#indegenous people

[moandieu]

Ruvén Afanador: ‘Yucumama’, (ethnicity: Ticuna), Colombia, 2018

[asenfar]

Held each year on September 30, it coincides with an Indigenous-led initiative known as Orange Shirt Day. Both aim to commemorate the more than 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Metis children. Anyone need this t-shirt, hoodie, sweater? you can find it in here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DHJ6G5CB

[questioningespecialy]

"Kill the savage. Save the man."

This is human trafficking

[fun-twisted-tales]

Have you ever wondered what America would be like if the colonization never happened and the indigenous people were left alone? Where would we be now? What would the towns look like? How would the government work? What would the culture be like? I’m not native myself so I’m not 100% sure what would happen but it’s still something I wonder

[voidoftheuniverse]

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[tilbageidanmark]

Inuit button with seal image, 1880s-90s, Yukon.

[ladyofthebears]

To add this this whole Jace discourse I just want to say this:

I am the result of an affair my grandmother had with a native american man whilst my pappy, who raised me, was in Vietnam during the war.

As a white passing mixed kid, i was not called names often. I was looked down on, i was treated like an outsider in my own family, sneered at with whispers spread behind my and my brother’s backs.

I have been called a mongrel only a few times but i vividly remember the first time it happened.

I was small enough that my brothers could still trick me into thinking i was adopted because of my pale skin and light hair. After a family gathering (of my Pappys side of the family), i asked how everyone in the family knew we were our father’s children immediately.

My brother smiled very sardonically at me and sprouted something about him and our other brother sticking out like sore thumbs. I was confused, because they knew i was my father’s daughter as well, despite how i looked. I asked why they ignored us and were mean and looked at us like grandma looked at the dead snakes in her garden. He laughed at me and said

“Guess life is just harder for filthy mongrels like us”

I remember that phrase so vividly. And maybe my brother meant it to be joking, but those words stuck with me for years. Stuck with me through puberty when i wore even PALER foundation and put blonde streaks in my hair. Stuck with me as i grew up further in a racist religion that specifically makes indigenous people out to be evil. I remembered it when i finally started interacting with more native people in college to reconnect, remembered it when a white girl told me that “if i wanted to be taken seriously as an Indian i should dye my hair black and start tanning”

Those words have haunted me for a long time and they have only helped to make me despise myself and how I came to be.

I hate being stuck between two things- i hate looking white and having all the unfairly given privilege it grants me over my brother. I hate how i am seen as a pretendian for trying to interact with my culture. I hate knowing i can never get tribal affiliation because of the affair.

I know i have immense privilege because of how i look, but those words still haunt me. Because at the end of the day, thats how i see myself at my lowest moments.

I know that on twitter there is major discourse about Jaces words and actions.

And while yes, this is a fictional show, Jaces struggle is one i am intimately attuned to. I said things and did things i regret looking back out of anger for my own situation, i acted in immature and childish ways. But at the end of the day, i can look back and recognise that because i lived through it, and grew through it. I was constantly confused and hurt and torn between differing worlds and families and peoples and it took me a long long time to come to peace with it.

I am still not fully at peace with it.

So- while you may criticise the writing all you want, please realise that Jaces hurt and anger are feelings that can be very very real for some people. Jace, is obviously a fictional character who doesnt have real world feelings. But your mutuals, the people who see your post on discover page are, and your words about a fictional character can hurt them too.

I am not saying mince your words and center your world around sensitive snowflakes- i am saying, have some empathy- even if it is for a stupid fictional character. Because maybe along the way, you can find empathy for other real world people too.

These were the kids that were made to feel like dirty mongrels.

[ihearttseliot]

[the-bioelectrical-network]

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Hello folks, as we know like indigenous ppl on turtle island is in an ongoing state of being extremely shitted on by "US of A", and because of climate crisis the weather shits itself, there is a major winter storm with alarms of extreme cold and wind chill warning occuring at this moment, please stay safe everyone!

There's this organization called Chunka Luta Network, currently they are directly helping the traditional families on Porcupine get wood delivered and fill their propane tanks, and to make sure that happen they are working with tribes in Oklahoma.

For background, this org is founded by Sungmanitu, an Oglala Lakota person, their family is from Pine Ridge reservation, after years of making sure their family survive every winter by sending wages back home, they decided to start a winter drive to get coats, hats, a uhaul, wood, and hotels. Now the momentum has been rolling and they are making more tangible impact and carrying out more and bigger projects! <:)

CLN youtube channel for you to check out, awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/@ChunkaLutaNetwork>

the org's linktree:

https://linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork

support their effort directly via $ZitkatosTinCan on cashapp or @zitkato on venmo, you can dm for paypal, other options include the multiple GFM for other projects, amazon wishlist.

