#wolastoqey

[phonaesthemes]

A year ago, Ann Paul wouldn't introduce herself in Wolastoqey.

But after months of learning — both by herself and from her grandchildren, who go to an immersive Wolastoqey school and bring the language home to her — Ann now feels comfortable standing up in sharing circles and speaking in her language.

"I'm taking my power back and I"m learning it," she said. "I'm using it whenever I can, and I will eventually be a speaker."

Language gatherings like the one recently held at the Paul Pyres Centre in Neqotkuk First Nation (Tobique) are important, Ann said, because they can empower people who are afraid to try speaking Wolastoqey.

[sehnis]

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[osmanthusoolong]

“A Progressive Conservative candidate for a seat in the New Brunswick Legislature is facing calls she withdraw from the campaign after she compared protections for 2SLGTBQ+ students to the systematic taking of Indigenous children from their parents to place them in residential schools.

Sherry Wilson said the federal system of forcing tens of thousands of First Nations, Inuit and Métis children into the schools was "only allowed to happen because children enrolled in school were isolated from their parents' oversight, input and influence."

She implied there was a parallel between that and the province's original Policy 713 — which allowed 2SLGBTQ+ students to adopt names and pronouns at school without their parents knowing.”

…

“The post was removed from Wilson's Facebook page Tuesday morning.

The PC government changed Policy 713 last year to require parental consent if students under 16 wanted to adopt new names and pronouns consistent with their gender identity.”

…

“Chief Terry Richarson of the Pabineau First Nation urged Higgs to remove Wilson as a PC candidate.

"This woman should not be allowed to run for the Conservative Party of NB," he wrote in a Facebook post.

"Premier Higgs you need to have this woman withdraw immediately. … Shame on you and shame on your party on this day dedicated to the memory of those children who were killed for their beliefs!!"

Six Wolastoqey chiefs also made that call in a statement issued Tuesday.

Higgs said he would not remove Wilson because she had withdrawn the post.”

…

“Wilson isn't the first Progressive Conservative to draw the parallel between policies to protect 2SLGBTQ+ children and the residential school system.

Hampton-Fundy-St. Martins candidate Faytene Grasseschi made the comparison as a Christian conservative activist, before becoming a PC candidate last year.

She told CBC News in a July 2023 interview it was an Indigenous parent who first told her there was a parallel.

"It's an ideology. It's a mindset that says the children belong to the government, not the family, not the parents," she said.

Grasseschi acknowledged the potential consequences of the original Policy 713 weren't as severe as children being taken hundreds of miles away from their families and losing their Indigenous language and culture.

"In terms of children actually physically being taken away to another — yeah, absolutely," she said. "But I think the point was it's an ideology."”

Christofascists can’t imagine that children are in fact people and not property. And that if you change every single word and event and reasoning in a situation, it becomes an entirely different thing.

These people shouldn’t be in charge of a houseplant, let alone a government.

@allthecanadianpolitics

[itskindofareallyniceday]

Something new for Native American Heritage Month this year:

This playlist features indigenous musicians from North, Central, and South America. It includes a variety of genres (post-classical composers, folk punk, indie pop, pow wow punk rock (yes, that's a thing!), indie rock, etc.), as well as a variety of languages (Wolastoqey, Inuktitut, Atikamekw, Cherokee, Navajo, Cree, Quechua, Greenlandic (Kalaallisut), Tłı̨chǫ, English, French, and Spanish).

[allthecanadianpolitics]

"Mi’gwame’l Tplu”taqnn Inc. (MTI), an organization representing Mi’gmag communities in New Brunswick, has filed a massive title claim that covers more than half of the province on behalf of eight of the province’s Mi’gmag communities.

Their title map overlaps with that of the Wolastoqey First Nation filed in 2021, meaning the entire province and some of the waters surrounding it, are now subject to land claims.

The six chiefs of the Wolastoqey First Nation sent Global News a statement on Wednesday, saying their talks with MTI have been “open, friendly and productive” and that they ” wish to amplify (Wednesday’s) call from the Mi’gmaq chiefs: It’s time for the Government of New Brunswick to see the importance of negotiating recognition and implementation of Indigenous title.”

“We’re not looking to reclaim private lands, that’s not part of the discussion,” Chief George Ginnish of the Natoaganeg First Nation, a Mi’gmag community near Miramichi said in an interview.

“It’s about Crown lands, it’s about industrial activity that’s happening on Crown land. It’s about having a process for development, resource extraction, things that are going on now that are kind of one-offs that would have a formal process.”

MTI based the map on research pertaining to historic land and water use.

Ginnish said MTI intends to negotiate with the province before resorting to the court system.

“Let’s have a realistic discussion that recognizes the relationship and helps our communities move forward and take our rightful place in the words of our elders, in our own land,” he said."

