#Mescalero Apache

[arsnof]

Ruidoso and the surrounding area are engulfed in flames, including Mescalero Apache tribal land. Mass evacuation are underway and people are losing everything.

I've got a friend with Community Power New Mexico who is taking donations (we're giving a bed) and I'm wondering if any of y'all would be able to help?

I don't have an official donation link yet, but anything donated to me for the next couple of days, or until I can get an official link, will be going to them.

Link in pinned post. If anyone wants to buy some comics, 50% of any sale will also go to them.

[bayareabadboy]

Apache Tribe

Mescalero reservation

[punk-antisystem]

Tipis Apache Mescalero en un campamento, Nuevo México. Fotografía tomada por H. F. Robinson en 1906.

[hakaiika]

I, Hakaii'ka of the Mescalero, Ute, and Sámi, will do everything I can to support our cousins, the Maori, across the sea. We will not be erased nor have our rights stripped for the betterment of colonizers and capitalists. The New Zealand government should be ashamed for considering the re-evaluation of the treaty with Maori, and should they terminate or violate the treaty, let no gods or spirits have mercy upon them. Let Indigenous folk around the world stand united!

So for anyone who doesn’t keep up with nz politics, which i’m assuming is most of you, our new radical right government have decided one of their main aims of their term will be to re-interpret the Treaty of Waitangi.

The Treaty is an agreement between Maori and the Crown, now the NZ government. It is the founding document of new zealand and is recognised as a constitutional document today; it is the only treaty of its kind/time still honoured, and it is the steps we’ve taken through the Treaty to provide restitution and build an ongoing relationship with Maori and their iwi (tribes) that has allowed the relationship between Maori and the government to thrive where other indigenous groups have struggled to achieve recognition of their rights.

This is going to be entirely undone. Not only is this issue inflammatory and a threat to race relations in Aotearoa, leaked documents show the proposed “reinterpretation” wants to negate pretty much the entirety of the legal rights provided to Maori under the treaty. For example, the treaty article that guarantees land rights for Maori will be reinterpreted to guarantee land rights for “all New Zealanders”. Which means this article would be essentially meaningless for Maori.

By removing Maori from the context they are trying to put Maori on an “equal footing” with all New Zealanders; they are riding the idea that Maori have special rights and privileges above that of the average New Zealander. Obviously this is bullshit but it’s effective rhetoric and there’s a grain of truth to in that the extent of Maori rights hadn’t been clearly defined due to the ongoing nature of the process. So this has got a lot of people with a poor grasp of the issues very upset and baying for change.

There is a hui (meeting) being held today for all the iwi to begin discussions of how Maori will respond to this. New Zealand politics isn’t very interesting usually, but our progress on indigenous rights, until now, has been absolutely ahead of the field. If you care about indigenous rights globally, you should care about this, because in the same way Australia’s referendum loss has spurred on this action, the loss of rights here will spur other right wing governments to be similarly bold to their own indigenous groups.

Indigenous rights in New Zealand are under attack. They are meeting today to discuss it, and New Zealand will be listening, but I want the world to be listening. Because our government needs the shame of being called out by more than just the people who they’ve already decided don’t vote for them.

Maori have a long and proud history of fighting for their rights, and they’ll do it again here. And I’ll be on the pickets beside them, but there’ll be plenty of my own pickets to attend, because this government is radical in every sense of the word.

So please, even if you’re very far away, stand behind them in this. Keep your eyes on us. Amplify their voices. Don’t let the racism drown them out.

[dakota-76]

Yanozha; Chiricahua Apache

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Taken in Florida, circa 1885

#trueamericans

[hectorsquintana]

I’m grateful for a beautiful life 🥰🥰🥰 Mourning and Thankful… #indiginous #mexicanamericanirish #apache #mescalero #gratitude #togetherness #peace #instagay #daddyboycouolela #sedonaarizona #tigersandlions #thanksgiving #husbands #outofafrica #outofafricawildlifepark #mariposa🦋 #redrocks #dayofmourning (at Sedona, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClWquTKv-yi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[entheognosis]

Dahteste was a famous Apache woman warrior, and it was widely known that she could out-ride, out-shoot, out-hunt, out-run, and out-fight her peers, both male and female. She took part in battles and raiding parties alongside her husband and best friend Lozen, another Apache woman warrior. She and Lozen were good friends with Geronimo, and he chose her to be his official translator in his talks with the US Cavalry. After negotiating treaties with the US government, she was imprisoned in Alabama and Florida, and later, Fort Sill, surviving both tuberculosis and pneumonia. 19 years later, she was released and lived out the rest of her life on the Mescalero Apache reservation.

