Khwist ha' ta'r'im

Schitsu'umsh (Coeur d'Alene), Dine' (Navajo), and Turtle Mountain Cree mama right here. Currently going to school at Washington State University pursuing a bachelors in Anthropology (Linguistics). Also plan on earning a Ph.D. in indigenous language and culture :) Love being a native :D

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This.

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aye

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Originals First - We are a people with a past, not a people of the past.

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Yes.. we are still here and will continue to be in our generations!

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So. I miss being pregnant. lol This is my daughter moving inside me when I was eight months pregnant.<3

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Omg... throwback... this was my first baby moving in my belly with my brother and I watching.. I cherish this video so much.. my brother grew so close to love and protect his sísí... it makes me sad to think he won't be able to be here (physically) to watch over another sísí... I love you hish'shít.

On that side note if you ever know anyone struggling with PTSD or depression.. please reach out to them and do what you can before it's too late.. I always think of the "what ifs" and what I should have done to save my brother from taking his own life... but all I can feel in my heart is that he is at peace.. 1 in every 2 native people attempt suicide... it's hard to say I have now experienced suicide in my life so close to my heart.. I love you so much brother... your sísí misses you.

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@eveningstarwoman #DecolonizeYourSnag lol

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Happy Birthday Geronimo <3

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Che Guevara at the United Nations - 1964

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I'm currently reading this book on what occurred in these government issued schools on the American Indigenous peoples. Truthfully I feel heart broken when I read what our ancestors' have experienced :/ Please Read. It's very important to know who and where we come from to stand our grounds in out identity as an indigenous people!

From what I have read thus far covers the fact that over 50% of the indigenous children in these schools were murdered by the churches, such as being strangled, hung, beaten, medical experimentations, etc., while the schools never admitted their wrong doing. They claim these children, our ancestors were killed by "natural causes" or tuberculosis. Yeah, what a "great" nation for making the first people of this nation second class citizens just because they wanted our land.

Here is a direct quote from the reading:

"The church people were worshipping the devil, not us. They wanted the gold, the coal, the land we occupied. So they terrorized us into giving it to them. How does a man who was raped every day when he was seven make anything out of his life? The residential schools were set up to destroy our lives, and they succeeded. The whites were terrorists, pure and simple." - Bill Seward, Survivor of Kuper Island School

There were many other events occurring in these schools, such as the young girls who were going through puberty were sterilized because they were Indian. The schools also sterilized the young girls because they were raped and impregnated by priests, government officials and men of power. They only way the schools could hide their faults were by killing and putting fear into our people from ever speaking.

Take a stand and be prideful of who and where you come from, natives! We are a GREAT nation, our ancestors and communities went and still are going through struggles for our identity, but we can fight and prove we are worthy! More than any one!

<3 Khwist ha tar'i'm (One, who walks with thunder)

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sunkissttt we have great taste in indigenous men lmao

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Self Respect

Before ever deciding a life commitment from anything or anyone.. Make sure you know your self worth and respect.. As a native community we are constantly stomped and pushed aside. Today, we are still like that with certain situations, but we need to take a stand in protecting our identity, culture and language..

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P.S. Photo for presentation only. It is NOT a photo of Crazy Horse.

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Hahaha just great

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Throughout American History we have been mistreated. Take a stand and reclaim your identity through learning your tribe's culture and language.

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In solidarity with Ethnic Studies students and educators in Arizona, we’re joining FAAN Mail’s #WishiLearnedinHS campaign: 

As Arizona’s government moves forward to boldly protect a euro-centric education, we Americans across the country reflect on our own education. We recognize that Arizona’s law is part of a broader tradition that overlooks the accomplishments, perspectives and history of people of color, women and other marginalized groups.

Many of us have received an education that privileges the stories, ideas, history and perspectives of wealthy, western, white men. It is this tradition that creates a need for courses like Ethnic Studies, Mexican American Studies, Asian American Studies, African American Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Studies, and many “others.” While we hope that Arizona and other states push to make classrooms and curricula truly inclusive, there is still a need to teach ALL students Ethnic Studiescourses that take a more in-depth look at marginalized histories, literature, and perspectives.

What happens when people know and understand their own and other’s history and oppression? The State of Arizona may be afraid of the answer to that question. But we must consider this as we reflect on the gaps in our education. The expression“I wish I learned that in high school” has political implications.

TAKE ACTION:

We are launching this effort on February 1, 2012 the day Arizona’s law becomes reality for the Tucson Unified School District, in support of their Mexican American Studies program. Join this effort by taking any number of the following actions in response to the question: What do you wish you learned in high school as it relates to various cultural identities, histories, and perspectives?

