Iris

Canadian. 25. ENFP. Photographer, writer, creative. Instagram: @1r1descent

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Gold Creek Trail, July 2022

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For Indigenous People’s Day I’d also like to throw out my own tribe’s water project - it’s becoming increasingly vital as protections surrounding Navajo land get stripped away & reservations are stripped of sovereignty, as the US government has poisoned our water before and will likely do so again without a second thought. Please consider donating to the Navajo Water Project, or giving this a reblog if you’d like. A’he’ee, thank you!

https://www.navajowaterproject.org/

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Vääna, Harju County, Estonia | Erik Karits

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Dolomites | denny__jay

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Moody walk through the czech gorge | tom_juenemann

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25 YA Books for Indigenous Peoples Day

With only 2 exceptions, the books below are written by indigenous authors. (Tree Girl is written by a white American born in Bolivia, but takes place during the Mayan genocide of the 1980s; Golden Kamuy is written by a non-Ainu Japanese, but is one of the few books about this culture) 

For brevity and diversity, I did not include all the North American Native books I found - feel free to post your favorites in the comments! If anyone can suggest more Latin American indigenous stories (which were difficult to find from Latine authors) or especially Hawai’ian native stories (which I couldn’t find any of), please let me know.

Australia

The Things She’s Seen by Amebelin & Ezekiel Kwaymullina The Boy from the Mish by Gary Lonesborough Becoming Kirrali Lewis by Jane Harrison Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch

Canada

The Missing by Melanie Florence Sorrow’s Knot by Erin Bow Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline A Girl Called Echo by Katherena Vermette Surviving the City by Tasha Spillett

Japan - Ainu

Golden Kamuy by Satoru Noda

Latin America

Saints of the Household by Ari Tison Tree Girl by Ben Mikaelsen The Huaca by Marcia Argueta Mickelson Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Lost Dreamer by Lizz Huerta

New Zealand - Maori

The Whale Rider, Witi Ihimaera Falling into Rarohenga by Steph Matuku

United States

Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley Trail of Lighting by Rebecca Roanhorse Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith Rain is Not My Indian Name by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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“Healing is the unlearning of stories you’ve told yourself, about yourself, that destroy your spirit.”

— Rebecca Ray

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Flower Wounds 🌺💉 (How does your garden grow?) 

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Life is tragically short.

Do some lil’ goofy shit that makes you happy.

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“do you remember the first time you were called annoying? how your breath stopped short in your chest the way the light drained from your eyes, though you knew your cheeks were ablaze the way your throat tightened as you tried to form an argument that got lost on your tongue. your eyes never left the floor that day. you were 13. you’re 20 now, and i still see the light fade from your eyes when you talk about your interests for “too long,” apologies littering every other sentence, words trailing off a cliff you haven’t jumped from in 7 years. i could listen to you forever, though i know speaking for more than 3 uninterrupted minutes makes you anxious. all i want you to know is that you deserve to be heard for 3 minutes for 10 minutes for 2 hours forever. there will be people who cannot handle your grace, your beauty, your wisdom, your heart; mostly because they can’t handle their own. but you will never be and have never been “too much.””

— “this started as something completely different, but everything comes back to you, doesn’t it?” - tyler ford (via tylerthelatteboy)

I fucking love this every time I read it.

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