#Blackfoot Indians

[blackbrownfamily]

BlackFoot Indian

[intervex]

It was Indigenous People's Day so I made some intersex + Indigenous flags

Since I've been on a roll in making intersex flags. First: flags for the three major types of Indigenous groups whose lands were stolen to create the country I live in (Canada):

Left: intersex and First Nations (American Indian Movement) Middle: intersex and Inuit Right: intersex and Métis

Then I made some intersex flags for some specific First Nations whose cultures I have at least basic familiarity with: Left: Haida ................... Middle: Huu-ay-aht ......... Right: Musqueam

Left: Blackfoot ........... Middle: Anishinaabe ...... Right: Haudenosaunee

Note: The last three are confederacies of multiple nations. Order is based on geography, going west to east.

Personal Note: I am a settler and am not a member of any of these nations. I've moved many times in my life, and these nations are the rightful stewards of the lands that I personally feel I have the most connection to. 💜

Tagging for archival: @intersexflags @varsex-pride @radiomogai @beyond-mogai-pride-flags

[haveyoureadthishorrorbookpoll]

Have you read...

Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary, The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. Tracked by an entity bent on revenge, these childhood friends are helpless as the culture and traditions they left behind catch up to them in a violent, vengeful way.

submit a horror book!

[occvltswim]

'Digging for the Red Roots' by Mahir Adal-Razzaaq El — “Native American contact with Islam began over one thousand years ago...”

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Hardy Women Warriors Inherit Skill, Stamina of Ancestors," Toronto Star. October 30, 1943. Page 2. --- ADVANTAGE of inherited ability is held by Private Minnie Spotted Wolf, when she picks up a bow and arrow on the archery range at the New River, N.C., army camp.

OF A SEAFARING RACE, these Norwegian "Wrens" were right at home during recent exercises taken aboard the destroyer Glaisdale, and none complained of sea-sickness.

[punk-antisystem]

Campamento Pies Negros en Alberta (Canadá). Fotografía tomada por Arthur Rafton-Canning alrededor de 1910.

[a-man-called-hawk]

Blackfoot Indians on the roof of the Hotel McAlpin, New York City, 1913. They had the choice of any room in the hotel but instead chose to sleep on the roof. Many had never left the reservation and New York must have been quite a sight. ❤

--thanks to US History, Calvin John Williams

[timaeuslover001]

After hearing about peoples idea about reparations based on their definition, the only people really deserve reparations are the planes Indian tribes (Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Crow,Sioux, Lakota,Comanche and other Plains Indian tribes) because their lifestyle was harmed by the US government involvement and forced living style of the reservation.

Plaines Indians moved with their food, which was bison. They often traveled with their food traveled. They were forced reservations of life was completely changed. Not only did the bison get hunted to extinction, but they were forced to be in one spot. Lives in lifestyles or in a way that was normal for them to be in one spot for all of their life. They were forced to reservations in the Blackfoot tribe, especially were hit with a famine at the time where most of the tribe ended up dying from starvation and there was nothing they could do about it because that was the only land they were allowed to be on freely and not only that, but they were forced to be dependent on the US government for a lot of their food which unfortunately got taken advantage of the service people meant to be helping them, but just took advantage of them instead sometimes.

But that wasn’t even the worst worst thing the schools were probably the worst thing to happen to them because after being forced to be in that spot a few years later, they were forced to have their children taken from them at young ages like almost 8 years old these boarding schools to wear horrific things happened to them and they got sick and sometimes they would even die and never see their parents ever again💔

Most tribes lived in one area and stayed in that one area, the planes Indians, however, did not so according to the definition of reparations and who deserves it: the people who lives were affected by the decisions of “white people” it would be them. They’re the only people who literally were not only damaged physically but emotionally and their lifestyle so much so that it ended up giving them bad habits and behaviors that still exist to this day. Their diets are not the healthiest, because of the ration food of sugar and milk they barely even had on those reservations(fry bread) and because of that their health is dangerously bad, I mean it’s no different than the way most Americans most Americans or obese and overweight and have health issues due to their diet but that was something that was affecting them from over 100 years ago our diet recently got terrible 60 to 70 years ago. Their lives have been drastically affected in those effects still being true today.

Things aren’t racially motivated as they were then I think greedy people just take advantage of the fact that they’re not really talked about or paid attention to group the way. Black and Hispanics are in the country. I mean anybody who’s not really displayed in mainstream media to a nauseating degree doesn’t really have most peoples attention in America. And that goes for the world too those commercials about those starving kids in Africa didn’t appear on our TV screens how many people would know about it? (NONE!)

So before people start rushing to the federal reserves office to get a check, they don’t deserve. They should really fact check history and make sure that they understand that not everybody’s lives were affected the same way in the same time. Blacks were successful before during and after slavery. Whether they had education or not, they found a way to make a life for themselves.

[libraryofbaxobab]

May 29, 2024:

This is my second readthrough because it's the Last Words Book Club pick. And it's weird, because this time I understand it more but also I like it less?

I don't think it's bad or anything. First time around I was soooo enthusiastic about it because it was so different from everything else I was reading. But since this has influenced the trends and -arguably- my tastes, it's less exciting now. Paradoxically, I think that's a good thing!

