Something that genuinely still exhausts me that I see in the fandom all the time (which is not specific to the fandom but rather a larger societal phenomenon) is how people seem to love "Native Americans" as a concept but couldn't care less about us Native folks in real life. I say as a concept because people love the idea of this society that they perceive to have no rules and are just "wild" peoples, that somehow still have a dictator which they call a chief (even though a chief in our cultures are nothing of the sort). No, in reality, you had a lot of morals you needed to live up to, they were simply different than ones in the west.

All this to say, peoples perception of who we are is still remarkably backwards. I keep seeing people who admire us as a concept display behaviors that would never fly in our traditional societies.

So admire the art I've commissioned, it's a reflection of who I am. But I hope that you admire who we are as a people in real life just as much and support us just as much, especially in regards to land/treaty rights. We are not just something for your eyes to admire in fantasy. We are not fantasy. I am not fantasy. What I have commissioned is not fantasy but a real way of life, a culture, a spiritual way.