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[ladyimaginarium]

our& indigenous pronouns explained !

nekm - he/him/she/her - mi'kmawi'simk

nekmewei - his/hers/its - mi'kmawi'simk

nekmow - they/them/theirs - mi'kmawi'simk

ninen - we/us - mi'kmawi'simk

ninenewei - our/ours - mi'kmawi'simk

nekom - he/him/she/her/his/hers - wolastoqey

nekomaw - they/them/their/theirs - wolastoqey

nita - it/its/that one - wolastoqey

agma - he/she/it - abenaki

agmowo - they/them - abenaki

wiiya - he/him/she/her - michif

wiiyawow - they/them - michif

anima - it/its - michif

niiyanaan - ours - michif

kiiyanaan - we/us ( two or more ) - michif

kiiyawow - yourselves - michif

khondae' - this/this one/these ones - wendat

wiin / ᐐᓐ - he/him/she/her - anishinaabemowin

wiinawaa / ᐐᓇᐙ - they/them - anishinaabemowin

giinawin / ᑮᓇᐎᓐ - we/us - anishinaabemowin

disclaimer: it's always encouraged but not necessarily a requirement to add an "&" next to a name or a pronoun to acknowledge & respect our& plurality !! <3333

[kutyozh]

also, a little update on my playlist waiting list. got "a few" playlists in the pipeline, in other words, if you have recs - you know where to find me:

abaza

albanian

ahom

anindilyakwa

anishinaabemowin

assamese

bahasa indonesia

bahasa malaysia

balochi

bambara

basaa (cameroon)

bengali

bosnian

breton

burmese

cape verde krioulu

català

chechen

comanche

danish

dari

dholuo

zapotec

galician

guaraní

guinea bissau creole

faroese

gujarati

hebrew

cornish

kabi

khowar

kikuyu

kuna

laritja

lezgian

macedonian

māori

malayalam

maninka

mapudungun

mari

mongolian

nahuatl

p'urhépecha

paiwan

panjabi

réunion creole

qırımtatarca (crimean tatar)

samoan

sarikoli

setswana

slovak

somali

southern min

kiswahili

swiss german

tamazight (standard moroccan)

tamil

tao/yami

tatar

telugu

tigrinya

mixtec

twi

tuvan

uyghur

vepsian

wolastoqey

wolof

yiddish

yup'ik (central alaskan)

[terriwriting]

Conservative candidate uses Truth and Reconciliation Day as an opportunity to be both racist and homophobic

PC Leader Blaine Higgs declined to remove the candidate on the grounds that she had stopped broadcasting the lie:

Chief Terry Richarson of the Pabineau First Nation urged Higgs to remove Wilson as a PC candidate. "This woman should not be allowed to run for the Conservative Party of NB," he wrote in a Facebook post. "Premier Higgs you need to have this woman withdraw immediately. … Shame on you and shame on your party on this day dedicated to the memory of those children who were killed for their beliefs!!" Six Wolastoqey chiefs also made that call in a statement issued Tuesday. Higgs said he would not remove Wilson because she had withdrawn the post.

[moonwoodcollective]

CALLING NATIVE SIMMERS

In light of the new pack I was thinking it'd be really nice to highlight Indigenous simmers, so if you are a First Nations Simblr or content creator please reblog this! Any indigenous persons (reconnecting and connected) are free to reblog the post. Please do not promote yourself unless you're Indigenous!

Qey, Qaqasoss nil. Eli skicinuwi naka wolastoqewi! Hi, my name's Fox. I am indigenous and come from the Wolastoqiyik people! I'm a reconnecting native; for me this means that I have Indigenous Status and am recognized by the government of Canada under section 6(2). Currently I am working on reindigenization by learning my people's langage, Wolastoqey

If you'd like to introduce yourself as well please feel free, though obvs there's no obligation to do so :]

[ask-badlydrawn-canadia-provinces]

Ok random question: favourite food?

BC: Anything involving wild Pacific salmon. Smoked, in sushi, candied with maple syrup. The only requirement is that it must be not farmed.

YT: You can't go wrong with sourdough pancakes. We even have a festival for them. The Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous.

AB: You may think its beef but it's actually bison. Personally my favourite way to eat it is as a burger. But you can have it other ways too.

QC: Its a a hard choice between poutine and tourtières, which is a type of meat pie. Both are very fin.

ON: Beavertails are my favourite sweet treat. But I also like a good pie.

MB: A schmoo torte for dessert after some smoked goldeye with a side of Winnipeg rye bread is a filling meal.

NB: The Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqey People have this great seasonal dish called Fiddleheads. Many buildings have architecture inspired by the food.

PEI: Anything potato related. Don't laugh. But seafood is also popular.

NL: Many say our dishes are weird but that's the way we like them. But it's usually only the names that are weird. Jigg's dinner with Figgy Duff for desert is our favourite though.