TAKE ACTION

Tweet with the hashtag: #WishediLearnedinHS about ___________________.

Respond to the question in your Facebook status

Write a blog post, Op Ed or Facebook note on this topic; ex. Five Things I wish I learned in HS

Add links to information about the gaps you identify.

Send your list to your high school officials/administrators. Inform them of the gaps.

Tweet: In Solidarity with #EthnicStudies Educators and students in #AZ, I join the #WishiLearnedinHS campaign http://bit.ly/Ax9qhS

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Still relevant.

Oh! And here are the books that’ve been banned:

Banned Books List

High School Course Texts and Reading Lists Table 20: American Government/Social Justice Education Project 1, 2 – Texts and Reading Lists

Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (1998), by B. Bigelow and B. Peterson

The Latino Condition: A Critical Reader (1998), by R. Delgado and J. Stefancic

Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (2001), by R. Delgado and J. Stefancic

Pedagogy of the Oppressed (2000), by P. Freire

United States Government: Democracy in Action (2007), by R. C. Remy

Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History (2006), by F. A. Rosales

Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology (1990), by H. Zinn

Table 21: American History/Mexican American Perspectives, 1, 2 – Texts and Reading Lists

Occupied America: A History of Chicanos (2004), by R. Acuna

The Anaya Reader (1995), by R. Anaya

The American Vision (2008), by J. Appleby et el.

Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (1998), by B. Bigelow and B. Peterson

Drink Cultura: Chicanismo (1992), by J. A. Burciaga

Message to Aztlan: Selected Writings (1997), by C. Jiminez

De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views Multi-Colored Century (1998), by E. S. Martinez

500 Anos Del Pueblo Chicano/500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures (1990), by E. S. Martinez

Codex Tamuanchan: On Becoming Human (1998), by R. Rodriguez

The X in La Raza II (1996), by R. Rodriguez

Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History (2006), by F. A. Rosales

A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present (2003), by H. Zinn

Course: English/Latino Literature 7, 8

Ten Little Indians (2004), by S. Alexie

The Fire Next Time (1990), by J. Baldwin

Loverboys (2008), by A. Castillo

Women Hollering Creek (1992), by S. Cisneros

Mexican WhiteBoy (2008), by M. de la Pena

Drown (1997), by J. Diaz

Woodcuts of Women (2000), by D. Gilb

At the Afro-Asian Conference in Algeria (1965), by E. Guevara

Color Lines: “Does Anti-War Have to Be Anti-Racist Too?” (2003), by E. Martinez

Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy (1998), by R. Montoya et al.

Let Their Spirits Dance (2003) by S. Pope Duarte

Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz (1997), by M. Ruiz

The Tempest (1994), by W. Shakespeare

A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (1993), by R. Takaki

The Devil’s Highway (2004), by L. A. Urrea

Puro Teatro: A Latino Anthology (1999), by A. Sandoval-Sanchez & N. Saporta Sternbach

Twelve Impossible Things before Breakfast: Stories (1997), by J. Yolen

Voices of a People’s History of the United States (2004), by H. Zinn

Course: English/Latino Literature 5, 6

Live from Death Row (1996), by J. Abu-Jamal

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven (1994), by S. Alexie

Zorro (2005), by I. Allende

Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1999), by G. Anzaldua

A Place to Stand (2002), by J. S. Baca

C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans (2002), by J. S. Baca

Healing Earthquakes: Poems (2001), by J. S. Baca

Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems (1990), by J. S. Baca

Black Mesa Poems (1989), by J. S. Baca

Martin & Mediations on the South Valley (1987), by J. S. Baca

The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America’s Public Schools(19950, by D. C. Berliner and B. J. Biddle

Drink Cultura: Chicanismo (1992), by J. A Burciaga

Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States(2005), by L. Carlson & O. Hijuielos

Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing up Latino in the United States (1995), by L. Carlson & O. Hijuielos

So Far From God (1993), by A. Castillo

Address to the Commonwealth Club of California (1985), by C. E. Chavez

Women Hollering Creek (1992), by S. Cisneros

House on Mango Street (1991), by S. Cisneros

Drown (1997), by J. Diaz

Suffer Smoke (2001), by E. Diaz Bjorkquist

Zapata’s Discipline: Essays (1998), by M. Espada

Like Water for Chocolate (1995), by L. Esquievel

When Living was a Labor Camp (2000), by D. Garcia

La Llorona: Our Lady of Deformities (2000), by R. Garcia

Cantos Al Sexto Sol: An Anthology of Aztlanahuac Writing (2003), by C. Garcia-Camarilo, et al.

