#indigeneous

[hedgewitchgarden]

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melanin mvskoke @MelaninMvskoke Indigenous peoples don't owe settler states/settlers an explanation as to how we will steward our ancestral lands or why we are deserving of them. This is stolen land not a non- profit. We don't owe anyone a grant proposal.

#LandBack

[blackwoolncrown]

This Heavy Metal Band Is Hell-Bent on Saving an Endangered Language

As the Brazilian tribal language Tupi Guarani nears extinction, this hyper-aggressive group is raising awareness about the urgent need to save it – one power chord at a time.

This is so sick

[ginzyblog]

• Blind Curse By SImon J. Ortiz • You could drive blind for those two seconds and they would be forever. I think that as a diesel truck passes us eight miles east of Mission. Churning through the storm, heedless of the hill sliding away. There isn’t much use to curse but I do. Words fly away, tumbling invisibly toward the unseen point where the prairie and sky meet. The road is like that in those seconds, nothing but the blind white side of creation.  You’re there somewhere, a tiny struggling cell. You just might be significant but you might not be anything. Forever is a space of split time from which to recover after the mass passes. My curse flies out there somewhere, and then I send my prayer into the wake of the diesel truck headed for Sioux Falls one hundred and eighty miles through the storm. Simon Ortiz, “Blind Curse” from After and Before the Lightning (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1994). Copyright © 1994 by Simon Ortiz. • Acoma Pueblo poet Simon Ortiz,  Boulder Colorado,  July 1985 (photo: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Estate) #simonortiz  #naropauniversity #kerouacschool #bouldercolorado #AcomaPueblo #allenginsberg #poetrycommunity #nativeamericanrenaissance #fromsandcreek #simonjortiz #indigeneous #nativeamericanoraltraditions (at Boulder, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPG-etRhoH4/?utm_medium=tumblr

[lgbtqreads]

New Releases: May 1-7, 2019

New Releases: May 1-7, 2019

Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890–1918 ed. by Lizzie Ehrenhalt and Tilly Laskey (1st)

In 1890, Rose Cleveland, sister of President Grover Cleveland, began writing to Evangeline Simpson, a wealthy widow who would become the second wife of Henry Whipple, Minnesota’s Episcopal bishop. The women corresponded across states and continents,…

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[collectorsweekly]

“We were the prophets, the messengers, the fire starters. Wounded Knee awakened not only the conscience of all Native Americans, but also of white Americans nationwide.” 

~ Dennis Banks (1937 - 2017)

[messoamerica]

Working on the constitution of gender, Judith Butler has argued that identity is stylistically performed, but according to internalized norms that constitute common sense and propriety, naturalizing dominance, and subordination (1990; 1993). “Gender is in no way a stable identity or locus of agency from which various acts proceed,” Butler maintains; “rather, it is an identity tenuously constituted in time–an identity instituted through a stylized repetitions of acts” (1988: 519, her italics). The gendered self, rather than being substantial or prior to its acts, is a performative accomplishment of iterative corporeal acts, governed by punitive and regulatory social conventions. Performativity, then, is not an act or event but a process, “the formation of the subject in process–but never one that is finished or complete” (Moore 2007: 118).  Ethnicity, like gender, is both performed and performative. Individuals and groups might present themselves as ethnic but do so according to expectations shaped by the daily enactments constituting the ethnic boundary. Such iterative acts do not have to be conscious to be effective, as Joane Nagel observes: “Performativity is a powerful mechanism of social construction and social control, all the more so because it tends to go unnoticed, be invisible and operates at the level of intuition. Performatives just seem to feel right or wrong. They are difficult to identify or think about because they are so ingrained, presumed and seemingly natural” (2010: 197, her italics).

Sergio Miguel Huarcaya (2015) “Performativity, Performance, and Indigenous Activism in Ecuador and the Andes.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 53(3).

[ohmywildflor]

In Love with the Sun God 😊