#First nations

[the-aila-test]

It's Native American Heritage Month so if you're Native American / First Nations / Indigenous, drop your cash apps, your paypals, you gofundmes, your Ko-Fis, your Patreons, your Amazon wish lists, etc and we'll share it here.

[neechees]

Video Game characters with Native American Voice Actors.

Cody Christian (Penobscot) as Cloud Strife from the Final Fantasy Series

Forrest Goodluck (Navajo, Mandan, Hidatsa, Tsimshian) as Michael Abila from "Tell me Why"

Devery Jacobs (Mohawk) as Sam from "The Walking Dead: Michonne"

Cree Summer (Cree) as Aurelia from "Diablo III"

Graham Greene (Oneida) as Rains Fall from "Red Dead Redemption"

Tonantzin Carmelo (Tongva & Kumeyaay) as Joss Kutcher from "Cyberpunk 2077"

Noah Watts (Crow) as Ratonhnaké:ton/Connor Kenway from the "Assassin's Creed" series.

Carolina Hoyos (Quechua-Kichwa) as Donnie B. from "Friends vs Friends"

[allthecanadianpolitics]

As tributes poured in Monday for Murray Sinclair, the former chairperson of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Gov. Gen. Mary Simon said he leaves an “invaluable legacy of bringing to light the stories of thousands of residential school survivors.”

“[This] marking moment in Canada’s history led to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 calls to action, which have initiated positive change for Indigenous communities in all spheres of society,” Simon said in a statement issued after Sinclair’s family announced he had died Monday morning in Winnipeg. He was 73.

His family’ statement recalled Sinclair’s reputation as an “exceptional listener who treated everyone with dignity and respect.”

Sinclair, who was also a judge and a senator, led the Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 2009 to 2015. [...]

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[flagwars]

Congratulations to Tahltan Nation for winning the Native American and First Nations Flag Wars!

It won against Inuvialuit with 57.4 percent of the vote! Tahltan Nation easily swept through the competition, and it is clear that it is a beloved design.

The Tahltan Nation is a First Nations organization in British Columbia that combines the two Tahltan groups of the Iskut First Nation and the Tahltan First Nation. The wolf and crow represent these two member governments.

I hope this tournament helped to educate everyone on the coolest Native American and First Nations flags! The next tournament will be announced tomorrow.

Here is an updated list of every flag that has won a tournament:

[tlatollotl]

Cultura: Olmeca

Técnica: Modelada

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

MNA

[lenbryant]

Then the alien Europeans gave them all diseases in return. Sad.

[reasonsforhope]

"In a historic “first-of-its-kind” agreement the government of British Colombia has acknowledged the aboriginal ownership of 200 islands off the west coast of Canada.

The owners are the Haida nation, and rather than the Canadian government giving something to a First Nation, the agreement admits that the “Xhaaidlagha Gwaayaai” or the “islands at the end of world,” always belonged to them, a subtle yet powerful difference in the wording of First Nations negotiating.

BC Premier David Eby called the treaty “long overdue” and once signed, will clear the way for half a million hectares (1.3 million acres) of land to be managed by the Haida.

Postal service, shipping lanes, school and community services, private property rights, and local government jurisdiction, will all be unaffected by the agreement, which will essentially outline that the Haida decide what to do with the 200 or so islands and islets.

“We could be facing each other in a courtroom, we could have been fighting each other for years and years, but we chose a different path,” said Minister of Indigenous Relations of BC, Murray Rankin at the signing ceremony, who added that it took creativity and courage to “create a better world for our children.”

Indeed, making the agreement outside the courts of the formal treaty process reflects a vastly different way of negotiating than has been the norm for Canada.

“This agreement won’t only raise all boats here on Haida Gwaii – increase opportunity and prosperity for the Haida people and for the whole community and for the whole province – but it will also be an example and another way for nations – not just in British Columbia, but right across Canada – to have their title recognized,” said Eby.

In other words, by deciding this outside court, Eby and the province of BC hope to set a new standard for how such land title agreements are struck."