Consider consistent long term support like patreon, which starts with $1 and liberpay, all displayed in their linktree :) we have power in numbers. Sharing and RB is appreciated.

[jellysshitpoems]

Hope you feel better soon—if it would help at all, I’d love to hear some of your recent favorite facts about nuclear energy if you have any!

Oh. My god. This made me realize I have so many unanswered nuclear energy asks i just never responded to. Im so sorry to anyone who asked me anything ill get on that.

I recently learned something thats nuclear energy related, but most of it falls under the incident category! And it involves Canada! 🫡🇨🇦🇨🇦🍁🫎 also the soviets, but its nuclear thats gone wrong so of course it does 🤷

In 1978 a nuclear reactor powered Soviet satellite broke up over the Northwest Territories without separating from the on board reactor like it was supposed to, leaving radioactive debris spread over a 600+ kilometre area. A joint American and Canadian operation was launched to clean the debris, named ‘Operation Morning Light’, which sounds like some star wars shit fr like operation morning like should be the assassination of Darth Vader like thats fucking badass

Anyways— some peices of the satellite were so radioactive it could kill a person after just a few hours of contact, and the whole operation took around ten months from late January to the mid October of 1978, just eight years before the significantly more famous Soviet nuclear fuck up that is the Chernobyl disaster! Fun!

Another satellite later failed in 1983, dropping its reactor into the Atlantic. Idk anything about that one though 🤷

Overall, clean up cost around $6 million dollars which the Canadian government asked the Soviet union to pay, but they only ever ended up giving the government $3 million. The Canadian winter did absolutely nothing to assist in the operation, doing quite the opposite and freezing all the fucking equipment lmao

The effect of this event on the First Nations people in the area is, of course, not talked about enough. Theres reasonable belief that this incident was the cause for high rates of cancer in the Fort Resolution area, but a provincial health report released a decade later claims there is no correlation. In 2012 the Chief of the Deninu Ku’e First Nation said he believed this to be the government shifting blame of cancer rates to the Indigenous communities own actions. I cant say Im an expert and know whether or not clean up was sufficient, but considering the Canadian government’s history of ignoring different types of pollution affecting the lives of Indigenous people… it certainly wouldn’t surprise me if it wasn’t.

Anyway long story short a Nuclear reactor was basically dropped into the Canadian north by the Soviets who then tried to ignore it and it was a bitch to clean. Also fuck the Canadian government 🖕

(Ive got articles and research papers if anyone wants to know more, I am not an expert or anything so I probably dont have the whole story and my telling may be inaccurate)

[saintsir4n]

— there are some things I want to say, many of which are regarding race!

The fact that Francesca Amewudah-Rivers is receiving hate the fact she’s playing Juliet is not surprising, since people do not need reasons to hate black women. She’s a dark-skinned pretty woman but of course, because she has prominent black features she’s seen as manly and shouldn’t be playing alongside someone like Tom Holland. I’m not one to put down people but Tom Holland is not God’s gift, and neither is he publicly defending his co-star, a matter that I won’t get into as the focus is Francesca. The role of Juliet is one that was originally played by a man, and since then has been played by people of different ethnicities, some being black women. The fact people are using her appearance or the fact she’s deemed as “not conventionally attractive” is disgusting as if that’s an excuse. I’m glad that over 800 black actors signed a letter in solidarity because of the racial abuse as well as the production company who issued their own statement.

POCs especially darker-skinned women are constantly the target of racial abuse even over things that don’t exist and yes I am talking about fan-casts, especially tangled. I haven’t watched the film but I know the source material isn’t from Brothers Grimm but a Persian poem written in the 10th century by Ferdowsi, 8 centuries before it was turned into a “German folklore.” It’s hilarious how micro-aggressions and racism come out when people think white characters aren’t at the centre of it all. People crying about how their younger selves Would hate to see a stunning South Asian actress in the place of a blonde hair, blue-eyed ADAPTION of an original when brown and black girls had little to no representation at all. “Why can’t we stick to the originals?” Please look up what the original is before you start with your insults specifically those who are crying on TikTok or trolling on Avantika Vandanapu’s Instagram.

And lastly, stop bringing Tiana into it. She’s based on a real person just like Pocahontas, their race is important to their stories, black and indigenous, it’s tiring and also just foolish to post edits of “if they can have an Asian Rapunzel why can’t we have a white Tiana” when it’s clear that missed the plot of the princess and the frog, blind to/ ignoring its micro-aggressions (that are written in solely for a black character) and are just showing their bias all in defence of a film that doesn’t even exist.

And before anyone starts on “Why don’t you just invent your own characters?” Many have tried and the movie itself wasn’t watched, had little to no promotion or has been whitewashed but of course that gets little backlash.

And don’t get me started on wish…

So just to conclude, stop attacking us!

