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2naSalit

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1. Because this is a sacred, to them, item
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 10:25 AM
Mar 2020

which has been co-opted for recreational use as a party drug.

Aside from the fact that those who do so are endangering themselves, it is terribly disrespectful. Native Americans have suffered the co-opting of everything they hold dear by us for centuries. Most Euro-Americans just want the parts they like about Native American culture and toss the rest, disrespectfully telling Native Americans that we are still their oppressors.

This is one of the reasons why we can't have nice things.

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