#indingenous

[n3v3r-l3ft]

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[enbiosaur]

Sorry if this is a bad time, but I'm broke again and need to pay for meds. Last time I underestimated how much I would need and it almost put me in a bad way but I made it through, so this time I'm gonna say I'll need $50-60 to cover it fully without worrying.

Cashapp: $Nativoid

Venmo: Indigipunk

DM for my paypal

Please boost this at least so I can stay medicated and hopefully find a more affordable place to live!

[musterluster]

I have been having horrible vivid violent nightmares despite tons of meditation, grounding, and guide communication. I’ve been sleeping with sodalite and trying to discharge with selenite before bed but am still basically living through groundhog day style reoccurring nightmares (each nightmare is different but its like the horror starts at the same “time” and is perpetrated by the same “person” who controls everyone else in the dream).

I’ve been looking for dream catchers but am having a hard time pinning down native-owned shops and don’t want to buy from anywhere else.

Does anyone have recommendations of native-owned online shops or Etsy accounts that make dream catchers?

[genderenvyincarnate]

[achilles-photog]

"When the blood in your veins returns to the sea, And the Earth in your bones returns to the ground, Perhaps then you will remember that this land does not belong to you, It is you who belong to this land" -unknown • Model: anonymous 📸: Me Styled by: Me • This photo is a revisit. Taken in December 2016, first posted in January of 2017, I've been wanting to redo the edits for awhile. One of my first shoots I ever did. • #achillesphotography #nativeamerican #native #indingenous #indigenousmodel #nativemodel #drylake #anonymousmodel #soggylake #socalphotography #socalphotographer #iephotographer #negativespace #negativespacephotography (at Lucerne Valley, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrPY82vnReu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1fl3tz6ht0bhc

[tribalingual-blog]

Why I’m on a mission to save endangered languages

When I learned that Buryat, the northern-Siberian language of my grandparents, was in danger of dying out, I knew then and there that I had to do something. But from a remote part of the Mongolian steppes, I felt powerless to act. I was lucky enough to come to the UK to study modern languages and subsequently focus on language policy and revitalisation during my master’s degrees.

5 years on, I am now founder and CEO of a newly-formed Cambridge-based edTech startup, Tribalingual, which is pledged to rescue endangered languages from the brink of extinction. It is backed by the Cambridge Social Ventures programme in the Centre for Social Innovation at Cambridge University Judge Business School and focuses solely on teaching rare and endangered languages. For me, the only real way to save languages is by getting more people to speak them and so I decided to set up this online language school. So where others attempt to preserve languages by mummifying them through documentation and archiving, my platform gives them a new lease of life by cultivating new generations and communities of speakers.

With language extinction occurring at a rate of one every fortnight, some estimate that 80% of the world’s languages will disappear within the next century. For me, there is more at stake here even than language death: because languages are so fundamental to us as human beings, when languages die, so does our collective human heritage.

The culprit for this crime? Globalisation of course, spurred by the digital revolution. But fortunately, the revolution on which the ascension of world-languages ride is a double edged sword, giving myself and others the means to fight back. So while conventional EdTech start-ups use digital tech to automate the learning process, we use it to recruit an army of individual speakers of these ailing tongues to act as soldier-educators in the mission.

In the congested language learning industry, we invariably stand out from the crowd. And the connections formed between teacher and student are also unique. Through this distinct model we’re able to offer a kind of inter-cultural experience others can’t, in which people can learn of distant cultures from around the world.

You can find out more at www.tribalingual.com

[leopoldinaphotos-blog]

Inspired by artist Vernon Ah Kee and his piece “Many Lies” installed as part of the landmark exhibition “Everywhen:  The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia” currently on view at the Harvard Art Museums through Sept. 8, 2016. Here curator Stephen Gilchrist and artist Vernon Ah Kee discuss the meaning behind “Many Lies.”

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

The Truth About Thanksgiving: Brainwashing of the American History Textbook

Those who are indigenous to this land we call “The United States of America” have been long misrepresented and pushed out of American history textbooks in favor of glorifying those who now rule this nation and represent the dominant culture. What kind of democracy are we when education institutions and teachers refuse to mention the fact that 10 to 30 million Natives were killed at the hands of European invasion and colonialism? What is the point of having a “free market of ideas” when selective and biased history is being taught to our children?

There is no other way to put it, but erasing the memory of an entire race of people through distorted history is a systematic way of deceiving and lying to our children. Not only are we presented with biased history, but we are also subjected to an ever-growing culture of capitalism, in which commercialization of an ambiguous holiday merely pulls us away from facts and meaning. Turkeys are associated with “Thanksgiving” in the same way Santa Clause and the Easter bunny have become synonymous with Christmas and Easter, respectively. Through the guise of innocence, capitalism is constantly telling us to consume because consumption equals “happiness.” Tomorrow is not “Black Friday” for nothing.

And as children dress up as Pilgrims and Natives to reenact the romanticized version of history, they are not only perpetuating stereotypes, but more importantly, they’re being embedded with lies. What do they really know about the Pilgrims and the Natives? Consider a high school history textbook called “The American Tradition” which describes the scene quite succinctly:

After some exploring, the Pilgrims chose the land around Plymouth Harbor for their settlement. Unfortunately, they had arrived in December and were not prepared for the New England winter. However, they were aided by friendly Indians, who gave them food and showed them how to grow corn. When warm weather came, the colonists planted, fished, hunted, and prepared themselves for the next winter. After harvesting their first crop, they and their Indian friends celebrated the first Thanksgiving.