were heartbreaking after staying up til 7am streaming BE to watch them perform. i shouldnt have to explain to every single person why its offensive, its so tiring when we all have access to information and natives type up huge threads that get 3k likes and 500 rts.
but the native ca is still happening. were indigenous ppl before were stans. the txt ca hurt too as someone who was getting into them. this has been such a hard year for native kpop fans. my native moots are fans of all sorts of groups and it hurts all of us when 1 group does ca.
yall use it for fanwars while native kpop fans are hurting for each other and not being taken seriously. we are such a tiny minority in stan twt bc our people were GENOCIDED. theres not many of us, and lots of natives make fun of native stans shit, they dont help us either.
lots of natives on twt mock us for putting up with all this ca, we dont get support from them. what we need is support from army. REAL support that asks us to lead and empathizes with us rather than drill us for a loophole that absolves bts/bh from having hurt us.
we really deserve an apology from
@bts_bighit for this, and we need a statement from them in print that they will not use indigenous cultures for concepts, styling, backdrops, or decor anymore. it wasnt ok, it was highly offensive.
1. there are hundreds of native american cultures and only some of them had tipis in their culture, many of them plains nations. im plains, im not saying my nation but im from the clan who oversaw nomadic months and had a lot to do with tipis. every last thing abt them +
has meaning, even where you sit inside one. its more than a home, its a huge part of my culture. my SW ntv army moots tell me to them tipis are strictly ceremonial and sacred, and theyre incredibly hurt too. stop quoting the natives who dont care! they prolly dont have tipis lol
and why should it be a scale of who's louder. doesnt it matter if even a few ppl are hurt. we're small in number bc we've been violently colonized ffs. a lot of natives will overlook shit just to cope with being native. we want a bts happy place too, is that so hard to support?
2. if you need to be educated, seek out and follow native army or native stans in whatever fandom youre in. bc we're not just being sensitive. native americans & first nations could not practice our cultures til the 60s-70s. it was illegal. dancing was illegal. our languages+
were illegal to speak. you know what canadian govt did to ppl who broke the law and danced? held them in prison and agents would ransom their tribes for ceremonial items to punish them. a lot of native artifacts in museums are from this era or they just piled them and burned them
colonizer culture here exploited us, stole from us, did its best to obliterate our cultures from everybodys memory to occupy our land guilt free. we were the subjects of the first hollywood films, and the only reason plains nations get appropriated so much worldwide +
is because hollywood was too cheap to diversify native costumes for westerns. they control our narrative and any sensible person places blame on them, not people overseas who arent aware. but it is our right to address it & the ppl who participate in our exploitation.
it hurts us so much bc we fought so hard to claw back our agency and cultural boundaries after being pillaged by colonizers. they want to be us sooo bad. they make sooo much money off us, not just our land but our cultures.
3. cultural appropriation of native people is a multi-billion dollar industry, and natives arent the ones being paid. from our jewelry, to clan-specific southwest patterns, to our ceremonial items, to our sacred medicines and practices.... lots and lots of colonizers making $$$$$
+off us while native artisans who charge livable prices get stiffed. the yt middleman cut us off and started dreamcatcher factories overseas. markets them worldwide and suddenly its a cute new thing to steal from native pockets. while we go hungry & have to boil our water.
we're so exhausted of having to educate everyone we speak to bc for ~some reason~, when natives say "thats offensive", the offense has been so normalized by yt americans that its never enough. we have to trauma dump to stan twt strangers to prove we arent antis. seriously?
4. BH, BTS, TXT... they set trends, guys. you gotta take native ca seriously. i cant take much more of it, its been weekly native ca all year. i blame parasite for inspiring k-ent companies for planning a year of native concepts. dont you dare make it a fanwar thing.
everything BTS does gets copied and yall know its true, im full of dread of how many tipis im gonna see or how many native moots im gonna have to comfort. none of us want to unstan anybody. native army are so hurt bc we trust bts so much, bts inspires trust & vulnerability.
