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*Not Loki related but you know ya girl 🖤🥰*
“The Apache boogeyman, is actually a woman, most tribes know her as the Basket Woman, Apaches call her bu'chi'sáán, her name means Old Owl Woman a story told by grandmothers and mothers to get their children to behave, she is described as an old woman carrying a big burden basket that lives in a cave up in the mountains, every night she comes down from the mountain and steals all the naughty children from the tribe, she carries them in her burden basket back to her cave where she cooks and eats them”
Credits & Source: Tia M. Carroll
Facebook: Tia M. Carroll
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Running to the Forests
To love something is to let it go, to love something is to allow it to exist free from the confines of your perception. To love the forest is to allow it to burn in search of greatness, and to love the burnt trees is to allow them time and space to regenerate.
We the people cannot be separated from the branches of the trees, humans have been on the continent of North America for tens of thousands of years, and generations of people have grown up among the pines.
Here in Western Montana, you can see the smoke across the horizon, another reminder the people here have been removed from the land they love. It's not that they would not allow the burns, on the contrary, but the new methods of forest stewardship are not those that show love to the lands. Culturally important species, those that hold a place in societal practice and often in spirituality, are being choked by "common sense".
To assume with fire comes damage is understandable, we can see the smoky ghosts of ponderosas and fir, and run our hands across the blackened bark until we too are covered in a layer of char. The next season, among black spires and broken branches, the huckleberries and the deer and the other brothers and sisters of the forest will come. The trees will sprout again, cones opened by the flames, growing green toward the sky like their ancestors have for generations. There is beauty in the desolation, for it is merely a new beginning, not a time of destruction.
And just like the trees, sometimes humans need to let themselves burn to bring forth more beauty. Sometimes we need to let what comes, come, and what may be, be. Fill yourself with wildfire smoke, let the fire open pinecones of hope and potential, and bring forth the worlds inside your heart.
#ponderosa#douglas fir#spruce trees#wildfires#climate action#climate change#environmental science#forestry#traditional medicine#traditional ecological knowledge#academia#college#ethnobotany#montana#university of montana#missoula#western#american west#native traditions#american ecology
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jewels of opar
traditional ink, digital color. 2024
#artists on tumblr#illustration#nature art#bird art#nature#ink drawing#traditional art#bird#anhinga#pink flowers#floral#botanical#botanist#natural art#plants#native species
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Honor the dead by burning as much fossil fuels as possible. 🫡
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The author, Angela Hovak Johnston.
Johnston and Marjorie Tungwenuk Tahbone, traditional tattoo artist.
Catherine Niptanatiak: "I designed my own, something that represents me and who I am, something that I would be proud to wear and show off, and something that would make me feel confident and beautiful. . . . I have daughters and I would like to teach them what I know. I would like for them to want to practice our traditions and keep our culture alive."
Cecile Nelvana Lyall: "On my hand tattoos, from the top down, the triangles represent the mountains. . . . The Ys are the tools used in seal hunting. . . . The dots are my ancestors. . . . I am so excited to be able to truly call myself and Inuk woman."
Colleen Nivingalok: "The tattoos on my face represent my family and me. The lines on my chin are my four children -- my two older boys on the outside protecting my daughters. The lines on my cheeks represent the two boys and the two girls on either side. The one on my forehead represents their father and me. Together, we live for our children."
Doreen Ayalikyoak Evyagotailak: "I have thought about getting traditional tattoos since I was a teenager. . . . When I asked the elders if I could have my own meaning for my tattoos, they said it wouldn't matter. My tattoos symbolize my kids."
Mary Angele Takletok: "I always wanted traditional tattoos like the women in the old days. I wanted them on my wrists and my fingers so I could show I'm Inuk."
Melissa MacDonald Hinanik: "As a part of celebrating my heritage and revitalizing important traditional customs that form my identity, I believe I have earned my tattoos. I am a beautiful, strong young woman. I am a mother, a wife, a daughter, a friend, and an active community member. I reclaim the traditional customs as mine, I re-own them as a part of who I am."
Star Westwood: "We still have some of our culture, but some things are slowly dying. Having tattoos helps us keep our culture alive. . . . . My tattoos represent my dad and my dad's dad. The ones closest to my wrists represent my sisters."
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National Tattoo Day
July 17 is National Tattoo Day. To celebrate, we present some images from Reawakening Our Ancestors' Lines: Revitalizing Inuit Traditional Tattooing, compiled by Angela Hovak Johnston, co-founder with Marjorie Tahbone of the Inuit Tattoo Revitalization Project, with photographs by Inuit photographer Cora DeVos, and published in Iqaluit, Nunavut by Inhabit Media Inc. in 2017.
