“our dna is earth & sky” atcr

9 repeat allele • from north to south on turtle island

[kuhmanda-deactivated20260222]

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[kingjaffejoffer]

bitterbitchclubpresident:

fifteenfathomscounted:

I get that native Americans are upset, I get it. That being said, this country would NOT be what it is today if the actions of our past were not taken

What do you mean by that

They mean Native Americans should feel grateful that 90% of their population was exterminated because the remaining 10% get to live in poverty on reservations while everyone else gets to enjoy Starbucks and Amazon Prime and pretend our military isn’t terrorizing the rest of the world so we can live in a protective bubble of ignorance. 

[black-to-the-bones-deactivated2]

Dropping knowledge. 

More history that our schools fail to teach

[ms-demeanor]

The last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, Queen Liliʻuokalani, inherited the throne from her brother Kalākaua on January 29, 1891. A woman of peace and an accomplished author and songwrite, she became the first Native Hawaiian female author. Upon her death, Liliʻuokalani dictated in her will that all of her possessions and properties be sold and the money raised would go to the Queen Liliʻuokalani Children’s Trust to help orphaned and indigent children. The Queen Liliʻuokalani Trust Fund still exists today.

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“Aloha ʻOe” (Farewell to Thee) is Queen Liliʻuokalani’s (Hawaii’s last monarch) most famous song and a song commonly sung at High School graduations and other important events. The story of the origin of the song has several variations. They all have in common that the song was inspired by a notable farewell embrace given by Colonel James Harbottle Boyd during a horseback trip taken by Princess Liliʻuokalani in 1877 or 1878 to the Boyd ranch in Maunawili on the windward side of Oʻahu. Originally written as a lovers’ good-bye, the song came to be regarded as a symbol of, and lament for, the loss of her country.

https://hawaiian-words.com/2015/06/24/aloha-oe/

[ariverofmilk-deactivated2019041]

The version of this story I read years ago (out of curiosity for the song’s use in Lilo & Stitch when Nani was forced to give up Lilo…) was so unbelievably cut down, it made it seem like her failing, rather than all these odds stacked up against her. Thank you for all the further context. ;_;

[visibilityofcolor]

i also need white feminist to realize that many woc find being mothers empowering because in more ways than one our ancestors had the right to be mothers taken away from them by white governments.

[miss-lee-lee-fan]

*cough* slavery *cough*

[visibilityofcolor]

Yep. Also forced sterilization and genocide…

[indigenousandangry]

Residential schools taking your children away. Native children being put into white foster homes so their culture is stolen from them from their first moment of life.

[musicinthebranchesoftheveins]

ICWA wasn’t enacted until 1978 when the federal government gained recognition that Native children were undergoing removal at much higher rates than non-Natives. As someone whose mother was forcibly removed and placed into a new home far away from her birthplace at 3 months, it’s important to never overlook the struggles Native mothers have undergone since colonization.

[defydamage]

This is a really amazing point of view.

[casual-isms]

Unlearning How White People Ask Personal Questions

http://www.samefacts.com/2014/05/culture-and-civil-society/unlearning-how-white-people-ask-personal-questions/

[beautytruthandstrangeness]

Holy shit. I have ALWAYS thought the people around me were being unconscionably intrusive and power-playing in their starter conversations and they told me I was antisocial and oblivious to culture norms. Turns out, maybe I’m just from a different culture.

[sartorialadventure]

The Emberá people, also known in the historical literature as the Chocó or Katío Indians are an indigenous people of Panama and Colombia. In the Emberá language, the word ẽberá can be used to mean person, man, or indigenous person, depending on the context in which it is used. There are approximately 33,000 people living in Panama and 50,000 in Colombia who identify as Emberá. 

 (First photo is by pupi3000 on Flickr)

[yukwvnayvteli-deactivated201903]

English? In my longhouse?

[yukwvnayvteli-deactivated201903]

O'sluni:kéha? i:wát kanúhses?

