I was brave. I resisted. I set myself on fire.

[weirdyearbook]

“But now I must confront my buried self.“  From Eastern Mennonite College’s 1966 yearbook.

[trailsandtumbleweeds]

Nikita Kahpeaysewat @nikitaelyse photographed by Jonathan Zoeteman @jonathanzoeteman​.

[pie-eyed-deactivated20251229]

national geographic, 1980. forest ladies.

[bhramarii]

country butch i love youuu 🤠

[mithli-archive]

this is so beautiful I'm 🥺💕

[forestgreenlesbian]

Colville: Following the lives of jockeys on the Colville Indian Reservation, this series explores masculinity within an intimate and complicated coming of age story. (2015 - 2019) Fergus Thomas

[mymotherthemountain]

(from decolonizespringfield on ig)

[girldionysus]

The series ‘Young Slavonian Women’ explores the queer identity in the rural areas of the Balkan. The paintings realistically depicts imaginary scenes from the life of young women, that might have happened but were not historically recorded and were not part of the collective memory.

 by Helena Janecic  [1][2][3][4][5][6]

[poolsofchrome]

His head was killing him—but he felt on the brink of something big, something important. He had to get out, get away from the house and the noise. Out into the warm evening air

[electricraccoonincident-deactiv]

– Stephen Crane, “In the Desert” 

[lonelyboyjan2006]

[claypigeonpottery]

it just is what it is

[blackhoody]

[pericardium-and-glass]

Longing led you to me, to the Desert.

[cosmicanger]

navajo woman, shiprock, circa 1913

[bucephaly]

😭😭

[bucephaly]

There are only around 1,500 native Cherokee speakers left, and most of them are elders

Little Cherokee Seeds is a program where mothers and babies spend all day with first language Cherokee speakers, speaking nothing but Cherokee, so that the babies become a new generation of native speakers. They're also teaching traditional skills and mothering practices to the mothers to pass on.

This is so so important for the survival of the language. These babies are on track to being fluent first language speakers, and they will be able to keep the language going for another lifetime.

I recommend checking out the little cherokee seeds facebook page!!

[queerpunktomatoes]

Okay not to dox myself but I live on Cherokee territory (#landback) and there are a few universities I know of that are working to restore the language among younger Natives. I'm not an expert, but I recommend checking out Dr Sara Snyder Hopkins and the incredible work she's doing to translate old Cherokee writings so we never lose them and Dr Ben Fray who is Cherokee and fluent and teaches it to students as a revitalization effort.

[obscurix]

grieving and grieving and grieving and grieving and you can never fucking go back.