I remember coming home from school and telling my mom Columbus "discovered" America. She told me it was a load of crap, and set me straight. Mom was a hippie who challenged the status quo. At the time, it embarrassed me, I'd get frustrated and just wanted her to be like the other parents. I realized later how lucky I was, and do the same with my daughter. #indigenous #fuckcolumbus #indigenouspeoplesday
please help my very #disabled #Indigenous friend & her family cover utilities & rent. she needs to be a safe house for her daughter & grandson escaping domestic violence & US fascism. she's been working hard on her #beadWork. you can buy her #jewelry below!
“Bill 5 and Bill C-5 are pieces of legislation that attempt to bulldoze over our First Nation rights and lands with no respect for our decision-making and jurisdiction.”
Four First Nations chiefs made their way to Queen’s Park in Toronto on July 16 to voice their displeasure and explain why they have joined fast-track litigation against the Ontario and federal governments.
Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon —
The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmon. propublica.org/article/trump-s…
The Trump administration canceled a deal that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmon.
Yesterday, the P’urhépecha municipality of Cherán, Michoacán, celebrated 14 years of autonomy. It began on April 15, 2011, when a group of women blocked cartel-linked illegal loggers from removing trees from the community. This act sparked a mass uprising that saw the community reclaim its territory, establishing barricades, 179 permanent bonfires, a form of autonomous government rooted in P’urhépecha forms of communal organization, and expelling the cartels, police, and political parties.
If you want to know more about Cherán, might I suggest "The Bonfires of Autonomy," a piece I wrote for the anthology edited by @cbmilstein, "Deciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy:" akpress.org/deciding-for-ourse…
This anthology explores this “sense of freedom in the air,” as one piece puts it, by looking at contemporary examples of autonomous, directly democratic spaces and the real-world dilemmas they experience, all the while underscoring the egalitarian…
please help my #disabled #Indigenous friend & her family survive. she been helping her daughter & grandson escape domestic violence. she has to pay a $100 late fee for every day she is late on rent & she's already received a water shut off notice. you can buy her #art and #jewelry below!
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hello! in the vein of @sayyid_qishta@terror.black and @june@weirder.earth , I am offering FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE prints in exchange for giving aid to others!
Here's a great place to get started: https://weirder.
In a community assembly, the Indigenous Ayuujk residents of Mogoñe Viejo, Oaxaca, decided to rebuild a resistance encampment on the path of the neoliberal Interoceanic Corridor megaproject in the northern part of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
***I am an enrolled citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. All of my beadwork/art is 100% Native American made, compliant with the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990***
'Hvresse' is the Mvskoke word for 'Moon', and is pronounced "Huh-thlee-see" Materials:Glass seed beadsStainless steel fish hook findingsApproximately:3 1/2 inch or 9 cm length3/4 inch or 2 cm width
'Hvse' is the Mvskoke word for 'Sun', and is pronounced "Huh-see" Materials:Glass seed beadsStainless steel fish hook findingsApproximately:3 1/2 inch or 9 cm length3/4 inch or 2 cm width
@Tzipporah with their Eighth Generation "Two Spirit" wool blanket by Two Spirit artist Ryan Young (Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa) that calls out to their community's traditional story about crows.
Native American designed Wool Blankets by Eighth Generation. Wool Blanket design features contemporary Ojibwe crow art by Native American two spirit artist Ryan Young. Native American & Indian Wool Blankets for Men, Women & Home.
Members of the Cowichan Tribes are about to embark on a historic vote, that if passed, would see the Cowichan Valley First Nation implement its own law. That law would reclaim full authority over child and family services.
' Often, when we give a blank map of the surrounding areas to Inuit who are helping us [they] have no problem recognizing and identifying features on the map, going only from their recollections of the land and what their families have described to them in words or in songs — without otherwise having used maps. They’ll even correct you, explaining something like, “there should be a lake there, but it’s not on your map.” '
The staff of the Inuit Heritage Trust is racing across Canada’s North to document traditional Inuit place names before much of that knowledge passes on with the elders who hold it. Canadian Geographic sits down with lead researcher Lynn Peplinski.
Good morning. Here’s a quote for today. What’s the most important park of the quote? Mine is is in the reply. I’ll do a conversation topic post tomorrow. 😊
@stim And I like that #CANADALAND really does cover stories that aren't covered elsewhere - especially about the news media itself. And #indigenous news and #journalists.
I'm not sure that #Mastodon will ever be able to provide as powerful a platform for breaking news as the #BirdSite did: it is contrary to Mastodon's fundamental vision to force a single news thread into everyone's face, the way the BirdSite does.
But I've been thinking, maybe that's for the best in the long run.
I have my own content subscription, books & prints for sale. I have created many tags & practices on here like #fediblock #fedikitchen #finefemmefriday
I was a mod on the first Black ran instance that was shut down due to way too much harassment & racism
hellooo! I'm Evel, an #autistic and disabled #Indigenous Person of Color, and everything I do is through that lens. Been on this planet-ride round the sun for near 40 years. also i'm #dyslexic so typos incoming!
#art/#design i'm a graphic designer who used to think they were an artist. i do most things in #inkscape and insist on calling gnu image manipulation program GNU Imp! all my arty work is done on linux.
