Reminder the Holocaust was NOT the greatest loss of a group’s life to genocide in human history:
“By the close of the Indian Wars in the late 19th century, fewer than 238,000 #Indigenous people remained of the estimated 5 million-plus living in North America before European contact.”
Last month a Muscogee Nation district judge ruled that the Muscogee (Creek) Nation must recognize two Freedmen as tribal citizens, potentially opening the doors to broader Muscogee Freedmen citizenship.
Danish artist and climate activist Thomas Dambo spent his summer in the US creating gigantic troll-like creatures across the country out of recycled materials. Five are in Western Washington where he worked with Indigenous tribes and artist John Halliday to make sure his work respected their traditions.
Seraphine Warren gained attention for her cross-country walk from the Navajo Nation to Washington, D.C., to raise awareness about her missing aunt. Now newly unsealed federal court documents show that she and three other people were arrested and charged in connection with a 2021 kidnapping case.
From yesterday: “For the very first time, white feminists think, ‘Indians can be of use to us and we can put #abortion clinics on reservations.’ Not looking at what the detrimental impacts could be on our government-to-government relationship with the federal government and putting our reservations and people at risk in this time.” https://www.texasobserver.org/abortion-reprodutive-care-tribal-nations/
It is absolutely amazing to me that @decolonialatlas is putting out that huge #Indigenous map and smack dab in the center of their promo is #Bvlbancha.
That spelling of Bulbancha/Bvlbancha is directly from those of us who created the @bvlbanchacollective, to honor the heritage of our founding members, many of whom are also Mvskoke. There are many ways to spell Bvlbancha in anglicized letters, and all are correct.
help needed!!! :heart_sp_trans: :heart_sp_pride:
i am a transmasculine 2spirit person from Texas raising money for my upcoming top surgery on May 5th (EDIT; it’s been postponed to July 7th), 2023.
i do not have stable income at present due to my ongoing battle with chronic illness, and so i need as much help as i can get to be able to pay for this life-changing procedure without going into even more medical debt.
please consider donating (anything helps!), or if you can't afford to donate, please share this link around and ask others to help out <3 thank you
New Zealand’s central bank chief defended its use of the Maori language in official communications on Wednesday, as the country’s new centre-right government looks to roll back the use of the Indigenous language in the public sector....
Villagers in Peru reportedly thought they were being attacked by “seven-foot-tall-aliens” but authorities in the area have revealed it was actually a gang of illegal gold miners flying around on jetpacks, purposefully trying to scare people in the area....
Warning: details may be disturbing incl. information on what Canada's Senate described as a "horrific practice"
A 2022 Senate report concluded "this horrific practice is not confined to the past, but clearly is continuing today."
In 2023 a doctor was penalized for forcibly sterilizing an Indigenous woman in 2019
URGENT! please help Evel! xen is #Indigenous, #trans, #disabled, exhausted, and has a family to support. xen is fundraising for their monthly bills and housing. anything helps!
Today in Labor History February 27, 1973: 300 Oglala Sioux activists from the American Indian Movement (AIM) liberated and occupied Wounded Knee, South Dakota. This was the site of the infamous Massacre at Wounded Knee (1890). They occupied the site to protest a campaign of terror against them by the FBI, and corrupt tribal officials, and the tribal thugs knowns as GOONs (Guardians of Oglala Nation). The occupation lasted over 2 months, before being quashed by the U.S. government. 3 Native activists were killed. Dennis Banks and Russell Means were indicted for their roll, but charges were later dropped due to prosecutorial misconduct.
What I learned while researching Indigenous philosophy is that the debates around philosophy will be explicitly exclusionary . They'll say that Indigenous philosophy isn't rigurous enough. Others will say it didn't begin with the Greeks.
I specialize in Incan-Andean philosophy and learning it comes with, practically, 0 guidance. As philosophy diversifies with Chinese, Indian, African, Islamic, etc., we need to rememeber Native American philosophies, too #indigenous#philosophy#academia#native
"This July, I will turn 100 years old. I was born in 1924 in one of the last encampments and raised in Blacktail. When we were young girls, my sister, who was 10 at the time, and I, just 8 years old, attended a mission school for a year and a half."
Fawn Wood’s “Kikāwiynaw” is my favorite record at the moment. Her voice is quite captivating. And she really knows how to write a love song. Not sappy or romantic, just simple enduring love.
This record’s title is a Plains Cree word that translates to “our mother.” Therein she honors the female spirit.
My favorite track is “For Dallas,” but they’re all hauntingly beautiful.
I am saddened to think that #moundbuilderculture is something that is not discussed and is largely forgotten about in our civilization.
by #decolonizing and listening and learning from #indigenous scholars and academics , my enter perspective of Turtle Island, North America has changed completely.
New Zealand's central bank defends Maori language use (www.reuters.com)
New Zealand’s central bank chief defended its use of the Maori language in official communications on Wednesday, as the country’s new centre-right government looks to roll back the use of the Indigenous language in the public sector....
'Aliens' Terrorizing People In Peru Villages Turn Out to Be Gold Miners on Jetpacks (themessenger.com)
Villagers in Peru reportedly thought they were being attacked by “seven-foot-tall-aliens” but authorities in the area have revealed it was actually a gang of illegal gold miners flying around on jetpacks, purposefully trying to scare people in the area....