#native leader

[art-portraits]

Shaumonekusse (Prairie Wolf), Oto

Artist: Charles Bird King  (American, 1785–1862) 

Date: circa 1822

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Location: White House, Washington, DC

Chief Shaumonekusse (c. 1785 – 1837) was a leader of the Otoe Native American tribe in the early 19th century. The Otoe are a Central Plains tribe, closely related to the Ioway, Missouria, Ho-Chunk, and Winnebago.

The subchief was known as Shaumonekusse, Chonmonicase, Ietan, Letan, and L'Letan. Sų Manyi Kathi in the Chiwere language means “Prairie Wolf.” His name is also spelled Sų Manyi Kasisooⁿ and Shųmanyikathi.

Sų Manyi Kathi belonged to the Bear clan. Shaumonekusse was described as a witty and sociable person, and “a daring, active, and successful warrior. We are not aware of his having any hereditary claims to the chieftainship of his tribe, to which he has risen gradually by his own merits. He is a person of deep penetration, and is capable of acting with much duplicity on any occasion when he may consider it politic to conceal his real views.”

Shaumonekusse traveled with an American Indian delegation to Washington, DC in 1821 to meet with high-ranking officials, including President James Monroe. Of his five wives, he took the youngest, Eagle of Delight, with him to the American capital. Charles Bird King painted both of their portraits on that trip.

[warhead]

[bookofmormonmemes]

STOP normalizing the grind and START normalizing going and doing the things which the Lord hath commanded; for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he comma

i regret to inform you that the original context of this quote probably did involve a significant amount of The Grind. like in that specific instance of needing to go bribe, swindle, and murder his way to acquiring them plates, nephi was probably very much a friend of hustle culture.

which is to say.........when normalizing the grind...........do not forget. the crime

[dieselocelot]

I'M HERE AGAIN HELLOO HIIIIII :D

question about vandermorgan cuz I'm curious....

do you have any headcanons and how do you see their relationship?

They say a picture is worth a thousand words

[red-hibiscus]

A bit on my linguistic research on LGBT Thai speech

Back in university I took a field documentation course w/ Thai as the target language. My final project was of course LGBT and Thai. The native speaker we researched off of (a linguistics phd candidate) was a gay man himself. So he was able to give me some extra info I wouldn't have been able to find on my own.

He told me that the [x] sound (voiceless velar fricative) can be heard in the northern thai dialect.... or it could be perceived as the speaker being lgbt. [s] is thought to also be pronounced as more dental (closer to tip of teeth).

Also told me that [paŋ] (pronounced bang) is sort of a newer word for trans men. And of course I can't really find info on it just like it was hell finding info on lgbt linguistics in general (worse if it's in a language you don't speak).

Thai does have gendered pronouns and endings. It has a gender neutral pronoun, but it's not really suited for daily use. So yea it can be difficult for nonbinary people. However the native speaker also emphasized that a lot of the time you can kind of get away with avoiding gendered stuff since Thai is a pro-drop language. Plus as I'm sure thai drama enjoyers noticed, people often use their name or title as a pronoun.

The pronoun [lɔ̀n], if used in a certain way, can be interpreted as being from the lgbt community. It’s originally a feminine 3rd person singular pronoun. However now it’s also being used as a 2nd person singular pronoun. The latter is almost exclusively used by LGBT people, especially transgender people. Though gay people may also use it too. So if used in that way, listeners might assume that the speaker is LGBT.

Thats all I have for now. Thai speakers please add things or correct me!! I don't speak Thai myself aside from things I picked up during that class. I took the class a while ago so memory is a bit hazy on some things. A lot of the info I got is from research articles given to me from the speaker, or things he told me during our 1-on-1 meeting. Not that I think he's giving me bad info at all, the man is literally born and raised in Thailand, was in thailand at the time of my research. Just that there's limited info available for me (plus he's not trans himself, just a lovely ally). That and sociolinguistics is not his specialty.

p.s. if any thai speakers (or anyone) wants to talk about lgbt linguistics with me please do

p.p.s teach me thai please and thank you

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Lynn Malerba

Lynn Malerba was born in 1953. Malerba served as Chair of the Tribal Council for the Mohegan tribe as well as its executive director of health and human services. In 2010, she became Chief of the Mohegan Tribe, the first woman to hold this position in the tribe's modern history. In 2022, Malerba was appointed Treasurer of the United States.

