#native community

[ravensvalley]

#HalloweenSelfie

The perfect foggy morning, for another memorable day... Happy Halloween to everyone folks.

[nyiikii]

To my native brothers and sisters and two spirits, now is the time we protect our indigenous cousins who were born over the white mans borders. The white man that’s telling us it’s illegal to come home! The colonizers aka the real illegals who are calling us immigrants and sending their attack dogs after us. Now is the time to push the fuck back, Native Americans born on what’s considered US soil are currently the ONLY ones who are not at risk for deportation. This is our land, this native refuses to stay silent so the colonizers can stay comfortable in their fascism.

[butchjeanmoreau]

guys i need a pair of mukluks for the winter so bad or fur lined moccasins because it gets SO cold here but they’re all so expensive i’m just considering making my own 🐾 to ask my uncle for hides and pelts or not to… the worry is endless

[rez-eye-no]

The Rez I know is working toward revitalization.

[alohapromisesforever]

Balance of Power

Balance of Powerby Michael DoyleYour people came to my peopleWith all of their demandsBefore we knew what coexistence meantWe had lost all our sacred landsWe were offered the peaceThat can only be called brutalityAs we were savagely rounded upBy your people quite capablyHowever, you date your people's arrivalSince then, it has been a fight for survivalYou presented this as manifested destinyAs…

[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

[rodspurethoughts]

Electric car revolution puts Native communities at risk

Newswise — Conditions are ripe for an accelerated transition to electric vehicle (EV) use in the United States. The Biden-Harris administration has set a target that 50 percent of newly purchased cars in 2030 be electric. In addition, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 provides significant tax incentives for purchasing electric vehicles and for companies that produce them. And that is good news…

[asm5129]

Hey.

If you’re trans, an immigrant, or anywhere on Trump’s list of targets, I need you you to know something.

You’re amazing. Your life contributes endless value merely by your existence. I wish I could meet you and hug you (with your consent) and tell you that you are loved, but I’ll have to do it here instead.

You are loved. You are beautiful. You are valued. No matter what they do, they cannot take that from you, because I will always feel that way about you and they cannot take it from me.

Please know, there will always be people on your side. Even if you can’t always see us, we are there.

Survive. Love yourself. Celebrate the small things.

And remember—fascism isn’t stable. MAGA worldviews are corrosive and selfish, more than comfortable stabbing each other in the back when things aren’t going their way.

They wouldn’t need to control us if they thought things would go their way naturally.

All empires fall. And from the ruins we will build something better.

You just gotta make it there.

[PS reblog if you agree and think marginalized people should know they are loved and valued]

[wiisagi-maiingan]

In the books about Judaism I've been reading, there's a repeated emphasis on Jewish history being taught as something that happened not just in the past, but also to the people telling the stories in the present. The narrative is "it happened to us, to me" as opposed to "it happened to them."

This is something I've also noticed a lot in Native communities. They massacred us, they took our children, they banned our traditions, they forced us off our lands. There's no distancing ourselves from our ancestors, from the Native people of the past; their suffering is ours, their grief and pain and fear live in us.

I think this is a vitally important part of how certain groups interact with history; when your people are constant victims of extreme hate, of prejudice, of violence, you cannot afford to distance yourself from the past. The moment you do, you forget and you relax and you aren't prepared when that violence rears its head again. Because it will. If our history has taught us anything, it's that periods of quiet and "peace" (in the loosest sense of the word) for our people are the exception, they're temporary, and we need to remember that to survive.

[ravensvalley]

#HazardousHiking

Whitout these maps, one can easily loose himself into these Kms of hiking trails and without reading glasses …

Mountainous Parts of the Northern Hemisphere.

November 12, 2023.

[rs-hawk]

I don’t like to be political on this page since I’m trying to stay professional, but my existence is political so here we go.

If you support Trump, unfollow me. I’m over it and don’t give a fuck. You don’t deserve to consume my content while not seeing me as a human being.

I am a queer Indigenous person. He wants me and my family forced onto the Reservation of our Nation for the CRIME of being registered. For the CRIME of acknowledging our ancestors and our families. He doesn’t want me or my family to be able to go to school or work off of that Reservation. Rights Indigenous Peoples have gotten in the last few DECADES (dancing our traditional dances, our religious practices, speaking our own fucking languages), he wants to take away. Trump fucking posted the National Guard outside of Reservations during COVID to prevent my people from getting medical care. Instead of medicine or help, he sent BODY BAGS. He was President and he let his own people die because of where they lived.

Don’t get me started on all the other ways he wants me dead. I have medical issues where it would be easy for me to die during pregnancy. I shouldn’t be allowed to love another adult because of our sex. I shouldn’t be allowed to work , have children or own anything because technically I’m disabled.

He is a convicted felon. If he can’t vote, he shouldn’t be President. If you are even considering voting for him, unfollow me, because you don’t see me as a person. I would rather never make another cent off my writing than have people that think my death and my rights being stripped away is a fair trade for another old White Supremacist to be in office pay me.

[c0rps3g0bbl3r]

Nex Benedict's murder is not simply an attack against LGBTQ+ people. Nex's murder is the continued soft power genocide on Indians and our 2-Spirit communities.

It will not stop if we do not reclaim ourselves and set it in stone, in blood, in blade if we have to. We CANNOT let this continue if we hope to keep our children alive.

I am grieving and you should be, too.

[nyiikii]

Something’s will always just be a part of the culture, part of the ‘dirt roads’ back home. Culture is so vast, no matter where we go in the world our cousins, ourselves are always repping home. Long pointy nails, big gold hoops, the freshest sneakers, long dark hair tied up in braids or worn loose like the wind. Bold lip lines and sharp eyeliner, baggy clothes and the smell of sweet grass and sage.

Nothing beats home cooking, nothing can replace being home with your cousins. The memories, the languages, the culture we carry with us no matter where we go in the world always ties us back to the ‘dirt roads’