#National Indigenous Times

[detectivenyx]

"twilight was a deeply anti-indigenous text with an abusive power-imbalance masquerading as a romance story written by a mormon and it was weird when white people tried to rehabilitate it" and "a lot of contemporary criticism of twilight boiled down to homophobia and misogyny and wanting to keep some kind of purity in a constantly-changing vampire mythos" coexist.

also donation link to the Quileute Move To Higher Ground initiative

#look im certain that indigenous americans especially from the Quileute nation itself criticised it when it came out. #at the same time they were absolutely drowned out by white men afraid edward would take their masculinity #calling him a faggot and saying he was more a fairy than a vampire because he sparkled in the sunlight #(ignoring that some vampire myths do suggest they are fae but when have homophobic white men led us astray before?) #even so it meant that it was absolutely ripe years later for white women to try to rehabilitate. #and because of all the homophobia and that a lot of criticism at the time WAS just 'how dare women thing be popular.' #because 'uh this is a severe power imbalance' and 'this story characterizes us as 'noble savages' and that's not a good thing' #got absolutely drowned by men afraid a sparkling bloodsucker would uproot masculinity

[unsp0k3n-desires]

best powwow ever !!! 🥰

#iykyk #reservation dogs #fangirling #all in creators timing #powwow #i was nervous if you can’t tell #indigenous #first nations #dpharaoh #dpharaoh woonatai #ndn #guess what #it was a good day #native american #guess who #rez dogs #mine #bear smallhill #for you

[ciderjacks]

Fffuck it fuck this country. I’m out.

#Fuck man. im indigenous I don’t want to leave my fucking land where my people have lived for millennia #Where my culture is #But I refuse to live in a state that still to this day commits active genocide and colonialism #The same which my people faced #I’m not giving my money to that. I’m not giving my time and heart to that. #I can handle the gun violence and the unbelievably bad healthcare and the inflation and the rising unemployment and all the bullshit #But I refuse to participate in a “nation” that pretends to be sooo sorry for what it did to my people while they are still fucking doing #What they did to us #Poisoning our water not letting me reconnect with my tribe making us identify as white then using it against us killing us killing our kids #And brutally killing indigenous people worldwide #I’m fucking done #ndn #death to america

[ei-mugi]

one time i was talking to my american online friends about stuff and i was like "haha yeah people always say i look ambiguously european but cant place what i am specifically" and they were like "i dont think europeans have a look though." what do you mean. you dont believe different ethnic features exist...?

#just was reminded of it lol #one i no longer talk to used to insist that i was british because of my not-british accent and would not believe me when i said #no... i dont live there #id told them i was aussie. they didnt believe me though. like they thought i inexplicably had a brtisih accent despite never #having been there ever #another i said i didnt get a SSCoE for HS but a diploma. thats not what diplomas are here but they kept insisting i was wrong #like i have the certificate....its not a diploma.......... thats not what it says. #but they were like just call it a diploma : / its basically a diploma #i know AU isnt that different to the US but at least we are usually a little less annoying #i did see that asshat who was like 'uhhhh climate change means you dont have snow? not for us australians a-durrrrr X D' or w/e #what a twat. even from a purely selfish perspective we still also have climate change. its very noticeable. come on #anyway for a full decade i basically never met anyone online who wasnt USamerican.................... #so. i do have some amount of frustration. #they got mad at me for saying bikkie or pressie as slang even tho theyre super easy to figure out from context. also it doesnt matter #'STOP using slang you KNOW us americans WONT UNDERSTAND' #we were talking about christmas!?!? pressie is straightforward!?!? even if not...why are you so indignant #on a more awful note i knew one sheila (white) who was like very vocally/performatively into blm #but then one time when i mentioned aboriginal australians she was like 'what...ive never heard of those before...' #youve known me for years even if you never looked at anything in your life ever id definitely mentioned them before #pretty fucking important. both for my country and when caring about indigenous/first nations peoples. oldest surviving culture on earth #but she was like how was i supposed to know about them : / #because i thoguht you cared about these issues!?!?!??!? also just generally ohhh my god #how could you be vaguely aware of AU history as being similar to your own and then say you didnt know we had indigenous peoples #like. what do i even say #do you think... only america has indigenous peoples?????? #its fine not to know a foreign countrys history in depth but just...the absolute basics....about an issue you claim to care about... #sigh. ok this is too long. i feel that last one is justified to complain about tho

[cipher-the-sidhe]

I want to draw the Glamrocks and the DCA as PowWow dancers so bad but that would be just… so much detail. So mmmm it’ll have to wait.

