#indigenous Filipinos

[omgthatdress]

Indigenous Filipinos!

[gothgleek]

Michelle Dee, Miss Phillipines 2023, wore a dress as a tribute to the last and oldest living Kalinga (Indigenous Filipinos) tattoo artist, Apo Whang Od and her work

[superinjun]

We Are The Ocean

Ursala Hudson (Tlingit/Filipino/German)

collar: merino wool, silk, steel cones, leather. ravenstail patterns, crochet, basketry twining technique. Woman as a Wave shawl: merino wool, silk, cedar bark. chilkat and ravenstail patterns, crochet, basketry twining technique. Tidal apron: merino wool, silk, leather, steel cones. chilkat and ravenstail patterns.

“We Are the Ocean is an ensemble comprised of a collar, apron (entitled Tidal), and shawl (entitled Woman as a Wave). The collar and bottom edge of the shawl are twined using a basketry technique to bring delicacy to the regalia, made specifically to emphasize the wearer’s feminine essence. In place of the sea otter fur that traditionally lines the top of Chilkat and Ravenstail weavings, the merino weft yarns were used to crochet the collar and shawl’s neck lines, bringing forward and incorporating a European craft practiced by both my maternal (Tlingit/Filipino) and paternal (German) grandmothers. The high neck of the collar gives tribute to the Western aesthetics that have forever influenced the Indigenous cultures of our lands; with grace, we embrace that which cannot be undone, and use our new form to be better. The apron’s pattern was studied and graphed from an old Tlingit cedar bark basket, and represents the tides of our lives, as our lessons continue to arise in a revolving cycle, yet made of new debris. The repetitive pattern of the shawl represents the infinite connectedness of our sisters, mothers, aunties, and daughters. Blue lines break up inverted rows, representing the “past,” “present,” and “future,” acknowledging these concepts as irrelevant constructs that fall away when we commune with the Divine. The entire ensemble is worn to evoke the innate spirit of the Woman as an ethereal deity, that resides within us all.”

[mankadavi]

hay naminhod kun he-a ya maid di kiingngohana (my love for you is beyond comparison)

happy international lesbian day <3

[mlm version]

[wiisagi-maiingan]

crying and begging and pleading with tv shows and movies to cast actual indigenous actors for indigenous roles instead of just anyone who looks suitably "ethnic"

[archaeologysucks]

The Smithsonian has formed a task force to address the massive collection of human remains held by its museums, which includes 255 human brains that were removed primarily from dead Black and Indigenous people, as well as other people of color, without the consent or knowledge of their families. The so-called racial brain collection was revealed by a Washington Post investigation. It was mostly collected in the first half of the 20th century at the behest of Ales Hrdlicka, a racist anthropologist who was trying to scientifically prove the superiority of white people.

[l0uterstella]

JUST REALIZED I NEVER POSTED THIS HERE nationality hcs :]

[balkanparamo]

Jose Honorato Lozano: Three Philippine Headhunters, mid-19th c., private collection.

[leche-flandom]

To see a brown Miss Philippines for the first time had me in literal tears. I didn't even know I still cared about those pageants until I saw the news and got all choked up. Chelsea Manalo is gorgeous and I'm so happy to see the country slowly but surely outgrow colonial standards of beauty. Honestly, I never thought I'd see the day.

(I know racism is still a huge problem there but at the very least I hope seeing her in the media will inspire some girls to throw away the papaya soap. 😭)

[catdotjpeg]

League of Filipino Students (LFS) PUP joined forces for a lightning rally at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines to condemn the ruthless killing of labor leader Jude Fernandez from Kilusang Mayo Uno and the news of the kidnapping of three youth leaders, Alia Encela, Job David, and Peter del Monte.

Karapatan Southern Tagalog confirmed that the killer 203rd Infantry Brigade and the 4th Infantry Battalion have been holding the three young IP advocates in Bansud, Oriental Mindoro for two weeks.

Meanwhile, Jude Fernandez was shot in his own home in Binangonan, Rizal by the fascist PNP-CIDG. Jude Fernandez is a well-known labor leader who is organizing and fighting for the right to work and liveable wages.

We join the scholars of the people in calling for justice for all workers murdered by the US-Marcos-Duterte regime, and the immediate release of the three youth leaders.

Justice for Jude Fernandez! Free Alia, Job, and Peter! Stop the attacks on the people!

-- League of Filipino Students PUP, 4 Oct 2023

[newhistorybooks]

"Dizon allows us to see a frontier of the Spanish imperium in a place that is not as commonly studied as the contours of Latin America. This allows us to get a different view of what Spanish colonials might have intended, but also of how local peoples responded to pressures on the land through their own active agency."

[skyethewolfwizard]

"The ends justify the means"

Even if the end is land built on bloodshed?

Putting natives in jail for their genes

Calling them dangerous, when they're all dead

And you are proud of this land?

Proud that it wasn't yours?

Proud that you errode it to sand?

Proud that many died in the fores?

You glorify the ones who justified the deaths

The ones who raped and oppressed

The ones who took so many native breaths

The ones who called the guardians of the land "pest"

The cloth of glory soaking the blood

The blood of those who treated the land well

The ones who you killed and left in mud

The ones who you kidnapped to sell

They were guardians of this land

They had so much history and culture

They were forced to have skin burned in brand

They were forced to suppress their fervour

Even now peoples like them are being killed

Being killed like animals once again

Graves and holes all filled

For an oppressor looking for glory for their men

But we will get it all back

We've had enough of your need to sack

We will rise again to reclaim our lands

Heal the beaches and sands

Bring back the buffalo and plains

Regrow the forest reclaim its reigns

Allow the old culture and history to return

Correct corrupted history and to relearn

We are stewards of our lands and home

We are brethren and kin

We will one day be able to freely roam

And look back at all the blood and sin

[brizobituin]

Indigenous tribes of the Philippines and cultural appropriation

There are one hundred and ten (110) major Indigenous groups in the Philippines. If you think you can just pick and choose beliefs from groups to suit you and you are NOT a part of those indigenous groups, you are straight up appropriating our culture. Most tribes that have survived, do not have legal recognition over their own traditional lands or have access to natural resources in their communities. The last thing they need is for some misinformed entitled non-native born bastardising their cultural beliefs and practices. Reconnecting involves staying in your lane and respecting that some things are just not for you. I appreciate and thoroughly enjoy reading about other tribes and what they do, but if it's not a Tagalog or Ilokano custom, belief or practice - they are not for me. Bahala na talaga (Reposted from birb app 🐤)

[superinjun]

Tlingit Typographic Expressions 007, 008, 009, 010

Ursala Hudson (Tlingit/Filipino/German)

[mankadavi]

Kabigat with the Head of Chal-chal's Son

Once upon a time, the Moon, a woman named Kabigat, was making a large copper pot. While she was working, the son of a man named Chal-chal, the Sun, came by and watched her. Kabigat dipped her pip-i, a paddle, into the water and rubbed it over the stone. She then pounded the molten copper with the stone in her hand. The son was amazed by the pot as it grew large and beautiful. Suddenly, Kabigat looked up and saw the son and immediately struck him with her pip-i, cutting off his head! Although Chal-chal was not there, he knew Kabigat had cut off his son’s head. He rushed to where they were and put his son’s head back on his body, and the boy was alive again.  Then the Sun said to the Moon, “Because you have cut off my son’s head, the people of the Earth will forever cut off each other’s heads.”  

[hawaiiancowboyy]

These are all me. Me as a kid. Me as an adult, now. All versions of me are me. You are witnessing a transformation. 🇵🇭🇨🇺🌺💫✨🌟🌌👔