Image: US Department of the Treasury

[dykedvonte]

The Khans - My Introspective

I don't like the Military and I don't support a lot of the actions the NCR does to the Mojave in New Vegas but in terms of the Khans I feel like the fandom infantilizes or diminishes the fact that they are or at least one of the most violent raider groups in the Mojave.

What happened at Bitter Springs was a tragedy, innocent lives were lost and the fact that the NCR swept it under the rug and continued to hunt down Khans that are truly trying to back down and resettle is horrendous, but there is a history to the NCR's aggression towards them.

The Khans first appear in Fallout 1, the main faction of raiders in the game besides the mentioned Vipers (who don't actually appear if I remember correctly). They came from Vault 15 along with the members that would form rival groups; The Vipers, The Jackals, and Shady Sands. They are a very large and foreboding raiding party, known for burning towns and encampments they attack and taking survivors as their slaves or slaves to sell. They are a big reason why the Jackals and Vipers are actually so small in New Vegas, they wiped them out.

Their main targets where Shady Sands and Junker town, the former of the two would be what became The New California Republic. This explains a big part of their animosity towards the Khans, only furthered by the fact the Khans kidnapped Tandi as a young girl, the girl that would go to offically found the NCR out of Shady Sands. When the dweller saved her and killed much of the Khans, this allowed the NCR to develop into what it currently is as they no longer needed to focus on fighting off constant raids.

When the Khans became the New Khans in Fallout 2, they barely resembled the Khans as they were led by Darion, Garl Death-Hand's son (former leader of the Khans). They were smaller and refortified vault 15, still planning to take down the NCR (at this time nowhere near as imperialist as they are in FNV) as mostly a revenge/power ploy. They manipulate The Squat, a group of y'know squatters, that lived in the upper levels, promising and lying about repairing the vault and offering them ransacked caravan resources if they kept the NCR away. Being their only life line The Squat had no choice. Still the chosen one got rid of them and they left New California for the untapped Mojave.

The Great Khans, the most current iteration, continued in the path as the original Khans, regrouping and gaining information from the Followers who hoped they'd use their new medical knowledge to heal themselves. They gained more members and a substantial part of Vegas territory before they were run out by the three families. They were pushed to Bitter Springs where they first and foremost continued to pick off and attack NCR settlements, most of which consisted of caravans, towns, and camps as they saw them as easy like in their old days. It was the killing of four influential Republic members (non-military) that brought on Bitter Springs.

Bitter Springs was the result of years of hatred and animosity and likely the goal to send a final message to the Khans. It does not excuse the fact that innocent men, women, and children were slaughtered with few survivors. It does not excuse the fact that the NCR has yet to make amends for this and continues to try and persecute the Khans even in moments of surrender.

This post is not to defend what happened but to give a quick rundown of the Khan's history and their history with the NCR. It's to remind people that the NCR is not just their military power but an actual group/settlement of people that were also attacked indiscriminately by the Khans. It's to point out that the Khans were not a band of indigenous people (no matter the comparisons) driven from their homes but raiders who fed into the brutal cultures of the west coast wasteland and were in turn treated to the same things.

My frustration comes from the fact that FNV has so many comparisons to indigenous struggles but the groups it chooses are not comparable at all. Their oppression hinges on not being familiar with their past, which explains why they have the reputation they do in canon. The "tribes" are often not even groups of minorities or have goals/desires out of acquisitions of power and I feel like it is important to both acknowledge that this is bad indigenous rep because it is not supposed to be. It is supposed to be a comparison of the in-game groups and how they all do the same things and justify it in their own fucked up ways, some better at it than others.

FNV of all the Fallout games (in light of it being heavily Western based) distastefully uses indigenous imagery and theming for groups that are sad mimicries of American indigenous cultures at best and outright offensive at worst.