But hear me out!

Sun and Moon: hoop dancers (Ojibwe/Anishinaabe)

Roxy: fancy shawl (Lummi)

Chica: Jingle dress (Lakota Sioux)

Monty: men’s fancy (Seminole)

Freddy: lead drummer/singer (Eastern Tsalagi/ Cherokee)

DJMM: Master of Ceremonies (Navajo/Diné)

And their regalia is just in their usual colors.

#fnaf #fnaf pow wow au? #this all came from my regular burning desire to make a jingle dress #and thinking that Chica would be such a great jingle dress dancer #I do want to do these some time #since having a little indigenous flavor to the Glamrocks would be awesome #and I want to subject y’all to electric pow wow #if you haven’t heard modern native music you are Missing Out #look up Halluci Nation/a Tribe Called Red #my tribe headcannons for each do have their reasons #but they’re just my biases #like of course gotta rep my tribe with Freddy #but also #Monty as a Seminole because duh #and Roxy would look gorgeous in PNW styles #and the Navajo always pop off at PowWow so of course we need a Diné MC #fnaf sb #dca fandom

[muirneach]

okay how did a lot of you guys not know robbie was indigenous 😐

#being from ontario i feel like i was told about him as a child as like. here are some famous indigenous people #fairly sure i was taught about him IN school multiple times #truthfully i think about his final wish being ‘in lieu of flowers please send money to the six nation’ like at least once a week. #wahh. i love robbie :(

[coffin-flop]

i know my cat knows i love him but does he know how much?

#this question haunts me #I'm literally cryinc bc it's a 'holiday' (but also fuck thanksgiving it really is and should be a national day of mourning for indigenous #communities to honor the genocide and the continued violence they face bc of american white supremacy and colonialism) #but like i do have nostalgic ties frkm childhood and im thinking abt how weird life has been #since my mom and I REALLY started growing apart (bc i started to understand things and she started spiraling) #but how none of my holidays feel lonely even whem i mostly spend then alone bc my cat almost always snuggles with me the whole time #like okay yeah this is what its all for in the end #this is what i live for lol #anyway that holiday talk sounded sad but actually it's really happy #when i tried to do holidays w the immediate fam i used to stress a lot and usually experienced something traumatic #so like it's so nice to have quiet peaceful holidays with my angel of a cat who's been here thru it all #the first time he headbutted me was when i came home from my mom's on Thanksgiving the last year i spent it with hwr #idk i just love this lil dude. hes neen a constant for almost 7 years now like wow #also sometimes i hang out w friends or facetime friends after their fam gatherings or friends who also dont celebrate #i was interested in going to an indigenous day of mourning march however i am still feeling pretty awful after my root canal 2 days ago #so i will try to go next year

[clove-pinks]

Maybe this is my lack of familiarity with steampunk genre media—which I conceive as being the Girl Genius comic strip and uh, Wild Wild West (1999 movie)—but the aesthetic and technology influence seems to be all late 19th century, if not into the early 20th century. It's perpetually 1880 or 1905 or whatever, and there are shirtwaists and celluloid collars and also everyone is wearing goggles for their coal-fired dirigibles.

I long for what I have sometimes called Regency Steampunk—steam-powered printing press in 1814!! Fulton's Demologos launched 1815!!—but more accurately, it should be brought into the 1820s. (Restoration Steampunk? Romantic Steampunk?)

I want to see a blend of real-world technology from the time, which is more advanced than I think some people expect, but move it forward slightly with more "futuristic" elements: railroads, telegraph cables, things developed decades later (due to increased focus on technology and greater egalitarianism, but nothing too futuristic).

There will also be some kind of magic or supernatural elements à la Girl Genius. Who doesn't love alternate history/fantasy in a historical setting? An influence here is the Anno Dracula series by Kim Newman, even though I have only read The Bloody Red Baron, but I was impressed by the careful attention to real historical details and setting (in a world that also has vampires and supernatural elements).

Then there is the matter of, how do you make the 1820s less Problematic™ to a modern audience?

It's dicey, because on the one hand I think a world that deviates too much from (deeply unfortunate) reality would be unrecognisable. There's still a 1619 in this world, so to speak, and the foundations of modern capitalism based on exploitation, colonialism, and enslaved labour. You still have a United States and the East India Company; you still have the Atlantic World and the Napoleonic Wars.

