[guerrillatech]

[americasgreatoutdoors]

Happy first week of spring! Photo of a bear in Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge by Lisa Hupp (USFWS)

[holoske]

Medicine is Power

Drawn for the Dance for Mother Earth Powwow, 2019 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

[rodrickheffeley]

[rodrickheffeley]

i think this post makes more sense now than ever

[gogomrbrown]

I learned in a Latin Studies class (with a chill white dude professor) that when the Europeans first saw Aztec cities they were stunned by the grid. The Aztecs had city planning and that there was no rational lay out to European cities at the time. No organization.

[punkrockradio]

When the Spanish first arrived in Tenochtitlan (now downtown mexico city) they thought they were dreaming. They had arrived from incredibly unsanitary medieval Europe to a city five times the size of that century’s london with a working sewage system, artificial “floating gardens” (chinampas), a grid system, and aqueducts providing fresh water. Which wasn’t even for drinking! Water from the aqueducts was used for washing and bathing- they preferred using nearby mountain springs for drinking. Hygiene was a huge part if their culture, most people bathed twice a day while the king bathed at least four times a day. Located on an island in the middle of a lake, they used advanced causeways to allow access to the mainland that could be cut off to let canoes through or to defend the city. The Spanish saw their buildings and towers and thought they were rising out of the water. The city was one of the most advanced societies at the time.

Anyone who thinks that Native Americans were the savages instead of the filthy, disease ridden colonizers who appeared on their land is a damn fool.

[robotsandfrippary]

They’ve also recently discovered a lost Native American city in Kansas called Etzanoa It rivals the size of Cahokia, which was very large as well.

[fullmetalquest-deactivated20211]

Makes me happy to see people learn about the culture of my country :D

[fieldbears]

Also, please remember that the idea of a nomadic or semi-nomadic culture being “less intelligent”, “less civilized” (and please unpack that word) was invented by people who wanted to make a graph where they were on the top.

Societies that functioned without 1) staying exclusively in one location or 2) having to make complicated, difficult-to-construct tools to go about their daily lives… were not somehow less valid than others.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

This is why I fucking hate it when Europeans make jokes about how they have “more history” than the Americas. “This church is older than your country hahaha.” Actually, it’s older than the country you put there, massacring millions in the process, but go off, I guess. 

[inconsolablelittlewitch]

I tried to catch a door before it slammed.

Hot tip: don’t do that.

[kabbalicgay]

In some Native languages the term for plants translates to ‘those who take care of us.’”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer, “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants” (2013)

[sofarawayy-deactivated20210922]

Via

Show your solidarity on May 3rd.

[oldfilmsflicker]

Birders, 2019 (dir. Otilia Portillo Padua)

[nizhomie]

ATTN NON-NATIVES: STOP COMING ONTO OUR RESERVATIONS TO OUR GROCERY STORES TO STOCK UP. WE ALREADY HAVE LIMITED SUPPLIES FOR OUR OWN COMMUNITIES AND LOTS OF PEOPLE DON'T HAVE THE MEANS TO TRAVEL OUT AS IS

[strong-resilient-indigenous]

Rez Natives deserve basic amenities

Rez Natives deserve basic amenities

Rez Natives deserve basic amenities

REZ NATIVES DESERVE BASIC AMENITIES

REZ

NATIVES

DESERVE

BASIC

AMENITIES

[backroad-song]

[sedraboc]

[sunflorally]

[inconsolablelittlewitch]

What do you do when your boyfriend turns into a huge conspiracy theorist and you can’t even talk anymore without the conversation turning into an arguement that usually ends with him yelling something like “THATS WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK”

asking for a friend

[inconsolablelittlewitch]

12 years ago today my dad died. I want to trauma dump and tell you why today is so hard but I’m not going to do that.

Instead I’m here to tell you that I’m 415 days alcohol free and I’m really proud of myself.

[kropotkindersurprise]

December 15 2019 - The UFC’s biggest MAGA piece of shit (other than president Dana White) Colby Covington just had a title fight against Nigerian immigrant champion Kamaru Usman. During the fight Colby got his jaw broken, got knocked out in the last round and then proceeded to literally run away during the champ’s victory announcement. [video]/[video]/[video]

[kropotkindersurprise]

“This fight is greater than me just beating up a guy that’s talking a lot of shit. This fight means a lot to me, so when I get a chance to put my hands on this guy let’s just know it’s the wrath of every single immigrant that has stepped foot in this country.” - Kamaru Usman

[bruhmanfromthefifflo-deactivate]

Happy Black History Month

[seaside-sadnesss]

That last picture is like a beautiful renaissance painting