#indigenious people

[keygenmemory]

hello! happy indigenious peoples day! help a disabled mexican american/mixed indigenious mother and son pay for their car insurance!!! please dont scroll!!!!

TLDR: after a year and a half of not having a car me and my mother got one that needs to be registered, fixed, and have insurance before we use it. me and my mother dont have jobs. we are both physically and mentally disabled and we live in low income housing. my moms disability money goes towards rent and the electric/gas bill and we dont have enough to scrape by for the insurance costs.

the insurance company wants $207 upfront for a year and then $38 per month after that. my mom already has $50 from a family friend so we need $157 left (not including transaction fees).

please please Please help us. we are unable to work and unfortunately i cant give anything in return but it would mean a lot from the both of us so we dont have to rely on uber/lyft anymore wasting $30+ for each medical visit we have (which is very often now) and we want to also drive safely just in case, god forbid, something happens to us and we cant pay the damage costs.

p•ypal . me

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$50/$207

thank you for reading, god bless your soul.

EDIT: its 10/15/2023 and im pleased to announce with the help of you all WE REACHED THE GOAL!!!! thank you all so much for helping us out it means a lot to us 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

$207/$207

[caspianlira]

Buy from them instead of buying from companies like Disney that fund and support genocide!!

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[sadclowncentral]

there has been some discussion on here that people should not call themselves central european, as that "doesn't exist, there is only the west and the (ex-soviet) east".

so here is the story of how my parents met. it's a long one snd it features a world war, the cold war and the iron curtain, but i promise it is a love story. here goes:

1936. my german grandfather lives in a small village in eastern pomerania, then germany, with his mother. my polish side of the family, part of an indigenious slavic minority, the kashubians, lives just six kilometers east across the border in poland.

1939. germany invades poland. with the front and the border moving east, my kashubian grandfather is incidentally born on german territory as a german citizen. he is the youngest of eleven - all his siblings are polish citizens.

1942. my german grandfather is drafted into the army and taken as a prisoner of war. the same year, my kashubian grandfather is murdered in a concentration camp for collusion against nazi germany.

1945. my german grandfather has returned from russia. the border has moved, west this time, and his old home is in poland now, and behind the iron curtain. he decides to stay in western germany.

1946. my kashubian great-grandmother, a widowed woman with eleven children, has lost her house during the war. she moves into an abandoned home in a now polish recovered territories.

1982. it's the height of the cold war. my german grandfather has not stopped wondering what has happened to his old home. with a sailing ship, he and my father make it to poland and to his old house. my kashubian grandfather, now married and father of seven children, opens the door. and in true kashubian hospitality, invites them to stay the night. my parents, both teenagers, and without a shared language, meet for the first time. and fall in love.

1987. my father is discharged from the west german army because of his frequent travels behind the iron curtain to visit his girlfriend. my mother gets a german passport issued without a citizen test as her father is technically german.

1996. the berlin wall has fallen, but more importantly, my parents are getting married in poland. their families got over the language barrier, and my grandfathers have gotten over their different sides in the war. the reception is in three languages - german, kashubian, and polish. in the house both my grandfathers grew up in.

a few years later, my brother and i are born. german- polish- kashubian. with two passports and three mother tongues. and then again. from one single house in germany- poland- recovered-territories- kashubia- pomerania.

so we just say we are central european.

[sullyfortress]

Hey, what’s your take on the whole: Avatar is kinda insulting to Indigenous people?

Ok this is actually a topic I have been curious about covering for a long time.

Let me start off by saying I am white.

I only the last year or two realised the problematic elements in the Avatar James Cameron franchise. I think whats important to remember is that elements of this movie were inspired by native culture - and really the act of colonizing.

The movie is also I think a take on human nature. Humans have shown that we cannot and do not learn from the mistakes of the past. If we - when we discover another planet with life - I don't doubt we will again act superior and fuck up another world. To me the biggest part of this franchise that I've always loved is the battle between technology and nature.

I have loved the world since I was 10. This was a franchise that I bonded over with my grandpa who is a sci-fi nerd like me.

It's only as I've matured that I've actually connected the dots. That their are people who feel that this franchise has stolen features of their culture. And it has - you cannot deny that the Na'vi are heavily influenced by Native cultures of America. I feel really humbled to learn about my own ignorance and priviledge related to the history of America in particular and how indigenoius people have been effected and are still effected.

I know James Cameron has made some unsavory comments. I don't know all the details, but I know he has said things to upset alot of people.

I have debated several times ending this tumblr and my commissions because of the recent harm and emotions related to the franchise.

