Heritage & Fitness

A blog about Fitness, Bodybuilding and reclaiming my Native heritage| 47 | Medical Lab Tech/Gym Rat | PSN: DancesW/Monsters

[hydro-homies]

Important to remember

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[quasi-normalcy]

[owlgams]

God I hate the rich

[marvelbun]

OK BUT WHY DOES HIS REFLECTION LOOK LIKE LOKI

[projectprotectloki]

Well, I guess that’s worth a look.

[queencfthestars]

Well then.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

“Cultural appropriation is not simply the act of taking something away from a people, it is also using something in a way that is inappropriate, disrespectful, or distorted. How easy it is for a well-meaning outsider to interpret what he has seen and experienced, and in the process, misrepresent the knowledge and worldview of Indigenous people. How easy it is to study a ceremony, story, or area of knowledge out of its context, employing Western critical paradigms and values. In doing so one creates a profound distortion of its original meaning. In this way, after five hundred years of misunderstanding, the First People continue to suffer the denigration of their most sacred practices and the disruption of their ways of life.”

Blackfoot Physics, by F. David Peat.

[animations-daily]

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)

bonus:

[cctinsleybaxter]

Just to remind everyone there’s a character in Twilight who’s native, living on a reservation, and is the leader of a pack of ‘noble werewolves.’ At one point in a blind rage he turns into a wolf and mutilates his wife. They remain married and this serves as a lesson that we can hurt the ones we love.

First Nations women are physically abused at disproportionately high rates in the United States. Where in hell did any editor get off in allowing this to be a core character and a core scene in a YA book.

[superheroesincolor]

Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World) (2018)

While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters.

Maggie Hoskie is a Dinétah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last best hope. But what Maggie uncovers about the monster is much more terrifying than anything she could imagine.

Maggie reluctantly enlists the aid of Kai Arviso, an unconventional medicine man, and together they travel the rez, unraveling clues from ancient legends, trading favors with tricksters, and battling dark witchcraft in a patchwork world of deteriorating technology.

As Maggie discovers the truth behind the killings, she will have to confront her past if she wants to survive.

Welcome to the Sixth World.

by William Jones

Get it  now here

Rebecca Roanhorse is speculative fiction writer and Nebula, Hugo, and Sturgeon Award Finalist. She is also a 2017 Campbell Award Finalist for Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy writer. Her novel Trail of Lightning is the first book in the Sixth World series, followed by Storm of Locusts in 2019. She lives in northern New Mexico with her husband, daughter, and pug. Find more at RebeccaRoanhorse.com and follow her on Twitter at @RoanhorseBex.

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[wiisagi-maiingan]

Unpopular opinion but even if indigenous communities had 100% access to other food sources, they should still be able to continue with their traditional and sustainable hunting practices.

Indigenous people shouldn’t be expected to abandon their cultures’ traditions just because outsiders have decided that those traditions are “wrong” or that there’s better options.

[astrodidact]

[femaleshits]

[reverseracism]

Racism is a hell of a drug. Poor & working class whites have always blamed minorities for their ills but this year it's clear that rich whites are the ones fucking them over. Besides the college admission thing this year it was also revealed that the opioid epidemic they blamed Mexicans for was engineered by the rich Sackler family(owners of Perdue Pharma). LBJ was right, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket"

Yup. Maaan did you see how they reacted when AOC talked about Reagan turning the white working class against the black working class. You’d thought she killed their grandma or something.

Eon

[thewieneryears-deactivated20130]

Moss Graffiti: A How To Guide

[missythemermaid]

are you fucking for real

[revesducirque]

Imagine being the criminal who returns weekly to make sure his fucking plant art is doing alright

[arthyradio]

Later

[atombombbunny]

I found it! I fucking found it! In my fucking dash! Nothing can stop me now! *EVIL GIGGLES*

[male-witch]

OMG SAME RIGHT I SAW IT A YEAR AGO AND WAS UPSET I COULDNT FIND IT AGAIN

[theforbiddentenet]

Anyone who does this is a chaotic-good

[sebsoscarcampaign]

Natives who don’t look Native are amazing

Natives who do look Native are amazing

Light skin Natives are amazing

Dark skin Natives are amazing

White passing Natives are amazing

Non passing Natives are amazing

Natives who grew up on the Rez are amazing

Natives who grew up off the Rez are amazing

LGBT Natives are amazing

Natives trying to find their way back to their culture are amazing

Natives who grew up in their culture are amazing

The point is Natives are amazing!

[sleepynegress]

“The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system of social and political levers and pulleys set up generations ago to continue working on the behalf of whites at other people’s expense, whether whites know/like it or not. Racism is an insidious cultural disease. It is so insidious that it doesn’t care if you are a white person who likes black people; it’s still going to find a way to infect how you deal with people who don’t look like you. Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is another. And so on. So while I agree with people who say no one is born racist, it remains a powerful system that we’re immediately born into. It’s like being born into air: you take it in as soon as you breathe. It’s not a cold that you can get over. There is no anti-racist certification class. It’s a set of socioeconomic traps and cultural values that are fired up every time we interact with the world. It is a thing you have to keep scooping out of the boat of your life to keep from drowning in it. I know it’s hard work, but it’s the price you pay for owning everything.”

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Scott Woods (X)

he motherfucking dropped the truth.

(via mesmerisme)

[rapeculturerealities]

[typhlonectes]

AOC.