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TO THOSE MAKING NATIVE OCS
I see this a lot, no one has actual names, or any reference for names, that are legit Native American, varying among the tribes, for their characters.
Babynames.com and shit like that will give you names made up by white people.
However, I’ve got your solution.
Native-Languages is a good website to turn to for knowledge on a lot of native things, including native names. If you’re unsure about the names you’ve picked, they even have a list of made up names here!
Please don’t trust names like babynames.com for native names, they’re made up and often quite offensive to the cultures themselves.
I just want to remind everyone how affordable buying food from indigenous tribes is. I live in a major city and I was able to purchase and ship (15) pounds of fish from back home to myself for cheaper than I could buy it from a grocery store here in the city. Yeah, shipping has its own environmental factors but I was able to support an indigenous owned business while also getting my groceries at a lesser cost. (Buying in bulk is always a good idea if you’re planning on having something shipped to you)
Some tribal owned grocers that ship:
Bow and Arrow (Ute Mountain)
Native Harvest (White Earth)
Red Lake Fishery (Red Lake)
Wozupi (Mdewakanton Dakota)
Ramona Farms (Gila River)
Tanka Bars (Oglala)
Indian Pueblo Store (Pueblos)
Twisted Cedar Wine (Cedar Paiutes)
Ute Bison (Ute)
Seka Hills Olive Oil and Vinegars (Yocha Dehe Wintun)
She Nah Nam Seafood (Nisqually)
Sakari Botanicals (Inupiaq)
Honor the Earth (? Anishinaabe)
Nett Lake Wild Rice (Boise Forte Anishinaabe)
Passamaquoddy maple (Passamaquoddy)
BONUS: coffee :)
Yeego Coffee (Navajo)
Spirit Mountain Roasting (Yuma Quechan)
Birchbark Coffee (Anishinaabe)
Thunder Island Coffee (Shinnecock)
Reminder that the indigenous peoples of the americas cultivated an incredibly complex ecosystem that was essentially destroyed by idiot fucking colonizers
happy PRIDE i’m here i’m queer and i believe the land should be given back to the proper indigenous stewards.
this is your thanksgiving reminder that the chinook tribe is still fighting for federal recognition, which means they are unable to access programs and resources. please take some time today to sign their petition and donate if you’re able to. and if you live in washington or oregon please write to your elected officials.
I have a lot of feelings on how indigenous groups who didn’t build permanent structures like cities aren’t seen as being as sophisticated as ones who built large cities, without accounting for the fact that maybe it’s in our values systems to leave as light of a footprint as possible and it’s important that our structures are easily taken down or fade with the passage of time because it’s easier on the landscape, but ya know.
#IdleNoMore
... speaking of terms last evening with friends and a few others at the café Bistro, was very interesting. We stumbled on one specifically which is the "Indians" term that some people still use publicly toward the First Nations. We were laughing with each other saying that Native people are not coming from India and that this term was also widely regarded as old-fashioned and very inappropriate.
Indigenous people are most likely called, The Original (AbOriginal), Native people or as well as First Nations. But not erroneously referred as "Indians" like the first Europeans people when they mistakenly thought they had reached India in the fifteenth century. First Nations people have lived in the Northern Hemisphere for thousands of years and inhabited the area long enough before Europeans people "discovered" it.
(Absolutely no offense at all to the European's folks here)
Then starting to enumerate the most common North Faces groups in Canada: The Iroquois, Mohawk, The Cherokee, Sioux, Shawnee, Ojibwe, Light Skinned Cree (the largest indigenous tribe in Canada), Cheyenne, Mi'kmaq, among others.
To finally introduce myself to a few new friends in the café Bistro by saying; Hey btw, I'm Mohawk, but please call me Ben or Adrien. Cheers!
probably the single most beautiful art by fetchart.ca
I haven’t yet seen a tumblr post with these resources so I am making my own and hoping it shows up in the tags. I ASK EVERYONE WHO SEES THIS TO PLEASE REBLOG THIS.
THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT (ICWA) IS UNDER ATTACK. AND WE NEED HELP TO PROTECT IT USING THE RESOURCES BELOW.
I am not going to go into heavy detail on the bill, on its history, anything like that, the resources have a lot of information, but as a little bit of background:
It is a bill passed that forbids Native children from being adopted by non-Native families. This is for a good fucking reason, there have been historically large scoops of children taken from their Native families, at a much higher rate than white children (see the 60s scoop in Canada). These children are often abused in these homes, and their entire culture is taken from them (many end up not even knowing what tribe/nation they came from), hence the point of why they were taken in the first place (forced assimilation). Now, this does still happen through the foster care system, but this has protected in the case of adoption. It makes it that only Native families can adopt Native children.
White people hate this and have been smearing it for years (think of the whole Lexi Choctaw/Alexandria P. situation, which was so fucked how they used that little girl). Now, the state governments of Texas, Louisiana, and Indiana have taken it to the Supreme Court to be ruled unconstitutional. This case is called Haaland v. Brackeen. Because white people … really want to steal Native children. This is being heard by the court, oral arguments start WEDNESDAY. ICWA could be overturned in the matter of weeks or even days.
PLEASE USE ALL OF THESE TO PROTECT ICWA:
Petition that will involve you sending messages to your Congressional leaders through their text automated system, only available to those in the US (BUT NOTE YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A CITIZEN, OR ELIGIBLE TO VOTE TO SIGN, JUST NEED TO BE IN THE US):
https://resist.bot/petitions/PCCPGW
Petition to send a message to President Biden and leaders at the Department of Justice, this does have a place to put in your country so seems like it may be available for those outside of the US but I am unsure (consider also donating to the Lakota People’s Law Project if you are able to):
https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/protect-icwa
Petition to be sent to the Attorney General and Secretary of the Department of the Interior, since it is through change.org it likely can be signed from outside of the US:
https://www.change.org/p/protect-the-indian-child-welfare-act
PLEASE SIGN AS MANY AS YOU ARE ABLE TO. PLEASE REBLOG IF YOU SEE THIS. PLEASE HELP US PROTECT ICWA.
Oh Sheeeet it's Beezelbubs himself! Nah only kidding, this is Governor J. Kevin Stitt in the middle of stealing tribal land in Oklahoma. How you like dat? I don't quite like it myself. But it is a true story happening right now.
Happy Indigenous Day.
'Three languages' is bullshit. Everything is actually named in russian. There's no slightest sign of the other 'official' languages
I can't tell about tatar, but my school stopped teaching us ukrainian after the occupation started.
Important video.
It’s a good feeling when your Criminal Justice teacher says she’ll look more into Native American Lives Matter and hate crimes against Native people to teach the class.
So I’ve noticed that people always talk about Latino and Black people hate crimes. As well as focusing on how police brutality and the criminal Justice treats them differently from others but there’s next to nothing being taught about how systematic racism harms Native Americans. Like, I wrote and entire essay (tried to share on here but couldn’t) about police brutality directed at Natives but I never see the news or schools teaching about things like this. There’s also next to no classes about Native people but there are classes about Black and Latino people.
It’s weird.
Found on Facebook (Moneyless Society)
Seeing a lot of posts about the Palestinian flag, and it got me thinking about indigenous flags around the world.
Maori:
Kalaallit Nunaat:
Haudenosaunee
Nunatsiavut:
Australian Aboriginal:
Torres Strait Islands:
Rapa Nui:
Kurdistan:
Sami:
Ainu:
Of course, these are just a handful. May they all reclaim their stolen lands.