If there is a silver lining to 2020, it’s the reminder that even the toughest fights in Indian Country can have a happy ending.

Once the slurs and caricatures are gone, we’re left to reconcile the erasure, tokenization, and colonization that exist beyond them.

With the "arrowhead chop" Super Bowl coverage over and done, the media attention given to Native writers will soon dissipate, as it always does.