The Osage Indian Fairy

Havae. This is a blog about the Osage/Wahzhazhe people as well as any other Native American tribe I start to learn about. I am Osage Native American and would like to bring to light my heritage and the importance of America's indigenous people. I'll have tales and stories and prayers and many more here. I hope you enjoy. My main blog is at lilacwaterlilly.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Indigenous people in Attawapiskat cannot drink their water or bathe themselves, and haven’t been able to for weeks. They called a state of emergency.

What is Justin Trudeau’s response?

1 litre per day of water for kids under 2 years old. 1.5 litres per elder. The Tribal council must pay for this water in advance before they can be reimbursed next month.

This is shameful.

https://twitter.com/CharlieAngusNDP/status/1152558561496616961

Tagging: @abpoli @politicsofcanada @onpoli @torontopoli @ontarionewsnow

[awesomehawks]

Is there anything we tumblr readers can do to help?

[allthecanadianpolitics]

1. If you’re not Canadian just sharing this post and following this blog will help.

Also follow these other Canadian Politics blogs and share their posts too:

@onpoli @torontopoli @ontarionewsnow @abpoli @nspoli @politicsofcanada @nlpolitics @qcnews @pnwpolitic @bcpoli

2. If you are Canadian, there is a Federal Election in October. Vote for NDP. They’re the only party who has given a damn about what is going on in Attawapiskat. As far as I can tell the NDP is the only party to even visit Attawapiskat this month. Volunteer and donate too.

3. If you are Canadian, write to the PM, Minister of Indigenous Affairs and your member of Parliament and demand that they help this community. Find your MP here:

https://www.ourcommons.ca/Parliamentarians/en/members

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

Here’s your regular reminder that just because he produces pseudo feminist sound bites, doesn’t mean our prime minister isn’t a steaming pile of human excrement. Vote NDP.

[gayearthcandies]

In case y'all are wondering who is running for Prime Minister in the NDP group, his name is Jagmeet Singh.

He

-supports a progressive tax system

-supports eliminating several tax deductions available to the highest-income earners and redirect the money to low-income seniors, workers and disabled Canadians

-supports a $15/hour minimum wage

-supports a universal pharmacare system (our free healthcare is being challenged right now in ontario under doug ford who wants to create premium healthcare for the rich)

-is a strong advocate for equality amongst poc and lgbt groups

-wants to put a federal ban on carding as it is a systematic form of racism

-wants to ban handguns in individual cities should a crisis occur (yes they are legal here)

-believes the RCMP should complete LGBTQI2S+ competency training" to ensure interactions with law enforcement are not stigmatizing or traumatizing.

-supports more inclusive shelter and transitional housing spaces for lgbt kids

-advocates for Health Canada conducting research on the health care needs and experiences of LGBTQ patients and advocates for policy changes allowing people to self-declare their gender.

-supports immediately repealing the de facto BAN ON BLOOD, TISSUE AND ORGAN DONATION by men who have sex with men and trans women who have sex with men.

-wants to reduce the carbon emissions levels of Canada to 30% of 2005 levels by 2025

-supports creating more accountability in climate change policy by creating an independent officer of parliament mandated to report on interim progress on emission reductions

-supports decriminalizing possession of all drugs and treating drug use as a medical issue rather than a criminal issue

-advocates for free contraceptives for women

-FIRED a man in his party who was charged with sexual assault allegations after he would not complete a rehabilitation program in sensitivity training

And there is SO MUCH MORE

Listen y'all I don’t love getting political on here but honest to god vote in your riding for your NDP candidate. People are scared to vote for them because of the cuts in work hours they instituted last time they were in office but that was FIFTEEN years ago under a different leader.

If a conservative leader is voted in that gives so much power to federal leaders like premier doug ford who mind you

-cut funds to OSAP a grant and loan system based in ontario to help university students of low income families pay for their education (last year I received enough money to almost pay my full tuition, this year I am receiving loans that dont even cover half of my school year. He has also erased the 6 month grace period to pay them back

-He has allowed graphic anti abortion billboards to be posted in Toronto (I will not be posting a picture but if you are curious there are pictures circulating. It has severely affected many women particularly those who have suffered from miscarrages)

-he has eliminated an ontario arts council which was established under the Indigenous Culture fund

-proposed ending the transition child benefit which helps low income families on welfare feed and clothe their kids

-CUT 70% OF PROVINCIAL FUNDING TO THE ANISHINABEK FISHERIES RESOURCE CENTER

-cut annual funding on stem cell research

-Cut: An unclear amount of funding from violence against women shelter services

-increased class sizes of elementary, middle and high schools (up to 40 kids I believe) and is making high school kids retain ONLINE credits OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL HOURS ON TOP OF HOMEWORK AND BANNING ELECTRONICS IN SCHOOLS

and that’s just the tip of the iceberg I’m sure I’m missing a bunch of information

To find out who the NDP candidate is in your riding (because yes if you’re not Canadian or have not voted before Canadian’s vote for the MP candidate in their area not for the Prime Minister themselves and whichever group has the most people voted in from a.certain group dictates who the Prime Minster will be) you can go to this website

https://www.ndp.ca/your-riding

and learn more about the MP in your area.

