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Love is Love Frogs
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"I'll trust an anarchist over a liberal any day" "I make a call-out to help some unhoused relatives and it's most often the anarchists that come help. Practicing mutual aid"
Excellent video packed full of info. The building of relationships between anarchists and Indigenous warriors on autonomous territory continues to build.
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if-you-fan-a-fire · 10 months
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"PAGANISM STILL GRIPS INDIANS." Kingston Whig-Standard. May 22, 1933. Page 13. ---- HAZELTON, B.C. - Under the towering peaks of "Falling Rocks" mountain range, the native graveyard is a blend of Paganism and the New Faith. Though many of the Indians have been christianized, complete miniature houses have been built over many of the graves. Clothes and belongings of the departed are placed inside.
In one skirts, shoes, corsets and mirror, brush and comb are hung on the walls. In another an enlarged portrait stands against a trunk filled with garments and toilet articles. Over chiefs' graves stone poems symbolical of their clan are carved.
Food is placed in the houses almost daily. It is invariably carried away by wild animals such as squirrels and rabbits, but the Indians explain the spirits get the food through the wild life. [AL: This is possibly about either the Gitxsan or Wet'suwet'en First Nations, but it's a 90 year old news wire piece loaded with settler colonial racism so figuring out what group or community the story is describing will take further research]
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walrusmagazine · 1 year
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“The New Residential School System”: How a First Nation Rallied against the Foster Care System
A six-year-old Gitxsan girl was removed from her community in northern British Columbia. The community brought her back
On a cold evening in October 2021, a social worker from the British Columbia Ministry of Children and Family Development knocked on the door of a house in Gitanmaax, a community in the traditional territory of the Gitxsan First Nation in northern BC. Two social workers of the MCFD had come to apprehend a six-year-old Gitxsan girl. Mia (a pseudonym) had been on a week-long visit to her matrilineal family, including her mother and her aunt, and that night she was due to board a plane that would take her more than 4,000 kilometres east, back to her foster home in Ontario.
Read more at thewalrus.ca.
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telekitnetic-art · 3 months
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Arthur Morgan: born too late for the golden age of the west, born too early for modern healthcare, BUT was born just in time to hypothetically head up to a little area in British Columbia and kill Father Adrien-Gabriel Morice
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arthistoryanimalia · 8 months
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For when #OwlAwarenessDay falls on #FrogFriday (and #FabricFriday):
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Button blanket with owls & frogs c. late 19th - early 20th c. Gitxsan culture (British Columbia, Canada) wool, cotton, shell, graphite 130 cm x 188.5 cm UBC Museum of Anthropology 3051/7
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"Gordon Price, a prominent Vancouver urban planner and a former city councillor, told Gitxsan reporter Angela Sterritt, “When you’re building 30, 40-storey high rises out of concrete, there’s a big gap between that and an Indigenous way of building.” 
"...To Indigenous people themselves, though, these developments mark a decisive moment in the evolution of our sovereignty in this country. The fact is, Canadians aren’t used to seeing Indigenous people occupy places that are socially, economically or geographically valuable, like Sen̓áḵw. After decades of marginalization, our absence seems natural, our presence somehow unnatural. Something like Sen̓áḵw is remarkable not just in terms of its scale and economic value (expected to generate billions in revenue for the Squamish Nation). It’s remarkable because it’s a restoration of our authority and presence in the heart of a Canadian city."
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survivingcapitalism · 2 months
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The force also used “lethal-force overwatch” — snipers armed with rifles — during the high-profile enforcement, according to officers with a specialized RCMP response team meant to resolve high-risk situations.
The revelations came as RCMP witnesses began testifying at a hearing on the Nov. 19, 2021, police response to Indigenous land defenders who had occupied two small structures along the Coastal GasLink pipeline route. The hearing follows Justice Michael Tammen’s verdict, Friday, that there is sufficient evidence to convict three people charged during the raid with criminal contempt of court.
Immediately following the decision, Tammen moved to consider an application to dismiss the charges based on police conduct during the arrests. The defendants say they experienced “widespread Charter violations stemming from police misconduct” and “disproportionate and excessive use of force,” according to a statement issued by members of the Gidimt’en Clan.
Among those arrested inside a “tiny house” located next to the pipeline route was Sleydo’, who also goes by Molly Wickham. A prominent figure in the Wet’suwet’en First Nation’s years-long opposition to the project, Sleydo’ was arrested along with Shaylynn Sampson, who is Gitxsan, and several others, including two journalists. One of the journalists, Amber Bracken, is now suing the RCMP over her arrest and detention.
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tsunflowers · 8 months
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"the whale hunt" screenprint by ken mowatt, Gitxsan
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"runner in flight" screenprint by don yeomans, Haida
the art of the pacific northwest translates so well to screenprints
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rabbitcruiser · 3 months
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Nass River, BC (No. 1)
The Nass River is a river in northern British Columbia, Canada. It flows 380 km (240 mi) from the Coast Mountains southwest to Nass Bay, a sidewater of Portland Inlet, which connects to the North Pacific Ocean via the Dixon Entrance. Nass Bay joins Portland Inlet just south of Observatory Inlet.