-via Good News Network, April 18, 2024

[akajustmerry]

a reminder that your advocacy for ending the occupation of Palestine should also extend to advocating for Indigenous and First Nations peoples' liberation in your own country. The anti-colonial struggle is a global one. Show up for Indigenous people everywhere you can because we are under occupation almost everywhere. Not to mention the Zionist occupation is supported almost exclusively by the colonial world powers. Your advocacy for the liberation for Palestine must go hand in hand with advocacy for First Nations liberation and Land Back.

[asynca]

[ash-the-fluffy-cat]

You don’t get to say queer lives matter if you don’t say black lives matter

You don’t get to say queer lives matter if you don’t say disabled lives matter

You don’t get to say queer lives matter if you don’t say First Nations lives matter

You don’t get to say queer lives matter if you don’t say neurodivergent lives matter

You don’t get to say queer lives matter if you don’t say women’s health matters

You don’t get to say queer lives matter if you don’t say ANY other marginalized communities’ lives matter

Intersectional identities are here and won’t go away

[its-ticsticstics]

The Wend*go is Not Your Cryptid

I'm Algonquin/Ojibwe and this is a spirit that comes from our teachings.

As a young child, the elders taught me to never even SPEAK its name, to not even sing its songs. When we sang a song about it during drumming group one year, we all got in trouble.

You do not spell the word or speak the word.

It's NOT a "cryptid" or a "spooky story" for white people to appropriate.

Its bearly spoken about in our own communities, and even then, only very carefully.

Again, not because its "creepy" but because its respected and something in our traditions that is not played around with; so its certainly not for non-ojibwe/algonquin people to speak about whatsoever. Period.

[neechees]

For Native American Heritage Month, I thought I'd upload the only decent part of the abomination that is The New World film, which features a brief scene in which Cree actor Billy Merasty speaks Cree (here used as a substitution for the Powhatan/Pamunkey language, which has similarities to Cree), but this scene was never given any subtitles for what the actor was saying. Below is a transcription of what the actors are saying in Cree and English.

Billy Merasty: kîkwây ôma (what's this?) John Smith: The source of all evil. It excuses vulgarity, makes wrong right, debased noble. Merasty: ci metoni tipahikêwin ôma ("true payment for this?") "kitâpacihtân tâpiskôc (you use it just like they (the colonizers) see the day), kîsikâw isinâkwak (others see the day as thus). kiyomâ napew (continually a man.)" "tâpiskôc mîcitâw kîsikâw (just like you excrete on the day.), mâci-atâwâkêw ôta miyo-askiy (he starts to sell all this good land here)," ê-nakatamân namôy askiy (I'll never leave this land ), mamisîtotam! (he depends on it), ê-macihtwât (he is mean?), pisiskiwa paskiyawew. (he overpowers the animals over there)" "nisâkihtân ôma askiy (I love this land), tâpiskôc ê-sâkihakik nôhtâwiypân ekwa nikâwiypân (just as equally as I love my father and mother.). namôy ê-nakatamân ôma askiy (I'll never leave this land). (this last part I can't hear)

Note that Merasty is speaking a different dialect than me (and here I have transcribed the Y dialect equivalents of what I THINK I've heard) and is speaking quickly, and so there are some things I might've gotten wrong or misheard.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Indigenous peoples continue to struggle to access complete and timely records about Indian Residential Schools, according to a new report by the Senate standing committee on Indigenous Peoples. The report, Missing Records, Missing Children, was released Thursday and includes 11 recommendations to improve access to residential school records, including for the Canadian government to compel Catholic entities to release documents to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. "It's extremely important for the support of the survivors and the family members to bring closure because everyone is aging on," said Sen. Brian Francis, who is Mi'kmaw from Lennox Island First Nation and is chair of the committee. "The sooner we can get answers the better."

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[flagwars]

Native American and First Nations Flag Wars: Finals

[tlatollotl]

Técnica: Modelada

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

MNA

[soxiyy]

From Levantine_gay on insta