#Crow tribe

[vixymix101]

I like him a not normal amount

[charring58]

Europeans traded wool and calico printed cotton cloth, as well as ready-to-wear clothes that saved time, but American Indian peoples re-fashioned them with strips of beadwork or jingles to make them distinctly their own.

[carrionwithcarrion]

Thinking thoughts about Karasu-zoku!

[punk-antisystem]

Sees With His Ears (Ve Con Sus Orejas) y Hip (Cadera). Crow. Fotografía tomada por Fred E. Miller entre 1898-1910 en la Reserva Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke), en Montana.

[prairie-tales]

'Crow Lodge of Twenty-Five Buffalo Skins'.

George Catlin, 1832-33.

[fakegingerrights]

^

Happy indigenous peoples day!

[angelkarafilli]

Grey Hair - Crow - circa 1909

Dixon-Wanamaker Expedition to Crow Agency

[usabun-tl]

Crow Tribe・Karasuzoku — PELICAN FANCLUB

English+Romaji Translation

凍りついた怪しい心

kooritsuita ayashii kokoro

An eerie, frozen heart

溶けるわけないか

tokeru wakenai ka

With no chance of melting

悲しい結末ね

kanashii ketsumatsu ne

It's a sad end, isn't it

例えばあの子にでたらめな言葉を使って追いかける

tatoeba anoko ni detarame na kotoba wo tsukatte oikakeru

Like chasing after that one's nonsensical words

シンデレラ あまりにも白すぎる

shinderera amari ni mo shiro sugiru

Cinderella is far too white

凍りついた怪しい心

kooritsuita ayashii kokoro

An eerie, frozen heart

溶けるわけないか

tokeru wakenai ka

With no chance of melting

悲しい結末ね

kanashii ketsumatsu ne

It's a sad end, isn't it

例えばあの子にでたらめな言葉を使って追いかける

tatoeba anoko ni detarame na kotoba wo tsukatte oikakeru

Like chasing after that one's nonsensical words

シンデレラ あまりにも白すぎる

shinderera amari ni mo shiro sugiru

Cinderella is too white

甘いな 全てをなめてる

amai na subete wo nameteru

You're naive. You're underestimating it all

脳が気にいらない

nou ga ki ni iranai

I don't care for your mind

誰かのせいだ

dareka no sei da

It's somebody else's fault

顔が見当たらないけど

kao ga miataranai kedo

Although I can't place their face

黒い季節だ 夢中で駆け出した

kuroi kisetsu da muchuu de kakedashita

Through a dark season I ran off in a daze

例えばあの子にでたらめな言葉を使って追いかける

tatoeba anoko ni detarame na kotoba wo tsukatte oikakeru

Like chasing after that one's nonsensical words

シンデレラ 季節とずれていく

shinderera kisetsu to zureteiku

Cinderella is out of season

甘いな 全てをなめてるのが気にいらない

amai na subete wo nameteru no ga ki ni iranai

You're naive. You're underestimating it all, I don't care for it

急いで全てが間に合わない

isoide subete ga ma ni awanai

I have to hurry or I won't make it in time for anything

こんなはずじゃなかった

konna hazu janakatta

It wasn't supposed to be like this

誰かが言う

dareka ga iu

Somebody says

｢死ぬことは生きることの反対じゃない｣

shinu koto wa ikiru kito no hantai ja nai

"Dying is not the opposite of living."

誰かが言う

dareka ga iu

Somebody says

｢死ぬことは生きることの反対じゃない｣

shinu koto wa ikiru kito no hantai ja nai

"Dying is not the opposite of living."

誰かが言う

dareka ga iu

Somebody says

｢死ぬことは生きることの反対じゃない｣

shinu koto wa ikiru kito no hantai ja nai

"Dying is not the opposite of living."

誰かが言う

dareka ga iu

Somebody says

｢死ぬことは生きることの反対じゃない｣

shinu koto wa ikiru kito no hantai ja nai

"Dying is not the opposite of living."

I translated the title literally but it probably refers to a fashion style of wearing all black that was popular in the 80's. Search for カラス族 images.

[crippledwithrage]

Also, even if you weren't raised in your culture, even if you haven't known it all your life and just discovered it, you can still reconnect!