For thousands of years, Inuit have practiced the traditional art of tattooing. Created the ancient way, with bone needles and caribou sinew soaked in seal oil, sod, or soot, these tattoos were an important tradition for many Inuit women, symbols etched on their skin that connected them to their families and communities. But with the rise of missionaries and residential schools in the North, the tradition of tattooing was almost lost. In 2005, when Angela Hovak Johnston heard that the last Inuk woman tattooed in the old way had died, she set out to tattoo herself in tribute to this ancient custom and learn how to tattoo others. What was at first a personal quest became a project to bring the art of traditional tattooing back to Inuit women across Nunavut.
Collected in this book are photos and stories from more than two dozen women who participated in Johnston's project. Together, these women have united to bring to life an ancient tradition, reawakening their ancestors' lines and sharing this knowledge with future generations. Hovak Johnston writes: "Never again will these Inuit traditions be close to extinction, or only a part of history you read about in books. This is my mission."
Reawakening Our Ancestors' Lines forms part of our Indigenous America Literature Collection.
Angela Hovak Johnston (right) with her cousin Janelle Angulalik and her aunt Millie Navalik Angulalik.
View other posts from our Indigenous America Literature Collection.
#National Tattoo Day#tattoos#holidays#Inuit traditional tattoos#Inuit tattoos#Inuit#Inuk#Reawakening Our Ancestors' Lines#Angela Hovak Johnston#Cora DeVos#Cora Kavyaktok#Marjorie Tahbone#Inuit Tattoo Revitalization Project#Inhabit Media Inc.#photographs#Inuit women#Indigenous America Literature Collection#Native American Literature Collection
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among the cloud/berries and dallas stars
roope hintz for @coffeehound91
#the berries are ‘cloudberries’ and they’re native to the arctic#very cute! with beautiful soul crushingly detailed leaves!#shock horror! I drew another man!#also can I just say that I am shocked this dude doesn’t have his ears pierced#roope hintz#hockey art#🥅 🏒#mine#moomin#dallas stars#traditional art#cloudberry#chrysanthemum#scorpio#✨🌟💫
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so I found this really cool website that sells native seeds- and you might be asking me "snekdood, haven't you posted an entire list of websites that sell native wildflower seeds that you're going to add on to soon?" and yes that's true, but that's not the kind of native seed im talking about rn.
see, on my quest to find websites that sell native wildflowers, I came across this dope ass website that sells seeds that have been farmed and harvested by ntv people traditionally, i'll let the website do the talking:
so anyways this is the coolest website ever. you can find the wild relatives of chiles on here called chiltepines, you can find different colors of corn and cool squash's, and every seed from whichever farm has it's own lil origin story written about it. you can also find other veggies here that are already commercially available to help fund and support this organization. as well as there being a cool gift shop with a lot of art made by different native folk from all around as well as cookbooks, jewelry, pottery, weavings, and clearly plenty more:
as well as a pantry?? with premade soup mixes??? and i really want to try them now??????
anyways I think its worth snoopin' around bc I'm almost positive you'll see something you think is cool (oh also if you happen to have some seeds passed down from ur family too and ur also native they seem like they would gladly help produce more)
#heirloom seeds#native plants#native wildflowers#native seeds#native seeds search#gardening#farming#seed conservation#heirloom vegetables#vegetables#crops#food#native american#native american traditions#native american heirloom seeds#support indigenous people#indigenous art
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I realized I never posted how my first lithograph came out after I’d shared the process photos! Here she is, “an iris for remembering.”
#lithography#lithograph#printmaking#botanical art#illustration#traditional art#native plants#cottagecore
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Ok so i am late by like a month, i have been busy and STILL didn't finish my native jewish miku but fuck it here's indigenous, native israeli miku with a little of my touch and a small analysis:
The clothes:
The dress is double layered and based on biblical description i saw of the clothes ancient jews wore i added yellow hoops at the end of the dress to represent the color of our oppression- yellow belts under the muslim rule and yellow stars in the holocaust
The embroidery:
The Rikma(embroidery) is a personal project i am working on for the past 3 months. The embroidery that WAS practiced on the land eventually was allowed only to muslims and arabs, jews in ottoman syria/palestine were so oppressed and poor they didn't have access to threads and around 1800's some rabbis discoraged jews being involved in arab activity, not only that the jews has completely disconnected themselves from most of the arab culture after the spread of zionism to the land as a form of building their own identity. And if there were jews involved in embroidery it is unknown bc all the photos i see are labeled as "palestinian woman" with no explanation if it is a christian, muslim or jewish.
My project consists of making patterns and motifs based on jewish history, symbols, traditions, land etc and i try to make it original, unique and as diverse from the tatreez as possible to avoid conflict. If any of you want i can explain in a different analysis on what each pattern represents.
The jewelry:
I genuinely suck at drawing gold and jewelry and tried my best to adorn her with as much jewelry as i can. The side piece(that can barely be seen) is also a pattern i came up with, i call it "amulet"
(ps. I forgot to make her a normal necklace, wanted to make it with a hamsa)
Henna:
Henna is still practiced by jews, mainly sefardic and mizrahi jews + ashkenazi jews who grow up and participate in mizrahi culture. The henna on the hands is based on patterns i saw some jewish artists made (on google unfortunately it didn't have names) which has the star of david on it and on the legs i made a mix of bukharan and yemeni jewish henna.
