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Brittany | 21 | Mvskoke | Oklahoma

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The Eric André New Year’s Eve Spooktacular 2013

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thoughts on being gay?

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This post goes harder than any post has ever gone before.

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you’ve gotta start romanticizing your life. you gotta start believing that your morning commute is cute and fun, that every cup of coffee is the best you’ve ever had, that even the smallest and most mundane things are exciting and new. you have to, because that’s when you start truly living. that’s when you look forward to every day. 

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Exhibit explores incarceration in America, confinement of American Indians in Minnesota

"States of Incarceration" is a national traveling exhibit created by students and featuring historic photos, original artwork and videos. It will be in the Twin Cities until Feb. 18.

A new exhibit that opened this week at the Minnesota History Center examines mass incarceration in America, and takes a deep look at an overrepresented group in the state’s prisons and jails: American Indians.

“States of Incarceration” is a national traveling exhibit created by 500 college students in 17 states, including students at the University of Minnesota. It features historic photos, original artwork and videos and will be in the Twin Cities until Feb. 18 in the History Center’s new Irving Gallery.

A coalition called the Humanities Action Lab launched the project to explore the United States’ mass incarceration rate — the highest in the world. More than 2.3 million Americans are confined in prisons, jails and security hospitals, according to the Massachusetts-based nonprofit Prison Policy Initiative.

In Minnesota, where about 23,000 people were incarcerated in 2010, American Indians were 1 percent of the state’s population, but made up 8 percent of the incarcerated population.

Kevin Murphy, a University of Minnesota professor of heritage and public history, said that disparity prompted his students to research the history American Indian confinement.

“Our students through this project have done some cutting-edge research,” Murphy said.

They started with the camp at Fort Snelling after the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, then continued through forced removals, mandatory boarding schools for Indian children, and the high incarceration rates today.

Amber Annis, a historian focusing on community inclusion and engagement at the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS), co-curated the exhibit.

The story of incarceration in Minnesota starts with settlers’ desire to take Indian lands, said Annis, a citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe in South Dakota. That continued through fighting and then confinement and removal.

After the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, women, children and elders were forced to move to Fort Snelling in what MNHS officially calls a concentration camp. There was inadequate food, supplies and clothing, Annis said, and hundreds of people died while confined there.

“A lot of people, particularly Native people, use ‘concentration camp’ to refer to what happened at Fort Snelling,” she said. “After the war, the mission was to remove and exterminate Dakota people.”

The exhibit also explores boarding schools through the lens of confinement because children were forced to attend them.

“These were forced assimilation. They were not allowed to speak their language or discuss their beliefs,” Annis said.

Minnesota wasn’t the only state to extend the research for the exhibit beyond prisons and jails.

Indiana students researched forced commitments at mental institutions, Louisiana students explored the legacy of Jim Crow laws and African-American imprisonment, and Californians researched locking up youth.

“It started out as an effort to understand imprisonment, in particular, but the project has expanded to understand all forms of incarceration,” Murphy said.

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me referring to my paranoia: yeah i’ve got great intuitition

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Horses are big but they’re huge wussies and most of them are friendly to humans, they’re not as spooky as tumblr makes them seem

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“if you’re so stressed out from school why don’t you just study more or take fewer classes??”

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Just a typical little helper in Russia

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Ongoing Cultural Appropriation Masterpost

This will be an ongoing list of informative and educational posts by not only myself, but other members of the POC community. They are all properly credited and when you click on the link, it will take you to their post and their blog. Please support POC bloggers and give them a follow!

Also, if you have made posts or know of really good cultural appropriation posts (please send me actual links) that you would like for me to include in this post (because my search skills can only extend so far haha), please shoot me a message with a link! Since I make posts only on ndn issues (since I am ndn), there might be a few more posts on that subject until I can find more posts to even it out! Thank you for reading!

12/3/16: I fixed the broken links and removed the inactive ones! Added a Pasifika Cultures section!

12/13/16: Added on to all existing sections and made Central/South American cultures their own section.

12/22/16: Expanding the Roma, Asian and Pasifika sections a little.

