#anishnabe

[cptnbeefheart]

My name is Leonard Peltier, I am a Lakota and Anishnabe And I am living in the United States penitentiary; Which is the swiftest growing Indian reservation in the country

[blimmo]

Chantal Kistabish, cheffe de la Première Nation Abitibiwinni, Lucien Wabanonik, chef de la Nation Anishnabe de Lac Simon, Dylan Whiteduck, chef de Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, Ian Lafrenière, ministre responsable des Relations avec les Premières Nations et les Inuit, et Michael...

[caffeinesam]

Okay bear with me here my parents met in the most stupidly intricate way you can imagine. I'll just list the basics, you won't believe it.

Hometown is a white bread town in the northern skirts of western-ness with a small Anishnabe community and maybe two or three Cree family, so very very white, the first black person in town was an adoptee about my age;

My dad is Cree, lived in my hometown all his life, extremely poor family of 11 from the rural outskirts of town, his father was military, his mother a broad shouldered huntress and trapper;

Mom is a girl from the city, her parents upper middle class, her mother a homemaker from a village in another province near the sea, her father an electronics technician from my dad's hometown;

My mother's parents were about to split when she was like 16, her dad had met some younger lady so he bought an office supply store in my hometown - 600 kms from their home - hoping his wife wouldn't follow and he could live his fling in peace;

The house in the city burned down for reasons I do not know so the wife and four teenage kids moved to my hometown;

Mind you they moved from a 1M+ city to a 5000 inhabitant town, where half the population was in the military base and didn't mix much with the rest of the people;

My hometown was also a party town for the whole province's criminalized biker gangs so lots of drugs and fights and booze and parties, so through this and being BIPOC, my dad had to fight his way to earn respect;

So my dad had a kind of coup de foudre when he saw the tiny new girl chatting with some people while they were both volunteering to start a community radio station, she also noticed the tall dark man with long hair and crooked teeth, it would be a few years before either made a move, after working together a while there, during my mom's damn 18 years old birthday party (but no my dad was not "waiting til she was legal", he was 19);

So yeah, a fucking divorce story slash Hallmark slash teenage dope movie slash community radio romcom is why I exist. And the crazy thing is, they're still together.

[Side quest] My mom's youngest sister got her thrills on with some bad boy, a good friend of my dad, who would later father and raise their son alone (which in 1981 was something - lots of respect for him). While my grandfather hated him, his wife loved being able to use him as a spy to see if his mistress was snooping around the shop (snitches get stitches, my aunt was pissed);

[Bonus track] My mother's love solidified when my dad beat up a bunch of guys in the local tavern who were trying to beat an old guy.

my mom’s been telling me my entire life she and my dad met at a bar which BOOOO BORING but today she just casually mentions actually she placed a fuckin ad in the newspaper saying she was ‘a single lady ready to meet the one’ and he was the first to call her and they dated over the phone for like three months before they met n she was like “i was already pretty much in love with him because i adored his laugh on the phone” ????? What kinda 90s romcom bullshit

[medi-at]

L’école de conduite Otapan voit le jour

L’école de conduite Otapan voit le jour

Un groupe de travail œuvre depuis 2 ans à la mise en place d’une école de conduite pour et par les Anishnabek. Le Conseil de la Première Nation Abitibiwinni, le Conseil de la Nation Anishnabe de Lac Simon et le CRÉA Kitci Amik annoncent en ce jour du 29 novembre 2022 l’ouverture de la première école du genre. La constatation du fait que ce genre de service est peu disponible en région, en plus…

[labmunky]

Serious Business "‪My contribution to the Native Baby Yoda movement, I give you Baby Crowda! He’s Native now #ThisIsTheWay" By @singsinthetimber #NDN #FirstNations #Canada The #AmericanIndian #Anishnabek #Anishnabe #Ojibway #Ojibwe (at M'Chigeeng First Nation) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5tpxryF8CT/?igshid=1iqe04c9tetah

[national-zombi]

Anishnabe lookin' over a young family... ... #nationalzombi #nz #streetart #streetartmontreal #montrealstreetart #streetartmtl #mtlstreetart #streetarteverywhere #wallart #urbanart #illicitart #native #algonquin #anishnabe #sticker #stickers #stickeart #stickerculture #slap #slapart #slapculture #stickerporn #paste #pasteraddict #pasteart #streetsticker

[caffeinesam]

Uh jeez I used to do so much gardening but I moved back in town and I don't know if I'm brave enough to try urban guerilla gardening here. And does leather working count? I also learned to make these chewed sinew things for snowshoes wtf is the name in English? The French/Anishnabe hybrid name is babiche and I forgot the Cree name for it too so anyways...

