#NICWA

[juniperharvest]

turning reblogs off. Due date passed. The National Indian Child Welfare Association needs your help before September 17th 2024

Text SIGN PBAZHN to 50409 to send this letter to your US House Representative

Please support H.R. 9076 when it reaches the house floor. Native families deserve support from the federal government, especially when it comes to keeping Native children with Native families. This bill includes critical provisions for tribes that receive funding under the Title IV-B child welfare programs, such as: - Increasing funding for tribal agencies and courts. - Reducing administrative burdens. - Enhancing data collection on Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) cases in states.

Please sign and share, it takes about 30 seconds to use resist bot. Thank you!

[junipernoon]

Alright white queer website - if you spent money on House in the Cerulean Sea then I challenge you to give money to the people whose story TJ Klune woobiefied and made about a white savior and oppressed magic:

National Indian Child Welfare Association

First Nations Development Institute

Association on American Indian Affairs

Native American Disability Law Center

Native American Rights Fund

Native American College Fund

[cheekedupwhiteboy]

tell me how i managed to cut my hand on my mailbox -_-

[walterdoodles]

Today is Red dress day. Remember and Honour all of the Native Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two spirits that have gone missing and have been murdered. Most of these cases are never heard in the public and they are sadly forgotten. Today I want to spread awareness for all Indigenous people, I want to share my culture and help others understand the importance of sharing stories from these victims.

I will be donating as well on this day to several sites that support native women and girls. And also a few sites that want to protect ICWA. I suggest you do the same but if you are not financially able to then spread awareness respectfully.🧡🧡

(I’m doing Donation commission 50% of the profits go to NICWA! this post-> https://www.tumblr.com/walterdoodles/719214714265255936/im-opening-up-some-donation-commissions-if-you )

No more stolen sisters

[darkwhimsycreations]

About ICWA » NICWA

https://www.theindigenousfoundation.org/articles/us-residential-schools <---- ICWA is directly tied to the history of boarding schools.

https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/biden-icwa <---- action to send Biden a letter calling on him to protect ICWA and Indigenous children

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj0Yx5UJ5JY&feature=youtu.be <---- video detailing the Christian groups trying to overturn ICWA

https://resist.bot/petitions/PCGYYN <---- petition to protect ICWA

[doritopaw101]

PROTECT ICWA

Posting the links so it’s easier to find

If you can’t donate try to boost this as much as you can

[aggiepython]

a piece i did for a class on native american history, inspired by Murder on the Red River by Marcie Rendon (more info under cut)

“She bounded down two concrete stairs and stepped out on to the green grass of the campus mall, surrounded on either side by thick stately oaks. She could tell each one had been strategically planted along the winding sidewalks between the red brick buildings. Even with groups of students sitting on the grass, leaning against their trunks, the trees seemed lonely. Nothing like the oaks along the river that grew where they wanted to grow and leaned in and touched each other with their middle branches, whose voices sang through their leaves like the hum of electric wires running alongside the country roads.” From Murder on the Red River

This piece is inspired by Murder on the Red River, a mystery novel by Marcie Rendon. It’s about Cash Blackbear, a young Ojibwe woman who investigates the murder of a Native man. Cash was taken from her mother and siblings as a young child and lived in a series of foster homes, most of which were abusive. About a third of Native American children were taken from their parents and placed in foster homes, even when they could have been placed with relatives instead of being separated from their community members and culture. Native American boarding schools, which also separated children from their families and culture, had mostly all been shut down by the 1970s (Katherine Beane), when Murder on the Red River takes place. But the removal of children to foster homes was just another way that the government tried to force Native Americans to assimilate into white culture. The Indian Child Welfare Act was passed in 1978. It set requirements to keep Native children with relatives when safe and possible, and to work with the tribe and family of children. This act has made progress, though Native children are still adopted or placed in foster care at a higher rate than non-Native children (NICWA). In my illustration, there are four trees, representing Cash, her mother, and her two siblings. In the image on the right, the trees are growing as they do in their natural forest habitat, winding together. In the image on the left, the trees have been planted on the neat lawn of the college campus, a place where white culture is dominant. The trees are apart from each other, separated as Cash’s family were torn apart. They were forced to assimilate as many Native Americans were. The trees are bur oaks, aka Quercus macrocarpa, a species native to North Dakota where the book takes place. Their range encompasses much of the U.S. and parts of Canada (Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center). The grass on the right image is Kentucky Bluegrass, aka Poa pratensis. It is invasive to North America. It was introduced in the 17th century from Europe, and is now found all over North America. It is commonly used for lawns and pasture, and can outcompete native prairie plants (North Dakota State Library). The Red River borders North Dakota and Minnesota. The Ojibwe have lived in Minnesota since before the 17th century, after migrating from Northeastern North America over hundreds of years (Minnesota Historical Society). The shape of the Red River traces through the image, weaving and intermingling through the branches of the trees, showing Cash’s deep connection with the land she is from.

