#bodewadmi

[xiexiecaptain]

Since biboon & the storytelling season are nearly over, please enjoy this collection of pictures that look like they could be from an aadizookaan

Mm yes so sacrit, very mno-bimaadiziwin

[queerkwe]

🔥3 Fires Series 🔥 I wanted to take a little break from my usual pride work and I decided to do a 3 Fires / Anishinaabe series! All now available on my Etsy! The 3 Fires Council/ Confederation is made up of the Odawa (Ottawa), Ojibwe (Ojibwa, Chippewa), and the Bodewadmi (Potawatomi) nations. My family and I are from the Waganakising Odawa (Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians) in northern Michigan. Most Anishinaabe tribes reside within the Great Lakes Region in Canada and the US, but some tribal communities were forcibly relocated during colonization. I’ve been reflecting a lot on our seven fires prophecy, especially in context of everything going on in this country. I’m so glad to be back in my homelands. It helps put everything into perspective. I’m feeling more grounded, more connected, more at ease. I had lot of fun working with these colors and if sales go well, I want to make it a reoccurring series because I’m turnt up about the beauty of our Anishinaabe culture and communities. Where are all of my Anishinaabe relatives at?! 🥰 ❤️ 🧡 💛 🧡 ❤️ #twospirit #twospiritartist #indigiqueer #anishinaabe #anishinaabekwe #threefires #beadwork #beadworkforsale #beadedearrings #beadersofinstagram #fringeearrings #odawa #ojibwe #bodewadmi #potawatomi (at Petoskey, Michigan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CK12sS4l6Vt/?igshid=f1zh100t4t25

[backtothedoodem]

Making plans to head to my home town for Uncle Don's funeral this Friday. It might be silly... but it's the first funeral I've had to attend since being "out" about being Anishinaabe... and I want to honour that somehow in the way I dress or attend the funeral.

I have some ceremonial clothes... a breast plate and some chokers and the like... but is that appropriate? I don't have anyone to ask. #mopingoutloudalittle

[backtothedoodem]

I'm a mixed race extremely white passing Anishinaabe'inini. Yep, that makes it harder to earn the trust of the Aboriginal folks around me. Yep, that means that I have to remain silent a lot more often than I might want to. Yep, that means it's sometimes a lot of work.

It also means that I can go to a store or restaurant without worrying about whether the serving staff will assume the worst of me. It also means I can get a job far easier. It also means I can get better treatment almost anywhere I go.

I'm quite sure I have the good, privileged, easier end of the stick.

[bingwi]

Where are all my Lower Peninsula Michigan and SE Ontario Nish?

[eternallyitson]

That reminds me of a few years ago when I was with my mom in the Potawatomi museum on the rez over here. I was looking at a lot of stuff and we found a picture in the museum of myself from when I was like 4 years old. It was cool.