My kookom used to hunt and trap for duck and beaver and make these stunning clothes with all sorts of skins, furs and fabrics. Does this count?

@queen-mihai @captain-crabbo @animentality @future-cryptid @ifreakforicecream @interdimensional-capybara @nostalgic-breton-girl @revenantscholar @vanillecannellemiel @shadowybirdglitter

You know what? Fuxk it, I'm starting a reblog chain.

Reblog this post and tag your friends to do it too!

What is your "grandma hobby"?

I'll go first, mine is sewing. :)

No pressure tags -> @mac-cheez @mypainischronicbutmyassisiconic @no-entry-access @brokenstar28 @choosinganamewashard @theeclecticenquirer

[sunbowtruebrother]

Native Bigfoot, Documentary

Native Bigfoot, Documentary: This excellent one-hour documentary entitled Native Bigfoot describes Sasquatch from the perspectives of the Yakima, Cherokee, Anishnabe, Apache and other First Nations. It can be watched on Mometu or on Tubitv with a free subscription for North American users. A highly interesting research on Native knowledge regarding the Sasquatch.

[soncasong]

It's Pride and I'm a gay guy who watches a lot of movies, so here's a bunch of gay movies with happy endings not named Love, Simon, because we have moved past the need for Brokeback Mountain.

Trick (1999): A cute little romcom about a one night stand going horribly, horribly right. It's a shame this movie isn't more popular because it's so charming and has so much fanfic potential.

Shelter (2007): I mean, this is a classic. Surfers, found family, pining, what not to like?

The Thing About Harry (2020): Ridiculously cheesy, ridiculously cute. It's essentially a modern Trick with an enemies to friends to lovers slant. Good for some mindless fun.

Goodbye Mother (2019): As a gay Vietnamese man I will never not shut up about how well this movie portrays that intersection. A story about a gay expat visiting his hometown with his boyfriend, the nuance, the drama, the tensions are all so very real to how gay men in Vietnam have to navigate around the question of family.

We are Gamily (2017): In the same vein as Goodbye Mother but with a more comedic slant. A gay couple has to pretend to be straight when a parent comes to visit, it's funny and heartwrenching at all the right moments, and heartwarming to boot.

Just Friends (2018): Dutch Shelter. Explores the tension between gay men and their mothers, particularly between a refugee family.

God's Own Country (2017): Happy Brokeback Mountain, an aimless Scottish farmer with an ailing father finds his purpose with help from a migrant worker. It's poignant, beautifully shot, and quietly understated. A must watch.

Maurice (1984): Edwardian gays. Ahead of its time and an affirmation that it's okay to move on from your first love, as well as the ultimate smashing of class divides.

The Way He Looks (2014): A blind boy falls in love with a new classmate, it's both a coming of age and a study on disability. It's so sweet and the ending is the ultimate catharsis.

Handsome Devil (2016): An Irish schoolboy befriends the new transfer athlete and discovers they have more in common than he thought. A really excellent portrayal of friendship and solidarity.

TW: These next movies all have references or show self harm, but they all ultimately end happy. No more images from here out because I've reached the limit.

Hidden Kisses (2016): Two teenagers experience their coming out process while romantically involved. I love that it shows both characters and demonstrates how the experience is different for everyone.

Latter Days (2003): Gay Mormon meets party boy and the rest is history. It's a little cheesy but the guys are hot and the love story is ultimately so uplifting you can't help but smile.

Fire Song (2015): An Anishnabe teenager struggles with the decision to leave his reservation and attend college. Probably the darkest movie on the list, but it also tells such an important story about aboriginal communities and the struggles of people who have been extremely marginalized.

Save Me (2007): A struggling drug addict checks into an ex-gay ministry. The most nuanced portrayal of these ministries I have seen yet and also a wonderful story of self discovery of not just the main character, but the cast that surrounds him as well.

Honorable mentions to Giant Little Ones Getting Go: The Go Doc Project, and Boy Erased because while in my opinion, they have excellent and happy endings, the main charcters do not get (substantially) hitched at the end and some people don't like that.