Keeping our cultures alive is our duty to our ancestors. It's very important!

Even if you just make traditional foods or listen to stories, it's enough.

You are native enough.

Hey!!

Just a reminder to all reconnecting Indigenous people, you are valid.

You're still Indigenous, even if you are "1/16th indigenous blood"

You're still Indigenous even if you don't "look" Indigenous

You're still Indigenous if you're mixed with black, white, etc.

You're still Indigenous if you tribe doesn't exist anymore

You're still Indigenous if your tribe is lesser known

You're still Indigenous if you don't have a tribe

You are still Indigenous!!

Even if you don't know your ancestors, they know you

Or if you aren't 100% indigenous, that doesn't make your ancestors disappear!

You can still reconnect and participate in your culture!!!

Please don't give up, you can do this ^^

[coworkerjonathan]

If you don’t mind me asking, what’s the craziest thing you’ve witnessed/experienced at your workplace?

It's so hard to choose. It's mostly minor things, everything can be explained away anyway. And usually it's noticing something that seems out of place, rather than seeing something actually "happen" - like how we keep finding feathers indoors even though there is no windows nearby.

But you asked about crazy, not supernatural. The craziest thing might have been the bird war a couple years back just based on how long it went on.

Currently we have a couple hundred, maybe almost a thousand crows in the trees around the institution. It didn't use to be this way. There used to be several hundred pigeons and some seagulls around. I enjoy birds, so watching so many of them was a pleasure, if intimidating. However, it seemed like the factions didn't get along.

I remember sensing that something was different even before I found the first dead birds. Mostly pigeons, some crows. Over the next weeks I would find more and more cadavers, ripped apart corpses missing their heads. I cleaned up some of them, but it was honestly too many. I got lucky, I think, since I never saw any of the attacks themselves.

There's no longer any pigeons around the institution. During my shift I have to walk past the giant trees though, covered in black feathers with little eyes reflecting my flashlight in the darkness. These days I prefer to turn it off.

[so-i-did-this-thing]

Moving update:

With all luck to a completed closing finally happening next week, @crowtoed and I should be starting our drive out of Florida on November 7th. We celebrated pre-emptively with a goodbye to EPCOT, which included a truly befuddling pickle milkshake at the Food & Wine festival.

Thanks to everyone who has reached out offering a place to crash along our route north -- we have called ahead and found some cat-friendly hotels, and as much as I'd love to squish some of y'all's faces IRL, it'll be less stressful for the cats to have a large room where we're the only people.

We're not out of the woods just yet, but it's feeling more and more likely every day.

[sweetriverstyxwarriorsarchive]

[the-90s-music-colosseum]

September 24th - a very important day for '90s music

Released on September 24th, 1990 (dates vary by region):

AC/DC - The Razor's Edge

Fields of the Nephilim - Elizium

Released on September 24th, 1991 (dates vary by region):

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik

Nirvana - Nevermind

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory

Pixies - Trompe le Monde

Kyuss - Wretch

Primal Scream - Screamadelica

...and many more including Van Morrison, The Cult, Kid 'N Play, Prong, Thompson Twins.

Originally scheduled for this day but delayed until October: Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

Released on September 24th, 1996 (dates vary by region):

Weezer - Pinkerton

The Roots - Illadelph Halflife

Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow

John Parish and PJ Harvey - Dance Hall at Louse Point

Making this post has made me aware that I missed a lot of very important album birthdays in the past three weeks and I am very sorry to: *deep breath*

Muse - Showbiz, Bjork - Homogenic, Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile, Tori Amos - To Venus and Back, Type O Negative - World Coming Down, Hole - Celebrity Skin, Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, Blonde Redhead - In an Expression of the Inexpressable, Mariah Carey - Butterfly, Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E., Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity, Tool - Ænima, Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving, Suede - Coming Up, R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi, Blur - The Great Escape, Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute, The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die, Nirvana - In Utero, Melvins - Houdini, De la Soul - Buhloone Mindstate, Sepultura - Chaos A.D., Nine Inch Nails - Broken, Blind Melon - Blind Melon, Madonna - Erotica, Suzanne Vega - 99.9F°, Talk Talk - Laughing Stock, Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion, Hole - Pretty on the Inside, Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears, Rush - Roll the Bones, Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas, Megadeth - Rust In Peace, Judas Priest - Painkiller, INXS - X, and anyone else who I forgot.

