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Hi, I’m the one that asked about Bisonbone as surnames? I don’t think I really understand your post about native naming so I can name my character Eden or any English name but the surname is it okay to use any surname or it should be a surname that exist? My character has been locked up since childhood and then will be rescued to Italy so I don’t

THIS IS SO LATE I’M SO SORRY I don’t get on here often anymore and I never saw this.

Anyway...I’d say most surnames you can think of that already exist are fine. Personally I’d say stay away from made up “Indian sounding” names like Bisonbone or Runs-With-Wolves or stuff like that. If you want to use a name like that I’d research and make sure it exists and goes with the tribe that the character is from.

You also asked something about feathers in another ask but I’m not really sure what you’re wondering about that soooo...ask again if you ever see this and it’s still relevant. Again I’m so sorry this is so late.

#Anonymous

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#badtimesrp

Hello! Sorry for the bother, but I’m currently working on a comic book & I wanted one of the main characters to be a Native American girl likely from the Miwok tribe in CA) and I wanted some general advice on how to not mess up the representation basically? Maybe advice on finding names & (since they’re heroes based off the Chinese zodiac animals) how I could include her culture APPROPRIATELY in the story because I really want the comic to be inclusive since I’d like to publish it one day :) ty!

I honestly don’t know anything about that tribe, in fact I’d never heard of them until now, so I’m probably not the best person to ask for advice.

For names my best advice for any character of any culture is to think about who the character’s parents are and what type of name they would have chosen. Would they have picked a cultural name? Likely not. I’d say most Natives these days don’t have a name from their native language. I also think it’s a safer bet as a non-Native to just not mess around with that. Pick a name you like that fits the character. (I also have a couple other posts on naming Native characters that you can check out)

From doing my own research on the tribe’s website appears to have shut down in 2016 and just from doing a quick skim I’m not finding a ton of information. I’d suggest looking for books both about the tribe and written by members of the tribe. I’d also say try to reach out to the tribe to see if there’s anyone you could speak to with questions.

It’s important to remember that while researching tribes you need to read up more on current news and events and get perspectives from current members of the tribe rather than solely focusing on tribal history.

Also this is obvious, but don’t draw her with a head dress, feathers in her hair, or red skin!!!

#miwok #Anonymous

unpopular opinion: please use whatever the fuck native american face you want to play a member of whatever tribe ESPECIALLY if there are no resources for faces who are actual members of said tribe.

like pls someone just play a character from my tribe because in the grand scheme of things does it even really matter? this is all fiction. for fun. on the internet. yes, try your best and plz dont use white people as faces for ndn characters but like. can we stop.

writing the characters that you wanna write matters more than using the perfect facial representation. :)

i would LOVE to see someone writing a character from my tribe or even one from the area around me and i wouldn’t give a shit if the face was adam beach or tatanka means or whoever because at least my people would be represented in this way vs. literally no one ever plays a character from the pnw because there are no faces with resources from here. thats just dumb.

we already do better than hollywood in our quest for representation and i just think we need to cut ourselves and each other some fucking slack, okay man?

thanks for your time

#rph #rpt #rpc

bugrps

This is in response to a question received by indigenousrph. I am listed as a member there and I have access to the ask box, but since I haven’t been active on that blog I didn’t really feel right answering the ask there.

The question was:

Would it be okay of me to make up a town on a reserve for my Native character? I feel like I’d get it wrong if I were to use a real town esp since I can’t really go there. I just wanna make sure I’m not doing anything offensive. Thanks in advance:)))

Personally I feel the answer is no. First off, even if you did make up a fictional town or reservation you can get things wrong. And you probably will. In fact, you kind of already have just in the wording of this ask. Towns aren’t on reservations, reservations are in towns. As an example a town near me is Port Angeles, WA and in that town there is the Lower Elwha Sklallam Tribe reservation.

Second, what you’re asking to do is to be lazy. You’re asking to not have to do research. You want to be excused for any mistakes you make by saying “oh but it’s okay, it’s made up.” You may have not meant it that way, but that’s what it is and that is extremely disrespectful.

Third, if you’re making up a town and reservation then you’d need to make up a whole new tribe as well, which honestly just creates more work for you and more of a chance for screw-ups. It would be 100 times easier to pick a tribe and reservation and DO YOUR RESEARCH. Yes, you’re going to get things wrong anyway, but that’s part of writing and part of learning, but at least you’re trying. I and many other Native rps I’m sure would be happy to assist you in your research efforts.

Fourth, even if you went and visited a reservation in person you’re still going to get things wrong. You visit a prison once, that’s not going to give you a full picture of what daily life is like in a prison for the guards or the inmates. You’d watch documentaries, you’d read first-hand accounts, you’d talk to people who have lived that reality, and you’d do as much research as you can. You’d still probably get things wrong, but that’s okay because you’re trying and you’re learning.

I’d rather a white person (or a non-Native, rather) do their research and get things wrong, learn from that, correct themselves, than for them to completely make up their own version of what a reservation is and what life as a Native person is.

