#molly mabray

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Scar is canonically Indigenous. Ishvalan culture is based on Middle Eastern and Indian cultures. The creator, Arakawa Hiromi, stated the Ishvalans are also partial based off the Ainu.

Molly Shahnyaa Mabray is canonically Gwich'in, Koyukon, and Dena'ina Athabascan.

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backwards moose!!!!!!!!

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Best and Worst representation of Native Women/girls in media you had growing up?

It's a bit up to personal taste because I have a real preference for characters that "just happen to be Native" whether or not it’s a huge part of their personality. Eg. I liked Jesse from Infinity Train but some Indigenous people didn't think his culture was included enough.

As a side note there is like...no Coast Salish rep specifically that I grew up with. And though pan-Indigeneity is an issue, I do think we can all relate over similar experiences and post-contact shared culture.

It's also worth noting there just wasn't much rep when I grew up in the late 90's-early 00's. Some was good but it was mostly absent which, along with growing up surrounded by white people after we left the rez, made me really hate my features and background. People say "kids don't care about rep!!" but my "self-inserts" as a kid were blonde, blue-eyed white girls and I wanted invasive plastic surgery on my Native features well into my 20's : ))))) So : )

(Also keep in mind I only liked shows without real people until I was around 20 because I have uhhh undiagnosed something)

Under cut because I talk too much:

Best first:

I'm not Native Hawaiian but I think Lilo and Nani were good, and the problems they dealt with are things I and many Natives can sadly relate to (child protection constantly breathing down their necks, being ripped away from family). I've also seen Native Hawaiians say it was decent rep. Also there were aliens and they were good characters in their own right. I loved them!! I love that film!! There is an issue with the character designer being a white guy who is weird about Hawaiian women……but the writing itself is good.

I grew up with Tipi Tales which was a puppet show about an Ojibwe family and I enjoyed watching it in the wee hours as a kid. Some Canadians call it 'creepy looking' but I don't experience the uncanny valley so I just liked it. I looked like the younger girl as a little kid lol.

Avatar the Last Airbender and the water tribe were cool!!! I love Katara, even if some of the fandom has been weirdly critical of her. She's 14 and has too much responsibility and trauma, guys...come one. Also I love Korra although I only watched LoK as an adult. People also weirdly hate her?! Mostly men though.

Worst or not great:

Most other things Disney put out, ESPECIALLY Pocahontas. Still grinds me today that they romanticized a real little girl's trauma in that gross way.

I did have a huge crush on Chel but El Dorado has a ton of issues like demonizing Indigenous culture and oversexualizing her. Sure she awakened something in ME which is neutral, but also in people who grew up to see Native women as lesser humans or objects so...net negative.

Emperor's New Groove is definitely not culturally accurate but Yzma slays and I love her. Not a “worst” thing I just want to mention her ftftft.

Uh, overall I'm just happy there's so much MORE decent rep now in kids' media. Current examples:

(L->R Molly Mabray, Jesse Cosay, and Charles Little Bull)

(2 are dudes but you get where I'm going with it. I especially love Charles because he's just...a nerd. I'm happy that we get to be awkward nerd side characters now, it's so real to me.)

Also I see Simon Petrikov as Indigenous/mixed Indigenous (several possibilities, even Salish) which I won't go into here but I can. No one can change my hc btw.

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Annieandro Pinkpaws Guest Stars Day 4

Lomax Delta

Sid Garbiela Gerald May

Mona Nana Russell

Bali Kikou

Buddy Tyrannosaurus Tiny Pteranodon Shiny Pteranodon Don Pteranodon Mr. Pteranodon Mrs. Pteranodon The Conductor

The Gruffalo

Peg Cat

The Witch The Cat The Dog The Bird The Frog

Eagle

Nature Cat Daisy Squeeks Hal Ronald

Mack Moxy

Jet Propulsion Carrot Propulsion Cake Propulsion Celery Propulsion SunspotSean Rafferty Sydney Skelley Mindy Melendez

Splash Bubbles

Pinkalicious Peterrific

Molly Mabray Walter Mabray Layla Mabray Grandpa Nat Grandma Catherine SukiTooey Ookami Trini Mumford Oscar Marsh Vera Malakas Jake

Luna Andy Carmen Leo

The Rat The Horse

Esme Roy

Xavier Riddle Yadina Riddle Brad Meltzer Berby Dr. Zoom Great-Great Grandma Riddle

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We are going to raise a totem

We are going to work together

Hands together!

