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Shannon Baker

@realshannonbaker.bsky.social

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Actor 🎬 Model. 📸 Producer 🎥 Indigenous (Yinka Dune)

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Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · Mar 14

It took hours to make this and takes only one second to like. #stopmotion

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Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · 5h

It's so cringey to see pretendians centering all their posts on being Indigenous and the fake hardships they face. 🙈

Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · 13d

Halloween is almost here:
-Don’t wear a headdress 🙅🏽‍♀️
-Don’t be an “Indian Princess” 🙅🏽‍♀️
-Don’t dress up as an “Indian Warrior” 🙅🏽‍♀️

We are not your costume.

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Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · 21d

Tolerating racism IS racism. 💁🏽‍♀️

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Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · Sep 11

Indigenous women make up about 1/4 of human trafficking victims in the United States. In Canada, Indigenous people make up 1/2 of human trafficking victims. Compared to other races, Indigenous women are 2.5x as likely to experience sexual violence.

Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · Sep 11

There are 8 Métis Settlements in Canada, all in Alberta. They are legislated & self-governing. 🪶✊🏽

The 8 settlements are:
Fishing Lake, Kikino, Elizabeth, Paddle Prarie, Gift Lake, Buffalo Lake, East Prairie, & Peavine.

Alberta is the only Canadian province with a legislated Métis land base.

Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · Sep 10

Natives have been here for thousands and thousands of years and we didn’t need signs that say to not feed the bears. 🤦🏽‍♀️

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Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · Sep 10

The last residential school closed in 1998 and was called the Lebret Indian residential school.

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Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · Sep 9

White passing Natives experience less racism and discrimination than their Black and brown, or visibly BIPOC relatives. Their lives will be easier. Looking white does not make a Native person less Native but it does make them more privileged.

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Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · Sep 9

“But they are still your family”
is how abuse gets normalized. 🙄

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Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · Sep 9

Pretendians claiming they are Métis are the same people that have never heard of a Métis settlement. 💁🏽‍♀️

Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · Sep 9

You can’t break a person who gets their strength from their ancestors. 💪🏽

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Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · Sep 8

Dear Natives,
We often hear that we have trauma in our DNA. Don’t forget that we also have strength. 💪🏽

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Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · Sep 8

Learn our history because we’ve spent our whole lives learning yours. 💁🏽‍♀️
-Indigenous & Black people

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Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · Sep 7

If bannock can rise so can you. 😜

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Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · Sep 7

In the Americas, no matter where you go.
There you are. On Native land.

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Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · Sep 7

No one gets angrier faster than a non-Native when you tell them they aren't two-spirit. 🤪

Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · Sep 7

Some of you don’t know that in Canada our colonizers are either English or French. Not Spanish. Not all Native people have Spanish decent. Also, not all Natives have colonizer DNA in them.

Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · Sep 7

MMIW: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · Sep 3

In Canada, you needed written permission from an Indian agent to leave the rez even for a funeral or wedding. (Some elders that have had to do this are still alive today).

In the U.S., punishment for being off reservation could include a hanging.

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Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · Sep 3

Stop saying “off reservation” as a punchline. 🙅🏽‍♀️

Indigenous people in Canada and the U.S. were forcibly put onto reservations, and legally were not allowed to leave.

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Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · Sep 3

Squaw is a deragatory term.
Esk*mo is a slur.

If you didn’t know before. You know now. 💁🏽‍♀️

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Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · Sep 3

IF 👏🏽YOU 👏🏽 ARE 👏🏽 NOT 👏🏽 INDIGENOUS 👏🏽THEN 👏🏽 YOU 👏🏽 AREN’T 👏🏽 TWO-SPIRIT 👏🏽

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Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · Sep 3

-We are still finding bodies of murdered Indigenous children in residential schools
-The last residential school closed in 1998
-There are thousands of missing and murdered Indigenous women

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Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · Sep 3

Canadians stop telling Natives it happened a long time ago:
-50% of human trafficked victims in Canada are Native despite them making up only 5% of the population
-Thousands of Native women were forcibly sterilized against their will due to eugenics legislation in Canada

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Shannon Baker @realshannonbaker.bsky.social · Sep 3

It’s the try hard for me. 🫣
#pretendians

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