[yukwvnayvteli-deactivated201903]

Onyota'a:ká phrases:

Do you have time?- sanátoteʔ kʌ́

Can you and I talk?- ʌwa·tú· kʌ́ tʌtnitha·lʌ́·

Are you busy?- tesayenhalá·u kʌ́

I’m busy- tewakenyenhalá·u

What is your phone number- náhteʔ wahse·tás satwʌhalaʔástaʔ

Call me- takwatwʌnátaʔas

I phoned them- yaʔtekheluwáloʔokú

You look good- yoyánle tsi nihsyató·tʌ

She is pretty- tsi niyeyá·taseʔ

You look pretty in the dress you’re wearing- tsi nihsyá·taseʔ niwahsohkó·tʌ satyaʔtawí·tu

You look handsome in that shirt you’re wearing- snikʌ́htleʔniwahsohkó·tʌ satyaʔtawí·tu

It looks foolish, stupid- teyonahalawʌlyetslo·lú

I was hurt by what they said- wahuwalihwakalʌ·lateʔ

[thecheshirequeen]

“America’s native language is English!”

I have some rather shocking news for you friend

[thisredroad]

The awkward moment when

Your sisters dad and his mom (only related to them by marriage) get a DNA test and find out they are 1%.

His crazy ass white mom is trying to fucking claim this shit!!!

Only because she found her family and was able to trace them back to one tribe.

Yall I cant with this.

Mod Luna

[fury-and-beardies]

“Sometimes when I tell strangers I’m Cherokee they ask,”How much are you?” They’re not asking if I know myself as a Cherokee and if I am considered by other Cherokees as Cherokee. That would be a valid, though invasive, question. Instead, they’re asking, “What percentage of ‘Indian blood’ do you have?” This question implies that the degree to which one is Cherokee is defined by racial purity. By this logic, the higher percentage of “ Indian blood” you have, the more cherokee you would be. It’s a racist question because it implies that Cherokees are defined by race, not by culture. People tend to forget that “race” is a concept created by cultures. The concept of race continues to have power only because we continue to believe in it. Funny thing is, in all my life I’ve never been asked by another Cherokee, “How much are you?” Instead, the questions are: “Where do you come from?” “Who are your people ?” “Who’s your mother?” They are questions of beginnings and continuities, kin and relationships.”

— Christopher B. Teuton, from “Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars’ Club”

[thisredroad]

I just posted a link to my upcoming novel on here to wattpad. Currently working on Chapter one!

Please go check it out and tell me what you think?

MOD LUNA!

https://my.w.tt/UiNb/y1uYEwGnGJ

[swagintherain]

[jadedownthedrain]

How cool is this?!

[fieldtomatoes]

Here’s a link to a news article and some videos about production (posted before the film was released)

Their Moana is very talented, and their Maui is a local newscaster whose daughters made him audition!

Rachel House still voices Grandma Tala, Temuera Morrison still voices the Chief, and Jemaine Clement still voices Tamatoa.

Rob Ruha and Jemaine Clement translated and rearranged the music so that the songs still worked while sung in a different language, which is super impressive.

Also: Air New Zealand will feature the Maori version on their in flight entertainment starting in November!

[itzbatz-deactivated20240722]

this news is from earlier this year, you can now actually listen/watch the te reo version in clips on youtube now. this one is pretty exemplary of the original and new voice actors together! <3

[dearnonnatives]

Native Americans make up 13% of South Dakota’s population, yet 40% of sex trafficking victims in the state are Native girls and women.

#RedSandProject

[red-stick-progressive]

So something like 7% of the population are Native women or girls and yet have almost a six fold over representation of sex trafficking victims. Jesus. I can’t imagine why. Is it possible that Native women have been violently fetishized on a genocidal scale in ways and institutions that have still not been destroyed or even recognized by a white patriarchal majority?

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[lonelypanda1996]

Got that box of beadwork with all these items ready to go to a good home lol. #handmade #beads #beading #beadwork #nativeamericanbeadwork

[blightyboo]

To claim that Indian cultures can continue without Indian languages only hastens our end, even if it makes us feel better about ourselves. Our cultures and our languages–as unique, identifiable, and particular entities–are linked to our sovereignty. If we allow our own wishful thinking and complacency to finish what George Armstrong Custer began, we will lose what we’ve managed to retain: our languages, land, institutions, ceremonies, and finally, ourselves. Cultural death matters because if the culture dies, we will have lost the chance not only to live on our own terms but also to live in our own terms.

– David Treuer, Rez Life (via blightyboo)