If you have some free time, please check out Molly of Denali on YouTube of the PBS website. It’s a wholesome show that does a phenomenal job portraying the culture of the Native Athabascans.

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Molly Mabray from Molly of Denali hates Autism Speaks!

A special post from the Stop That Ninjas!

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Molly Mabray from Molly of Denali killed cringe culture and pissed on its grave

Molly Mabray from Molly of Denali killed cringe culture and pissed on its grave!

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A transparent of Molly Mabray from Molly of Denali.

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Indigenous History Month🖤❤️💛🤍

In honour of Indigenous History Month, I made a collage of some modern media Indigenous characters🖤❤️💛🤍

Molly Mabray Molly of Denali

BW Long Gone Gulch

Jesse Cosay Infinity Train

Izel Onyx Equinox

Charles Little Bull The Cassagrandes

Chata Victor & Valentino

Tepulpai & Naira Pachamama

Frosta She-Ra And The Princesses of Power

Korra Smith Legend of Korra

Moana 

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What are the names of all the characters/people in your header image? :0c I am not very familiar with pop culture ^^; but want to check them out!

So in order from left to right from top to bottom:

Kuzco-The Emperor’s New Groove (Inca)

Elisa Maza- Gargoyles (African America/Hopi)

Katara- Avatar the Last Airbender/Legend of Korra (Inuk/ also Yup’ik coded, the watertribes are a bit of a mishmash of North American arctic cultures but still predominantly Inuit)

Nani Cloud- Horseland (Tsalagi)

Molly Mabray- Molly of Denali (Athabascan)

Little Creek- Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron (Lakota)

Tanis- Letterkenny (”The Natives” unestablished tribe although the actress is Mohawk)

Lilo and Nani- Lilo and Stitch ( Kānaka Maoli)

Moana- Moana (Another mishmash of Polynesian cultures but is mostly Māori)

Aquaman- Aquaman (Actor is Kānaka Maoli)

Denahi- Brother Bear (Yet another mishmash of several different Indigenous Alaskan peoples)

Ellis- The Dragon Prince (Arctic Indigenous coded)

Dawnstar- DC Universe (Indigenous coded)

Connor/ Ratonhnhaké:ton- Assassin’s Creed (Mohawk)

Snowguard/Amka Aliyak- Marvel Comics (Inuk)

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Kalgara is canonically Indigenous. He is part of the Shandia tribe.

Molly Shahnyaa Mabray is canonically Gwich'in, Koyukon, and Dena'ina Athabascan.

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Hey guys I know many of us that supporters of Native Heritage and I recently found a kids show called “Molly of Denali”  that’s about “10yo Molly Mabray, an Alaskan Native vlogger from the fictional village of Qyah, and her family, friends Tooey Ookami and Trini Mumford, her Malamute Suki, and other residents. Her family runs the Denali Trading Post.” and parts of the show’s dialogue are in the  Gwichʼin language.

It’s very entertaining and educational for kids! I just wanted to share for those who haven’t heard of it and give it more support and support for PBS and CBC!

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Hey all you mp100 folks!

So I know y’all have been freaking out about Ć̸̞͂̿͝ͅL̸͇̈́̀̾A̵̡͛R̵̩̱̂̕Ķ̷̗̜͚̀̾̇͠ ̶̲̩̠̆̀N̸̬̑É̸̻̮͉̜͘W̴͙̞̣͝ͅM̵̞̍͑̏A̷̤͙̲͊̄N̴̻͔͑ Reigan Arataka

[ID: a screenshot from a cartoon showing an Alaska Native man and a blond man posing in a picture, which a hand is gesturing at]

But also, I’ve been seeing a lot of folks just say that he’s in “a PBS show”

So I just wanted to make sure that everyone knows exactly which show he’s in for two seconds.

