Archive & Crafts

Sharing contemporary Indigenous art & crafts. Also sometimes archiving print media and more from my families old powwow vendor days.

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Wildfires Blaze Through Pacific Northwest Tribal Lands

Wildfires blaze through Pacific Northwest tribal lands - ICT

It’s hot and dry across the region, making for tinderbox conditions.

Firefighters, pilots and equipment operators are mobilized across much of Indian Country in Washington and Oregon, to rein in wildfires that have endangered many tribal communities.

Amidst the powwow season and canoe journey season festivities, multiple tribes are currently being impacted by wildfires, and homes, livestock, pets, and valuables are in danger of being lost.

Community Rallies for Wildfire Relief: How to Help - Underscore Native News

As wildfires burn through Native nations in Oregon and Washington, communities across both states have banded together to set up sites to do

Above is an article describing what tribes are currently impacted. There is also a lot of information for WA/OR locals on where to drop off physical donations contained within it. If you are unsure of the current status of drop-off locations, check the official website(s) or Facebook profile(s) of the tribe(s) you wish to donate to.

Official Websites

Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation

Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation

Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs

Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation

Financial Donations

Cedar Fund Wildfire Recovery Campaign

Yakama Nation Signal Peak and Ransier Fire Updates

Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Wildfire Recovery Fund

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scissor case

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an7gc.ca/donate/

Individuals who support the goals and vision of AN7GC can make a donation. The ways to donate: call us, mail your donation, use Paypal or Ca

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a matching set • beaded hair clip with a matching pair of drop earrings. one of my first sets i’ve ever made!

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Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo). Maria, 2014. 1985 Chevy El Camino. & Bosque, 2024. 1964 Buick Riviera. Photographs by Kate Russell (rosebsimpson.com)

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NDN Princess - Teri Greeves, Kiowa - 2004

Beads on canvas high-heeled sneakers, Eric and Barbara Dobkin Collection, Crystal Bridges Museum - Bentonville, Arkansas.

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Luana Tso, contemporary Navajo weaver

'Mother Earth and Father Sky'

Rug

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From the site:

Project Rainbow Turtle is a mutual aid fund and network that provides direct financial assistance, support, and resources to our 2-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQ+ Relatives within the united states.

We understand that our current colonizing reality has kept us from being ourselves and free. We aim to challenge and disrupt such current circumstances.

We will assist our 2-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQ+ Relatives within the united states with the following:

Name Change Fees

Passport Fees or Identity-related documents fee

Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy (GAHT)

Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)

FFS

Laser Hair Removal

Transition-specific clothing, like binders, tucking garments, make up, wigs, or traditional clothing

Travel expenses related to accessing gender affirming care, such as ceremonies or other

Relocation Assistance

If you'd like to support Project Rainbow Turtle:

Donate to Help Fund Project Rainbow Turtle's Mission, organized by Project Rainbow Turtle

Project Rainbow Turtle is an Indigenous LGBTQ+ centered mutual aid f… Project Rainbow Turtle needs your support for Help Fund Project Rainbo

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It is not nearly common enough knowledge that most Native tribes in the U.S. don't actually own all of the land within their reservation. There are millions of acres of reservation land that tribes don't legally own and they have no control over how that land is used. Like, there are a lot of different concepts tied in with the land back movement, but a major one is literally just getting reservation land back into tribal ownership.

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im obsessed with jelly minty-turquoise nails rn ---- and its leaked into my beadwork I think 🦭🐬🪼🧊⛲️🌀🌊🎐🪩

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Little Lynnette Yazzie, Navajo, whose grandfather learned of this style of war dance costume from Kiowa friends; he formed The Blue Eagles dance team. Lynette's cousin, Ophelia Yazzie, is behind her. Scanned from the book Ray Manley's Portraits & Turquoise of Southwest Indians; 1975

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The Dogs That Grew Wool and the People Who Love Them | Hakai Magazine

Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest bred little, fluffy white dogs that provided for them, both materially and spiritually.

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Woody Crumbo

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Miss Indian America VII – 1960; Vivian Arviso; Navajo

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dance that funky twostep, woodland boy

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Cloaked in Sovereignty - Shan Goshorn

2014 9” X 9” X 16”

Arches watercolor paper splints printed with archival inks, acrylic paint, copper foil

"Cherokees made clothing wraps fashioned from feathers for warmth and protection. Surprisingly warm and exceedingly beautiful, they also could represent the mantle of leadership. Chiefs were the only ones allowed to wear turkey feather capes. The case of Worcester v. Georgia, 1832, established the legal principle of “tribal sovereignty”. Justice John Marshall’s decision set the precedent for the US Government to recognize nation-to-nation dealings when negotiating with Indian tribes. This basket is symbolically wrapped with a Chief’s turkey feather cape to illustrate the sovereignty of Indian nations.

Splints on the interior of this piece are printed with a reproduction of Cherokee principal Chief John Ross’s appeal to the Senate and House of Representatives in 1836, regarding the “spurious (fake/bogus) delegations” which supposedly represented the Cherokee in signing the Treaty of New Echota, illegally resulting in the removal of the tribe, i.e. The Trail of Tears. The last sentence of his letter reads “And, therefore, we, the parties to be affected by the result, appeal with confidence to the justice, the magnanimity, the compassion, of your honorable bodies, against the enforcement, on us, of the provisions of a compact, in the formation of which we have had no agency.” Unfortunately, his words did not inspire Congress to reconsider this nefarious scheme and the Cherokee were removed by force to Oklahoma."

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Anna Mae Bernallie (with the umbrella) and Helen Wauneka are both Navajos. Scanned from the book Ray Manley's Portraits & Turquoise of Southwest Indians; 1975