Experiencing this again has given me room to explore some theories and test out some interpretations so I guess that makes it worth a second go.

6/10 #WhatsKenyaReading

[anokha-swad]

Mystic palm, gem and tarot 

A few escape your magic arrow 

I saw you reel them in for miles 

Each captivated crooked smile 

And you know you can heal them all 

[moniquill]

Here is a brief summary of what is happening in Wikipedia right now:

In the last few years (3-4 years) the WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America, which was originally created to improve the quality and coverage of native issues and native articles on wikipedia, has been hijacked by a small number of users with an extremist agenda. They have been working diligently over the last few years to change the definition of both what it means to be an Indigenous American and even what it means to be state and federally recognized.

The four or five key players (Mainly Editor Yuchitown, Bohemian Baltimore, ARoseWolf, (now retired editor CorbieVreccan, Netherzone and Oncamera) who are part of the “Native American Articles Improvement Project” started implementing these changes slowly, but they started pursuing their goals aggressively after November 2023, when state-recognized tribes retained their voting rights in NCAI. Essentially, after the movement to delegitimize state-recognized tribes failed officially, the key players doubled down on altering and controlling the flow of information about Native Americans through Wikipedia.

The talk page of Lily Gladstone’s article has a relevant discussion here. Initially, the leaders of the WikiProject removed any reference to her being a “Native American Actress” and instead had her as “Self-identifying as Blackfoot” and “Self-identifying as Nez Perce” because her blood quantum was too low to be enrolled in either tribe.

You can see some of the discussion here:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Lily_Gladstone

Eventually they relented and changed her category to being “Of Nez Perce Descent” but you can see in the discussion that they are referring to an article that these editors (Yuchitown, Bohemian Baltimore, and CorbieVreccan) themselves appeared to have mostly written and revised:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_identity_in_the_United_States

This statement is very much at odds with even the government’s description, as seen below;

The DOJ Office of Tribal Justice Office on their webpage “Frequently Asked Questions About Native American”, question “Who is an American Indian or Alaskan Native” states:

“As a general principle, an Indian is a person who is of some degree Indian blood and is recognized as an Indian by a Tribe and/or the United States. No single federal or tribal criterion establishes a person's identity as an Indian. Government agencies use differing criteria to determine eligibility for programs and services. Tribes also have varying eligibility criteria for membership.”

In addition, “List” pages have been created on Wikipedia for federally and state recognized tribes. The Wikipedia “List” page for state-recognized tribes is inaccurate in its interpretation of state recognition and not supported by expert reliable sources--(1) Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law 2012 edition, (2) NCSL.org current stand on state recognition (not the archived list from 2017 which NCSL no longer supports), (3) Koenig & Stein’s paper “Federalism and the State Recognition of Native American Tribes: a survey of state-recognized tribes and state recognition processes across the United States” (both 2008 & updated 2013 in book “ Recognition, sovereignty struggles, and indigenous rights in the United States: A sourcebook”)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-recognized_tribes_in_the_United_States

State-recognized tribes who have received recognition through less formal but acceptable means have been moved from the Wikipedia list page on state-recognized tribes to the Wikipedia list page of unrecognized or self-identifying organizations.

The Wiki page "List of organizations that self-identify as Native American tribes", in particular, is being used to purposely defame legitimate Native American individuals who are members of the tribes/Native communities that are on this list. 

By the parameters set up on Wikipedia, only the colonizer’s governments can acknowledge who is Native American through either federal recognition or state recognition. If an individual is not a member of a federally or state-recognized tribe, then it is determined that they cannot be Native American and are, instead, considered “self-identifying” or only “a descendant of ...” (example Lily Gladstone). As a result, Native individuals are currently being tagged as “self-identifying” and their names are put on “list” pages that strongly imply they are “pretend” Indians.

These editors have indicated that they would like “self-identification” to be the default setting for any people who they deem do not fit within the parameters that they themselves created within Wikipedia.

Moreof, these editors are admin and senior editors within the Wikiproject Indigenous Peoples of North America, and are being called in specifically to weigh on Native Identity, and any project involving any Indigenous Group.

Any attempt to correct misinformation, add information, or change any of these articles is often met with being blocked, reported for various offenses, or reported for having a Conflict of Interest, whether or not that is actually applicable. They have use this strategically in many different pages for many different individuals and groups within the scope of their Wikiprojects.

While changing things in Wikipedia does not change the truth, it is a way to control how most people take in information, and thus they hope to manipulate the narrative to better suit their goals.

This is quick and messy but:

Here is a link to the google document with the other state recognized tribes (Including yours) that were edited by these editors. This is an incomplete list so far that only goes back to September 2023 but I am going to add to it. If you can add to your own part of this list, and send your complaints and information to the arbitrator committee (the email is below) with the involved editors, this will help our case.

