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Collected Item: “Photos from Not Your Mascot Victory Dance”

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Photos from Not Your Mascot Victory Dance

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Instagram

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

“One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they are oppressed but don’t feel powerless. White people don’t feel oppressed, but feel powerless. Deconstruct that disempowerment. Part of the mythology that they’ve been teaching you is that you have no power. Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.” - Winona LaDuke, Executive Director of Honor the Earth⁣
⁣Photos from Not Your Mascot Victory Dance, July 14, 2020

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

Native community, oppression, disempowerment, spirit, Honor the Earth, Not Your Mascot Victory Dance, Social Justice, ASU, HST580, indigenous,

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CC8nO6eHJtn/

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Drew Arrieta @itsdrw

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2020-07-22
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