Please my fellow Canadians our election is held this year on OCTOBER 21ST YET NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT IT. Not voting will not solve our problems. VOTE and please consider voting for you NDP candidate.

[toesockrocks]

I never thought we would turn into the states

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Then you haven’t been paying attention at all to Indigenous people.

These issues are not new. Canada has been ignoring and mistreating Indigenous communities like Attawapiskat for centuries.

Canada is a nation built on colonialism and that colonialism at no point has actually stopped.

[khangi]

One of the most interesting things I’ve noticed about non-natives appropriating our stuff is they never want anything but sage, smudging, and feathers.

Native people will share: our food, our music, our dancing, our art.

But no one is interested in those. They don’t CARE about our food and music. We never see those things in popular culture. Non-natives just want to take our religious items, because they feel entitled to the things people don’t want to share.

[accidental-wedgie-deactivated20]

A Tribe Called Red (techno Native beats):

Taboo #noDAPL protest music (Native Hip Hop):

Supaman (Prayer loop song, Rap)

Check em out. Add on. Support Native Artists. Spread the love y'all

[khangi]

Good musical options. 🙌🏼

[graffiti-bi]

Snotty nose rez kids (hip hop) + Drezus (rap)

Blackfoot (rock)

Blackfire (punk/rock)

[lesbianladyeboshi]

Silla+Rise (Throat singing blended with spacey electro beats)

Kelly Fraser (Pop)

T-Rhyme (Hip Hop)

Piqsiq (Throat Singing Electro)

Tanya Tagaq (Avant Guard, Punk, throat singer)

Iskwè (Pop/Electronic)

And the iconic Buffy Sainte Marie (Folk/Rock/Electronic)

[theauspolchronicles]

One Nation’s newest idea to force Indigenous Australians to be DNA tested to “prove” their heritage before they can have welfare is just another in a long line of racist and demeaning tactics to police and belittle the lives of Indigenous people. Not only is it scientifically difficult to determine if someone is “genetically Aboriginal” but it’s a pointless expense that is designed to humiliate those in a vulnerable position. It’s classist and racist to find costly ways to cut people off welfare. This is as ridiculous as when Pauline Hanson made unfounded claims that we shouldn’t given Indigenous Australians welfare because their ancestors were cannibals (they weren’t). One Nation is the party of baseless drivel and creates sensationalist policy ideas that have no hope of passing simply to lure in the vote of stupid racists who feel some kind of superiority hating on minorities. Fuck One Nation and fuck their racist bullshit.

[mialuka]

Origin Story / Creation Story

𐓏𐒰𐒼𐓂͘𐓈𐒰 (Wah-kon-da), the mystery force of the universe, sent the Osage down from the sky to be the caretakers of Earth which they called the Sacred One. They were the children of Grandfather Sun and, at that time, they were called the Little Ones.

When the Little Ones descended from the sky lodge they came down in three groups. The first group was the People of the Waters, the 𐓏𐒰𐓓𐒰𐓓𐒷 (Wah-zha-zhe); next was the People of the Sky, the 𐓊𐒻𐓓𐓂 (Tzi-sho); and then came the People of the Land, the 𐒹𐒳͘𐒼𐒰 (Hunkah).

They named the animals, fish, trees, plants, birds, and also themselves. They named themselves 𐓁𐒻 𐓂𐒼𐒰𐓇𐒼𐒰͘ (Ni-U-Ko’n-Ska) which means Children of the Middle Waters.

The 𐓁𐒻 𐓂𐒼𐒰𐓇𐒼𐒰͘ (Ni-U-Ko’n-Ska) were tasked to find the Isolated Earth Peoples who were indigenous to the earth. As they set out, the 𐓏𐒰𐓓𐒰𐓓𐒷 (Wah-zha-zhe) led and were followed by the 𐓊𐒻𐓓𐓂 (Tzi-sho) and the 𐒹𐒰͘𐒼𐒰 (Hunka) groups.

One day, they came upon a village that was in 𐒼𐒰𐓁𐒻𐓍𐒷 (Ga-ni-tha or chaos), the 𐓊𐒻𐓓𐓂 (Tzi-sho) and 𐒹𐒳͘𐒼𐒰 (Hunka) turned away in disgust because they saw death, decay, disease, and waste in the village. This village was what Earth would be like without the influence from the sky.

