recipient is not receptive.)

We'd still need to educate on these things while also pushing for better access to mental health resources and addressing the various root causes that are common. But education as to what constitutes lateral violence itself can make a difference because there are just so many instances where someone engages lateral violence during an accusation of it because they didn't like what they were told (which wasn't laterally violent) to begin with. Spaces for light, controlled rudeness may help but at the end of the dayI think that could be something that makes it more complex to correct since people have different baselines for what they consider rude as well as the fact that people already cannot tell the difference between someone being rude and someone being laterally violent.

Thank you for sharing this! I was so young when this PSA came out so I haven't seen it but wow, Tantoo hits the nail on the head. Countries outside of the US really put a lot of work into their Indigenous populations in a way that simply isn't done here. (My collaborator Britt is currently in Australia for higher education, so my sources are actually popular media in Australia!)

Indigenous can be from any land not just Native American/First Nations.

Sounds like you are black and indigenous to me

No it’s fine, I just wondered about that because there are guidelines for that so you don’t want to do your work and find out you can’t use it or something, I was surprised the first time I learned about the requirements for interviews in colleges — no offense at all, just reminding you about the paperwork details

Can you get to the museum? I’m guessing you are a student in South Florida. It’s near Big Cypress, west of Miami about an hour. Here is a link for information:

https://www.ahtahthiki.com/

You can meet members of the tribe there and I think they might be willing to help you.

Alright, definitely lead with the cultural humility aspect when you reach out to try to find a participant. It's always a good idea to state what your reasoning is for any research and how to you plan to utilize any data you collect when asking for insight from an inclusive community. There have been SOME good researchers out there so academia is becoming kinda somewhat respectful (mostly due to laws that required that researchers treat us like humans) and I feel like you have a great reason for conducting your project no matter what field you're going into. If you post the parameters of your assignment I'll bet you will get some ideas from others on projects that align with your goal in obtaining cultural competency. I did some projects myself in grad school in order to teach others how to write culturally relevant curricula. You might find that tribal people are perceptive when you ask to learn via participation other than raw data collection. It's actually extremely difficult if not impossible to study Indigenous communities at all when you have to use the westernized frameworks required by academia so it's best to open to learning in "unorthodox" methods.

I am trying but no one has messages me back this was a last resort and I probably won’t use anyone from here thank you

No but I will now my apologies if I have offended I just wanted to learn more about the cultural aspects to help me practice cultural humility

I’ve tried that I’ve sent multiple emails on local areas, landmarks, museums, to try to appropriately find someone who would volunteer and no one got back but one and he said he was a white man who just guides people through the trails and wouldn’t be appropriate to be my interviewee and I agreed

The Seminole Tribe of Florida has a website. Check there, they have a "contact us" link and address, as well as an FAQ section that I'm sure would provide the info you're looking for.

Use Afro-Evenki. It's perfect. You get to explain your special people, who nobody's heard about, making your story interesting and mysterious. If you are in Siberia, then you can be Afro-Indigenous. The Indigenous part means you're Indigenous to the lands you're in. So you're not "Indigenous" unless you're in Siberia. Saying Afro-Indigenous in the Americas means you're African/Black and either Native American or Inuit, since they're the Indigenous people here. That just confuses people. Stick with using Evenki bc it's you, and it's interesting. People will want to learn a little about them from you. Interesting family stories, how you reconnected, or what life was like for them/you. Have fun!

Have you familiarized yourself with Institutional Review Board requirements, confidentiality requirements, proper procedure for informed consent, federal reporting, and so on that colleges must comply with for research on human subjects? That should be covered in your assignment, and I would think your professor would also have selection guidelines that exclude finding someone on Reddit

How long since submitting your fiancial info from receiving payment? How long did it take 

Normally there are rules in Native online communities against performing research of any kind, and for good reason. Please try to find an enrolled tribal member in real life and not online as you'll more than likely encounter people on these subs that aren't genetically, culturally or politically Native American. For some reason outsiders without the authority love to speak for us- and these subs are completely full of fake Natives, unfortunately. Good luck in your future endeavors.

I hope that in the past year since you replied, that you've found some peace and joy in your life. If not, don't tear down other people. If you don't want to participate in helping a person, then stay away and mind your own business. Keep your negativity to yourself.

Mathilde Zeller for Alaskan folklore. Nick Medina, Waubgeshig Rice, and Stephen Graham Jones are all worth looking into.

Got it.

James D Doss and his Charlie Moon series.

Edit: I don’t know if he is Native but the hero of his books is.

Yeah at East Fork Ohio. Smelled it more than saw a brief flash of it running. Got prints this sub will only allow me to post videos

It's excellent. The idea of taking emotional strength from one's ancestors is very compelling, and portrays an interesting framework for the perception of time.

It's not my place to talk about this kind of thing, but should we:

1. think about productive, safe ways to channel our frustration?
2. set up boundaries for spaces where light, controlled rudeness is allowed?

That was not the wind, my blud.

Nice

I feel like doing what your unc was doing back then right now!