"Ken Hunt always insisted that they sit down together as a family—or what was left of their family—to watch the news on the live-stream TV at six o’clock. Then they would talk about what they’d seen, and discuss the politics behind it all.
Some people thought politics were boring, Ken Hunt said, but those folks didn’t realize that politics were everything. They were behind everything and in front of everything and under everything and over everything. Politics put food on your table, or not. They gave you a job, or not. Need a highway running past your town? That would be a political decision by somebody.
Everything was a political decision. Choosing what to wear when you got out of bed was a political decision. Deciding what to eat for your dinner. Calling your children Cheyenne and Cherokee, even if they shortened those names to Shy and Cher, that had definitely been a political decision on Ken Hunt’s part. They had First Nations blood flowing in their veins and they had to honor that every day—because wiping out the Native Americans? That was sure as shit a political decision.
Even Momma’s death had been a political decision. Sure, nobody actually decided she should get cancer and take to her bed and wither away like a little sparrow, but maybe if there had been better healthcare and cancer drugs were cheaper and Ken Hunt hadn’t lost his job two years before and, and, and…
Yeah, everything was politics...
Shy had died, ultimately, because of politics. Cher was reminded of their daddy. “Everything is a political decision.” Everything. Even running through a corridor in the dark, being pursued by creatures torn from a nightmare and made grotesque, in twisted flesh. That was a political decision, because those things would never have been on LV-187 but for the schemes of human beings."
--- Alien: Colony War / David Barnett
This is set in the Alien universe but of course it has contemporary identity politics in it.
Ironically, it seems Native Americans don't use tribe names like Cheyenne and Cherokee as names - and the Chief of the Cherokee Nation doesn't want Cherokee Jeeps either.
