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Yes!

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Getting crafty on my mini break from school!! My 1st cedar rose, second headband tho my 1st with a five strand weave, completed my 1st pair of Mocs, and began the journey of beading my shawl :) full heart gratitude to those teaching and guiding me, and to my blood memory.

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Work in progress: Frog & Thunderbird pendant #nativeamerican #aboriginal #firstnations #haida #native #Kwakiutl

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Wreck-On Silly Nation Fall Tour

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Fuck the White Man by Skeena Reece

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Published by Jesse Scott

Sacred Clown (with Skeena Reece)

Live, improvised audio-visual performance, with performance art.

Shown at Brief Encounters #6, c/o the Tomorrow Collective, 2007.

Brief Encounters is ‘a multidisciplinary experiment designed to fuse genres and push artistic boundaries.’ Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. Invited artists are randomly paired, and given 14 days to create a short work. I had the pleasure of being paired with Skeena Reece, who fuses performance art with First Nations traditions, to comic, and sometimes uncomfortable, effect. We filmed HD clips of her talking 'to herself’ as if she was acting as her own subconscious, then I effected the clips and reprojected them over her body onstage, so that they also served as lighting design. The sequencing of the clips was done live, in an improvisational manner, using Pure Data.

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In case you missed our incredible interview with ms Skeena Reece… here is a stream of the song in question “John Carver” http://rpm.fm/music/stream-skeena-reece-john-carver/

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Lisa Jackson - Savage (2009), being shown as part of Witnessess: Art and Canada’s Indian Residential Schools.

In this film the first day of school for a First Nations girl in the 1950s is depicted in musical style as akin to being detained as just another number in a prison. Parallel to these scenes are the character of a 1950′s mother played by Skeena Reece, who sings a lullaby in Cree in grief over the child that has been taken from her.

“Lisa Jackson’s video Savage is an unexpected mix of genres, from zombie film to hip hop to American musical. Set in the 1940s or ’50s, it uses song and dance rather than spoken dialogue to describe a little girl’s dehumanizing journey into the residential-school system. It also depicts her grief-stricken mother, alone in her kitchen. While much of the work in Witnesses makes palpable the impact of residential schools on the children who were forced to attend them, Jackson’s film also speaks to the sorrow and loss of parents whose children were stolen from them. It will break your heart, then startle you. Nothing is resolved.”

- Georgia Straight

Commissioned as part of the imagineNATIVE Film Festival’s Embargo Collective.

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Raven: On the Colonial Fleet, by Skeena Reece (2010, photo by Sebastian Kriete)

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Beauty 💞

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Shoutout to all the PoC students who endure micro-aggressions in class, but gotta stay silent or face the wrath of academic retribution.

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The Future Mr. and Mr. Roanhorse

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“what we do to the mountain, we do to ourselves.” #flagstaff 2011 #sacredsites #environmentalism #dontskithepee

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Ooooo so true

My RA put this note on every door on our floor today.

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i lost cultures i lost a whole language i lost my religion i lost it all in the fire that is colonization so, i will not apologize for owning every piece of me they could not take, break and claim as theirs.

Ijeoma Umebinyuo (via theijeoma)

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When Being An Ally Turns Into Being An Appropriator (Settler Conduct and Self Check) PDF

Do you ever think that truths or check yourself advice, articles, or memes are not about you? Do you feel you been around long enough to know whats up with indigenous resistance or any kind of activism and and so you are exempt from these types of teachings? If this is you YOU NEED TO READ THIS NOW!