Please meet! Molly of Denali:

[ID a group photo of the Molly of Denali characters standing outside a building surrounded by pine trees, with the show’s title in the air above them]

Molly of Denali is a new (as in less than a year old) kids cartoon about the titular Molly Mabray

[ID: Molly, a cartoon character with olive skin, brown hair, and black irsies, wearing her red summer parka, jeans, and tennis shoes, smiling and waving]

She’s an Alaska Native 10-year-old girl (who is also voiced by an Alaska Native girl, Sovereign Bill). She likes going adventuring around her home, hanging with her friends (a Japanese/Alaska Native boy and a Black girl), playing basketball, and helping her parents who run a trading post.

It’s a really neat show that’s fun to watch, covers a variety of topics, and is The First Children’s Show to have a native/indigenous character as the main character (at least in the US/Canada).

So consider, Mob Psycho fans, when you want something a little less angsty with lower stakes, this could be a great show for you to watch ;)

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Molly of Denali, a new animated children's TV series, is breaking new ground by putting young Indigenous characters front and centre in starring roles — and by giving Indigenous creators the opportunity to tell their own stories.

The lead character Molly Mabray is a 10-year-old with Gwich'in, Dena'ina and Koyukon heritage who lives in Alaska. She's voiced by Sovereign Bill, who brings her own Muckleshoot and Tlingit heritage to the role.

Creative producer, Princess Daazhraii Johnson (who is Neets'aii Gwich'in from Alaska), said the chance to tell Indigenous stories attracted her to the show, which is a co-production between CBC Kids and PBS.

While most projects would typically hire one or two Indigenous consultants, Johnson was invited to join a whole team of Indigenous creators — one that included well known Alaskan elders — to shape Molly from Denali from the start.

As a group, they decided to focus on the values they wanted the series to embody and only then did they move on to character and story development. 

They chose to highlight contemporary Indigenous Alaskan culture — while also honouring the past — through stories about family connections, the importance of learning, inquisitiveness and the natural world.

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BY MELISSA LOCKER

1 MINUTE READ

Molly of Denali is not just another podcast for kids. The Alaska-set action-adventure series is part Encyclopedia Brown, part American Girl, and all rooted in Native storytelling. The star of the show is Alaska Native Molly Mabray, who lives in the fictional Alaskan town of Qyah with her bush pilot mother and wilderness guide father. The adventure begins when Molly’s birthday cake goes missing just days before her 10th birthday. Being a curious young woman, she sets out to crack the case with the help of a mysterious raven and ends up finding something way better than a piece of cake.

That’s the first adventure for the upstart gumshoe, anyway, and fans can follow along over the course of eight 15-minute episodes that are sized just right for young attention spans. The podcast is a partnership between PRX, WGBH Boston, and podcast producer Gen-Z media and serves as a prequel to an upcoming kids’ TV show of the same name, which is coming to PBS on July 15.

While everyone loves a good mystery, what makes this podcast (and TV series) truly groundbreaking is that all the indigenous characters are voiced by indigenous actors, and Alaska Native voices are featured across the production, including in story development and creative direction. The theme song, which is featured in the PBS KIDS series and podcast, is sung by members of the Yupik Alaska Native band Pamyua, with music from Gwich’in fiddler Brennan Firth.

In fact, the series is the first nationally distributed kids’ show in the U.S. to feature a Native American lead, which is exciting but also depressing in that it has taken so long. As has been proven time and time again, representation matters, especially for kids, and having a story revolving around the adventures of a young Alaska native is a small but important step. And if you don’t trust me on the subject, here are Eva Longoria’s thoughts on the matter.

The first two episodes of the Molly of Denali podcast will be released on Thursday, May 30, then a new episode will be released every Thursday through July 11 on mollyofdenalipodcast.org or your favorite podcast app.

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