So here it is. A native, indigenous jewish/judean/israeli(te) miku. I tried my best✨
#miku hatsune#hatsune miku#artist on tumblr#israel#Ancient israel#Ancient judea#Judea#Jewish#jumbler#am israel hai#ישראבלר#jews#Jewish history#Jewish culture#Jewish embroidery#Rikma#Jewish symbols#Judaism#עם ישראל חי#מיקו#israeli miku#Jewish miku#Art#Procreate#טמבלר ישראלי#יהדות#jewish traditions#Indigenous#Native
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#HalloweenSelfie
The perfect foggy morning, for another memorable day... Happy Halloween to everyone folks.
#Halloween#Fog#Halloween Selfie#Foggy Morning#Native Community#Sacred Land#Autumn#Spooky#Halloween Season#Fall#Mohawk Territory#Traditional Homeland#Mohawk Native Reserve#Red Power Movements#Mountainous Part of the Northern Hemisphere Canada#The RavenKeeper
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Innocent Reminiscence
Watercolor On Black Paper
2024, 11"x 14"
White and Blue Forget Me Nots
#art#nature#flowers#floral#painting#artists on tumblr#watercolor#minimalism#artist#plants#spring#white#blue#green#forget me nots#myosotis#forget me not#wildflowers#meadow#greenery#garden#botany#artwork#native plants#illustration#traditional art#original art
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#native american#native girls#nativebaddiez#tribal tattoo#tribal art#face tattoos#face tattoo#inked#inkspiration#tattoos#tattoed babe#inked girls#tattooed#tattoos for girls#traditional tattoo#chin tattoo#septum ring
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Put more effort than intended
Have a Hatsune Miku in a jingle dress. Of Ojibwe origin, so shout out to dem they cool as hell(Im Cree ily Ojibwe cousins)
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Russula californiensis Among Oxalis oregana
pronto plate lithograph, 2019
#mushroom#scientific illustration#printmaking#illustration#artists on tumblr#traditional art#traditional illustration#russula#oxalis#california native plants#ballpoint pen#redwoods#santa cruz#nuheyenuh#lithograph#some inside baseball: this is a freehanded pen piece#which was then inked up and printed 4 times#so a total of 5 originals exist if you count the plate#(pretty sure I gave one to my alma mater archive.. I hope its there at least)
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David is little spoon whether he likes it or not (he moved in his sleep and Angel was determined to stay attached)
#redacted audio#redacted asmr#redactedverse#redacted fanart#redacted david#redacted angel#“native american woof blanket moon aurora borealis wolf howling star traditional blanket” absolutely DOMINATES every indigenous household#David originally refused it's power but eventually gave in#they all do#either way I love my eepers#look at em#so tired#I just know that's the best sleep of their lives#they'll wake up and wonder what millennia they're in#Ang-go Bongo
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I know that news stories about Indigenous people leading ecological stewardship movements are very charismatic and heartwarming, and if your heritage or culture inspires you to work towards better care for the environment that is incredible and extremely admirable, but we're clear on the fact that Indigenous rights and Land Back movements shouldn't depend on First Nations people being mystical Noble Savage, Closer To Nature poster children, yes?
Indigenous self-determination applies to the person who becomes a teacher because she wants to help fill a need in underserved northern reservations. It applies to the person who studies engineering because the job market is good and he likes cool cars. It applies to the woman who works a government job because it's a stable job with a decent salary on which to raise her kids, and the woman who works a government job because she wants to represent and be a voice for her people. It applies to the person who is a lawyer trying to correct the over-incarceration of First Nations people, and her son who wants to be a professional baseball player because he loves sports. It applies to the grad student who wants to bring traditional knowledge into field work, and the goth hairdresser who spends every weekend going to punk shows and anime conventions in the city. It applies to the person who considers themself Two Spirit, and the person who uses non-binary instead because they dont feel that umbrella term fits them. None of these examples are hypotheticals- these are all people I personally know, either friends or family friends or even members of my family. All of these people are equally Indigenous, whether or not they fit your image of what a marginalized people's priorities "should" be. They are not gone, and they are not "stuck in the past". Happy National Indigenous People Day. Do better.
#Disclaimer that i am not indigenous to any degree as far as i know#and my social circle is both pretty small and majority white#but ive noticed a trend in the sort of articles that go around about indigenous people and it tend to be 'native people do nature good!'#People have the right to choose a 'traditional' or a 'community building' life or career path and they have a right not to#canadian politics#first nations#land back#decolonization#indigenous rights#I might turn off anon asks in my inbox if you think im wrong thats fine but say it with your name attached
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