[queercontrarian]

this is the bitch responsible

also wdym germans are obsessed w native americans. I thought they were nice to me cuz they felt bad. I didn’t think I was a weird little fetish doll thing

[staudnhuckn]

Oh, the glow

Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA

Ndé Kónitsąąíí Gokíyaa (Lipan Apache), Mescalero Apache, Coahuiltecan, Jumanos, and Chiso land

[haggishlyhagging]

Descriptions of female hunting in several North American Indian societies have been provided by Regina Flannery, Ruth Landes, and Louise Spindler. In the cases cited by them, certain females adopted "masculine styles" that they learned from men and performed out of necessity. When she lived among the Eastern Cree of the James Bay region of Canada during the summers of 1933 and 1935, Regina Flannery came to know several old women reputed to have been excellent hunters in the old days. They hunted either because of the illness or death of their male relatives or, as the women said but no man ever admitted, because of "just plain incompetence of the men at hunting." While living among the Mescalero Apache in the mountains of southeastern New Mexico, Flannery was told by a "shriveled-up, decrepit old woman" that in the past "young married women might go hunting with their husbands, not merely to accompany them, but actually to take part in the chase." Flannery found it hard to believe that such a woman "was once active and skilled enough to rope a buffalo, wind the rope around a tree, and kill the animal with an axe." However, she received corroborating information from others that in the past this was not an uncommon feat for women who, if they needed food, would kill whatever animals they came upon.

-Peggy Reeves Sanday, Female Power and Male Dominance: On the Origins of Sexual Inequality

[ungarmax]

I haven't seen anyone talk about it here, but there's a huge wildfire in Ruidoso, New Mexico, and it's displaced and unhoused a lot of people, including the Mescalero Apache Tribe.

They are asking people to donate to Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico, and the Tribe has set up a GoFundMe.

If you donate at least $10 USD to either of those charities (or another vetted charity) and send me a copy of your receipt (any identifying information removed, of course), I will draw you an icon in the style above. They can be like my pride portraits or like my emoji portraits, too (under the cut below).

I will draw:

fanart AND OCs (with refs) (please include refs for podcast characters)

1 character per icon

humanoid furries (nothing full animal, sorry)

faces only (and maybe an arm/shoulder)

I won't/can't draw:

real people (characters portrayed by actors are okay)

mechs/robots (UNLESS they are very humanoid, i.e. Aradiabot from Homestuck)

animals

incest/pedophilia/anything USFW

anything racist/homophobic/transphobic/ableist/etc

anything with AI generated refs

Just email me at zack@houjun.com with a copy of your receipt and the character you want (refs needed for OCs).

More examples of my work:

[littlefeather-wolf]

Naiche - Chiricahua Apache

Naiche 1856-1919

Naiche, the youngest son of Cochise, was born in 1856. His mother, Dos-teh-seh, was the daughter of Mangas Coloradas. As a young man he took part in raids on white settlers and in 1872 was with his father when he met Brigadier General Oliver Howard. This resulted in the establishment of the Chricahua Reservation in Arizona ... Taza, Cochise's older son, became chief when his father died in 1874. Two years later Taza died and Naiche became the leader of the Chiricahuas Apaches ... In September 1880, Naiche joined Geronimo and Juh in an attempt to lead their people from the San Carlos Reservation into the Sierra Madre. However, in 1883 General George Crook managed to persuade the Apaches to return to Arizona ... Naiche and Geronimo broke out again in May 1885. Once again General Crook was sent after them. Naiche lived in the Sierra Madre until he was caught by Crook in September, 1886. Natchez now joined the all-Indian "I" Company, 12th Infantry at Fort Sill, Oklahoma ... In 1897 Naiche worked as a scout for Captain Hugh Scott and the 7th Cavalry ... After leaving the army he moved to the Mescalero Reservation in New Mexico ...

Naiche died on 16th March, 1919

[dakota-76]

Apache people on horseback

~

Circa 1903

[hectorsquintana]

This is truly Goddess Country! Also honoring my indigenous bloodline by learning and experiencing the lives of my ancestors #apache #mescalero #theguardians #sacredpools #sedonaarizona #sedona #jeeptours #sinkhole #husbands #thanksgivingweek #travelgays #instagay #offroadadventures #sedonaoffroadadventures (at Sedona, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClOzydlv54q/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[indigenous-character-tournament]

Tye Longshadow is canonically Mescalero Apache.

Lilo Pelekai is canonically Kānaka Maoli.