I'm not gonna pretend that I know shit, if there is a follower of mine who is indigenious and has more insight into this subject, I welcome the insight. I want to be more educated. At heart I am an artist and I like to make art and I love science fiction and space.

[drdemonprince]

"Americans will NEVER stand talk in front of cops with long guns in the name of others."

dog... i'm not even american and can rattle off a long list of times where that *did* happen. not even just cops, but the actual military. from the 19th century to now. from pre-us civil war abolitionists to unions facing off with the pinkertons and state troops to literal warfare between miners and the military to black civil rights activists to anti-vietnam war protests to kent state to queer liberation to anti-war protests in the bush era to occupy to ferguson to BLM to DAPL/indigenious activists to pro-palestine activists this fucking year.

like... we can argue about efficacy & approach (especially with more recent movements) but the above statement is so patently false, it's laughable.

yep. we have some deep seated cultural issues and the nation state should not exist but the problem isnt some essential rot in the hearts of the people here. even how bad we fuckin are at forming community is systemic, and the product of a lot of intentional work on the part of the cia/doj/large corporations/police etc

[fashionbooksmilano]

Costume Balls

Dressing up history 1870-19927

Edited by Cynthia Cooper, Photographs by Laura Dumitriu

5Continents, Milano 2024, 288 pages, 246 colour and black-and-white illustrations, Hardback, 25,4x 34,3cm, ISBN: 979-12-5460-071-9

euro 50,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

A century and a half ago, extravagant costume balls and skating carnivals were the pinnacle of society’s entertainment, bringing forth a kaleidoscopic array of characters, most drawn from history. The opportunity to reimagine oneself as a noble hero or heroine from the past was no less than the chance of a lifetime. Participants acquired extravagant costumes and flocked to the photographer’s studio, as attested by the sheer abundance of mementos of these occasions in the McCord Stewart Museum’s collections. The book is intended to accompany the exhibition “Costume Balls: Dressing Up History, 1870-1927” at the McCord Stewart Museum. Montreal. A lead essay presents an overall view of the fancy dress phenomenon, and the major events in Canada with their colonial underpinnings. Other essays look in turn at the commemoration of these balls in art, photography, and publications, a decolonizing perspective on the representation of Indigenous and other marginalized peoples in fancy dress, and the ephemeral nature of the extant objects. A section consists of detailed profiles of astounding garments, with several images to show views of each that cannot be seen in the exhibition: interior construction and labels, closeup views of textiles and materials, and comparisons of archival photographs of ball guests in costume. The book is the first historical fashion publication to explore fancy dress in such detail. Exhibition : McCord Stewart Museum, Montreal, November 14, 2024-August 17,2025

Un secolo e mezzo fa i balli in costume e i carnevali sui pattini erano l’apice dell’intrattenimento sociale. Erano un’occasione per trasformarsi in personaggi storici, nobili eroi o eroine del passato, e rappresentavano un’esperienza indimenticabile. I partecipanti sfoggiavano costumi stravaganti e immortalavano il loro splendore negli studi fotografici, lasciandoci un’abbondanza di ricordi conservati oggi nelle collezioni del McCord Stewart Museum. Dietro l’esuberanza di questi eventi si celavano però anche messaggi più profondi, legati al destino coloniale e al futuro imperiale dell’epoca. Il libro accompagna la mostra “Costume Balls. Dressing Up History, 1870-1927” al McCord Stewart Museum di Montreal e offre una panoramica completa del fenomeno dei balli in maschera, sintetizzando le ricerche più recenti e analizzando i principali eventi in Canada e le loro radici coloniali. Altri saggi esplorano la raffigurazione di questi balli nell’arte, nella fotografia e nei libri, offrendo una prospettiva decolonizzante sulla rappresentazione degli indigeni e di altre popolazioni emarginate, e sulla loro natura effimera. Una sezione presenta profili dettagliati di abiti straordinari, con immagini che ne mostrano aspetti non visibili in mostra: la costruzione interna, le etichette, dettagli ravvicinati di tessuti e materiali, e confronti con fotografie d’archivio degli invitati ai balli. Un libro unico nel suo genere, che offre una visione completa e affascinante di un periodo storico ricco di fantasia e teatralità.

02/11/24

[kneesnipplesandnonsense]

I don’t think basing the salmon run graffiti off of Northwest indigenious art is random when you consider just how important salmon are culturally to Coast Salish people, historically being a main staple of their diet.

