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Fandom: Harry Potter—History of Magic in North America
Pairings/Characters: Gen; OCs
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 1961 words
Creator Links: [personal profile] gehayi
Theme: Indigenous characters; Fix Fic; meta; residential schools; colonialism; passive resistance; cultural dissonance

Summary: A history book claims that Native American skinwalkers are merely Animagi who help their tribes by transforming. Rick Etcitty, who has been raised in an atmosphere steeped in Navajo spiritual practices, knows that the book couldn't be more wrong.

Reccer's Notes: The POV of a twelve-year-old Diné boy dragged off to mandatory wizard schooling in Phoenix (at an institution that neither he nor the author deign to name.)

([archiveofourown.org profile] Gehayi has a whole catacomb to pick with Rowling’s history and worldbuilding; see also “The Devil Is Imprecise”, some American magic students’ in-story sporking of HOMINA.)

Content notes: No Archive Warnings Apply; Not Pottermore Compliant; forced colonialist education; description of gruesome folk-magical practices; discussion of mythic beings and practices that Diné themselves are wary of mentioning.

Fanwork Links: https://archiveofourown.org/works/6201754

Date: 2024-01-19 09:06 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] beatrice_otter
Ooooh, I remember that one, it's really good, thanks for reccing it!

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