& i would like to trust that they would care if they knew. BH has been ignoring us and following thru with ndn concepts so im sorry but its time to make noise about this and stand with native army who keep getting hurt. the emails are not being taken seriously.
its really time to trend something and for non-native army to have our back. if BH made a big statement, do you know how many other companies would take notes? it would make kpop a safer space for indigenous ppl & educate soooo many koreans.
it would literally start the convo in korea abt native ca that parasite failed to start. it would help indigenous ppl so much. it would restore my trust & probably bring in a lot of indigenous fans who are so tired of being hurt by groups. its good all around to be accountable!!
but im sorry, native army cannot rely on e-mails anymore and its extremely disgusting how army is trying to tell us and non-natives to "do this quietly". NO! thats what happened the last couple times BH had tipis and dreamcatchers in things, and our outrage got suffocated.
or stans co-opted our pain and turned it into fanwars to spark army into a sh00ter frenzy and native voices got quickly buried/forgot. or army quoted every native who absolved BH and brushed off the ca but never us who were upset, not the templates or anything. SHOW UP FOR US
and that means bringing this up more than the antis & rting native army who are speaking. that means posting #bhstopusingnativeculture til it trends no matter how much antis or other army scream and fight over it. bc us native army asked you to.
that means big accnts need to show up for us too and get the word out abt native army's wishes. one single big accnt who cared could trend anything they want on their own and nobody does it for us. why? ill tell you why:
people are extremely anti-indigenous. every time we speak up on native ca, its so normalized we get harassed, threatened, doxxed, you name it native ppl been thru it for speaking on ANYTHING online, not just on stan twt. a lot of yall probably just do not want to take the heat
and stick your necks out for us, and it sucks. bc yall stan a group with so many messages of humanitarianism & we all relate to them so much but we're hesitant to relate to each other. native army needs army the most rn. native twt mocks us, non-native kpop twt exploits us.
i dont want to unstan bts out of self respect and respect for my culture. that idea makes me sick bc i love them so much and it shouldnt have to come to that. im native before im a stan and thats how its supposed to be.
i really cant take another sudden tipi while im looking at the boys. it honestly makes me ill. i cried for HOURS.... so many native army are in mourning right now of our trust being chipped away.
it chips away when we see the tipis, the dreamcatchers, the sw patterned throws, all this stuff sold by yt ppl. and then comes a weverse article detailing the racial and cultural history of disco. or BH hiring librarians. BH... can... do... so.... much..... better. full stop.
ignore the antis stop engaging their fanwars using our ca or ca of other cultures/religions to squabble with them. dont participate in using our pain for stan shit its ugly and not cute and it talks over us. stop setting natives up to be antis or fanwar fodder.
we have every right to be loud. for a lot of us this is our last ditch effort to get ANYBODYS attention outside of emails to be heard and acknowledged before we literally *have* to unstan. either for well-being or self respect, not everyone can suffer it when bts makes us soft.
if you try to call me a kpopper anti or whatever im just gonna block you. if you look at my first twt i obviously started this accnt for edits on dec 7th. now im too sad to make edits or draw for bts so this account is a throwaway bc stan twt loves to mass report natives
and i dont want to lose my main to anti-indigenous stan twt. it doesnt have to be this way! we should be heard, i dont care how bad antis want to drag bts over it and how much you hate that. we should be your priority, still. tag me if antis start shit.
let native army handle this instead of barging in and telling us what to do, how many ppl should email at a time, blah blah.... yall really need to understand, at the native ca table non-natives have no seat or shots to call. ill shut down antis quicker than any yall can.
i know BTS loves native ppl, its obvious they love our culture and respect us. but ppl who love us can still hurt us. and it might be BH's failure to listen to us, but BTS is still what hurts us not BH.
call me delulu but if we trended #bhstopusingnativeculture for long enough, i know for a fact one of the boys or their friends would see it. i know for a fact if they knew BH has been ignoring us since June they'd be furious and feel sorry that all happened.
and they would push to make a statement and resolve this quickly with native army, much more than anyone at BH running a business. at the core of the issue, BH is music & artist for healing. native ca wounds native army its so devastating tbh. the opposite of healing or comfort
it needs to be made right. yes, it might inconvenience the members. it might make them upset they hurt us. we love them so much too and have been so dedicated to working this out thru BH. but it cant go on army. it just cant
theres so much we can all gain and so much that could help not just native army or native stans but native people *in general*, please weather the antis and temper yourselves for the dragging. tag me in to handle antis if you want. support indigenous ppl, dont let us down.