Of course, you’re probably thinking that’s obvious given that they refer to themselves as “Salmon people”... but I want to draw attention specifically to their beliefs about salmon and what they symbolize:

Source

This directly coincides with the salmonids in Splatoon striving to be “tasty” and believing that being eaten is honorable. SO I think it’s possible that the salmonids are somehow aware of how important they were to indigenious people and incorperated these human beliefs into their own belief system......Or this bit of salmonid lore is just a referance to how salmon runs in real life work. Either way it’s a very cool detail.

[martian-martian-martian]

seeing so many Black creator touch on this but my eyes are so opened—

once you see whiteness and womanhood as positionality and not identity it makes so much sense why we crave culture and gender expression that we are not native to.

whiteness is a construct that imprisons white people and causes an insatiable hunger for indigeny of any kind.

ive re-evaluated my relationship to jewish conversion through this lens and while judiasm also means a lot to me as a faith, enough to continue to explore it, i have to reckon with its appeal to me as a way to HAVE a culture after centuries of WASPness deliberately suffocating my Irish, Scottish, French and German identities that should have been culturally fulfilling.

[termagax]

seeing some people's reaction to weird gamer men oversexualizing kiriko is "mauga is right there, half naked, with serveral pin-up sprays" and while i do agree to an extent, i do feel like alot of people are kind of ignoring like. the racial element of mauga's sexualization, like i like mauga, he's hot, but the second i saw him in the short story, i wasn't a big fan of the whole "big savage brown indigenious guy" and it feels like very few people are pointing that out.

RIGHT LIKE. we cannot fix "gamer men fixate on fictional asian girls to a violent degree, usually in a racist way or enabling racist tropes already present in the character" with "gamer girls fixate on fictional brown men to a violent degree in a racist way or enabling racist tropes present in the character" like you guys are part of the same problemmmmmmm youre doing the same thinggg its not better because youre doing it to men like.

i think some people only want to see the kiriko problem as misogyny and while im not going to even pretend that ISNT a massive part of it, theres still like. a reason kiriko and d.va and mei are fascinations for these dudes. there is a pointed difference between the way these three get spoken about compared to their white counterparts (and their dark-skinned counterparts too - look at the responses to illari for a really easy comparison to how kiriko is treated). their ~exoticism~ as asian women is part of the appeal. even if you dont just wanna take the way dudes online treat them (like making a joke that shes "obvious pornbait" for speaking japanese and using JSL) as evidence of that, look at their marketing. kirikos whole thing is atheleisure traditional, shes got her Mystical Japanese Spiritualism Ninja Powers and her magic doggy and they constantly put her in japanese and korean fashion, and dva has been constantly crossing over with korean merch companies. i cant help but notice theres no brazilian IP crossovers or merch launches for lucio, or any attempt to Sell Peru To Gamers for illari. they couldnt even pick a town in Samoa to name maugas map after. these people wouldn't buy that stuff because it's not fetishized in the same way asia is.

but like. a lot of the people trying to Gotcha these racist dudes with an asian fetish just whip out their favourite racist tropes instead and its a really bad look. like you guys dont wanna examine how your examples of The Characters Its Okay To Hypersexualize are all brown? even the people who wanna fuck cassidy dont talk about him like this. or like. fuck if you want a good comparison for mauga lets look at roadhog. big half-naked tank who theyve been playing up a sexual energy/comic relief duology on since day one with racially insensitive cosmetic options. nobody treats it like its completely normal to talk about him that way. the dev team isnt pushing pinups of him out. he isnt flexing his boobs in trailers. hes a white dude*, so he gets the bare minimum dignity of being treated normally. incidentially hot, maybe, but for the most part his character is sold on being cool , funny and scary. mauga is being sold 50% on being a Sexy Rogue Love Interest and 50% on. releasing late. they put in so little effort for him to be anything else despite hyping him up as suuuper significant to the lore and a major gamechanger its almost embarrassing to watch. (this is why that short annoyed me so much for anyone keeping track).

[keygenmemory]

hello! ive tried making this post several times and they failed each time so hoping it works now

hi! my name is orion. im mx/us/indigenious, gay and trans, disabled (intellect. learning. mental. physical), and low income ETC ETC

recently my mom got an MRI for an unrelated health issue relating to her stomach and it turns out theres a 2.5 cm mass on her pancreas. we dont know if its cancer but she has had a cancerous tumor before on her stomach but it was very early on and removed.

shes been using loans to pay our rent since its climbing to be more and more expensive the more we live here and i want to relieve stress she already has abt money by asking for help again if possible

$30 should be okay for now, more if people are generous. i do have commissions open but please keep in mind due to my life being hectic not only with my mom but wkth my own health issues it may take a bit (1 month - few months)

pls share around anyway u guys can... it only takes a second. thank you all.

k0fi: https://ko-fi.com/astralchimera

p4yp4l: https://paypal.me/cupidsgrenade?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

[recreationalfanfics]

Is being indigenous to the area that is between rainforest and forest considered native American since the area is part of the America or is it just something else?

