#indigenous folks

[somerandomg33k]

Tribal Nations

Believe it or not, the United States of America is on stolen land. The Democrats would say it like that. And probably thinks that the USA as it is "is fine." But let's see what the Democrats has to say about Tribal Nations. It will far short of Land Back for sure. Here is my latest video. https://youtu.be/872i6KmM_Ck

[gloriousfatpoc]

We Natives see you pretendians and we may not say something but we are judging you. You are not "Aztec",Muxe are not two spirit, and Curanderas are not "pagan". We see you and you are shaming the ancestors you claim you love so much! We see you wearing our traditional clothes and regailia. We see you wearing our culture like it is yours all while ignoring our pleas to ask you to stop. We see you and we don't accept your fake desire to understand us or be part of us. That is because you don't want to learn or hear from us you want to be complacent in your wrongness.

-M a tired native who is sick of chicanx appropriating the culture I had to earn to claim. When I reconnected I had to prove ny worth and had to listen and learn from my elders.

[somerandomg33k]

On July 4th, the USA Independence day, I changed my profile pic on most of my social media presence to be the American flag on Fire. I started this years ago in protest to America's treatment of people coming to the country seeking asylum. Which is still perfectly legal.

I generally do this now each year as a more generally protest against the USA. I am an American citizen. But I am also an Anarchist. I believe in nations, or nation states, states in generally. And I certainly don't believe in borders. Borders are violence.

But I have a lot of criticism of the USA government. And I believe many of my issues stems from the "birth" of the country. This is a country built on stolen land off backs of enslave people from Africa.

The "Founding Fathers" were Rich White Men that own slaves, hated democracy, and wanted to continue to expand westward past the Appalachian Mountains but couldn't as "British Colonies" because the British Crown had treaties with the Indigenous folks there.

But the USA, a newly form country has no such treaties. Not the USA honor any of their treaties with the Indigenous people after they became the USA. Many Many Indigenous tribes are still actively fighting the USA government to honor said.

And some of those treaties were illegally signed anyway. Or signed under false pretends.

I mean Colin Kaepernick kneel during the National Anthem as a sign of protest against police brutality against black folks. I totally agree with that protest too.

I think I want to make it perfectly clear, despite being born in the USA, I am Anti-American. And I side-eye anyone that is a "Proud American." Even the Progressive Liberal types that are Proud Americans, despite the flaw in this country.

[somerandomg33k]

Sorry "proud Americans." But this country was "founded" by Rich White men that were Slave owners, who wanted to expanded westward and take more land from the Indigenous folk, who hated true democracy because true democracy would have been a treat to their own positions of power.

[gouracademy]

International Day of Indigenous Peoples in India

International Day of Indigenous Peoples in India

The International day of Indigenous Peoples of India is discovered on August nine once a year, so as to lift awareness of the wants of indigenous people. the primary meeting of the UN unit on Indigenous Populations was command in Geneva in 1982.

The theme of 2019 is indigenous People’s Languages visible of 2019 being marked because the International Year of Indigenous Languages by the United…

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[mizgrownnonsense]

Moana

So, clearly, I saw Moana.

And I am here for the critique re:

THE MONOLITH PROBLEM, where elements from a few different Polynesian cultures were fused into this fantasy one; and

THE MYSTICAL-PAST PROBLEM, where brown people are shown as part of a past or magical “other” world that makes romanticization easy and can erase the contemporary experiences of Indigenous people who are very much a part of the current, real world.

I’ve also heard critiques that Maui was too Minstrel-esque, and while I felt he was treated with far more depth and respect than, say, Mama Odie (Princess and the Frog) I see where that is true and I can respect that.

All that considered, though: I fucking loved the movie.

It did my soul such good to see a brown girl in the lead (I identified hard: my type of mixed looks quite a bit like her) who wasn’t super-thin; who was integrated into her community–supported by and motivated by her parents, grandmother, and her PEOPLE; who, as a ‘princess,’ actually displayed leadership skills; whose story was compelling and moving without any hint of romance; who learned over the course of the film and used what she learned; whose heroic actions centered around the encouragement and healing of others as much as her individual acts; who STAYED. IN. HER. BODY. THE. WHOLE. FUCKING. FILM; Who was not overshadowed by a comedy sidekick; who was never over-sexualized; in whose story the 'magic’ derived from spirituality/mythology; and who was framed by gorgeous music and design throughout.

By far the best thing I heard about the film, though, was from an eight year old Lakota girl (via her mother) whose take-away was, “She loved the water.” MNI WICONI. Like, damn. <\p>

[strangesibyl]

I love a good western