Tânisi, this is a gimmick blog. I'm (mostly) here to goof off. I am a mysterious internet stranger, I don't care what name or pronouns you call me. Except fucking Jeremy.
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I am a random native on the internet. I did not mean for this blog to get popular; I just like gimmick blogs. I do craft and culture educational type things as a job. So I'm busy n shit.
Sometimes people ask me stuff.
I will not answer cultural questions or requests for education for free. Those are what we call "Tobacco Questions". In my culture we bring knowledge keepers tobacco when we ask questions.
It's hard to do that on the internet, so to have a Tobacco Question answered you will need to donate around 5 CAD to an indigenous person's fundraiser here on tumblr or out in the world. "Indigenous" here is meant to explicitly include all Black people. I will regularly reblog fundraisers that need help as well. The point here is to move wealth into Indigenous hands. We don't ask without giving in many of our cultures. But not all. Not naming names. England.
Send me proof of your donation and I will answer your question. I will even answer it nice and gentle style. Yes you may ask anonymously, but I will still need proof.
I will answer as soon as I can, keep in mind I am human and have life etc.
If you send me requests for education or emotional labour for free I will be a big meanie about it.
No stranger on the internet can tell you if you count as Native. Do not send me racial/ethnic identity or blood quantum questions.
I am a mixed race Cree living in so called Canada, I speak from that experience and cannot answer for any other nations.
I hope you learn something and/or shut up
In my culture we tease to show affection. I promise I'm nice I'm just sassy.
Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”
So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”
Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.
Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.
People love natives in such a superficial way. People wanna stand with natives when we’re talking about the trees, and the land. People wanna stand with natives when we talk about philosophies of love and togetherness. But as soon as it’s time to talk about political side of being native. About dismantling a system built on the genocide of our people. About how we need a new system that isn’t built upon capital gain and benefitting white bodies. About putting up a fight. About how the colonial state we reside in is a disgusting imperial plague on this land. Suddenly y’all don’t wanna talk native.
"They spent hundreds of years trying to assimilate my ancestors, trying to create indians like me, who could blend in, but now they don’t want me either. They can’t make up their minds.
They want buckskin and face paint, drumming, songs in languages they can’t understand recorded for them but with English subtitles, of course. They want educated, well spoken, but not too smart. Christian, well behaved, never question. They want to learn the history of the people, but not the ones that are here now, waving signs in their faces, asking them for clean drinking water, asking them why their women are going missing, asking them why their land is being ruined.
They want fantastical stories of Indians that used to roam this land. They want my culture behind glass in a museum.
"There's a difference between those who see themselves merely as a Native descendant, versus those who embrace their Native roots as being a living and integral part of who they are. One who considers themselves only a descendant says things like, "I'm 1/16th (insert random popularized Native Nation title)” or, "My great grandmother was a Cherokee princess."
This statement may or may not be true, but either way its declaration is largely anecdotal, and only acknowledged when it's perceived as beneficial to them, i.e. a job, a scholarship, a new boyfriend's Pocahottie fetish, or as an excuse for why it's ok for them to wear a headdress while half dressed and drunk on Halloween or at a concert, festival, or sporting event.
These folks will go weeks, months or years without considering their Native ancestry and it's certainly not a part of their everyday lives.
That's why they don't care about the tragedy of missing and murdered Indigenous women, treaty rights, or extreme poverty in Native communities.
While not a “full blood” others with mixed ancestry can and do embrace their Native roots and a sense of ownership takes place.
When they see race based mascots or ridiculous Native caricatures, they don't see some remote extinct group being "honored." They see that they personally are being mocked, and know they are not a buckskin pantied sexbot, or a silly redskinned stereotype.
They know Natives are alive, human and real because they are Native. They also understand that the land and water and our ceremonies must be protected, because it is theirs as well as their grandparent's, and children's, and children's children.
They are not just descendants- they are Native. As such they will seek out the truth of their heritage and you will find them thirsting for knowledge about their people, culture, language, and ways. They become part of the whole- from tiospaye to Oyate."
As a queer gnc Aboriginal person, this week is for me and my people. Everyone has to give money to their nearest LGBTQIA+ Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person this week. I don't make the rules, I just raise awareness of them 🤷
Being a crafty person and making a bunch of things often prompts people to ask "oh wow did you make that?" And like, the short answer is: yes I did, but the long answer is: well, no, the pattern isn't mine, but I did choose and buy the fabric/yarn and sewed it together/crocheted it/knitted it myself. I used a reference for that drawing/painting, I didn't come up with it myself. That ceramic piece was insired by a poem and a painting made by different people. What I'm trying to say is, everything I make requires other people to make their own thing first, and then I get inspired by them to do my own thing. So I can't really call anything truly mine, because really it's just a bunch of inspirations and experiences of others (and me) put together by my hands. Does that answer your question
also my sister is beading earrings this summer, and has these shoulder dusters for sale!! i’ll be helping them plug their earrings, bc whew the algorithm 😮💨
their beading ig page is below:
798 Followers, 373 Following, 150 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Gizheb (@sleepymakwabeads)
Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?
Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.
I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.
The western province will hold a vote in October on whether Alberta should remain in Canada or move ahead with holding a binding separation
Prime Minister Mark Carney has called the upcoming Alberta referendum on separation from Canada a "dangerous bluff", comparing it to the Brexit vote that saw the UK leave the European Union.
Carney, who led the Bank of England during Brexit, said that 10 years on from the referendum the UK was "trying to undo what people didn't think they were voting for, but what they ended up having".
He also cautioned against voting in favour of a separation vote as a way to strengthen Alberta's negotiating position with Ottawa, saying it may bring unintended consequences.
Albertans will decide 19 October whether they want to remain part of Canada or hold a binding vote on separation at a later date.
A panel of residential school survivors provided witness testimony on Tuesday to the Permanent Peoples Tribunal, an international independen
WARNING: This story contains details of experiences at residential schools (and SA if you click read more).
Roberta Hill remembers being sent to the Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School in Brantford, Ont., when she was six years old.
Although she attended with five of her siblings, including her youngest sister, they were separated upon arrival.
"I never saw her again for years after," Hill said.
"She was my favourite little sister. So that was the start of the separation and the trauma."
Hill, who is from Six Nations of the Grand River near Hamilton, was part of a group of residential school survivors who gave witness testimony to the Permanent Peoples Tribunal in Montreal on Tuesday.
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A national 24-hour Indian Residential School Crisis Line is available at 1-866-925-4419 for emotional and crisis referral services for survivors and those affected.
Mental health counseling and crisis support are also available 24 hours a day, seven days a week through the Hope for Wellness hotline at 1-855-242-3310 or by online chat .
and like only white people use the term 'outback' to begin with. Usually it's corporations trying to sell fishing gear and 4WDs.
Where I'm from it's usually 'out bush' (somewhere literally in the bush usually very close to where the speaker lives) or the name of a land or community. Like the framing of a portion of australia as far away and remote (and empty) plays into the colonisation. These places have names. everywhere you go in australia its a named country, with its own people and language.
Is it okay for nonblack people to casually say the n word?
Yes
No
No, but- (nuance)
Voting ended onMay 25
It seems we are not all on the same page about this, and I would genuinely like to know why. I thought the answer was obvious, but mayhaps we didn't all grow up with that understanding.
just found out that there is a sudanfunds website! like gazafunds, it is a compilation of funds for people facing genocide
edit: i've added the correct link to this version of the post. if at all possible, please try to reblog this version or direct back to it. for some reason, the original sudanfunds link i put is now defunct. the correct site is still called sudanfunds and is now back up, and that's what is now on this version of the post. hope this makes sense
A teen from Nova Scotia, Joy Akinkunmi, made a documentary about Africville. She hopes her film will be shared in schools across Canada.
Good on Joy for making this documentary, I may check it out. It's about Africville which is/was Halifax's black community that was absolutely devastated in the explosion of 1917. Their community was completely leveled while the rich up on the hill suffered only minor structural damages if that.
According to the article the community survived up until the 1960s.
Don't tag anything I post with "compassion fatigue".
If you don't feel like caring or think it's "too hard" to, just don't engage with my material at all. You have that option; no one will ever know. But don't ever suggest that it's "exhausting" to have to learn about antiblackness and racism, especially if you're not the one living it. Just don't say anything.
it would be so funny (if it didn't suck) how much the term "white passing" is now just a term used by mostly white people as shorthand for one or more of the following: 1) "you, person of colour, have challenged assumptions i had about race and i don't like that so i am going to attempt to invalidate your point by erasing your identity" OR 2) "I am a white person who doesn't interact with people of colour therefore i have no idea what a person of colour looks like" OR 3) "i think white passing just means having white/light skin and you have white/light skin therefore you are white passing" OR 4) "you are not performing your culture in a way that is obvious or legible to me, a stranger, therefore i assumed you were white because that is more comfortable for me" and the most insanity-inducing part of all this is that if you are levelling the label of "white passing" at someone in this way then they're not white passing. if someone is passing for white then you would not clock them as doing so, by definition. passing for white is a verb, not a noun. it really annoys me, deeply actually, that these terms Black people and people of colour coined to describe things culturally specific within our own communities, then got bastardised by white people to the point that these culturally specific terms essentially become derogatory and used to discredit us.
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