![]() Nothing about this article is respectful. To say nothing of sending this article to print days before Thanksgiving, a day celebrating the genocide of an entire Native tribal community, and just prior to Giving Tuesday, the Tuesday following Thanksgiving that is the day of the year generating more total donations than any other day. The layers of stereotyping and misinformation are due to a lack of research and understanding of Native issues. The title for this response came from the Reddit thread, where the author says, “I have deep respect for each person, Nation, and group involved in this story” - a statement that is obviously fiction, as their end takeaway is to encourage people not to donate to Real Rent Duwamish or the Duwamish Tribal Services (DTS). This is unequivocally anti-Native racism. The author successfully dumbed down the extraordinarily complex issue of federal recognition of Native tribes - to some distortion of reality where appropriative white people intend to open a casino in Seattle city limits to steal money away from other tribes in the region. Recently a friend forwarded me a Seattle Met article titled “The Politics of Paying Real Rent Duwamish” and a subsequent Reddit thread, along with an eye roll.
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