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In the west coast we typically just used the name of the native tribe we killed in order to take the land.
Or the Spanish name from when the Spanish took the land a couple hundred years before.
In Oklahoma we just use the name of whatever tribe was forcibly relocated there. Although I know of one town that was named after a misspelling of an indian chief's name. The Apollo 14 CSM pilot lived there.
That's OK though /j
I wouldn't know anything about that here in siʔaɬ.
and then we say a prayer thanking the tribe every sunday at church, don't forget that
They do it before everything from sports to classical music where I am.
do they explicitly thank the tribe in the prayer?
i know they're trying, but it's kind of ridiculous.
It's not actually a prayer, just an acknowledgement. But yes.
i think i'm kind of superimposing the prayers and acknowledgements because (1) the last one i was at was at a church and it was kind of both, (2) i'm a church musician and when all you've got is a hammer, and (3) like, statesia. prayers. you know.
one of my grandfathers was one of the kids stolen from his tribe (fuck if we know which one) by the mormons as part of their Indian Placement Program (theologically they wanted to turn the natives white. don't get me started). so like, i don't want to sear all white people with the same brand, but like, sometimes the acknowledgements feel like a bandaid. okay most of the time.
all i know is it fucked up my grandfather something terrible
And yet you still support the religion of the colonizers. You should take your talent elsewhere.
i do? lay out your stupid argument. I'll hear it ONCE.
You play Christian church music for Christian church goers.
Not really much more of an argument than that...
and your assumptions are wrong! too bad, you don't get to play again
You do realize that I was quoting you, right?
Yes, I visited Themdamninjuns last time I went through Illinois.
If you are making multiple asides, the standard approach is to use square brackets within the first parentheses, not double parentheses.
e.g.
Thank you. I think I have it now.
Nah I prefer feeling like I’m reading a 90’s chain email.
footnotes^1^.
^1^gotta use^2^
^2^go^3^tcha
^3^ better footnotes
I had not heard of this before. Usually those are used when adding text to a quote for clarification. Is this mainly a British English thing?
It's professional writing. It's like when people complain how titles have capital letters in them, is just a form of writing.