The  more tribes who complain, and the more Wikipedia editors complain, the better our case will be. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YNDEjLTrrZ_mMIRCVxtvt69FwCYpJWKs71lBhWa5a9M/edit?usp=sharing

The place to make complaints on Wikipedia is oversight-en-wpwikipedia.org , and

arbcom-enwikimedia.org . It is most helpful to have an editing account on Wikipedia, because Yuchitown and the others will try to defend themselves using Wikipedia methodology and make anyone who confronts them look like the aggressor (see the other tribes who tried to fight back on Wikipedia I found).

The more people and tribes make complaints the more likely it is that this will work and we can rid ourselves of these monsters.

Some of the tribes I have spoken to are taking legal action against these editors. Any groups affected by their policies should also reach out to the news to make knowledge of this more widespread.

Thank you

- quoted with permission from an email sent by an associate of my tribe. Message me for their email address if you'd like to reach out to them.

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Before we devote the next six chapters to understanding how geographic differences in food production arose, this chapter will trace the main connections through which food production led to all the advantages that enabled Pizarro to capture Atahuallpa, and Fred Hirschy's people to dispossess Levi's (Figure 4.1).

Figure 4.1. Schematic overview of the chains of causation leading up to proximate factors (such as guns, horses, and diseases) enabling some peoples to conquer other peoples, from ultimate factors (such as the orientation of continental axes). For example, diverse epidemic diseases of humans evolved in areas with many wild plant and animal species suitable for domestication, partly because the resulting crops and livestock helped feed dense societies in which epidemics could maintain themselves, and partly because the diseases evolved from germs of the domestic animals themselves.

"Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years" - Jared Diamond

[travsd]

A Century Ago: Sylvester Joins the Blackfeet

A Century Ago: Sylvester Joins the Blackfeet

December 1 was the birthday of Sylvester Clark Long, otherwise known as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance (1890-1932. The Chief’s heyday was the late ’20s and early ’30s, when he published a popular memoir Long Lance (1928) and co-starred in the Paramount film The Silent Enemy (1930), a story set amongst the Ojibwe. As a result of these projects his calendar was full of lucrative speaking…

[phaedraismyusername]

This year some of my favourite books I read were written by indigenous American authors and I just wanted to shout out a couple that I fell in love with

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Horror being my second most read genre, I did not think books could still get under my skin the way this one did lol. It follows four Blackfoot men who are seemingly being hunted by a vengeful... something... years after a fateful hunting trip that happened just before they went their separate ways. The horror, the dread, the something... pure nightmare fuel 10/10

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

An apocalyptic novel following an isolated Anishinaabe community in the far north who lose contact with the outside world. When two of their young men return from their college with dire news, they set about planning on how to survive the winter, but when outsiders follow, lines are drawn in the community that might doom them all. This book is all dread all the time, the use of dreams and the inevitability of conflict weighs heavy til the very end. An excellent apocalypse story if you're into that kind of thing.

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

This book follows Jade, a deeply troubled mixed race teenager with a shitty homelife who's *obsessed* with slasher movies. When she finds evidence that there's a killer running about her soon-to-be gentrified small town, she weaponises that knowledge to predict what's going to happen next. I don't think this book will work for most people, it's a little stream of consciousness, Jade's head is frequently a very difficult place to be in, but by the last page I had so much love for her as a character and the emotional rollercoaster she's on that I had to mention it here.

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

Taking a bit of a left turn but this charming YA murder mystery really stuck with me this year. Elatsoe is a teenage girl living in an America where myths, monsters, and magic are all real every day occurrences. When her cousin dies mysteriously with no witnesses, she decides to do whatever she can, including using her ability to raise the spirits of dead animals, to solve the case. The worldbuilding was just really fun in this one, but the Native American myths and influence were the shining star for me, and the asexual rep was refreshing to see in a YA book too tbh

Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

The audiobook, the audiobook, the audiobook!!!! Also the physical book because formatting and illustrations, but the audiobook!!! Tanya Tagaq is an Inuit throat singer, and this novel is a genre blending of 20 years worth of the authors journal entries, poetry, and short stories, that culminates in a truly unique story about a young girl surviving her teenage years in a small tundra town in the 70s. It is sad and beautiful and hard but an experience like nothing else I read this year.

[bignaz8]

CHIEF MOUNTAIN, also known as Nínaiistáko in Blackfoot or "Old Chief" in English, is a prominent peak located on the border of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana, United States, and Alberta, Canada. It is considered one of the most sacred sites for the Blackfeet Nation and holds significant cultural and spiritual importance.

The mountain and its surrounding area are part of the Glacier National Park and Waterton Lakes National Park, jointly designated as the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. This designation reflects the cross-border cooperation between the United States and Canada in preserving the natural and cultural heritage of the region, including the sacred significance of the peak to indigenous peoples..

[littlefeather-wolf]

Chief Big Spring and Wolf Eagle (aka Buffalo Chief of the Blackfoot) stand in front of tipis ...

Date : 1930-1940

Big Spring, left, wearing war bonnet and traditional regalia, stands next to Wolf Eagle (aka Buffalo Chief of the Blackfoot) wearing buffalo horn headdress and traditional regalia. Tipis in background.Note by Dyck on verso "Big Spring Blackfoot."

Native Americans

Siksika Indians

McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Center of the West