In no way is this a comprehensive list, and I'm always looking to expand my repetoire with more lesbian and trans stories (send me reccs!). This is just a reminder that there's space for stories with gay characters to end happy and that Brokeback Mountain is the exception, not the norm.

[scapegrace74-blog]

Fall colours just starting to pick up steam on the aptly named Grandview Trail in Gatineau Park.

September 30, 2021

This hike, and all of the land you can see from it, is on unceded Algonquin Anishnabe First Nations Territory. I walk in their footsteps with humility, especially on this day of remembrance and reckoning.

[laurellynnleake]

bnnuy................actually, a wild cottontail rabbit of some kind, eating grass >:3

I'm not sure if it's the rare native species ("new england" rabbit) or the invasive one (eastern rabbit) - the ears seem too big for the former? To the best of my knowledge, names for either/both from some East Coast Native Peoples of Turtle Island include: wôtuqâhs (Wampanoag/Wôpanâak), waboz/môhtukquás/wuhtokquas (Algonquin), waūtuckques (Narragansett), tupsaás/waútukques (Nipmuc), and waabooz (Ojibwe). Help with species identification and names is greatly welcome!

[ID: A wild cottontail rabbit with brindled grey and brown fur grazes on blades of grass in the cover of a bush's shadow. You can see its ears twitching and mouth chewing as it bites off new pieces.]

ALSO: The Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project teaches kids from their tribes’ communities, and accepts donations (including a mail-in recycling ink cartridge program). The Nipmuc Language website offers free monthly classes (including an online one) to members of their tribal community, and has a bunch of resources. And the Mamawotagoziwn Committee for the Preservation of the Algonquin language takes donations, while Anishnabe-Algonquin tribal members can join the private Anishnabe Odinewin - Language & Land based Project FB group!

[cocoawithbooks]

Book Review: Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask (Young Readers Edition)

Looking for Your next nonfiction read? Check out my Book Review of Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask (Young Readers Edition) #booktwitter #bookreviews

I wish I had this book when I was younger and asking some of the questions that were covered in Dr. Anton Treuer’s Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask. I grew up in Michigan and I first began learning about Indigenous culture in elementary school from an Ojibway educator named, Mr. Ken, who would visit us at our annual camp. He called his people Anishnabe and taught…

[josythomasarttalk]

I was asked to paint 14 pieces to express the One Dish Wampum treaty between the Haudenosaunee and the Anishnabe for some schools to help them understand the importance of taking care of the land. Ensuring the land is healthy is critical, we draw our livelihood from the land we live on. No matter what you do for a living, no matter how much or how little money you make, we all breath the same air, we all drink the same water that the dinosaurs did. Planet earth is a closed system, so we need to be wise about how we take care of her so she can continue to take care of us.

We should all learn about the One Dish treaty and live by the ideal that it expresses. It’s one of the oldest treaties in the world. It didn’t end a war, there was no winner or loser; it’s about recognizing that we have to work together to ensure we all have what we need to survive.

[labmunky]

Hey! How Are Ya! Hey! How Are Ya! #NDN #FirstNations #Anishnabek #Anishnabe #Ojibway #Ojibwe The #NativeAmerican (at M'Chigeeng First Nation) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4N2SyXFkfl/?igshid=13uqq71pa3dwo

[ricknrollme]

The warriors of the rainbow prophesy

22 APRIL, 2014 - 00:57 JOHNBLACK

The Warriors of the Rainbow Prophecy

One day... there would come a time, when the earth being ravaged and polluted, the forests being destroyed, the birds would fall from the air, the waters would be blackened, the fish being poisoned in the streams, and the trees would no longer be, mankind as we would know it would all but cease to exist.his is how the ‘Rainbow prophecy’ begins, as retold by a woman of the Cree Indian nation of America over a century ago.

The Cree are one of the largest groups of the First Nations Native Americans in North America. There are over 135 bands of Cree living in Canada, with a total population of approximately 200,000 today.

