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They’re giving ducana (Antigua and Barbuda) / dokonon (French Guiana) / dukunou (Haiti) / duckunoo (Jamaica) vibes. Duckunoo is also known as tie-a-leaf or blue draws in Jamaica.

Jean Paul Gaultier Spring 2010 Couture

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“My life wasn’t so varied. My parents worked and I was at school.  Weren’t you married?  Yes. He studied medicine. I studied history, and we got married.  You make is sound awful.  You may not believe this: I wanted to find out what marriage was like…”

De cierta manera [One Way or Another] (1977, dir. Sara Gómez)

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Women in Film Challenge 2018: [7/52] De cierta manera, dir. Sara Gómez (Cuba, 1974)

Culture that lives in the depths of the subconscious in the form of habits, customs, beliefs, values, and ways of doing things can put up strong resistance to social change. This is why, even after having radically changed the conditions that gave rise to marginalism, we can still study the culture of the sector that was created in these neighborhoods through being divorced from production.

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Short answer, anon: YES! Trickster is, without a doubt, my favourite thing to come out of 2020. I am SO glad it’s already been renewed for a second season.

Trickster is currently available on CBC and CBC Gem in Canada, and will be airing on the CW starting in January.

You can read more about the show here!

One last thing I really want to stress again: you can tell that an Indigenous hand is all aspects of the creation of this show. The fact that there are Native people behind the camera as well really does shine through, and I love hearing the actors talk about how that made a positive impact on the experience, too.

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The Legend of Gang Gang Sarah

From Folklore and Legends of Trinidad and Tobago, by Gérard A. Besson:

“The legend of Gang Gang Sarah, the African Witch of Golden Lane, has its origins in the latter half of the 18th-century.

On a stormy night she was blown from her home in Africa across the sea to Tobago and landed quite safely at the village of Les Coteaux. From there, she journeyed to Golden Lane in search of her family, who had long ago been transported there. She lived to a great age and is remembered for her wisdom and kindness.

She became the loving wife of Tom, whom legend says she had known as a child in her native Africa.

After her Tom died, wishing to return to her native land, she climbed a great silk cotton tree and tried to fly, not knowing that she had lost the art of flight as a result of having eaten salt.

To this day the names of Tom and Sara can be seen inscribed upon the headstones of their graves. where they have lain side by side for close upon two hundred years.”

Photo by Lisa Levi.

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Maison créole moderne, avec sa galerie couverte où il fait bon discuter, Les Antilles, 1979.

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Fishermen in St Pierre, once known as “little Paris of the Caribbean”, Martinique Island (by Marie-Marthe Gagnon).

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Street scene in Fort-de-France, Martinique

French vintage postcard

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the european quest for indian riches changed the world so irrevocably, and it leaves these terrible echoes, for those that live in the caribbean now are deemed west and east indians and the native americans deemed indians too and when india is finally opened up inevitably the forms of immiseration evolve. but the plunder continues.

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@suite1491 First Nations and Native American Powwow.

"Grass Dance Category in Rapid City! Good Powwow Weekend!"

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the european quest for indian riches changed the world so irrevocably, and it leaves these terrible echoes, for those that live in the caribbean now are deemed west and east indians and the native americans deemed indians too and when india is finally opened up inevitably the forms of immiseration evolve. but the plunder continues.

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Black Indians quai Branly museum

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“In many cases, the histories and shared experiences of African and Native Americans are so intertwined, they are indivisible. At the same time, however, the shared history and the people that make up it’s chapters have become invisible.”

“Throughout American history, people of combined African and Native American descent have often struggled for acceptance, not only from dominant cultures but also from their own communities. In this collection of twenty-seven groundbreaking essays, authors from across the Americas explore the complex personal histories and contemporary lives of people wth a dual heritage that has rarely received attention as part of the multicultural landscape. Illustrated with seventy-five paintings, photographs, and drawings, the book brings to light an epic but little-known part of American history that speaks to present-day struggles for racial identity and understanding.”

This book of essays, as compiled by Gabrielle Tayac, contains stories from all over the so-called “american” continents and explains the conjoined lives of black people, indigenous people, and the resulting black natives / afroindigenous peoples. I won’t spoil much of the book, because it’s a great read and you should read it cover to cover, but I can tell you it’s pretty diverse, and tells history from a black native decolonizing perspective, it even includes a short chapter about south american afroindigenous peoples, specifically afro-aymara from Bolivia, which was nice to see! I highly recommend it.

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It’s Native American Heritage Month! As we commemorate the cultures, traditions, histories, contributions, and achievements of the Native American communities, discover from the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women (CSVANW), the Indian Law Resource Center, Indigenous Women Rising, the Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center (NAWHERC), and the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC) on how you can play a role in advancing the rights of Native American women! 

📷 by Boston Public Library on Unsplash

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Ebo Landing by Carrie Mae Weems

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Carlota Leading the People by Lili Bernard, (after Eugene Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, 1830), 2011. Oil on Canvas, 60″x72″

[image description: a bare-breasted Black woman in a long yellow dress, wielding a bloody machete and a bayonet, is standing in front of the bodies of dead men and a dead bull. A Black man with blood on his purple shirt is kneeling before her, a small Dalmatian behind him. Another bare-breasted Black woman in a long blue dress and a black top hat on her blue headpiece, is holding a long gun and smiling at the woman in yellow. Behind them, some Black men and women who are holding shields, drums, and machetes and guns high in the air are cheering. A steel sign—TRIUMVIRATO—is in front of a partially visible Great House, which is on fire. Next to the Great House, three naked Black men are hanging from a tree with pink flowers. In the distance, blue-uniformed soldiers on horseback, along with men in yellow, are headed towards the scene of the uprising. / end of image description]

Carlota

Carlota, a slave woman, took up the machete in 1843 to lead a slave uprising at the Triumvirato sugar mill in Matanzas Province and was killed. She was one of the 3 leaders of the rebellion.

Her name was later given to Cuba’s 1980’s operation Black Carlota in Southern Africa, which culminated in the battle of Cuito Cuanavale and the defeat of the South African army in pitch battle.