#sto:lo

[folkfashion]

Stó:lō elder's clothes, Elizabeth Phillips, Canada, by University of the Fraser Valley

[quakgrass]

[image description: a digital drawing of an indigenous woman from the elbows up. she has brown skin, black hair in low pigtails, and shining dark eyes. she is smiling very slightly and wearing a woven cedar cape featuring black and red geometric designs over a hide shirt with a blue circle outlined in red on the chest. she also wears a hide headband decorated with blue and red rectangles and circles. in the background there is a river and some vague mountainous scenery. end id.]

my original salish waterbender character, stótelō

[bunchoffaceclaims]

Inez Jasper

Gender: Female

DOB: 19 May 1981

Nationality: Canadian

Ethnicity: Stó:lō-Ojibwe-Métis

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Inez Jasper (née Point), also known as Inez, is a Canadian musician, whose music blends pop, dance, hip hop and traditional First Nations music. She is most noted as a two-time nominee for the Juno Award for Aboriginal Album of the Year, in 2010 for her album Singsoulgirl and in 2014 for her album Burn Me Down.

[quakgrass]

[image description: a formlines drawing of a ravens head in profile facing right, holding a white circle in it’s mouth. it is black with flowing abstract designs- with a white and red circle on top of its head, which is blue, blue around the mouth with dark red on the bottom beak, & a blue and white circle on the cheek. it’s eye is a red and white ovoid with a blue triangle pupil.]

here’s raven. i drew this for my dad’s birthday & i got it printed on a big flag for the flagpole in our yard, i’m happy with how it turned out~ i’m pretty out of practice with formlines but i’d like to do more soon

[quakgrass]

[image description: a digital illustration of a sky person from the shoulders up in front of a purple gold and blue sunset sky. her skin is made up of purple and yellow tones much like the sky. her chin is tilted up and she is smiling slightly. she has long dark hair filled with stars. her eyes are all white.]

sky person - tel swayel print here if you would like

[quakgrass]

[image description: a digital painting of an indigenous girl water-bending on a plain brown background. she has brown skin and black straight hair. her shirt and headband are hide with blue and red accents, she wears a cedar cape and grass skirt and has blue and white leg-warmers. she is bending water around her and seems to be spinning with one hand in the air and one foot behind her as though she is midstep]

i’ve been thinking about how cool it would be if the avatar universe had more characters and nations based on indigenous peoples, (like the sun warriors and the water tribe were), so i decided to make some of my own:

i call this character stótelō (stah-tuh-lo), she’s a salish water bender.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

First Nations, federal and B.C. provincial governments sign new treaty agreement

Members of the six First Nations communities are Sto:lo, meaning People of the River, with villages located in the Lower Fraser River Watershed between Vancouver and Yale, and concentrated in the Central and Upper Fraser Valley.

The British Columbia government says a new agreement between a group of Indigenous people and the provincial and federal governments is consistent with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

The treaty negotiations memorandum of understanding was signed Saturday at a ceremony in the Leq'a:mel community by the chiefs from the six First Nations of the Sto:lo Xwexwilmexw Treaty Association and ministers from the provincial and federal governments.

The new approach recognizes that Indigenous rights are inherent and cannot be extinguished or surrendered, and shifts away from seeking a full and final settlement.

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[decolonizingmedia]

If you want to decolonize, you may have to lose your country in order to gain your humanity.

Lee Maracle