Hey Shamontiel, I came over from our other conversation on the ZORA article. This sounds like it was a very beautiful experience for you!

I might just not be in the right circles, but I feel that Indigenous rights are not a very prominent conversation in American media. In Canada, First Nations related issues have really proliferated in our media and thankfully, settlers of colours like myself are slowly starting to listen. (I wrote a small piece on it that might of interest to you.)

Maybe this is a bit of a tangent, but I too have learned an unexpected lot from talking to Indigenous people. As an immigrant kid who really wanted to assimilate and be cool, I was OK with internalizing racism as a child and intentionally tried to be whiter. But seeing Indigenous people—and Black folks—be so proud of their heritage (because theirs has been threatened, stolen, and appropriated a hundred times over), made me realize why I should be proud of mine. And that I am extremely privileged for it not having been stolen from me.