White Voluntourists Don’t Belong on Indian Reservations

Still, they come because such missionary trips are big business

Angelina Newsom
ZORA
Published in
4 min readSep 2, 2019

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EEach summer one thing could be certain in my small town on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Lame Deer, Montana — strange White folks descend upon us with their unmarked white vans. Etched in the dirt on the back window, “Honk, if you love Jesus!” They…

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Angelina Newsom
ZORA
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