The Rainbow prophecy, as it has come to be known, refers to the keepers of the legends, rituals, and other myths that will be needed when the time comes to restore the health on Earth. It is believed that these legendary beings will return on a day of awakening, when all people will unite and create a new world of justice, peace and freedom, and they will be named the ‘Warriors of the Rainbow’. They will reteach the values and the knowledge that has been lost in time, demonstrating how to have wisdom and extra-perception, and how unity, harmony and love is the only way forward.The rainbow reference relates to the di erent colours of the original people:

At the beginning of this cycle of time, long ago, the Great Spirit came down and He made an appearance and He gathered the peoples of this earth together, they say on an island which is now beneath the water, and He said to the human beings, "I'm going to send you to four directions and over time I'm going to change you to four colours, but I'm going to give you some teachings and you will call these the Original Teachings and when you come back together with each other you will share these so that you can live and have peace on earth, and a great civilization will come about. Prophecy as told by Lee Brown of the Salish Tribe at the 1986 Continental Indigenous Council, Alaska .

A particularly interesting part of the prophecy relates to the choosing of leaders. According to the story, a leader will not be the one that talks the loudest, boasts of successes, or has the support of the elite. Leaders will be those whose actions speak the loudest,

the ones that have demonstrated wisdom and courage and have proven that they work for the benefit of all. Isn’t this how things should be?The Rainbow has always held special significance among the di erent Native American Indian Nations. It is connected to the Spirit (Supreme God/Creator) in all things. Apart from the Cree prophecy there are many prophecies and stories from the Hopi, the Zuni and the Cherokee related to the rainbow warriors.

There will come a day when people of all races, colours, and creeds will put aside their di erences. They will come together in love, joining hands in unification, to heal the Earth and all Her children. They will move over the Earth like a great Whirling Rainbow, bringing peace, understanding and healing everywhere they go. Many creatures thought to be extinct or mythical will resurface at this time; the great trees that perished will return almost overnight. All living things will flourish, drawing sustenance from the breast of our Mother, the Earth.

The great spiritual Teachers who walked the Earth and taught the basics of the truths of the Whirling Rainbow Prophecy will return and walk amongst us once more, sharing their power and understanding with all. We will learn how to see and hear in a sacred manner. Men and women will be equals in the way Creator intended them to be; all children will be safe anywhere they want to go. Elders will be respected and valued for their contributions to life. Their wisdom will be sought out. The whole Human race will be called The People and there will be no more war, sickness or hunger forever. Navajo-Hopi Prophecy of the Whirling Rainbow

In the time of the Seventh Fire, a New People would emerge. They would retrace their steps to find the wisdom that was left by the side of the trail long ago. Their steps would take them to the elders, who they would ask to guide them on their journey. If the New People remain strong in their quest, the sacred drum will again sound its voice. There will be an awakening of the people, and the sacred fire will again be lit. At this time, the light-skinned race will be given a choice between two roads. One road is the road of greed and technology without wisdom or respect for life. This road represents a rush to destruction. The other road is spirituality, a slower path that includes respect for all living things. If we choose

the spiritual path, we can light yet another fire, an Eight Fire, and begin an extended period of Peace and healthy growth. Grandfather William Commanda, Circle of All Nations Prophecy of the Seven Fires of the Anishnabe, From Ancient Wampum Belt While Wikipedia would have people believe that the legend originates in a 1962 book titled ‘Warriors of the Rainbow’ by William Willoya and Vinson Brown, the reality is that the prophecy is ancient, passed down as oral history over many generations. Brown, himself, admitted that his research came from the Hopi prophecies, and the book has been criticized as an attempt to evangelize with the Native American community by relating the prophecy of the Rainbow Warriors to the Second Coming of Christ.

References to a new Era, a Golden Age characterized by harmony, stability and prosperity, do not just belong to the Native Americans, but can be found in myths and legends from all over the world. It is known as Chryson Genos in Greek mythology, the Kali yuga in Vedic and Hindu culture, and gullaldr in Norse mythology. One aspect that is common among many legends of the Golden era is the return of beings or gods that will aid in the restoration of the Earth.

In classical Greek mythology the Golden Age was presided over by the leading Titan Cronus. In some version of the myth Astraea, also ruled. She lived with men until the end of the Silver Age, but in the Bronze Age, when men became violent and greedy, fled to the stars, where she appears as the constellation Virgo, holding the scales of Justice, or Libra.

Whether these prophecies are true or not, much of what is spoken about – the era of greed and violence – is a reality throughout much of the world today. Corruption, greed, poverty, consumerism, power to the few, and injustice are predominant characteristics of our civilization accompanied by a great technological advancement that has become a weapon for mass destruction and a tool for suppressing resistance. Whether beings from the past will interfere or not, one thing is for sure, life cannot continue in this way forever.

John Black