Works Cited “About IWCA” National Indian Child Welfare Association, https://www.nicwa.org/about-icwa/ Beane, Katherine, American Indians in Minnesota, 12 March 2024, Nicholson Hall, Minneapolis, MN. Lecture. “Kentucky Bluegrass”, North Dakota State Library. https://www.library.nd.gov/statedocs/AgDept/Kentuckybluegrass20070703.pdf Rendon, Marcie. Murder on the Red River. Soho Crime, 2017. “The Ojibwe People”, Minnesota Historical Society, https://www.mnhs.org/fortsnelling/learn/native-americans/ojibwe-people “Quercus macrocarpa”, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=QUMA2

[gender-darling]

updated pinned . changed the " protect the icwa " link to the nicwa's donate page

[summer-fruits-and-cream]

If anyone's wondering about how they can help, I'm not sure if this will have a direct impact on this case directly but NICWA is an organization that defends Native American children. You can donate here:

I know I already made a post about this. But ICWA is LITERALLY being challenged by a white couple that wants to adopt indigenous children to erase their culture and Christianize them. The tribe, whom has a say in who can take their children, is like "Nah, we don't want our youth Christianized like you tride last time"

And the lawyer that's helping the white couple try to overturn ICWA (so that they can erase the cultures of indigenous children) is doing it pro-bono (which means he's not charging the couple anything).

AND that lawyer is a big time lawyer whose clients are usually oil and gas industries. He's literally fighting for indigenous children to be ripped from their tribes and culture so there's less indigenous people to protest big oil destroying their sacred land.

-fae

[juniperharvest]

oh quarterly NICWA magazine, we’re really in it now

[native-blog-deutsch]

Der 19. Mai ist der Tag der indigenen Gemeinnützigkeit

Anfang des Jahres wurde darüber berichtet, dass die anhaltenden Bedürfnisse und Herausforderungen in abgelegenen Stammesgemeinschaften über die Spendensaison und den November, den Monat des indianischen Kulturerbes, hinausgehen. Am 19. Mai gibt es eine weitere Möglichkeit, sich an die amerikanischen Ureinwohner zu erinnern - es ist der Native Nonprofit Day! 2023 ist der zweite jährliche Native Nonprofit Day, der von der Native Ways Federation veranstaltet wird und zwei Ziele verfolgt: die Unterstützung für von Indigenen geführte gemeinnützige Organisationen zu erhöhen und Amerika zu helfen zu verstehen, warum #giveNative so wichtig ist. Im vergangenen Jahr konnte PWNA beobachten, wie Unternehmen und Stiftungen ihr soziales Engagement für indigene Belange verstärkten, darunter Google, General Motors, Boeing, Levi Strauss, Synchrony Bank und Olo for Good. Diese Investitionen in Indian Country sind ein Schritt in die richtige Richtung, da Unternehmen und Einzelpersonen erfahren, dass ländliche Stammesgemeinschaften mit der geringsten sozialen Gerechtigkeit im ganzen Land konfrontiert sind.   Insgesamt geht weniger als 1 % aller Spenden in den USA an indianische Organisationen (vier Zehntel eines Prozents, um genau zu sein) - und das, obwohl jede vierte indianische Familie von Ernährungsunsicherheit betroffen ist und nur 16 % der amerikanischen Ureinwohner einen College-Abschluss haben, im Vergleich zu 40 % der Weißen, die einen haben. Damit die Finanzierung fair und relevant ist, müssen nicht-indigene Organisationen mehr NativeAware® sein. In diesem Kurzfilm des öffentlichen Fernsehens (PTV) erkläre ich einige der Hindernisse, die die Spendenbereitschaft von Ureinwohnern einschränken, angefangen bei der Personalausstattung bis hin zu kulturellen Normen und falschen Vorstellungen von Unternehmen. Wenn du mehr erfahren möchtest, besuche unsere PTV-Landing Page. An diesem Native Nonprofit Day solltest du etwas anderes tun. Nimm dir die Zeit, etwas über die lebensverändernde Arbeit von PWNA oder anderen indigenen gemeinnützigen Organisationen zu erfahren, die sich an vorderster Front für wichtige Themen einsetzen, wie z.B. die National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) und ihr Kampf für den Schutz des Indian Child Welfare Act oder das National Indigenous Women's Resource Center und ihr Kampf für vermisste und ermordete indianische Frauen (MMIW). Nimm an unserem Bingo-Lernspiel teil, verpflichte dich zu mehr NativeAware® und spende zur Unterstützung indianischer Anliegen.