The Chief of the Isolated Earth people met with the Chief of the 𐓏𐒰𐓓𐒰𐓓𐒷 (Wah-zha-zhe). It was then decided that the Isolated Earth People would leave their village and start a new life that was guided by the people from the sky who knew other things besides death and chaos.

The four groups then became one tribe. They divided themselves into two divisions called the 𐒹𐒳͘𐒼𐒰 (Hunkah) – the Earth people who represented land and water and the 𐓊𐒻𐓓𐓂 (Tzi-sho) who were the Sky people. This tribe would fully represent the universe that was made up of sky and earth and land and water.

[mialuka]

how do you pronounce Osage? i have a guess, oh-SAWH-zjay but

If you say it American it’s “Oh-sage” but the real prononciation is “Wah-Zha-Zhe”

[cyndigenous-deactivated20210204]

Anti-Indigenous things to quit saying/doing:

- Stop saying “off the reservation”. It’s a reference to the pass system that was in place restricting Native people from leaving without permission.

- Stop making “1/16th”, “great-great grandmother”, etc. jokes. All of these reference blood quantum, a system designed to “breed out the Natives”. Indigeneity isn’t defined by a percentage, fraction, etc. Quit policing Indigenous identities and quit joking about genocidal tactics.

- Stop calling things your “spirit animal”. You don’t have one. Only Indigenous people from specific nations have spirit animals.

- Stop making dreamcatchers. They are sacred Anishinaabe culture and are not cute trinkets, crafts, etc. Buy them from Anishinaabe artists.

- Stop buying those little cloth “teepees” for your kids/pets/whatever. Also stuff with tipi prints

- Quit referring to your “tribe”. Enough with the “bride tribe” nonsense and all the rest. Stop trivializing tribal affiliations.

- Don’t wear “war paint”. Don’t put a feather in your hair. Don’t dress up as Native people or characters.

- Stop referring to your meetings/side discussions/parties as a “pow wow”.

- Stop supporting sports teams that use racist terms and logos and caricatures of Indigenous people.

- Stop using white sage. It is sacred and overharvested. There are lots of types of sage you can use instead.

- Stop “smudging”. Smoke cleansing exists in many forms in many cultures, use that. Non-Natives can’t smudge.

- Stop tokenizing your Native friends, classmates, in-laws, half siblings, etc.

Please add more!

[wiisagi-maiingan]

- Stop treating Native spirits as generic monsters or cryptids, especially w*ndigoag and sk*nwalkers.

- Stop using imagery of skulls in Plains headdresses, especially as tattoos. This shouldn’t need to be explained.

[antiracistfeministanarchy]

-stop sexualizing Native Americans

-stop calling makeup “war paint”

-stop calling meetings or ted talks “pow-wows”

-never use the word “Squaw”

- stop saying someone angry is on the “war path”

-stop with the mascots and stop “war hooping” (or Atlanta Braves tomahawk motions also)

[zanabism-deactivated20200529]

when you support outlawing Indigenous people’s hunting practices you are LITERALLY promoting their starvation. Indigenous communities in the Arctic have to suffer from food deserts and 174963846% increase in food costs that no white vegan will ever have to face. So please. let them eat lmao.

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Yes!!! This is so important to me as a topic in my field!!! Maintaining, supporting, and especially restoring indigenous peoples’ right to hunting is a topic of the utmost importance.

People want to cry “even the populations of concern??” but the fact is they were almost never of concern until colonizers started overhunting. The decline of the polar bear in North America (and in most of its range) is a perfect example of how in very little time, white colonizers decimated a healthy population of animals that indigenous people had been responsibly surviving on for hundreds and often thousands of years.

It doesn’t just stop at us white people letting indigenous people hunt for subsistence though. It’s extremely important that we ask for and use indigenous knowledge and ideas when we create hunting laws and treaties. We need to hand over the power.

Again, the international agreement on polar bears is a good example of indigenous hunting traditions and knowledge being used to actually make informed decisions on hunting regulations.

I’m not trying to lecture or inform OP, but to make sure white people reading this understand how important it is that moving forward, indigenous communities are included in hunting regulations and treaties, because it is not their fault their survival has been threatened by colonial overhunting, and often they have vital knowledge about species range, migration, populations, and behaviors that non-native biologists haven’t figured out yet.