NS: Lobster, but especially creamed lobster.

NU: Its so hard to choose. But Big Sis said I have choose only one thing I'll say caribou stew. It's great for cold nights!

NWT: I quite enjoy dipping bannock into caribou stew. But James made with wild berries are great too.

SK: I may be called the Breadbasket of Canada, but bread is not my favourite. Saskatoon Berry Pie for dessert and Perogies, Borscht and Cabbage Rolls for dinner please.

(Holy heck that took forever. But here you go guys) @katalgue @agentfoursie

[phonaesthemes]

Ann Paul thinks in English first, but she hopes the same won't be true for her granddaughter. When Kehkimin Wolastoqey language immersion school opened in Fredericton last year, the goal was to develop curriculum at multiple levels so students could progress in the language.  Now, three new books are doing just that. One new workbook and two storybooks are the latest learning tools for the kids at Kehkimin, located in Killarney Lodge, where Ann Paul's granddaughter goes to school everyday. "Language is coming full circle," Ann said. "It's coming back." She's been relearning the language herself, but when her granddaughter comes home from school and shares new words she learned that day, Ann said it awakens the language inside her. "She's bringing out the words that have been sleeping inside of us." The community held a book launch at Killarney Lodge to celebrate the curriculum release.

[herospledge]

THINGS I LIKE MY RP PARTNERS TO KNOW.

𝐈 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐃:

Fox, prefer not to be called ‘[name]-mun’ or anything like that its kinda awk and impersonal

𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐌𝐄:

I am diagnosed with ADHD, and there's a very good chance I have C-PTSD and maybe PMDD. Which is to say I have ✨Issues.✨ While rping on tumblr softblocking is probably my number one trigger - it can send me into an episode that lasts days to weeks so please just dont do it :[ f I suspect you’ve soft blocked me I’ll block you flat out

If we’re mutual then throw all that performative stress and  pressure straight out the window, as I've swept all your plates onto the  floor and am now posing seductively on your table, with a rose in mouth  and spicy leg in the air bc damn I wanna write w/ u

𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐑𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐌𝐘 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑(𝐒):

This blog contains a muse heavily under development. As I've only played BOTW & TOTK I'm not all that familiar with characters beyond that game and the research I've done on the franchise lore is rudimentary at best

Canon compliance isn't something I put a heavy amount of emphasis on, and for the sake of interest I may just make things up under the rule of cool

That said Aluhk is an indigenous coded character and makes reference to my people's language and culture in particular

𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓 𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐔𝐀𝐆𝐄:

English, learning Wolastoqey

𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄:

under 13 | 14–17 | 18–22 | 23–25 | 26–29 | 30+ | 40+ | 70+

𝐀𝐌 𝐈 𝐎𝐊𝐀𝐘 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐍𝐒𝐅𝐖?:

Yes | No | Some NS4W | Depends

𝐌𝐘 𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄/𝐌𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐑𝐏 𝐈𝐒:

Angst | Fluff | Smut | Crack | Action | Plots | AUs | Violence | Darker Themes | Casual Themes | Everything Really

𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐑𝐏 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐋𝐘?:

Yes | No

𝐑𝐏 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐆:

Does Contain OOC Posts | Doesn’t Contain OOC Posts | Occasionally Contains OOC Posts

[osmanthusoolong]

One of the tree oldest birchbark canoes from North America, recently repatriated from Ireland. We got to talk to a local artist whose ancestor made all three of them, and his work repatriating them, tracking them down, repairing them, and building new ones in the traditional style. It was wonderful talking with him.

[hineini]

If only she knew how right she was even if she's right due to a starkly different rationale.

As the politician comparing Bill 137 to residential schools has it, they both denied children access to their identities through parental involvement.

Let's look at that second.

Children and teens who are denied recognition of their actual identities at school since they're not out-let alone out and supported-at home definitely share something with students at schools created to obliterate Native identities, cultures and everything: attempts to alter their understanding and recognition of who they really are. As a certain New Brunswick politician has it, they're denied parental involvement to pass on culture. As someone completely allied with trans people and feels she went through a kind of transition to receive legal recognition of her actual identity years ago, however, it went completely beyond me.

Don't have any idea if she will move higher inside New Brunswick's authorities; easy saying as one of God's queer Jewish adult children I'm praying she won't have anything above her current level. Perhaps she can receive some kind of demotion or something???

[ladyimaginarium]

Creator in our indigenous languages

Kisul'kw — Mi'kmawi'simk

Kisul'kw na ni'n elia'sutmai — The Creator is the one I pray to. — Mi'kmawi'simk

Kisiyulinoq — Wolastoqey

Kchi Niwaskw — Abenaki

Li Bon Jeu / Lii Kriiateur / Kishay Menitou — Michif

Iarenda / Orenda — Wendat