Quelle

Read the full article

[walterdoodles]

I'm opening up some donation commissions!! If you get a commission from me 50% of the money will be donated to the https://www.nicwa.org/donate-online/ National Indian Child Welfare Association to help keep ICWA and support indigenous families!!

Here is the rates with an example

I also draw animals, furries, ocs, ships (no proship), and NSFW (gore or nudity) {with nsfw I have the right to refuse if it does make me uncomfortable}

I have a cashapp (preferred), a paypal, and venmo. You can message me or go on my discord username in pinned post!!

[juniperharvest]

thanks neechees for making this post!

we got more than 400+ House Rep contacts through this form by the deadline

while this deadline is passed, please everyone keep an eye out for ways to make a difference - I highly suggest signing up for emails from NICWA!

thank you!

Hey if you're from the U.S and you care about Native kids & ICWA, The National Indian Child Welfare Association needs your help before September 17th 2024

Text SIGN PBAZHN to 50409 to send this letter to your US House Representative

Please support H.R. 9076 when it reaches the house floor. Native families deserve support from the federal government, especially when it comes to keeping Native children with Native families.

This bill includes critical provisions for tribes that receive funding under the Title IV-B child welfare programs, such as:

- Increasing funding for tribal agencies and courts.

- Reducing administrative burdens.

- Enhancing data collection on Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) cases in states.

Please sign and share, it takes about 30 seconds to use resist bot. Thank you!

[hexalt]

The Indian Child Welfare Act is under attack, which threatens Native families, Native sovereignty and much more. @NativeChildren helps to protect Native children and keep them connected to their families, community and culture.

On OP’s reservation, Woodland Women is an elder-led group that creates space for mutual support and healing. They hold community talking circles, practice mutual aid, offer free beading classes and share Menominee cultural knowledge. I love these women.

IWRising's initiatives include financial and practical support for Indigenous abortion seekers in the US & Canada, midwifery support & advocacy surrounding repro justice related issues. To donate to their abortion fund

4directionsvote throws down hard to register Native people to vote, to get Native people to the polls, and to fight voter suppression. They’re on the ground in GA right now. These folks have a massive impact. To help keep Native organizers on the ground

@Chi_Nations is a diverse group of Native youth activists who steward the First Nations Garden, which is an important radical Indigenous space here in Chicago

OP’s collective is sponsoring survival stipends for individual Indigenous organizers. Indigenous activists on their list include a traditional birth worker who serves rural communities, a longtime healer and land defender & a Native mother about to be evicted.

Indigenous Justice does a lot of beautiful work supporting the families of MMIW & MMIR, using mutual aid, protest and traditional lifeways as modes of healing. They also work to expose and address disparities in California's carceral system.