September is such a brilliant month for 90s albums! I'll try not to miss any more important birthdays.

[punk-antisystem]

Takes Her Horse (Coge Su Caballo). Mujer Crow. A principios de 1900. Reserva India Crow, Montana (Estados Unidos). Fotografía tomada por Richard Throssel.

[prairie-tales]

Crow war-medicine shield, c.1800s.

Region: Montana.

This nineteenth-century war shield was made by a member of the Crow tribe. The shields used before the Europeans introduced the horse were very large and could sometimes cover two men. Smaller and more practical shields were used by warriors on horseback, but the protection they offered was not dependent entirely on their physical properties. Protection was also afforded by a personal spirit. In this case, the moon spirit, which was always depicted as a skeletal figure. Before he could be deemed worthy of possessing such a shield, a warrior would spend days fasting and passing into trances. He would be visited by a spirit who would teach him its powers. When the warrior emerged from his trance, he would make his shield and point it with a representation of the spirit he had seen. The shields were made from animal hide – this one has been made of buffalo skin, and has been decorated with eagle feathers and a crane’s head, both of which had magical properties.

Source: ‘Folk Art’, Susann Linn-Williams, pp. 194-95.

[theknitpotato]

History of the Jingle Dress Dance

The Jingle Dress Dance began with the Mille Lacs Band of the Ojibwe Tribe in the early 1900s and became prevalent in the 1920s in Wisconsin and Minnesota (Great Lakes region) in the US and in Ontario, Canada.

The story is that the dress was first seen in a dream. A medicine man’s granddaughter grew sick, and as the man slept his Indian spirit guides came to him and told him to make a Jingle Dress for the little girl. They said if the child danced in it, the dress would heal her. The Jingle Dress was made, and the tribe came together to watch the child dance. At first, the child was too sick to dance alone so her tribe carried her, but after some time, the little girl was able to dance alone, cured of her sickness.

The dance has since been not only a ritual of healing but also one of pride.

What Do Jingle Dresses Look Like?

Jingle Dresses, also known as Prayer Dresses, are believed to bring healing to those who are sick. As mentioned above, the dance gets its name from the rows of ziibaaska’iganan (metal cones) sewed to the dress. These cones are traditionally made from rolled snuff can lids and hung from the dress with ribbon close to one another, so they make a melodic sound as the girls and women dance. Traditionally, the dress is adorned with 365 visible jingles, or cones. Nowadays, these cones are often machine-made.

The dresses come in every color imaginable, from yellow to bright blue, to deep red, and accented with sparkles and even neon-colored fabrics. They are often made with shiny and sparkly materials and decorated with fringes, embroidery, beading, and more.

They usually have three-quarter length to full-length sleeves and come down to mid-calf or the ankle. They are secured at the waist with a thick belt, often made of brown leather. On their feet, the dancer wears decorative moccasins embellished with the same kind of detail found on their dresses.

What are the steps for the Jingle Dance?

As the ziibaaska’iganan hit one another it sounds like rain falling, so it’s important for the dancer to be light on their feet, to move in time with the drum and stop when the beat stops. They keep their foot movements low to the ground while dancing, kicking their heels and bouncing on their toes to the music. Typically, this dance is done in a zigzag pattern, said to represent one’s journey through life—or so the story goes. Often, they keep their hands on their hips, and if they are dancing with a feathered fan (full of neutral colors, like eagle feathers) as the more modern Jingle Dress Dancers do, they will raise it into the air as they dance to receive healing.

The traditional Indian dance involves low, soft-footed steps, as could be performed by those who were sick, while the modern competitive dancers push the boundaries some as they try to out-dance their competitors. The manner in which the dance has evolved has built firmly on its origin story.

What are the songs and music for Jingle Dance?

The music for this style of dancing has a foundation of a solid drumbeat, and of course, the metal cones make a loud jingling (hence the name) as the women move, which contributes to the music you’ll hear at a Jingle Dress Dance. Jingle Dancers will usually dance to Northern drum groups. Special songs for Jingle Dance include a Side Step or Crow Hop