Sterilization was the Plan

Natasha Romanoff.

You know that name,

the spy from Marvel.

 

She saw herself as a monster

because she was sterilized.

 

The question is:

Did you know

Indigenous females

were also sterilized?

 

The brown skin,

black hair,

“foreign” language

and pagan beliefs

were not ideal.

 

Native Americans

were still seen as “dirt”

and the less there were

the better it was.

 

Paper ads tricked

soon to be mothers

and females to gather

for free screenings.

 

The staff looked at them

as heathens, disgusting creatures

that needs to wiped off the planet.

Procedures without consent happened.

 

Thousands of Native ladies

were no longer “women”.

They were now sterilized

and could not bare children.

 

Future torch bearers

for our cultures were

whisked away in mere seconds.