native americans doing stuff

native americans. doing stuff. We are a modern people, not just your romantic antiquated stereotypes. Here is a blog dedicated to all the things that modern, real Native Americans do.

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Really want to sport some Indigenous threads without buying from Forever 21 and being an appropriative asshole? Here’s a masterpost of wonderful Native owned businesses with descriptions for your shopping this holiday season and beyond. 

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

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OMGGGGGGGGGGGG

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AAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUGH THE CUTEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN

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What beautiful babies

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Tweet: Sacred Lands of #Indigenous Amazonian Munduruku To Be Flooded By Dam http://bit.ly/1JW6Gcb #Brazil #Fracking

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Yes.

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This amazing woven basket piece is at the Phoenix Heard Museum.

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How Cool is that! #NDN #NativeAmerican #Art (at Kewadin Casinos Hotel & Convention Center)

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designs by Warrior Status (Lakota)—featuring parfleche purses & luggage, belts, necklaces, & earrings, with original apparel & bone pipe bracelets

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Indian children make up 13.5 percent of the total child population of South Dakota, but make up at least 54 percent of the foster care population. Help end the illegal kidnappings of Lakota Children and sign the petition: lakotalaw.org/action

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Please help us make Lakota-run foster care a reality by donating to bring the Lakota children home: lakotalaw.org/donate-new As of July 2011, 87 percent of Native American children who had been removed from their homes resided in non-native foster care. Meanwhile, 13-28 licensed Lakota foster homes sat empty. This is only one of many occurrences wherein South Dakota’s social service agencies failed to preferentially place Indian children with family or tribe. Pursuant to the mandates of ICWA, South Dakota’s first legal responsibility is to place any Indian child taken from her or his parents with that child’s “closest Indian family relative.” Only after every available active effort to place an Indian child with an Indian family member, fellow tribal member or other Indian tribal family with no success is it lawfully allowed to begin an effort to place the an Indian child with a non-Native foster family or in a state-contracted social care facility. However, various financial incentives operate to directly disincentivize compliance with the inherent duty of the state to uphold ICWA and to preserve American-Indian families. The only permanent solution to this illegal taking of Lakota children from their families and communities is to create a foster care run by Lakota, for Lakota. Please help us realize our goals by becoming a member: lakotalaw.org/donate-new

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Aboriginal adoptees sue Ottawa for loss of culture, trauma

Aboriginals who were adopted into white families during the so-called ‘60s Scoop are suing the federal government for their loss of culture and emotional trauma. Almost 1,200 adoptees have filed a class-action lawsuit in Saskatchewan seeking compensation from Ottawa for “cultural genocide.” From the 1960s to the 1980s, thousands of aboriginal children were taken from their homes by child-welfare services and placed with non-aboriginal families, some in the United States. Many consider the adoptions as an extension of residential schools, which aimed to “take the Indian out of the child.” David Chartrand, who joined the lawsuit, was taken from his Manitoba family at the age of 5 and moved to Minnesota. “They wanted maids, butlers. They wanted slavery and to do it legally. We just fit that criteria,” said the 52-year-old Metis man. “I was made to clean the house, be their slave, be the punching bag.”

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By nsrgnts

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This Native Youth group is bringing advocacy to get the Redmen mascot in Sisseton South Dakota changed. Like and follow to show them your support!  https://twitter.com/indigenous247 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Damakota-Youth-Group/766457286768634

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Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits Powwow 2015 highlights

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Sing Our Rivers Red Murdered And Missing Indigenous Women 

Sing Our Rivers Red is an effort in the U.S. to bring awareness to murdered and missing in Canada. 

Exhibit has exactly 1,181 earrings - each one symbolizing a victim. 

At last count they had received 3,406 earrings from over 400 people, organizations, and entities donated from 45 states in the US, 6 provinces in Canada, Scotland and the UK.

They plan to make more than 1 traveling exhibit. 

The map shows red pins where people have donated from and letters line the wall. 

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She’s from Hopi so it makes me really happy to see Puebloan representation at the Federal level. x. 

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Rosanna Deerchild. I shot this prior to the RCMP revising the number MMIW from 600 to 1186