Indigenous Rising

Someone who comes to our classes is a Mechoopda woman (not white passing) who had become disconnected with her culture and is now trying to research her tribe and get involved in the community, and a certain someone keeps calling her an apple. She is doing everything the right way, the respectful way, and is being teased and excluded. White settlers tried to torture the ndn out of all of us and some  were not as blessed as others to be able to be connected to their culture. How can we hold this against each other?