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main blog @marshgremlin cheyenne & reconnecting

[aenoheso]

hello, i'm chesney. i'm southern cheyenne. this is my blog where i post about nature, history, activism, art and anything indigenous!

running on a very long queue :3

[thebigkelu]

Studio portrait of unidentified Native American (Ute) family - Kohlberg & Hopkins - 1880/1900

[elbiotipo]

Yes, if you didn't know, Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat) was and still is a Danish colony. Denmark still has control over many things of Greenland's supposed autonomy, not to mention economic control and it's use as a US military base.

It's not the only European colony still in the continent, though arguably the largest in territory. French Guiana, the Islas Malvinas, many nations in the Caribbean. They still claim, directly or indirectly, ownership over the Americas.

What you need to understand about America as a continent is that there is not a single place that has not been colonized by Europe, and then later independent states. You need to understand this history before understanding how to change it.

[70rgasm]

Young couple, Waterhen River, Saskatchewan, 1931

[sesamie-moving]

hey do you guys remember a couple years ago when i made a post about how the "there are two wolves inside you" saying is racist, and the origin of it is prevalent even in the meme retellings of it, and i was harassed for weeks with nonstop anon hate and racist asks and messages? i think we ought to revisit that. there's a vitriol i see rarely elsewhere in the response to whenever natives and ndns bring up anti-indigenous racism, mostly from white people far older than me. i had 30-somethings in my inbox telling me my ancestors and relatives ought to have been wiped out. i don't have any huge message to bring up about it this time but now i'm a little older and a little wiser, wise enough to say that was super fucked up. and i don't know exactly where the confidence and audacity to be blatantly racist and diminishing to natives comes from. but it's there, in people who would otherwise claim to be leftists or progressives, or even, egregiously, anti-racists. and it sucks

[sesamie-moving]

#anyone else remember when some native ppl were like “hey that line about smallpox in the barbie movie was rlly fucked up” and everyone #jumped on them to be like “so you hate women???” “it actually makes perfect sense in context” etc etc #just remembered that. (@blorb0)

yeah. that too. i find it extremely difficult to be taken seriously by nonnatives when discussing things like this - because it's so, so ingrained in american culture, people don't see it as a problem.

[jnyfmg]

proximity

[anteregem]

Some fanart of this ancient figurine! Also got commissioned to draw her hanging out with a friend!

[hiveswap]

Everyone say thank you american indigenous people for cultivating corn, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, cacao, pumpkin, squash, and anything i missed. Makes life more meaningful globally

[foxglove-garden]

Tobacco, too.

[eskiworks]

Masters of their temporary domain, a painting for my dad for christmas!

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[great-and-small]

Turdus aficionados of Costa Rica please know I love your national bird but this is objectively hilarious

[rosethyme]

@choppers-pink-hat

[choppers-pink-hat]

Hello, so I'm originally from Costa Rica and there's actually a good reason why the Yigüirro was chosen over so many other more colorful birds. All those toucans, parrots, and the like are quite beautiful but your average Costa Rican person rarely gets to see them, because they mostly live out in the rain forests and other places far away from human settlements. But Yigüirros live in towns and cities, so most folks are much more likely to see and appreciate them on a regular basis. Yigüirros have a strong, beautiful song which heralds the start of the rainy season, so you always know when one is around during that time of year. This trait has caused the Yigüirro to appear in a lot of Costa Rican literature as well. I think the fact that they were chosen over visually prettier species speaks to how the government let Costa Ricans vote on the national bird, rather than just making a declaration. Truly a bird of the people!

Having said all that, it is undeniably hilarious that there is a genus of bird named "Turdus."

[traicionerra-blog]

Huichol woman burns copal incense in preparation for Temazcal sweat bath.Guadalajara, Jalisco,

[newguineatribalart]

Devil devil by aboriginal artist Paddy Jaminji

[junglejim4322]

Some people’s political opinions can really just be boiled down to “can anybody tell me who the good guys and the bad guys are”

[filmjunky-99]

p o w w o w h i g h w a y, 1989 🎬 dir. jonathan wacks

[nobrashfestivity]

Ada Bird Petyarre, Awelye, from the portfolio Crossroads 1997

[thebigkelu]

Group of Native American (Ute) men, women and child in Manitou Springs, Colorado. Women include Towee (Emma Buck), Lucy Thompson (little girl), Susan Eaton, Norris, Graves (Kent's mother); men include Isaac Cloud and Ocapoor. - Poley - 1912

[thoughtportal]