A Friendly Reminder

 

Not all Native Americans were headdresses

and live in teepees

smoking peyote

and waiting for a vision.

 

Some live on top of Mesas

in pueblos.

 

Not all Indigenous people

speak the same language.

Just like not all Asians

have the same language.

 

We are the Indigenous people

of this land,

with different tribes

and our own set governments.

 

Here’s a friendly reminder.

Don’t dress up as “Native Americans”

for Halloween.

 

It’s all about respect.