I'm confused

Indigenous means, like, the general term for ALL aboriginal cultures to me, personally. Like how the Hmong people from Laos, Thailand, and China are a group of indigenous people. Or the Guarani people in Brazil are indigenous. *I hope that makes sense*

Like my father is indigenous as well but he's Chamorro, not Native American like my mom. They both come from cultures that were colonized and have to rebuild but being Chamorro is so much more different than being Native.

I say I'm Native American because, like, I'm in the USA. Ik some Canadian Natives call themselves First Nation. so Indigenious is basically the umbrella term.

Like Native American is specially for Indigenious people in America but there are Indigenious people all over the world.

[tsaricides]

a couple of days ago a bloomberg report revealed that russian officials have been threatening african students and workers that they won't extend their visas unless they "agree to join the military." some africans on work visas "have been detained and forced to decide between deportation or fighting." this is not the first report of exploitation of migrant workers and russia's strategy of recruiting foreign nationals -- look at this piece from february about indians recruited online. within the russian federation itself, indigenious activists have long alarmed that their people are especially pressured to join in the war efforts.

[stars-and-soda]

Ngl that one post with people arguing about Indigenous rights to live basically is so demoralizing. Like how are you openly admiting to not seeing Indigenious people as inherently worth more than animals? Why is this an actual argument being made? I cannot argue for how we are worth more than a single animal, I cannot even compare myself and my family and community and ancestors and people to animals to argue for us. I cannot. There's no where to go from here because there is no way to explain how putting Indigenous lives under animals isn't leftist or progressive or morally right and nost fucking certianly isn't supportive of Indigenous people. People shouldn't feel comfortable saying that shit. So many ""allies"" still have the sentiment of that old newspaper clip I can't find rn of "x people dead and y Indians", where we're closer to humans than anything else, but not quite people.

[jennrypan]

What do you like in the game until dawn and oh yeah this game depiction of indigenious culture is not accurate

Oh there's a list. (And yeah I know but it came out in 2015 I don't expect games back then to be accurate, cuz like I'm pretty sure they did like. The bare minimum of research to get what they needed so eh--)

On to the things I like.

Starting off. THE VISUALS??? THE DESIGNS?? ITS FUCKING BANGER?

Then we have the start? We have the established characters, we get to know them a little, we get to see who Hannah and Beth are as characters before they ya know, get nerfed, the choices they give to make it seem like you can save them?? 10/10

And the other characters??!!?! They are all interesting in their own right! This game gives you time to care about each character, gives you a chance to chance or make relationships with other characters! You see the change, and then it leads to different scenarios!

Also !! The choices they give you ACTUALLY EFFECT THE STORY!! Even the littlest of choices have meaning and just..the games following this one don't have that same vibe, the characters are down right boring and you don't actually care what happens to them?? I mean kinda just cuz you don't wanna get a bad ending but that's it??

Also!!! THIS GAME DIDNT DO THAT STUPID "IT WAS ALL IN THIS ONE GUYS HEAD!" trope. I fucking hate it, it's boring and sucks, Yes Josh was indeed going through a psychotic break but the only thing in his head was the therapist, the wendigos were real, the prank he pulled on them was real! Everything that happened was real,

(Man of Medan and Little Hope did this stupid shit and I'll forever hate them, and also. In those games you had no chance to care about any of these characters, edpecially in Little Hope no reason to care and no matter what you chose the ending doesn't change cuz uh oh they're still dead!)

Just. Until Dawn was the ground work for butterfly affect games and to me it was their absolute best simply because of the characters in it, they all have their purpose, they all have their little chapters and interactions and they're interesting, they're not just complete assholes that you can't wait to kill (..Depending on how you feel about Emily I can go 50/50 I love her but I'm choosing Matt over her 100% and also Mike but I love him sm) I can't make any analyze on the other two games (with the 'werewolf' and the murderer cuz I don't remember much from them. The murderer one was cool though)

Just. UGH I FUCKING LOVE UNTIL DAWN and wish the fandom wasnt damn dead. And I could draw fanart

I also wanna rp BUT PEOPLE ARE DEAD. Just ugh

[ameritt]

Denver Art Museum With snow on the ground and a temperature of 26 degrees fahrenheit / -3 degrees celcius, I decided it was a museum day.

