sharice davids just unseated a republican in the middle of fucking kansas becoming the first native american woman to serve in the us house of representatives and guess what SHE’S ALSO A LESBIAN
She really just did that 👏

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we're not kids anymore.
YOU ARE THE REASON
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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sharice davids just unseated a republican in the middle of fucking kansas becoming the first native american woman to serve in the us house of representatives and guess what SHE’S ALSO A LESBIAN
She really just did that 👏
From the moment he opened his eyes, Sam Oozevaseuk Schimmel was precocious. He starting talking at 6 months, walked at 9 months and hated sleeping.
“He was a pain in the ass,” laughs Jeremy Schimmel, Sam’s father. “He exhausted you. When he was a little kid, I would read books to him. I’ve never read more books in my life. Frog and Toadwould last, like, a minute. So then you’re on to Dr. Doolittle and The Little Prince, and by the time, you’re done, you’ve read nine books and it’s, like, ‘Oh my god.’ And he’s still awake. You just couldn’t satiate his need for listening and for knowledge.”
Jeremy and Rene Schimmel had moved back to Alaska, in part so Sam could be born at the Alaska Native Hospital where Rene had health coverage. As a child, Sam spent most of his time outside with his parents and with Rene’s family.
“He never was inside. He hunted and fished,” says Jeremy. “He was catching fish when he was 2 — off the dock.” Sam watched and listened to his family in Gambell with the same intensity he gave to books. He memorized old songs and stories his great-grandmother sang and told. She would hold his little body close and press her cheek to his, as if to convey: “You are one of us.”
Rene breathed a small sigh of relief and refocused on her own goals. She decided to get a master’s degree in education. The family started splitting their time between Alaska and Seattle, where she was in school. When she graduated in 2004, she got a job at one of the best public elementary schools in the city. “I was so happy,” she remembers.
But school was difficult. Sam didn’t like sitting still and didn’t understand why he needed to follow so many rules about when to talk and what to say. He started getting in trouble in class.
Rene and Jeremy would meet with school administrators. Some teachers and counselors suggested Sam had a learning disability or a behavioral disorder. His parents entertained that possibility but explained that Sam was growing up in a different environment than his peers. The family still spent summers in Gambell. No one else at the school was from a subsistence hunting culture. Might it make sense that Sam would learn differently from most other students?
“They didn’t listen,” says Jeremy, standing at his kitchen table in Seattle and picking through a box of old progress reports from the time. “They told us: 'You need to go back to Alaska. Go back to the village.’ It was terrible.”
“I remember one teacher told me I wouldn’t go to college,” Sam adds from the couch. He’s 18 now, lanky in a baseball cap with a fish pattern on the front. “Who says that to a child? Like, if another kid says, 'Your shoes suck,’ you can just tell them, 'Well, your shoes suck, too.’ But you can’t deflect like that when an adult is mean to you.”
The Conflicting Educations Of Sam Schimmel
Photos: Kiliii Yuyan for NPR Illustration: Nathalie Dieterle for NPR
this is really amazing
Love this.
Important discussion on how Indigenous trauma is a form of settler capital.
STOP FRACKING IN EASTERN NAVAJO!
STOP COAL MINING!
STOP URANIUM MINING!
STOP RESOURCE EXTRACTION!
STOP THE PINON PIPELINE!
STOP THE KEYSTONE XL!
STOP THE RAPE OF MOTHER EARTH! We began from Dził Naa’oo’diłth’ii walking over 200 miles to reach Tsoodził! This journey has shown us both the destruction of our homeland in the Eastern Agency as well as the resiliency and beauty of our land and our people. We have moved one step after the other for our ancestors, family, communities, youth, future generations, and mother earth. As Indigenous Diné youth, we seek to restore hozho. This is the first complete chapter in a four part series of Nihígaal bee Iiná (Our Journey for Existence)!
Half of American Indians living in majority-Native areas say they or a family member feels he or she has been treated unfairly by the courts, according to an NPR poll.
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Indian Country Today Media Network announced it would "cease active operations." That leaves a big hole in news coverage by, and about, Native Americans.
A Red Girl’s Reasoning –
After the justice system fails the survivor of a brutal, racially-driven sexual assault, she becomes a motorcycle-riding, ass-kicking vigilante who takes on the attackers of other women who’ve suffered the same fate. Starring Jessica Matten, Christian Sloan, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Writer/ Director: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers Producer: Rose Stiffarm Executive Producers: Erik Paulsson & Diana Wilson Director of Photography: Harvey Larocque Editor: Jeanne Slater
Pretty much the truth
Kerry Washington gives a perfect three part course on how to handle yourself when you are called out for making an offensive statement:
1) Don’t push back 2) Apologize sincerely and quickly 3) Learn from the feedback
It’s that simple people.
Aboriginal children express pain differently from non-Aboriginal children, and therefore may not receive the same levels of health care when they seek help…“Because they are very stoic about pain, health practitioners often don’t pick it up,” explains Dr. Latimer. “Aboriginal children will sit quietly in an emergency room for hours, and others will be seen before them. Their pain is not recognized and so they are fearful when they come to the health-care system, and there is a lot of distrust and frustration resulting in repeat visits and persistent pain.” Dr. Latimer’s research has uncovered historical and cultural components of pain, and how pain is expressed. Because of the history of the Canadian residential schools, Aboriginal children learned to suppress their feelings, a cultural adaptation which has become inter-generational.
Understanding How Aboriginal Children Express Pain
this is a project headed and designed by indigenous researchers, for the benefit of indigenous communities. they are competing for funding so that they can disseminate their findings among health professionals and hopefully get better care for Aboriginal children, and they need your vote! voting closes October 28, 2015–more info and the voting link in the original article linked above.
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I’m reblogging this every time I see it.
AND COUNTING.
actress and activist Q’orianka Kilcher protesting against BP dumping oil in water sources in the Amazon.
Our Bones//
We feel it in our bones Deep in the marrow We hear it in the voices Carried across time by the smoke Cries echo through centuries
“You’re being oversensitive” The white man says As he slits another native child’s throat “It was a hundred years ago!”
It was one hundred million people But I am ridiculed for saying Too soon
We feel it in our bones Every Native knows the sorrow We hear it in the voices Our parents and children cry Even today
We struggle to survive The trail The roll Removal Assimilation Smallpox blankets Poverty Reservations Kidnapping Rape
We struggle Appropriation Theft Racism Betrayal Erasure We struggle We struggle
We are more than cheap dreamcatchers Hanging from rear view mirrors
We are more than fake headdresses Made from turkey feathers
We are not a mythological Dead culture of the past We are still here We are still here! We are still alive We survived And we are not your fucking Halloween costume