The English name "Nass" is derived from the Tlingit name Naas which means "intestines" or "guts" in reference to the river's large food capacity in its fish (Naish & Story 1963; Leer, Hitch, & Ritter 2001). Can also be a Tlingit word for "food depot". Former spellings are Naas and Nasse. The Nisga'a name for the river is K'alii Aksim Lisims "Lisims (river name) Valley". The Gitxsan name is Git-Txaemsim meaning People of Txeemsim (Raven or Trickster); Xsitxemsem in the dialect of the Gitanyow). Lisims means "murky" in Nisga'a, referring to the river's silt-laden flow.
Source: Wikipedia
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papihomo · 3 months
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RWBY Ethnicity headcanons because why not!
Tyrian Callows - Lebanese, I mean his name comes from the Lebanese city of Tyre and that makes sense.
Coco Adel - Belgian, I mean she just gives me Belgian energy idk why
Weiss Schnee + The Entire Schnee Family - Swiss-German, it makes sense, okay like Jacques has a French name and in Switzerland the main languages are French, German & Italian.
Nora Valkyrie - Norwegian, its basically canon
Oscar Pine - Moroccan & Bedouin + Scottish & Irish, I totally think he's Maghrebi like YOU CANNOT CHANGE MY MIND OKAY.
Professor Port - Hate that man, literally identical to my Bio Teacher, probably German because my Bio Teacher was German.
Mercury Black - Scottish-American, he just is.
Trivia "Neopolitan" Vanille - Neapolitan & Corsican
Roman Torchwick - Sicilian
The Belladonnas - Its of course canon that they are Indigenous, Ghira is on Chief & Council, need I say more? Anyways I have a feeling they would be from the Pacific Northwest, more specifically they would be Gitxsan.
Hazel Rainart - German + Assyrian, he kinda reminds me of the Sumerian folk hero Gilgamesh who stems from what is now Modern day Iraq.
Emerald Sustrai - Basque + Sudanese & Arab, her surname is basque, her allusion is Ali Baba/Aladdin and she seems to be of african descent as well so honestly she could be Basque, Sudanese and Arab.
Elm Ederne - Afro-Dominican + Mongolian, need I say more.
Vine Zeki - Tibetan + Japanese, Need I say more.
Harriet Bree, Afro-Jamaican + Cambodian, its my headcanon.
Marrow Amin - Paternally Ethiopian & Ugandan, Maternally Indigenous Australian & Greenlandic, his surname "Amin" is of Arabic origin but is prevalent in Uganda as a couple of my Ugandan friends from 9th grade had that exact surname, also his weapon being a boomerang could point to him being Indigenous Australian {Also the Faunus being very clearly Indigenous} & Greenlandic.
Clover Ebi - Turkish, that man is Turkish, okay? HES TURKISH TO ME.
Qrow & Raven Branwen - Welsh & Breton, need I say more.
Sage Ayana - Yoruba, one of my Nigerian friends presented me with this headcanon and now I hold onto it dearly.
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formlines · 4 months
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Killer Whale Pendant
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effectiveresistance · 23 days
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amnhnyc · 2 years
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🌟The revitalized Northwest Coast Hall opens to the public today!🌟 Showcasing the creativity, scholarship, and history of the living cultures of the Pacific Northwest, the Hall reopens in the Museum’s oldest gallery, which in 1899 became home to its first permanent exhibit dedicated to the interpretation of cultures. More than 120 years later, the Hall has been fully revitalized and enlivened with new interpretation developed with Consulting Curators from the Coast Salish, Gitxsan, Haida, Haíltzaqv, Kwakwakaw'akw, Nuu-cha-nulth, Nuxalk, Tlingit, and Tsimshian communities. #NorthwestCoast #amnh #museums (at American Museum of Natural History) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdgEoB1rl2l/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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lea-andres · 11 months
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Hey, I saw your reblog asking about whether the Twilight series could do anything to make amends for the wrongful impact they've had on the Quileute Tribe and the answer is just very plainly: No.
I, personally, am not a part of the Quileute Tribe, but I am indigenous (Gitxsan/Nisga'a), and although it would be much better if the words came from the mouth of an actual member of the Tribe, I feel it is my job as a fellow indigenous person to explain why there isn't a way to rectify the misdeeds that Twilight has done.
I'll try to make it simple and short so as to not take up too much of your time:
Even if every single penny that the series makes goes to the Quileute Tribe, and there isn't a single bit of misinformation to be seen or heard, and the Tribe is portrayed in a way that actively promotes the Tribe and its peoples, the deep impact that the original series had can never be erased or washed away. The cultural and monetary effects that the series had on the Tribe is irreparable. In no way can they erase the grief and pain that the Tribe endured, and if they go through with this then it is just another mockery of the Tribe and its people.
Not to mention, there is a deep racism ingrained within Twilight, and if they took that out then it would no longer be Twilight anymore, which is the exact reason that this series can in no way rectify any of the problems it has created. The foundation is based on racism and misinformation, and if you take the foundation away, then everything falls.
TLDR; In no way can the new Twilight series make up for the misdeeds it has done to the Quileute Tribe and its people because the damage that was originally done on the Tribe is irreparable.
👍 Had a feeling it'd be something to that effect, but I frequently desire to know the Why along with the answer itself.
Thank you for your concise explanation, Anon. I'm sorry about what Smeyer and similar thoughtless media has done, and I hope other content creators learn better and do better in the future.
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remnantpresence · 6 months
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MMW Sploitation Moodboard (Every Child Matters)
Gitxsan Territory
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