I wasn't sure what to expect from the Denver Art Museum. Eleven floors, spanning early indigenous, European, Latin American, Asia, photography, modern and contemporary art, with the 1970's wing designed by Gio Ponti and the modern wing designed in 2006 by Daniel Libeskind.

The museum was involved in a scandal in 2022- several pieces of art were looted from Southeast Asia and donated to the museum. The museum now addresses the issue of art provenance in multiple places in the museum and repatriated the art.   I was pleasantly surprised by how engaging the staff and the curation was. Modern pieces are juxtaposed with old. European and pop art perspectives (such as Andy Warhol's American Indian and EA Burbank's Chief Blue Horse) contrast with those of indigenious people (Ken Monkman's The Scream) who the curators consulted to create the exhibits. There were curatorial notes aimed at young visitors explaining context and history or even just asking if they could find elements hidden in a painting. I enjoyed talking with some of the guards and docents who actually wanted to talk with visitors about the art.

One of my favorite sections was about how curators select frames (it is rare that paintings are shown with their original frame). They also incorporated video, such as how artist Laura Kishimoto makes her bentwood Yumi Chair in the By Design show. While the modern / contemporary art was the weakest section, some standout pieces included a very dangerously tilted Wheelchair with serrated blade handles by Mona Hatoum and Mark Tansey's monochrome landscape, About, which can be viewed from two sides and hides shows people in various predicaments.

[decadentlightthing-blog]

“He who controls the mind controls the minds of the public.” - Noam Chomsky & Jim Morrison.

Most of us accept the fact that social media shortens our attention span.

But do we really understand the fact that it does not only do that, but much more - affecting our whole way of thinking?

“But it doesnt affect me” Is a commonly cited quote, which might be relevant to many readers of this text too. This is a projection of our everyday consciousness, which is ignorance. Our minds are very selective, and we are very prone to live in a one firmly set of habits. 

And in our day to day life, what are we actually working with, internally? 

If one can really be honest about this, one can observe that Memory is mostly being acted upon for the most part. That’s the main instrument that we are playing with. But there’s a downside to using primarily just memory. As wears out the brain, and gradually, when one gets old, brain gets slower and slower.

Unfortunately this has been taken as some sort of a fundamental truth, like there’s no other way to live, act, and learn. This is a very concerning trait of our Western culture. 

Piling up knowledge into our brains without really facing the fact that our brain has limited capacity, there are inevitable consequences and therefore the fragmentation of the brain will happen. The increasing amount of distractions in society and modern lifestyle takes us away from our true nature which is far beyond the common way of life, with a biased way of thinking and superficial emotional life.

What over indulgence of social media and the noncritical way of internalizing information does to us internally, is that it evades that essential spaciousness needed for the mind.

We don’t seem to realize that “Nothing is something”.

I strongly encourage you to take a step towards a better life and for the next moment when you notice yourself caught in the same behaviour pattern, just stop. When you’re after short term pleasures or constantly amusing yourself with entertainment, take a moment to reflect on your life. 

Another phenomenon of our state of mind is that “ It is not that deep bro “, also known as Postmodernism. This I wont go into into any further in this post.

Going back to what I was saying, it is essential for us to not always try to fill our boredom with something. Fun fact, indigenious people did not have a word for boredom. They were so aligned with nature, and the nature of universe, which is a gift and the alignment to that naturally brings out gratitude to oneself. Indigenious people would be stimulated to just see that the green is grass, wind is blowing, and the sky is blue. And the culture was more about mutual good. Meanwhile in our modern culture mental disorders are becoming more and more complex. 

Where do we go from here?

Order in the mind can only come out of the understanding of disorder.

Looking at ‘what is’, presently operating in the mind, IS in in fact disorder.

Our everyday consciousness, like previously said, is ignorance. 

There are at least 6 grand illusions that are inherited from the very beginning of our childhood, and are encouraged by educational system. 

1) The illusion of thought 2) The illusion of self 3) The illusion of knowledge 4) The illusion of time 5) The illusion of control 6) The illusion of fear.

Look up: Self-enquiry

It is also to mention, that division inevitably brings about conflict. Very dangerous way of thinking is that there’s one truth, that my side is the good side, and others are bad. This is just one trait of the habits of War, and all the ugliness in the world made by man.

Last words,

althought I might paint a very gloomy picture of our way of living, I see the radical honesty of that fact as essential. And it does not end there, this is perhaps the more important part. Once we really delve into this ‘living’ we call, we can start to go beyond it. A one single moment, an insight can bring about radical change in oneself. Maintaining this positive change within oneself, implies constant awareness of unawareness. Being present when our negative impulses kick in, we’re there in the moment and in that we have all the power to act rationally, sanely, and not to go along with it.