#indigenous quotes

[cupofteajones]

Quote of the Day - November 18, 2022

Quote of the Day – November 18, 2022

[ihearttseliot]

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer

[gennsoup]

People who give more than they get. Mothers who love their children, fathers who stay. Grandparents who babysit, even in a wheelchair. We create beauty out of scraps. Hold cars together with duct tape. Work jobs and sell beadwork for cash to 'have a little extra.' Make frybread even though we know it isn't good for the diabetes but because it's good for the spirit. Resilience is making decisions that benefit the whole instead of just the individual. It's getting up and putting one foot in front of the other, even when you don't want to. This is our resilience.

Marcie Rendon, Resilience

[spider-man-2o99]

hits the disinformation machine with a bat a big bat a big heavy lead-core thick wood bat kablam whack whack whack whack whack. miguel ohara does not have "spider instincts," he has never in even one piece of official material ever had nor experienced the phenomenon that fandom colloquially refers to as "spider instincts," okay, that concept is entirely and 100% a fandom-born headcanon that people created post-ATSV as an excuse to write the guy as a stupid Feral Brown Beast-Man caricature . lord have mercy. it takes. two seconds of research 2 not perpetuate racist malarkey. do better

[thegentleintellectual]

Excerpt From: Terese Marie Mailhot. “Heart Berries.”

[deathsmallcaps]

I need advice.

I’m a white intern working in a mostly white southern(ish) high school. Students of Color number at under 2%, perhaps even lower. It’s a very white, rural community - I grew up in a fairly mixed, suburban northern community, and part of my family is Black.

Several of my white students say rude things to my Students of Color. I’ve told them to knock it off *as appropriately as I can* but I’m probably one of the few adults that actively discourage that behavior.

I don’t want to let this shit fly under the radar, but I also know that if an adult of authority *who will only be here for a couple more weeks* interferes, and then doesn’t stick around, it could make things worse. Additionally, I know these kids are probably very very very used to this ‘system’ and that making a short-term change could be more harmful than helpful.

I asked one of my senior students after a very racist incident *where she was laughing along with the perpetrator but I told him to stop anyway* that I can move him, or her, so she could be more comfortable (admin either does nothing or slaps wrists, especially for seniors). She said it was fine and that he was always like that.

I must emphasize, I think they were bantering (they talk so much I think they consider each other friends?), but it was also wayyy fucking out of line, especially in a school setting. And the guy says so much out of line shit I’m surprised he isn’t rocking a full set of dentures to replace the teeth he ought to have lost by now.

Another student took me up on my offer to move people, but I ended up moving him, which sucks because he was the victim in this situation. Unfortunately, I have to keep his aggressors in their spots, as they are highly rowdy in all the ways and require a lot more supervision than he did. And the class is really full. These were also all freshmen, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that affected the victim’s reaction.

So I’d really appreciate advice as to whether I should let it be, or continue as is, or step it up even more, from People of Color in largely white, especially rural, communities. Like any advice from current or previous educators, especially Educators of Color would be appreciated, but specifically southern/rural ones would be wonderful. I’m going to talk to my family members about it, but they’ve lived in more Northern settings their entire lives and they may have less … applicable (?) experience to the situation.

Again, I’m an intern, I’m going to only be there until winter break 2024, and I don’t want to fuck things up for these kids in the long run with my northern ally ‘sensibilities’. Thank you!

[ciderjacks]

reblogs a bunch of my deadloch stuff to ensnare my dunmeshi followers into watching deadloch

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Andrew Wyeth

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“Stories with weight to them have what C.G. Jung terms ‘the lament of the dead’, which in our frenetic culture we can no longer have time to hear. Most indigenous cultures will tell you that this world belongs to the dead, that’s where we’re headed. So mythology for me involves a conversation with the dead, with what you might call ancestors.Whatever we are facing now we need to have a root system embedded in weather patterns, the presences of animals, our dreams, and the ones who came before us. Myth is insistent that when there is a crisis, genius lives on the margins not the centre. If we are constantly using the language of politics to combat the language of politics at some point the soul grows weary and turns its head away because we are not allowing it into the conversation, and by denying soul we are ignoring what the Mexicans call the river beneath the river. We’re not listening to the thoughts of the world. We’re only listening to our own neurosis and our own anxiety.”

— Martin Shaw. (via saltwaterhoney) [soracities]

[via "alive on all channels"]

[ideasarestuckinmyhead]

Finn looking out of his window seeing a deer: Ah its the four leggeds. If it stands up ima lose my shit-

[eldritch-bf]

The Only Good Indians // Stephen Graham Jones

[cupofteajones]

Quote of the Day - November 19, 2022

Quote of the Day – November 19, 2022

[ihearttseliot]

[gennsoup]

Sun makes the day new. Tiny green plants emerge from earth. Birds are singing the sky into place. There is nowhere else I want to be but here. I lean into the rhythm of your heart to see where it will take us.

Joy Harjo, For Keeps

[allweknewisdead]

Lily Gladstone in Reservation Dogs (2023)

S3.E10 ∙ Dig

Say that he spent time with each of these people, a good moment. Let’s even say that he spoke to them about some things. Say he gave them teachings. Now, each one of these people – they carry that with them. Now, imagine all the people that are close to you. Your friends. Now, they all carry you with them, so, in turn, they carry Fixico with them, too. And all this — that’s how community works. It’s sprawling. It spreads. What do you think they came for when they tried to get rid of us? Our community. You break that, then you break the individual. Fixico isn’t gone. He’s right here, between you and me.

[jesncin]

Sorry if this is unwanted but if I could recommend one comic to read for Roy Harper I'd say the Arsenal (1998) mini. It's only 4 issues long so it's quick to read, and he's a really interesting character and I love him a lot :)

I just finished reading it! That was fun! I can already tell from it why people love Roy so much. I'm not usually a fan of this art style, but it grew on me! This is my fav panel:

I can't speak for how good the Navajo representation is (and I think it's fair to be cautious with anything Devin Grayson writes, lol) but I do enjoy that it's explored so thoroughly since I hadn't a clue Roy had that heritage before. Arguably it did feel excessive at times though.

Thank you for the rec!

[harrisonarchive]

Clip from the 2017 documentary Rumble.

“Met George in England, too… and when he was in L.A. just before the Bangladesh concert. He was in Los Angeles recording a single. Remember the Bangla Desh single that came out? I said, ‘George, you know, I’ve got a new album [‘Ululu’] coming out pretty soon, I need one more really dynamite song to just make it come off right.’ He said, ‘Well, I’ll come over, and play you what I’ve got.’ So he came down to my house. And I have a cassette recording of George, George and I sitting on my couch playing old Beatles songs and laughing it up. And finally, he played the Sue Me, Sue You Blues for me, which is really an inside, kind of a personal song, you know. But it was the only thing that was really funky enough to be in my blues bag. […] George called me up and said, ‘Look, will you play [at the Concert for Bangladesh]?’ And of course I said yes, I just jumped at the chance. […] We were on such a buzz that day; I couldn’t believe it. It was really fantastic. I’ll never forget the feeling I got there.” - Jesse Ed Davis, KMET-FM, 1973 “’George Harrison was kind enough to lay ‘Sue Me Sue You Blues’ on me. He’s got a million songs.’ […] [Davis] explained that Bangla Desh showed him he had to get out of the recording studio and in front of live audiences.” - Press-Telegram, May 4, 1973