#turtle Island

[griefsinternalflower]

Yupik woman from Alaska, 2006

Photo credit: Blake Harrington

[opencommunion]

incarcerated people are shutting down Alabama prisons and asking for your solidarity

Alabama prisons are the deadliest and most crowded prisons in the US. Their violence extends to gas chamber executions and illegal organ harvesting. The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) is currently facing two federal lawsuits: one for enslaving Black detainees by denying them parole and leasing out their forced labor and another for targeting strike organizers. ADOC rakes in more than $450 million annually in profits from forced labor, and that's not including the profits incarcerated people generate for private corporations such as McDonald's and Raytheon. In response to these abuses, and in particular the horrific beating of six handcuffed detainees by Lt. Edmonds at Donaldson Prison on February 22nd, the Free Alabama Movement (FAM) has organized a minimum 90-day statewide prison shutdown/work stoppage. They are calling on supporters outside the prison walls to show solidarity. If you're located in or around Alabama, show up to the protest at St. Clair Prison in Springville, AL on Saturday March 2nd. For rideshare coordination contact the Tennessee Student Solidarity Network on IG or by email: tnstudentsolidaritynetwork@gmail.com "Outside support for us starts at the prisons. That's where we need people. Come to one of the protests, show your face, and tell us that you support us. That's how we know that you support us. Outside support is the first step." - FAM

Everyone in the US, call Donaldson Prison at (205) 436-3681 and ask them to fire Lt. Edmonds for his brutal violence against incarcerated people.

[biophonies]

when I drew this comic 3 years ago I had NO idea how far it would reach. I'm happy to finally share a corrected version with proper abbreviations, and even MORE state names of indigenous origin ♥️

however, the goal of this comic was to inspire people to do your OWN research on indigenous history. To question everything we have been taught, and everything that has been pointedly left out. This erasure, this “forgetting”, of history is not just of the past… it is happening now. - Across so-called Canada, the US, and US-occupied islands, native women are victims of murder at 10-12x the rate of non-native people, and are the most likely to go missing without being searched for by the law. - Native reservations have the highest rates of poverty in the US, with over HALF of tribal homes with no access to clean water (with more joining this list by the year) - Native people are 6-10x more likely to be unhoused than the rest of the population, and native teens suffer suicide rates higher than any other demographic. This list of modern day genocide goes on (thank you for compiling @theindigenousanarchist <3) and yet take a look at those environmental stats!

Native people manage to do SO much for the planet as a whole - thanklessly - and with all this stacked against them. Don't even get me started on kin fighting in south america. Could you imagine if there was help? #landback is resistance to genocide, and it is the key to saving our warming earth.

So look into it and the other hashtags, cuz a cartoon goose ain't a substitute for a proper education. Love to my grandparents who always kept a map of tribal territories of turtle island on their wall, to speaking on our Tsalagi & Saponi heritage. Love & solidarity forever, happy research, and happy #indigenouspeoplesday

LANDBACK.ORG

(Also, if you care to support the artist, I'm publishing a book ! and writing another - a fantastical afroindigenous graphic novel - that I post exclusively about with tons of other art on my patreon.)

[orangeblossombitch]

Long live the Intifada!

available on my INPRNT

[likealambtoslaughter]

Just wanted to remind everyone that not only is it pride month, it's also indigenous history month

Here's what you can do to celebrate if you're not indigenous

Donate to indigenous gofundmes/cashapps/whatever

Buy from indigenous businesses

Speak out about indigenous issues

Educate yourself on our history, culture, and current problems

Decolonize yourself, unlearn colonizer thinking

Plant native plants in your yard! This one is fun and pretty!

Read native literature, listen to native voices, watch native documentaries, just be aware of indigenous people

Change your language, we're not "indians", indians are from India

Get yourself tested! See if you're mixed and reconnect with your culture! Any drop of native blood is sacred, any drop of native blood means the ancestors are with you

And most of all, punch racists in the face!

[houseofpurplestars]

A Department of Interior advisory committee has identified over 500 racist slurs and derogatory names attached to mountains, rivers and other geological features across the country. These names must be removed.

[canisvesperus]

And we wouldn’t have to pay to see ourselves in museums.

Source

[fairuzfan]

The 108-page report, which is based on interviews with more than 6,000 people during site visits over a two-year period, says the New Orleans ICE office has a pattern of holding people in detention for longer than its counterparts elsewhere, detailing multiple examples of people held at least three months after they were ordered removed.

Interviewees also reported unsanitary living conditions and meals, citing experiences where the facilities ran out of toilet paper and menstrual products, offered spoiled food at mealtimes, were infested by pests and mold, didn't have enough warm clothing, and had feces- and vomit-covered sleeping areas. Some also cited limited or no access to medical and mental health care.

In many instances, the detainees report being left hungry and laughed at by guards as they navigated unclean spaces and rotten food.

The researchers also describe extensive use of solitary confinement, including one case where a Pakistani immigrant describes being held in solitary for more than 200 days for requesting meals appropriate for his diabetes.

[boobookittenartblog]

"Bear woke up and found the world needed to begin again"

Diana Sudyka

[phobic-human]

Occupation of Wounded Knee, 1973.

[griefsinternalflower]

Native American Grass Dancer from the southern Great Plains region of Turtle Island

[olowan-waphiya]

Imagine if the writer of the book of Revelation had not used written words to convey the vision, but instead had composed a song to be sung and dance steps to be followed by all those who wanted to understand the prophecy. That is what is distinctive about Native American apocalyptic prophecy: it was interactive. People not only read or heard the prophecy, they physically participated in it. They embodied it in sacred dances. [...] It would not be wrong to say that my ancestors sang and danced their way through the apocalypse, physically moving from one reality to the next.

--We Survived the End Of The World: Lessons from Native America on Apocalypse and Hope by Steven Charleston

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

There is nothing to celebrate today. If you are one of the lucky few with today off (as I am), take some time to learn why.

#LandBack

Repost from @intersectionalenvironmentalist

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There is no pride in genocide.

As the U.S. celebrates Independence Day, we cannot dismiss the continuous acts of injustice against Black and Indigenous people.

✏️About the Researcher: @kianna_pete

Kianna was a Spring 2022 Social Media Fellow at IE and studied political science and ethnicity & race studies with a specialization in Indigenous/Native studies at Columbia University. ✨

💻Sources:

peoplesworld.org/article/july-4th-whose-independence-day-is-it/

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/six-things-you-didn-t-know-about-

fourth-july-n779331

smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-american-indian/

2020/07/01/do-american-indians-celebrate-4th-july/

meaww.com/independence-day-july-4-native-americans-do-they-celebrate-lost-traditions-early-suppression

culturalsurvival.org/news/united-states-independence-masked-genocide-and-imperialism

[guerillas-of-history]

American Indian Movement (AIM) Wounded Knee, South Dakota, 1973

[bossymarmalade]

CBC video: Stolen Children | Residential School Survivors Speak Out

Since their first arrival in the “new world” of North America, a number of religious entities began the project of converting Indigenous Peoples to Christianity. This undertaking grew in structure and purpose, especially between 1831 and 1969, when the governing officials of early Canada joined with Roman Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, United, and Presbyterian churches to create and operate the residential school system. The last federally-run residential school, Gordon Indian residential School in Saskatchewan, closed in 1996. One common objective defined this period: the aggressive assimilation of Aboriginal peoples.

[ legacy of hope ]

[quinnfrankephotography]

Some of the birds I saw on my walk this morning. Chilly and sunny today.