[sage-does-art-sometimes]

Curse the picture limit. I should be able to put more images in :/

[sl33py-g4m3r]

what would be a good nature for fidough? moreover what should my "starter" for this run be? just fidough? or igglybuff? azurill? ralts?

I think those are the only fairy types I can get my hands on near los platos~~ unless I'm missing some~~

hadn't caught anything yet mainly cause I'm too busy lately helping my sibling w stuff to play; and by the time I can, I shouldn't cause I need to be up during the day to help them.

backwards sleep schedule time not advisable~~

I think azurills nature is going to be adamant w huge power as the ability, wigglytuff too is modest w competitive, ralts also modest w synchronize, fidough, I have no idea at all....

I've got ideas for a team I just don't know if it's any good yet~~~ and I've not used fidough so this'll be interesting~~

I do have a question tho~~ aside from the fidough nature thing~~ or two actually~~

If you catch a pokemon that's tera type matches the type you're running a monotype of, can you use it? or just purely use the type given? thus not being able to use say, a digglett cause it's ground but tera type is fairy, so it's not viable to be used. gym leaders do this tho...

also when do you start "the teal mask" DLC? is it supposed to be end game content? can you start it earlier in the story? when should it be done? last game I did it end game~~ and "the hidden treasure of area zero" is in fact end game content~~

the playthrough is at a stall at the moment~~ rip~~

[solargoose]

I really loved how I kept seeing people make warrior cats fanclans/comics/fics set in places they've lived/grew up, which got me thinking about what an Appalachian warrior cats would look like. I was just thinking about it as a fun exercise...and then I fell in love with the idea...and now I'm writing it.

[art-portraits]

Portrait of Shar-I-Tar-Ish

Artist: Henry Inman (American, 1801–1846)

Date: 1832

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming

Information

Between 1821 and 1828, Thomas L. McKenney, the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, commissioned portraits of hundreds of American Indian leaders on diplomatic missions to Washington, D.C. Painted first by Charles Bird King and later duplicated by Henry Inman, these portraits were intended to serve as a “National Indian Gallery.” Over 120 were reproduced in McKenney’s three-volume portfolio, History of the Indian Tribes of North America.

Shar-I-Tar-Ish, a Pawnee chief, visited Washington, D.C. in 1821.

[filmjunky-99]

d a n c e s w i t h w o l v e s, 1990 🎬 dir. kevin costner

'There's talk that you want to get married.' - wind in his hair

'To who?' - dances with wolves

'To Stands With A Fist.' - smiles a lot

[venussaidso]

Folks thinking that Uttara Bhadrapada is too much of a 'conservative' nakshatra to be career-orientated/self-focused in women is one of the reasons why I started disliking astrology. Like, everything about that is so incorrect it makes me wanna barf lmao. I'd seriously be nothing if I wasn't this self-obsessed, I don't exist to serve anybody else but me and the narrative that Uttara Bhadrapada gives energy to others and is in service of others is laughable,,,, like actually make a real observation of real natives of this nakshatra. Uttara Bhadrapadas are preserving of their energy, so they won't be as selfless as it's said to be – they're quite literally calculating/careful so please ��

[postcard-from-the-past]

Native leaders with their wives in South Africa

British vintage postcard, mailed in 1911 to Brussels, Belgium

[theburialofstrawberries]

where is the quivering white liberal deference to voices of colour when we need it

[thistledown-au-warriors]

Why did you change the naming system?

I wanted to do away with naming ceremonies in a way that still felt familiar, and DotC names feel familiar but also different enough and I can get pretty lyrical with them! There's classics like body part + color but others are pretty fancy and that's fun!

Some names (Talltail, Onewhisker, Deadfoot, Crookedjaw, Yellowfang) rly doom a cat to have a certain suffix as a warrior lest their names make zero sense or are just insulting (Maggottail, Foxheart, etc) or whatever Bramble and Tiger are doing now (Twigbranch, Blazefire)

Also it's in a way mainly a response to the conversation about indigenous appropriation in the series that happened just before I started writing this fic. So mixed up a bunch of things I wanted to try out so Thistledown would feel better to me.

I know it's still flawed but I do hope I keep improving the original concepts where I can! You won't see me bringing the Tribe into this mess that's for sure.