tonight I catch a cricket song

emily, 23, she/her, tsalagi/shawnee/white, guest on kiskiack lands

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

I know I already made a post about this. But ICWA is LITERALLY being challenged by a white couple that wants to adopt indigenous children to erase their culture and Christianize them. The tribe, whom has a say in who can take their children, is like "Nah, we don't want our youth Christianized like you tride last time"

And the lawyer that's helping the white couple try to overturn ICWA (so that they can erase the cultures of indigenous children) is doing it pro-bono (which means he's not charging the couple anything).

AND that lawyer is a big time lawyer whose clients are usually oil and gas industries. He's literally fighting for indigenous children to be ripped from their tribes and culture so there's less indigenous people to protest big oil destroying their sacred land.

The Indian Child Welfare Act is at the center of a Supreme Court case, where its challengers are reportedly represented by a firm connected

-fae

[tordenvejr]

love hides in questions, you cannot ask a thing without giving yourself away. how was your day? (i hope it was good) when can i see you again? (i pray it's soon) do you feel safe with me? (i feel safe with you) what is your favorite color? (i wish to enrobe you in all that makes you smile)

[maulling]

happy butch appreciation day for all butches, and especially butches who feel unappreciated, invalidated, objectified, desexualized, fetishized, scrutinized, invisible, hypervisible, and alienated. know there's a community out there for you of loving, like-minded, and accepting people who will take you in with open arms ♡

this post is absolutely inclusive towards trans butches of all genders ♡♡

[hotvampireadjacent]

https://twitter.com/johnniejae/status/1556401942523351041?s=21&t=L2NSt8zJ8y4ASvYvADMw-Q

If you liked the prey (2022) movie why not consider donating to help support the revival and learning effort of the Comanche language. I donated the price of my movie ticket. The movie released on Hulu if you want to watch first.

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[elbiotipo]

When one thinks about "ancient" Native American civilizations and ruins... the thing is that... most of them, they weren't ancient. The Inca were not fully conquered by the Spanish until 1572... for reference, the Mona Lisa was painted in 1502 and Martin Luther made the 95 Theses in 1517.. the "ancient" Aztec Empire was younger than the university of Oxford founded in the 11th century, Montezuma lived at the same time than Leonardo Da Vinci... There are castles that are younger than Machu Picchu, those cities were inhabited by millions just a few centuries ago, and some (Cuzco, México), many actually, are still inhabited today. People speak about the Ancient Maya as if it was some mysterious civilization that was lost, and while it was past its prime at the time of European conquest, the Maya still had city-states and were living in the same areas they live today.

There are still millions of people, right now, who speak Quechua, Nahuatl, and Maya in all their dialects, and I'm just talking about the three most well-known civilizations here... there are millions of Native Americans who still speak their languages and practice their culture and beliefs alive, both thriving and struggling today.

Talking about the "Ancient Inca" or "Ancient Aztecs" makes as much sense as talking about the "Ancient Dutch" or the "Ancient Swedes", and it's another way of erasing them, saying that they just aren't around anymore just like say the Sumerians, or that they just weren't relevant to world history. They were contemporaries to modernity and they're still alive today.

You can talk about the Ancient Olmecs or Ancient Chavín though. Because the Inca and the Aztecs are relatively "modern" but their cultures were just the latest from a cycle of civilizations stretching millenia before Christ.

[flowerpowell]

do not underestimate therapeutic powers of pride and prejudice 2005 dir. joe wright

[prsephonies-deactivated20200815]

when i was a teenager it felt very revolutionary to be cruel to myself. like some kind of slow passive protest against how much everything hurt. i starved myself of sleep and food and tenderness because it felt right. it felt sharp and angry and radical and i wanted to be those things. adulthood is the realisation that the world is already working to cut into you well before you learn how to do it yourself. caring for yourself and others is the real protest

[friedegg]

[friedegg]

[whats-your-name-man]

[cowboyhats]

Michelle K, I Know I Deserve More

[tomgirlhysteria-deactivated2023]

bear in mind? well. there is now

[opens-up-4-nobody]

The idea of a doggy and a bird that just hang out as friends is v cute

[hafula]

america land of the free huh. why dont u go and FREE ur colonies already then.

[hafula]

independent guåhan is a CHamoru org fighting for guam to no longer be a US colony

also if you wanna donate to some charities & nonprofits to support indigenous CHamoru people who are struggling as their islands are actively being colonized via US military influence and white tourism, & those currently living lågu (in the states):

para todus hit

sons & daughters of guam club

house of chamorros

kutturan chamoru foundation

feel free to add similar orgs

[necrophagesaint]

shout out to every kind of curry dish ..... indian curry....thai curry.......japanese curry ... the kind with coconut milk and the kind without.......from the light yellow curry to the bodacious red to the rich brown ....... to the ones more soup like and the ones more gravy like.... to the ones with potatoes and to the ones with chickpeas.........this post is for you

[mtfoss]

I do suffer the american condition of liking to drink huge drinks

[luxwing]

Lemme get a little sippy

[samgirard]

nate pushing his captain to avoid a too many men vs. nate pushing his captain to accept the stanley cup | 6.26.22

[tired-fandom-ndn]

Anyway.

For those of you aren't aware and aren't involved in NDN circles, the Supreme Court just declared that tribal territories and reservations are part of states and are under state jurisdiction, including in regards to charging someone and putting them on trial in state courts for crimes related to the tribe (as opposed to this being left up to tribal courts), undoing decades of precedent for the separation of tribal and state governments.

In a few months, the Supreme Court is also going to be giving a verdict on whether or not the Indian Child Welfare Act, the only thing keeping indigenous children with their families and communities instead of being "adopted" (trafficked) to white Christian families at every chance, is unconstitutional. This act is also dependent on the belief that tribes are sovereign nations and that giving our children to people outside of our tribes is akin to the US government taking Canadian children in the Canadian foster system and trying to adopt them out to American families.

If the ICWA falls, we're going to see a modern Sixties Scoop, with Native children being stolen from their tribes and families and cultures and assimilated into white Christian society. This is not only traumatizing for the children and their families, it's also a form of cultural genocide that has been used against us before and has devastating effects.

There are family members I never knew because they disappeared into the foster system as children.

This is the beginning of what's going to be wave after wave of attacks on indigenous sovereignty and tribal governance. The Supreme Court, even with a Democratic majority, has historically decided against upholding indigenous sovereignty and tribal protection. We're seeing genocide and forced assimilation become federal policy again.

[nekotato]

I love you dumplings I love you gyoza I love you xiaolongbao I love you wonton I love you baozi I love you mandu and yes even you, ravioli

[testosteronebutch-moved-deactiv]

There is nothing hotter than a butch dyke wearing fashion stereotypically worn by gay men. Like, butch dykes in jockstraps, butch dykes in white Tom of Finland graphic T-shirts, butch dykes in bulldog harnesses. Literally drool-worthy.

[bigwarmth]

incredible