[gwengifterror]

It's January 1st, and I am thinking about Comandanta Ramona, an officer of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, a revolutionary indigenous autonomist organization based in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. She led the Zapatista Army into San Cristóbal de las Casas during the Zapatista uprising on January 1, 1994. Today, I honor the 30th anniversary of the uprising.

Zapatistas emerged from decades of organizing among Indigenous peoples to address the systemic issues of poverty, discrimination, and lack of representation faced by Indigenous communities in Mexico. They demanded that the government recognize their rights to land, autonomy, and self-determination and called for a new political and economic system that would benefit all Mexicans, not just the wealthy elite. As is human nature, no one is perfect. The Zapatistas honor this and take care to learn from their mistakes.

The uprising was a call to action for marginalized communities worldwide and continues to inspire movements for Indigenous rights and social change. Though their initial spark in 1994 came with physical conflict with the Mexican military, the Zapatistas have since focused their efforts on building autonomous communities that are centered around their Indigenous traditions while seeking to create what they refer to as “‘Un Mundo Donde Quepan Muchos Mundos’ (‘A World Where Many Worlds Fit’) by emphasizing the dignity of ‘others,’ belonging, and common struggle, as well as the importance of laughter, dancing, and nourishing children.”

"Zapatismo is not a new political ideology, or a rehash of old ideologies. Zapatismo is nothing, it does not exist. It only serves as a bridge, to cross from one side, to the other. So everyone fits within Zapatismo, everyone who wants to cross from one side, to the other. There are no universal recipes, lines, strategies, tactics, laws, rules, or slogans. There is only a desire – to build a better world, that is, a new world."-Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee Zapatista Army of National Liberation

There is much to learn from the Zapatista Revolution and movement, like the demand for equity and belonging and the honoring of all that is ancestral. Every January 1st, I make it a practice to become reacquainted with the seven Zapatista principles as I set my intentions for the year.

1. Obedecer y No Mandar (To Obey, Not Command)

This Zapatista principle emphasizes the importance of executing the will of the people, while holding a position of leadership. In Zapatista autonomous communities, leadership positions are short-lived. This reflects the need for leaders to obey the collective desires of the community rather than command them from a position of power.

2. Proponer y No Imponer (To Propose, Not Impose)

Humility is a key part of life for the Zapatistas and aligns with their practice of debate and self-reflection. Therefore this principle is birthed from Zapatista culture of proposing a path forward and not imposing one.

3. Representar y No Suplantar (To Represent, Not Supplant)

Deriving from the Zapatista understanding that before the colonizer arrived, Indigenous people governed themselves. This principle is guided by the importance of self-governance for the Zapatistas and is grounded in the collective trust of the community to represent what the community wants.

4. Convencer y No Vencer (To Convince, Not Conquer)

The principle to convince not conquer is important to the Zapatista practice of dialogue and assembly. For the Zapatistas convincing requires logical argument, reflection, consideration of many viewpoints, and open discussion.

5. Construir y No Destruir (To Construct, Not Destroy)

The fifth principle is rooted in an ethic of anti-destruction and an end to exploitation. This principle is a practice in creating the institutions and the world that we want. This includes the unique Zapatista view of both relationships to humans and the land.

6. Servir y No Servirse (To Serve Others, Not Serve Oneself)

A traditional value for the Indigenous people of Chiapas is humility. The Zapatista slogan, ‘Para todos todo, para nosotros nada’ (Everything for Everyone, Nothing for Ourselves), is at the core of this principle. Every Zapatista must find a balance in serving others for the collective while taking care of their individual family work.

7. Bajar y No Subir (To Work From Below, Not Seek To Rise)

In Zapatista communities ‘trabajo colectivo’ (collective work), is a way of life. This seventh principle aligns with the mentality of working at the grassroots level for the benefit of your community.

Happy New Year!

[focusonmy]

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[nando161mando]

Whenever chuds make fun of people talking about “an indigenous approach to math”, just know they’re being transparently racist

[hadesoftheladies]

like the british, french and spanish really fucked up our lives. my grandmother still recalls her days in the british concentration camps as a child and it is so hard to hear her talk about it. i have cried a lot because the trauma in my family so fresh and it's horrifying to see the evidence of our violation as a people and land everywhere.

but when i see, hear or read about what empires like canada and the u.s. have done and are doing to native americans and black americans (especially the women), i want to fucking throw up it. is beyond inhumane like those countries have always run on a fuel of these people's blood it's so fucking EVIL.

living as a neocolonial state will never compare to what native americans who are still being held hostage by their oppressors directly on their land are going through

like shit man at least i can roam freely on my land and have rights relative to how much money my family has, but these people are living human horrors i cannot comprehend. they are literally what would have happened to us if the colonizers never left and it's so traumatizing to read about and see.

[jamesizlar]

I: FREE US ALL