[rainbeausworld]

So Thursday was both Brumalia and Thanksgiving this year. It was my first attempt at celebrating the former. I haven't really had a chance to look deeper into Brumalia between my regular life and the rest of my research, but I did accidentally spend some time reflecting on building my tradition and what the confluence of these two holidays mean to me.

I did end up thinking a lot about mortality in a way; I've honestly already thought about maybe making Thanksgiving a day to honor my ancestors instead of focusing on any of the stories that we grow up with in the US. With Brumalia I ended up thinking of my own myth as I'm watching the trees loose the last of their leaves.

My myth centers around a goddess I understand to be Cotys; I also call her the Mother-Queen. I think I'll get into her and my interpretation of her in a later post, but for now, at least for me, she's a firey ruler of the gods and caretaker of the dead. My myth essentially goes like this: for about half the year, Cotys rules from her home beyond the World Tree. Then for the winter, she leaves the upper world - which I called the Land of the Undying - to the Land of the Dead, where she'll be their ruler and caretaker. Because of her solar nature, when she leaves, the World Tree doesn't have her light, so it slowly starts to die. But then in the Spring she returns, and the World Tree rejuvenates in her light.

With the above story in mind, I did a ritual Wednesday night for Cotys, singing a song about her transition, how the gods will miss her and the dead will rejoice. As the song came to a close, I covered her statue with a pretty bandana to act as a shroud. I admit, the whole thing was a little strange; I've only recently started actively honoring her, so she's always felt distant, but especially so when I covered her statue. But it also felt right for some reason.

The next morning I performed a ritual to all my ancestors, including an ancestor-deity that I sort of adopted (also for another post) and the saints I honor. When I did, I made sure to call upon Cotys first as a kind of intermediary and asked for her permission to honor my family, to recognize her current position as Queen of the Dead.

I also managed to get in a donation to NICWA in time for Native American Heritage Day.

I think in the next few months I'm going to try to complete some sort of artistic project for Cotys and give it to her when she might return (I'm thinking Easter, lol). I've got I think what might be a relatively small but manageable idea for my first time doing this. Basically might try to repaint her statue.

[stynamo]

This month, we do have something to be thankful for. ICWA was upheld!!! Gimiigwechiwendaamin!!!

I saw this post going around again and I just wanted to let you all know that your donations and support went towards an amazing victory for tribal sovereignty and the well being of NDN children everywhere. This happened way back in June, but I realized that the results of this case might not have been on non-natives’ radar.

Of course, please consider donating to NICWA again this year, as their work in our communities will forever continue. But it’s always uplifting to hear something GOOD for once when it comes to real efforts to decolonize this land and keep our tribal communities together.

[image description in alt text]

This Thanksgiving, if you’ve ever once in your life claimed Indian heritage, give a couple bucks to NICWA. Im not here to argue with you about whether or not you have NDN heritage, but if you truly do, the reason why you know nothing about it is because of your ancestor being taken away and colonized by the methods the Indian Child Welfare Act protects against. Right now ICWA is under attack by a horrifying court case that threatens to undo all the recent strides we’ve made in tribal sovereignty and NDN cultural preservation by eliminating NDN children.

The court case is called Brackeen v. Haaland and is spearheaded by a literal Oil & Gas lawyer named Matthew McGill that has succeeded in destroying the sovereignty of Tribal lands for pipeline construction and has even tried to disestablish entire reservations for his Big Oil paycheck. Their case is a disgusting attack with no legal merit, but still may pass in their favour because of the greed of our Supreme Court. Here’s the most important snippet from that link.

Do not let them trick you into thinking this is to protect NDN children. Child abuse is a widespread US problem and the federal and state governments have never handled it with the best interests of children in mind, let alone NDN children. This is why I am offering up a link to NICWA, a program that ACTUALLY intervenes in cases of child abuse among the NDN community, while allowing the child to remain an established member of the tribal nation. This program is led by tribal leaders who know the communities they are operating in intimately, and therefore can actually act on what is best for the child.

If you are concerned about NDN Child welfare, DO NOT support the striking down of ICWA and instead support public programs on tribal lands and tribal child welfare programs like NICWA.

Direct Link To Give