This is in response to a question received by indigenousrph. I am listed as a member there and I have access to the ask box, but since I haven't been active on that blog I didn't really feel right answering the ask there.

The question was:

Would it be okay of me to make up a town on a reserve for my Native character? I feel like I'd get it wrong if I were to use a real town esp since I can't really go there. I just wanna make sure I'm not doing anything offensive. Thanks in advance:)))

Personally I feel the answer is no. First off, even if you did make up a fictional town or reservation you can get things wrong. And you probably will. In fact, you kind of already have just in the wording of this ask. Towns aren't on reservations, reservations are in towns. As an example a town near me is Port Angeles, WA and in that town there is the Lower Elwha Sklallam Tribe reservation.

Second, what you're asking to do is to be lazy. You're asking to not have to do research. You want to be excused for any mistakes you make by saying "oh but it's okay, it's made up." You may have not meant it that way, but that's what it is and that is extremely disrespectful.

Third, if you're making up a town and reservation then you'd need to make up a whole new tribe as well, which honestly just creates more work for you and more of a chance for screw-ups. It would be 100 times easier to pick a tribe and reservation and DO YOUR RESEARCH. Yes, you're going to get things wrong anyway, but that's part of writing and part of learning, but at least you're trying. I and many other Native rps I'm sure would be happy to assist you in your research efforts.

Fourth, even if you went and visited a reservation in person you're still going to get things wrong. You visit a prison once, that's not going to give you a full picture of what daily life is like in a prison for the guards or the inmates. You'd watch documentaries, you'd read first-hand accounts, you'd talk to people who have lived that reality, and you'd do as much research as you can. You'd still probably get things wrong, but that's okay because you're trying and you're learning.

I'd rather a white person (or a non-Native, rather) do their research and get things wrong, learn from that, correct themselves, than for them to completely make up their own version of what a reservation is and what life as a Native person is.

#indigenousrph

spiritualwitchery

Calling ALL of tumblr I need your help!!!

The standing rock tribe are being silenced about what is going on up there with the Dakota access pipe line.

I beg of you to help me get the topic out. It will affect millions of lives. The pipe will leave into the tribes only source of drinking water. We are trying so hard to get this out on twitter and facebook, but we are being silenced.

Today a security team came into the middle of a peaceful native american protest and numerous people got maced and bitten by the dogs.

I want you all to take a look at the terror on these young girls faces. Then I want you to take a look at the two aggressive dogs. When did it become OK to use dogs against children, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters OUR freakin people!!! The police will only let a dog go if the suspect runs or the suspect is violent and causes a threat to the public of the officer. Do you see a weapon in these young girls hands? Do these girls look dangerous? The answer would be no. No they don’t. The people with the dogs aren’t even police officers! They are security guards. They couldn’t even keep control of their own dogs leading to them being attacked also.

Most of you won’t even bat an eyelid at my posts, others will be annoyed because of my constant posting.This is happening right this second and threatening millions of lives. I have to help. We can only break the silence if you join us in this fight. Just sharing my post helps the reality of the situation get out there. I now beg of you to share this post in support of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Give them a bigger voice. Help them shout this from the roof tops. Please… Rachael <3 <3 #NoDAPL

sofarawayy-deactivated20210922

CALL TO ACTION. For those looking to show solidarity, this is how! The protest are still going, we have to continue to bring attention to what is going on. There are Natives on the front lines who are willing to put their safety, their lives on the line, to protect water for future generations.

bugrps

100 Most Common Surnames for Native Americans

AKA please stop giving your Native characters surnames like SeaBreeze and Running Bear unless you know that those are legit names in the tribe your character comes from.

According to the 2000 US Census these are the 100 most common surnames for people who identify as Native American or Alaskan Native. These are not the only surnames that Native peoples can have nor are these surnames exclusive to Native peoples. Information originally found here.

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soprie

Because of the residential / boarding school system in Canada and the US, a lot of aboriginal children were taken and had their tribal names removed. They were given new, anglecized legal names as part of erasing their culture.

If your fic is set before the residential school system, names would be more tribal. (excluding Metis and creole blended cultures) If teh fic is during or after, a lot of the times names are common English last names like Smith or Johnson.

bugrps

That is absolutely correct, but a tribe’s assigned Indian agent also had a big part in renaming Natives young and old.

An Indian agent was the person authorized to interact with the tribal people on behalf of the US government. They’d take steps to assimilate the Natives into white culture and send annual reports back to D.C.

Here is a really good article explaining how and why Indian agents renamed everyone in the tribe.

100 Most Common Surnames for Native Americans

AKA please stop giving your Native characters surnames like SeaBreeze and Running Bear unless you know that those are legit names in the tribe your character comes from.

#surname masterlist #name masterlist #masterlist #mine #rph

Buzzfeed nooooo.

At Chief Seattle Days right now and the speaker is talking about how his mom spoke her language when she was in residential school and they tied her to a tree for two days and told her to never speak her language again.