Here is a read on why the largely held white idea on “saving the animals” (especially seals that advocacy groups love to claim indigenous people club constantly, all the time) is a racist, misinformed, tunnel-vision view of a much larger picture made of way bigger problems:

http://www.ppehlab.org/blogposts/2017/3/18/1y0q4mmk9vzjfe135r5cbdv0pljwox

I say it a lot, but it deserves repeating:

Always always always: wildlife conservation efforts without the consideration and voices of indigenous people is a conservation effort without a soul.

[star-anise]

Honestly the people I know who care the MOST about the wellbeing of animals and the environment are the people who are serious, experienced, non-recreational hunters. 

And not just when it’s hunting for food. The Indigenous fur trappers up here care way the fuck more about the wild species they trap than any of the white vegans who try to ban them from earning a living. Just because it’s a White tradition to disrespect the animals you kill and hunt them to extinction, doesn’t mean that’s how everybody does it.

[systlin]

My sister works with some tribes in the Pacific Northwest because they know MORE about the habits and health of the local wildlife than anyone else, including the researchers (like my sister). 

She’s a big proponent of just staying the hell out of indigenous people’s hunting practices, because “It was just fine until we came along and fucked it all up.” 

[diaryofandnwoman]

[postingwhileblack]

Evil

[mialuka]

http://osagenews.org/en/article/2019/01/07/second-osage-language-app-sonny-goes-school-now-available/

Learn Osage though a fun new app!!

[fanxsaltlake]

Captain Native America and Bucky Winter Warrior at Salt Lake Comic Con 2015

[rainnecassidy]

OMGGGGGGGGGGGG

[knitmeapony]

AAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUGH THE CUTEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN

[saphire-dance]

What beautiful babies

[findingfeather]

This is THE BEST THING EVER. 

[tenetke]

i haven’t seen anything on my dash about it so

today is the anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre (Dec 29, 1890). The United States in cold blood murdered Lakota men, women, and children. Slaughtered them and have the nerve to call it a “battle” as if there was any fighting done in return. 

Today native people still struggle against the effects of cultural and physical genocide. Our voices are often smothered by others but we are still strong. And we never forget. 

The Truth About the Wounded Knee Massacre (IndianCountryToday)

Lakota accounts of the Massacre at Wounded Knee (PBS)

There are also many native people posting memorials and thoughts on Twitter. 

[sugarmoonaki]

Aanii everyone.

For the past few days, my mom has been travelling from home and our old home (1.5 hours away) to go to check on my mooshum (grandpa in Cree). His leg ulcer became infected. My mom took him to the emergency where they sent him home promising my mom he would get IV antiobiotics (for reasons he can’t take oral medication) and staying there the overnight.

When it finally hit me, I started to sob. My uncle cian who had schizophrenia was sent home 4 times and turned away from his doctor before he passed away from medication complications. My dad spent over a year in the hospital with severe health problems and they tried turning him away in the emergency.. Thankfully, my cousins and I helped my dad stay the night. I stayed by his side…

They sent my mooshum home and over the course of that time… his fever had gotten worse, he has septicaemia and he has signs of gangrene. Plus they didn’t “get the order” to send a nurse to change his bandages. My mom finally got him back into the hospital and spoke to the staff.

All the native men in my life have been in critical condition or have passed away due to neglect and mistreatment.

The asked amount will help my mom pay for travel expenses to be by my mooshum’s side and to help my mooshum post-care.

https://www.gofundme.com/helping-my-mooshum-grandpa-in-cree

Click here to support Helping my Mooshum (grandpa in Cree) organized by Hailey August Sutherland

Aanii everyone,  For the past few days, my mom has been travelling from home and our old home (1.5 hours away) to go to check on my mooshu

Meegwetch. Keep my mooshum in your prayers.

[profeminist]

“Introducing the 2018-2019 Miss Indian World is Taylor Susan of the White Mountain Apache/Walker River Paiute from White River, Arizona.” 

 Photo by: Derek Mathews

Source

[saaadgirl]

My blog is far from a political one but I read this today and as a proud Indigenous woman trying to get on a good path in life it’s shit like this, the countless numbers of murders/assaults/rapes /disappearances, and continued racism that’s making me more and more afraid to represent my culture even in this day and age. I’ve lost people close to me who couldn’t take it anymore and there’s simply not enough recognition out there for what continues to happen to my people years after my ancestors fought their own battles. Shouldn’t have to be afraid anymore and yet??

[stupidfroot]

[doomtribble73]

'They're killing us': world's most endangered tribe cries for help

Logging companies keen to exploit Brazil's rainforest have been accused by human rights organisations of using gunmen to wipe out the Awá,

“Logging companies keen to exploit Brazil’s rainforest have been accused by human rights organisations of using gunmen to wipe out the Awá, a tribe of just 355.”

[serdemetepec-deactivated2019090]

PLEASE DONT IGNORE THIS