The Basics//

‘A Basic Guide to Open and Closed Religions and Cultures’ by thecuriousviolet

‘Cultural Appropriation is…’ by bornabitch-allthedaysandnights

‘Cultural Appropriation is Racism. Calling it out is not.’ by faithandmagick

‘When Learning a Language becomes Cultural Appropriation’ by ReclaimingAsia

‘Difference Between Cultural Appropriation & Assimilation by fullygrownadultbabytealeaf

‘People are not obligated to share their culture with you.’ by asmcosplay

‘You can’t be racist against a white person’ by wocinsolidarity

‘Women of Color FAQs’ by wocinsolidarity

First Nations and Native American Cultures//

To White American Witches and Pagans, by thecuriousviolet

‘On Smudging’ by thecuriousviolet

'On Dreamcatchers’ by thecuriousviolet

'On Totems/Spirit Animals’ by thecuriousviolet

'Halloween Costumes, Redface and Mascots’ by thecuriousviolet

'Two Spirit’ by thecuriousviolet

'An Ongoing List of Native American Racial Slurs’ by thecuriousviolet

'The Truth about Pocahontas’ by thecuriousviolet

’White people are erasing Pocahontas’ by izanzanwin

'Post mortem violence and why we won’t just 'get over it’’ by izanzanwin

'The Redskin Slur’ by izanzanwin

'Native Americans don’t owe you ANYTHING’ by asmcosplay

’You wouldn’t disrespect a purple heart, so why would you wear a war bonnet?’ by ikenbot

'Redface is not “honouring us” comic by bilbows

'Wearing a Headdress is never okay.’ by aaron2point0 and doyoumisterjones

Native Americans Don’t Owe You an Explanation of Anything by asmcosplay

'J.K. Rowling Erased Native American Cultures’ by Susan Cheng

Why J.K. Rowling Appropriating Native Culture Sucks by asmcosplay

Hey, Why Stop There, J. K. Rowling? by asmcosplay

Native Americans Trying on 'Indian’ Costumes Video by Buzzfeed

Central and South American Cultures//

'Cinco De Mayo and Cultural Appropriation’ by magic-becauselifeistragic

'Dia De Los Muertos and Racist Outfits’ by whoopsimadeamess

'Sugar Skulls’ by stormkit

Dearest White Friends, My Culture is Not a Costume by softesimon

#HispanicGirlsUnited Because… by gen-ugh-sis

This Mayan Shaman Tattoo is Grossly Racist and Here’s Why by badmagictattoos

Your Forever 21 Top is NOT Aztec! by palabrasconalas

Pasifika Cultures//

Moana Review by an Actual Polynesian Person by onenutman

Moana Masterpost by onenutman

Polynesia isn’t just one culture…Not all Pasifika people are Polynesian..by onenutman

Moana: Importance of the Tuiga by ulalole

Disney’s Racist Maui Costume by Michelle Van Dyke

Why Don’t People Care about the appropriation of Hawaiian culture? by pechfuzz

Hawaiian Themed Parties and Cultural Appropriation as Genocide by Erica Violet Lee

Thoughts on Pokemon Sun/Moon by a Native Hawaiian by fletchlings

Black and African Cultures//

’Why white people should never wear dreads’ by bornabitch-allthedaysandnights

’Celtic people did not wear dreadlocks’ by easol

'White hair vs black hair’ by sensei-aishitemasu

'Schooling you on cultural appropriation’ by Amandla Stenberg

Cultural Cannibalism by TaLynn Kel

Asian Cultures//

'Dear Non-Asian People…’ Tag by Reclaiming Asia

'You are stealing Indian culture’ by thyroidglands

'Desi Cultural Appropriation’ Links by youarenotdesi

My Culture is Not a Costume! by toga-vibes

Korean Cultural Appropriation by sad365

'Eating Sushi doesn’t make you Japanese’ by cwyonaiyama

'Harajuku Girls, Trademark Gwen Stefani’ by tokyo-fashion

When is wearing a Kimono appropriate? by Anon

Japanese Women Try on 'Geisha’ Costumes by Buzzfeed

Roma Culture//

'The G Word’ by myjourneymythoughts

10 Ways to Appreciate Roma Culture by rrojasandribbons

10 Myths about Roma Identity by rrojasandribbons

10 Facts about the Romani Language by rrojasandribbons

History of the word 'G*psy’ by rrojasandribbons

Why Understanding the word 'G*psy’ is Important by golden-zephyr