#chief Seattle #Native American #ndn

profeminist

Hi, I'm the "Native Hawaiian" anon. I think the question I was really trying to come up with is are Native Hawaiians Native in the same way that say Cherokee Native Americans or Blackfoot Native Americans are?

I’m not 100% sure what you mean by that, so please ask again if this doesn’t answer your question.

Blackfoot and Cherokee and other Native tribes are the peoples who are indigenous to the land of the Americas meaning our ancestors occupied this land before anyone else. Native Hawaiians are the people indigenous to the islands of Hawai’i. So yes, in that sense Native Americans and Native Hawaiians are native/indigenous in the same way, they are just indigenous to different lands and have vastly different cultures.

#ndn #native american #native Hawaiian #Anonymous

hotelhalsey

We’re lying in the sun, getting pleasantly sloshed, when Halsey confesses that she’s read a story I wrote for Rolling Stone in April, about Planned Parenthood and a miscarriage I had. “I felt like I was suffocating reading that article,” she says. “Like someone put a shopping bag over my head. I didn’t want to meet you at all. I was really terrified of you, because I knew as soon as I saw you, I was going to need to tell you that last year on tour I got pregnant.” Then, at a breathless pace, she’s describing being in a hotel room in Chicago before Badlands even came out, back when her whole career could have easily been ruined (“What happens? Do I lose my record deal? Do I lose everything? Or do I keep [the pregnancy]? What are the fans going to think? What are the moms going to think? What is the Midwest going to think? What’s fucking everyone going to think?”), and before she can even decide what to do, she’s screaming on a hotel bed, bloody, naked from the waist down, hours before she’s to go onstage. “I’m like, ‘I have to cancel this show!’ And everyone’s kind of like, ‘Well, it’s Vevo LIFT, and it’s 3 million impressions, so …’ No one knew what to do.” Eventually, Halsey sent her assistant to the drugstore to buy adult diapers. She put one on, took two Percocet and went to the venue to do her job. “It’s the angriest performance that I’ve ever done in my life,” she says, her voice breaking. “That was the moment of my life where I thought to myself, ‘I don’t feel like a fucking human being anymore.’ This thing, this music, Halsey, whatever it is that I’m doing, took precedence and priority over every decision that I made regarding this entire situation from the moment I found out until the moment it went wrong. I walked offstage and went into the parking lot and just started throwing up.”

Halsey says she isn’t sure why she had a miscarriage, but it’s easy for her to blame herself. “I beat myself up for it,” she tells me, “because I think that the reason it happened is just the lifestyle I was living. I wasn’t drinking. I wasn’t doing drugs. I was fucking overworked – in the hospital every couple of weeks because I was dehydrated, needing bags of IVs brought to my greenroom. I was anemic, I was fainting. My body just broke the fuck down.” The part that bothers her most is that, as insane as it was to play that concert, no one forced her to do it. “I had a choice,” she says, though she did the thing that made her feel like she didn’t. She looks off toward the fields where children play in the distance. “I want to be a mom more than I want to be a pop star. More than I want to be anything in the world.” Later, she says, “I’m really scared of being alone.” We sit on the blanket, clutching our drinks. “I’m not trying to upset you,” she says softly. “I’m really sorry.” - Rolling Stone Magazine

#holy shit #this means a lot for her to talk about #because i had a miscarriage last year.#miscarriage tw #sitting here crying now

thecuriousviolet-deactivated201

Dear Witches and Pagans,

NATIVE ‘MAGICK’ AND ‘MEDICINE’ IS NOT FOR YOU

NATIVE RELIGIONS AND RITUALS AND TRADITIONS ARE NOT FOR YOU

UNLESS YOU ARE AN NDN

YOU CANNOT BE A PART OF NDN RELIGIONS AND MEDICINE

YOU CANNOT PRACTICE NDN TRADITIONS AND ‘MAGICK’

OUR CULTURES ARE CLOSED BECAUSE WHITE MEN TOOK EVERYTHING FROM US AND ARE STILL TAKING FROM US AND WE HAVE FINALLY HAD ENOUGH. WE ARE DONE SHARING. YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE.

WE HAVE NO OBLIGATION TO EXPLAIN ANYTHING TO YOU.

WE HAVE NO OBLIGATION TO SHARE ANYTHING WITH YOU.

OUR CULTURES BELONG TO US.

STOP STEALING OUR SHIT.

olivaraofrph-deactivated2023080

Reminder to the rpc about a couple things: 1. Vanessa and Stella Hudgens are ¼ Cherokee (their father was ½), and this should be acknowledged if you play them but 2. They are not good representation of the Native community. Both have repeatedly worn headdresses as well as other ‘native fashion’ in the wrong way to Coachella, as well as appropriated other cultures. Vanessa has not only done this, but also carved something into a mountain on a Native reservation then posted it to her Instagram as “art”, and while she has had to pay $1,000 for this wrong-doing, she has yet to apologize.

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