The Magic of Blood (1994), by D. Gilb

Message to Aztlan: Selected Writings (2001), by Rudolfo “Corky” Gonzales

Saving Our Schools: The Case for Public Education, Saying No to “No Child Left Behind” (2004) by Goodman, et al.

Feminism is for Everybody (2000), by b hooks

The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child (1999), by F. Jimenez

Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools (1991), by J. Kozol

Zigzagger (2003), by M. Munoz

Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature (1993), by T. D. Rebolledo & E. S. Rivero

…y no se lo trago la tierra/And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (1995), by T. Rivera

Always Running – La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. (2005), by L. Rodriguez

Justice: A Question of Race (1997), by R. Rodriguez

The X in La Raza II (1996), by R. Rodriguez

Crisis in American Institutions (2006), by S. H. Skolnick & E. Currie

Los Tucsonenses: The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854-1941 (1986), by T. Sheridan

Curandera (1993), by Carmen Tafolla

Mexican American Literature (1990), by C. M. Tatum

New Chicana/Chicano Writing (1993), by C. M. Tatum

Civil Disobedience (1993), by H. D. Thoreau

By the Lake of Sleeping Children (1996), by L. A. Urrea

Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life (2002), by L. A. Urrea

Zoot Suit and Other Plays (1992), by L. Valdez

Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert (1995), by O. Zepeda

Bless Me Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya

Yo Soy Joaquin/I Am Joaquin, by Rodolfo Gonzales

Into the Beautiful North, by Luis Alberto Urrea

The Devil’s Highway, by Luis Alberto Urrea

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bull crap. The U.S. just needs to admit their wrongs in history and repay it back to the victims.

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We just hit 30,000 petition signatures- we have over 100,000 Facebook supporters, so please sign the petition if you have not already! See our other Achievements: http://lakota.cc/1iWyw4D SIGN THE PETITION!: www.LakotaLaw.org/Action

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Chase Iron Eyes talks about Native Mascots, UND Sorority, and Missing/Murdered Aboriginal women! Don’t miss the #Rez Roundup from Lastrealindians "Real Talk" on #Native issues! WATCH here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLzWCXSz6NA

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Ever Thought

Did you ever think of the possibilities of who you were born to be?

I always think there isn't that many natives as there use to be and then I think dang I'm very fortunate to even be born one. I could have been born White, Black, Asian, etc. Just thinking about the chances of me being born from a strong nation and people that I could never imagine my life being any different. Especially considering in how I was raised, how I think, how I feel and how I speak. Just trying to imagine if I were to be someone of a different ethnic background, I wonder if I would be as connected to my roots or if I would have been from a lost people.

If I were to be of another ethnicity, I think I wouldn't be as passionate or motivated in my life commitments in education. I am strongly interested in the preservation and revitalization of indigenous culture and language. I wonder if I was someone else what would I be doing right now?

I was once told after having my beautiful daughter that our babies after being born are still spirits of the creator and that they choose who they want their parents to be. Remembering that.. When I was once a spirit I chose my parents and family.. I was destined to be a part of the native community and to make a difference.

I'm happy to be who I am today.

Remember each and every one of you were destined to be who you are :)

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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Issues Uranium Mining Operating License in the Black Hills

On April 8th, 2014, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued an operating license to the Powertech Uranium Corp for its proposed uranium mine in the Black Hills. The move comes four months ahead of a public hearing scheduled to hear opposing voices to the proposed uranium mine.

The NRC said in a statement that a review “concluded the proposed facility can operate safely, including management of radiological and chemical hazards, groundwater protection, and eventual cleanup and decommissioning.”

The proposed uranium mine still needs final approval from the South Dakota Board of Minerals and Environment, the South Dakota Water Management Board, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency before it can began mining uranium.

Powertech Uranium projects that the 17-square mile mine would yield 1-million pounds of uranium annually for up to 8 years.

The proposed uranium mine is opposed by area Tribes, ranchers, environmentalist and the Rapid City Council.

READ MORE HERE: http://lastrealindians.com/u-s-nuclear-regulatory-commission-issues-uranium-mining-operating-liscense-in-the-black-hills/

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disgusting & shameful, i’m saying prayers that the EPA won’t approve it

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This is our sacred land and I will cut out on school to go help defend.