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this one's straight out of Mabel's scrapbook 🐶🛹

he's such a diva *eyeroll* some more polished stuff I did of Bill over the past couple months I like to treat him like my personal barbie doll and dress him up pretty

equilaterrestial

a lil something for my portfolio teehee ☺️👈 just applied for my first zine pray for me

equilaterrestial

a lil something for my portfolio teehee ☺️👈 just applied for my first zine pray for me

equilaterrestial

idk who this Bill guy is, but he should probably watch his back

godbirdart

june 21 is national indigenous peoples day up here in canada; a day focused on celebrating the arts and cultures of our indigenous neighbours and communities.

if you’re looking for ways to support, or generally further your education on indigenous history, here are a bunch of links to help you get started! please go further and look up events hosted by your local community specifically, as some may not be listed on the sites below.

remember that if you cannot attend events or monetarily support businesses - you can always boost indigenous artists and voices online too.

indigenous tourism; lists businesses, events, and other indigenous-owned / led programs for the respective province or territory

indigenous tourism canada [generalized resources, event listings etc]

yukon

northwest territories

nunavut

british columbia

alberta

saskatchewan

manitoba

ontario

quebec

newfoundland and labrador

new brunswick

nova scotia

prince edward island

art

bill reid gallery of the northwest coast

lattimer art gallery

native northwest [while NNW itself is not indigenous-owned, it is a good way to discover artists and purchase their work. some artists sell on other sites too, so look around]

strong nations [sells books by indigenous authors]

education and resources

two-spirited people of manitoba

alberta indigenous history timeline [pdf]

alberta indigenous history resources

british columba history timeline

list of first nations peoples [wikipedia; could be incomplete / inaccurate]

cbc indigenous [indigenous-focused news]

missing and murdered indigenous women and girls

national centre for truth and reconciliation

native land interactive map

orange shirt day

qikiqtani truth commission

lil’ red dress project

whose land interactive map

charities / support / donations

clan mothers healing billage & knowledge centre

first nations health authority

indian residential schools survivor society

indigenous peoples resilience fund

qajuqturvik food bank

niqinik nuatsivik nunavut food bank

nunavut food security coalition

reconciliation canada

urban native youth association

additional links are always appreciated

godbirdart

JUNE 2024 UPDATE // adding some links to this:

resources

Assembly of First Nations

Camosun College Indigenous Studies [Books, Articles, and other Sources / Further Reading on a variety of topics]

KUU-US Crisis Line [24 Hour Crisis Support, BC based]

National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center

Two-Spirit Resource Directory [PDF; includes both Canadian and USA resources]

charity / donations / activism

Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women (CSVANW)

Gathering of Rivers for Community Care

Indigenous Environmental Network - based in USA

RAVEN Trust

education

Good Minds - First Nations, Métis and Inuit Books

Inuktut Tusaalanga - Language Learning [Inuktut]

news media

Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) - Indigenous News and Articles; based in Canada.

Turtle Island News - Weekly newspaper; based in Canada.

further reading; awareness

Breathing Lands - the Treaty 9 lawsuit and it’s contradictory terms on land ownership. [Involves multiple Nations]

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit peoples (MMIWG2S) - Manitoba government invests $15mil into the creation of a MMIWG2S Healing and Empowerment endowment fund. [May 2024]

Land Back [Flying Dust Nation] - the return of 85 hectares of land to the Flying Dust Nation. [June 2023]

Land Back [Haida Gwaii] - the return of the archipelago’s territory (200+ islands) to the Haida Nation [April 2024]

Land Back [Nunavut / Nunavummiut] - The transfer of authority over Crown land from Canada to the government of Nunavut. [January 2024]

Residential Schools - The ICMP report and other updates, and concerns over the government withholding records.

Neskantaga’s Water Crisis; 30 years under boil water advisory [Nation Homepage] [Safe Drinking Water Foundation Articles, 2023 and Earlier] [Current Status on the Government Website]

Restitution; Pushing to return Indigenous historical items from the Vatican. [Globe and Mail; March 2024] [The Art Newspaper; June 2024]

Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders; the legal battle against Coastal GasLink’s pipeline project [Nation Homepage] [Amnesty International Article, June 2024] [Aboriginal Peoples Television Network News Article Collection, Updated as of June 2024]

I also want to recommend a book I like, for no other reason than Because I Can, that dives into ethnobotany:

Held by the Land: A Guide to Indigenous Plants for Wellness by Leigh Joseph (Styawat)

thisisntmaple

I want to add a resources to that list!!! for the french folks out there L'institut Tshakapesh launched their site to learn about The myths, the realities around these myths and the history of the native people in Québec

Le site web Mythes et réalités sur les peuples autochtones est un espace dynamique, inclusif et facilitateur d’apprentissage où le bonheur d’apprendre est plus grand que la gêne de ne pas savoir.

(Translation : The website “Myths and truths on the indigenous people” is a dynamic and inclusive learning aid where the joy of learning is bigger than the shame of never knowing.)

And for the english/french folks, here is a ressource for learning about the language spoken here on the north coast of Quebec, Innu-aimun.

Innu-aimun.ca is an open-source, trilingual website where teachers, students, translators, linguists – and anyone interested in the Innu language – can access a wide range of resources in and about Innu.

Thank you for learning about my neighbors <3

gaylienz

happy PRIDE i’m here i’m queer and i believe the land should be given back to the proper indigenous stewards.

gaylienz

Non-Natives reblogging this are great and wonderful

lierdumoa

Please remember that "land back" does not mean "indigenous people are mystical elves with innate epigenetic wisdom of land stewardship and they don't belong in big cities," nor does it mean "non-indigenous people can't be farmers." What it DOES mean is that "non-indigenous farmers should be paying the equivalent of property taxes to the native governments their land was stolen from." It means, "there's a great deal of indigenous scholarship on sustainable agricultural practices that farmers should be taking into account, because indigenous agriculture was more advanced than European agriculture at the time Europe invaded the Americas and western agriculture *still* hasn't caught up in terms of figuring out how to produce equivalently high crop yields without compromising the ecosystem." It means, "non-indigenous farmers should be in an intellectual discourse with indigenous agricultural scientists and indigenous peoples that still do traditional farming, figuring how to repair the damage western farming practices have done to the ecosystem."

red-dead-revival

It also means that indigenous peoples should regain the right to sustain themselves on the land according to the practices they want, and they should have free reign to perform their cultural practices and protect their holy sites, as opposed to the current model where if they try to honor their dead on public lands they get violently removed.

bogleech

People also get angry at this concept thinking it'd mean non-native people getting mass evicted from their homes but 1) your home is already owned by a bank or big business or government, the difference would mainly be who you're now paying rent to and 2) most of the land in America isn't residential anyway.

This topic isn't about your house that you're already struggling to pay for, it's about thousands of miles of the planet rotting away under the monopoly of big agriculture and oil, but hypothetically speaking I think a local tribe would treat you a shitload better than whatever inhuman real estate brand you're already at the mercy of.

fucking around with how to draw curly hair in my style while also fighting my yearly mlp brainrot idk if I like how the hair color turned out, but oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ any feedback on this is welcome & appreciated!

#twilight sparkle #mlp #digital art #headcanon