Indigenous Women Rising

This blog was created in response to a lack of visibility of Indigenous women, specifically those from the Americas,Canada as well as Australia. Indigenous women come in many shapes and colors and should be represented as such. LGBTQ are always welcome.

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photographs by Luis Marden

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Alcohol, coffee, tea, refined sugar, pornography, videogames, most mass media, and fast food

Cripple your mind.

Drink water, sleep enough, eat fruits and not cake, empower yourself, read books, go for a walk, eat healthy 

Set your mind free. Don’t be a puppet. 

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MK Ultra glitches and other strange behaviours.

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photographs by Luis Marden

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TEAM USA ATHLETE, INDIGENOUS FEMALE BOXER, FROM ALBUQUERQUE NEW MEXICO. SHARAHYA MOREU.

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Jaque Fragua Genuine Stolen Lands Tee -Black — Orenda Tribe

Indigenous Design, Limited Edition Tee by native artist Jaque Fragua. This is the GENUINE STOLEN LAND tee. The graphic is based on the Cham

Let’s use everyday we have to detach ourselves from the oppressive capitalist system. Let’s remember and strive to make our indigenous ideology the norm. Protect your body, eat healthy, meditate, exercise, and also clothe yourself with messeges and reminders that Amerikkk is not the land of the free , Amerikkka is the land of the fucked up airheads who run our country. Do not take part in their agenda. Remind them and yourself that this land is yours/ours and it will always be. We are not illegal, we have every right to be anywhere we want to be on this continent. Fuck the western lifestyle.

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“I hope you find yourself out there. I hope you figure out your heart. I hope you figure out your mind. I hope you learn how to be kind to yourself. How to embrace the journey you are on. I hope you learn to be proud of the person you are becoming. I hope you learn to be proud of where you are - even if it isn’t exactly where you want to be.”

— Bianca Sparacino (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

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Carlotta Cardana The Red Road: Picturing Modern Native American Indigenous Identity    

*signal boost for indigenous solidarity #nodapl  see more details on how to help here

support an Indigenous photographer here, working hard to document the Great Sioux Nation’s protests in North Dakota. 

Photo #2: Ula and Tim Tyler. This Eastern Shoshone couple have been married for 54 years and experienced reservation life before there was electricity or running water.

Photo #4: Ishkoten Dougi. Ishkoten is an artist from the Isleta Pueblo Indian Reservation in New Mexico. He is portrayed in his studio, surrounded by his artwork that represents some of the atrocities inflicted on Native Americans.

Photo #5: Evereta and her Mustang. When Evereta Thinn, 30, entered college as the only Native American in her English 101 class, it was at that moment she realized that she needed to speak up and not be that stereotypical “shy” Indian who keeps to herself. She works as an administrator at the school district on the Navajo Nation and aspires to start a language and cultural immersion school for the Diné (Navajo) people.

Photo #8: Fast Eddie (left), a pow wow dancer, is pictured with social media celebrity, Two Braids.

Photo #10:   Jarrod after the rodeo. Jarrod Ferris, Eastern Shoshone and Arapaho from the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, has been bull riding since age 6. He hopes to one day win the title as world champion so that he can buy his mom a new house.

*Photo #13: Crisosto Apache, from the Mescalero Apache tribe of New Mexico, is an activist for LGBT rights in the Native community. He explains that there is no word for “gay” in any Native American language, but is referred to as being “two spirited.”

Photo #14: Maka in his classroom. After traveling the world and teaching English in Japan, Maka Clifford, from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, realized his calling was going back to the Reservation to teach his own people and inspire young kids to explore life off the reservation.

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High resolution 18″ X 24″ poster of an Apsáalooke badé, Osh-Tisch (1854-1929, on the left), and their wife photographed in 1877. “Decolonize Your Luvvv” honors Indigenous Queer & Trans cultures that were respected and honored prior to European-led Genocide, Heteropatriarchy, Religion, & Colonization. The photograph shows Osh-Tisch (Apsáalooke translation: “Finds Them and Kills Them”), and their wife in 1877. During the time period the photograph was taken, Osh-Tisch was one of the last remaining Apsáalooke badés (which would be the Western equivalent on a Trans person), and was respected and accepted within traditional Apsáalooke culture. In spite of being married to a woman, as a means to maintain balance in Apsáalooke society, Osh-Tisch was not prevented from living their life out romantically with other men. In background of the photograph is an inserted tile image of Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera taken at the Christopher Street Liberation Day, Gay Pride Parade, NYC. June 24, 1973. Johnson & Rivera were veterans of the Stonewall Rebellion, founders of S.T.A.R. (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries), and are honored as role models for contemporary Queer/Trans rights movements. As with all our posters, feel liberated to print out, wheatpaste, repost/regram, and disseminate at will! R.I.S.E.: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment https://burymyart.tumblr.com https://facebook.com/RISEindigenous Support @riseindigenous : http://etsy.com/shop/demiandineyazhi http://paypal.me/RISEindigenous

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“NDN Grrrl!,” Teri Greeves (Kiowa), 2011.

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this has been a psa

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