corazonyflores:

It’s 2017 people need to stop appropriating the term spirit animal. If you aren’t an Indigenous person who is part of a culture and community that uses this term in their practices you don’t need to be using it. The issue with its continued use is a that the cultural appropriation of Indigenous culture that seeks to commoditfy and erase the realities of Indigenous people. If you out here using the term educate yourself and stop using it. 

http://www.spiralnature.com/spirituality/spirit-animal-cultural-appropriation/