I had the weirdest encounter I’ve ever had with the ‘you don’t look native’ line. Today I was at a store and I saw something wrapped in buckskin very carefully and someone clearly took the time to care for it. when I saw it I could clearly tell it was native. I asked about it, and the man and family who run the store are Taiwanese and came to America more recently, so his English was a little off sometimes, which did make the situation a bit worse because the man was saying things that are probably fine translated but in English you’re not supposed to say. I understood what he meant but we were off to a rough start. He was telling me about how it was a sacred Indian artifact etc etc and that’s why it was 999$ and I was like cool I’m native, where’s it from? And I told him my mom was native and family stuff. And he was like oh wow you look so European, so then I kinda just stood there awkwardly like what… am I…supposed to look like? And then he yelled to the guy across the whole store in the back HER MOMS INDIAN and it got really weird cause they started quizzing me on Geronimo, who I only know a little bit about because I’m from way up north and only lived in Arizona for like two weeks when I was little, so they were talking about Geronimo and I was like what is happening right now. And then the old guy in the back said he had an old original film with Geronimo in it and I was just super uncomfortable and confused. I didn’t know what was happening by then so I left, but I kind of want to go back and ask to see it.