But at some point you have An Event that changes the course of history (the magic, the supernatural elements come into play), and I think you can also take real-world reform movements and amplify them. In this world, the racial equality moments gaining ground in the 18th century don't get crushed in a backlash in the early 19th century; movements for extended suffrage don't meet their Peterloo. Here's where I get crushed under a pile of research over some very difficult subjects—but I don't want to magic away these problems, even in a world that has magic.

Friends, do you know of any historical fantasy along these lines?

#rotating this in my mind #world building #romantic steampunk #1820s #alternate history #steampunk #also i did watch the 'steamboy' anime it was meh #(but beautifully referenced textile mills and other industrial architecture) #also step one: usa loses the war of 1812 even harder and indigenous nations get international recognition and support #i just started dinner time 2 poast this #shaun talks

[grippysockassbitch]

Shout out to every blonde light eyed white girl who humble bragged to me that if they were to be hypothetically abducted for human trafficking purposes then they would ""sell for more"" bc they have x hair and y eyes, and that's "like, super rare actually" - so they get to be more afraid and deserve more protection, bc they are just so highly saught after u see. You guys are really holding up the true crime community and killing it at blatantly disregarding statistical likelihoods of violence based on ethnicity, you go girls

#did anyone else have this experience cause for me it was several times????? #was that just a crazy phenomenon or do they just say that a lot #MMIW #PS in 2016 six thousand native/indigenous women went missing in one year #hardly any of them were logged into the national missing persons database #and the numbers have obviously just kept climbing since then #ndn tag #native on main

[fairyzar]

the older i get the more confused i become in regards to my identity.

#z escribe #i have been aware that i was adopted from a young age. heck i knew before my mom told me because i watched the health channel #and i rmbr they showed a skin color chart and i pieced together...two white parents don't equal a brown kid #and i thought that the colorblind mindset was a proper one to be brought up with. obviously not as i experienced racism in elementary. #and was extremely confused why 'other' white kids didn't see me as white either...well no shit you're not white baby aza #and i went through a radical phase during middle school. hating all white people. but then my mom's white fragility deterred me from that #as any time i would voice my anger she would... quite literally in tears... try to reason with me and be like ''but i'm white people... #do you hate me?'' to which i would always have to soothe her. and honestly i have become comfortable in identifying with mixed. #it is a comfortable identity because i have grown up without any specific culture (outside of american. which. how does one even begin to #define the complexities of such an identity... the way that american as a nationality transcends as it becomes a civil religion.) #anyways. i have been thinking about a guy at a party and our conversations. and how we got to our identities and i instantly... #out of habit really. told him ''well i'm half mexican or indigenous too... but i mean it's not like i'm really latin.'' and he was like. #''no azaria. you are. don't diminish yourself and your ancestors just because you weren't able to grow up around that culture'' #his comment made me think about my identity once again after a long time of not wondering what it means to be Me. #and i recently submitted a paper for an internship. and god. i was reading it to my white mom. and after i read the concluding paragraph #she asked me to read it again. to which i did. and then after a pause she sighed and said i was being ''too angry'' #and when i asked her to elaborate she simply said ''well it makes it sound as if white people are evil'' #mind you. my application paper is about working at a museum for african american/black art preservation. like. art history is so deeply #saturated with colonialism and racism??? and she just chose to ignore that point of my paper and focus on me critiquing her fellow white #people. and to categorize me as the 'angry black person' are you Fucking kidding me. but then even with that she was like. #''i just don't get why you're so angry. you're not even black. i mean. you don't look black at all. you look mexican'' #she constantly wants my identity to be simple. to be watered down. to be digestible. #i am the product of a biracial mother and fully latin/indigenous father. that is the truth of my identity. i will NEVER be perceived as #white. #but after that i just felt so incredibly shitty and called my sister and she told me what our mom said to her that day too. and i said #something along the lines of ''sometimes i feel as if mom thinks we owe her for adopting us.'' and my sister agreed. #it broke me. it really did. to know that i am not being overdramatic in my thoughts. to know that i am not simply being ungrateful. #my sister says that she copes with it by reasoning that our parents are born in the 40s and times were a lot different then. but it is hard #for me to constantly excuse their racism and ignorance towards my identity. both regarding my queerness and ethnicity. #i am so tired. so so tired.

[daisyachain]

Canadian Pathologic would be a whole big can of worms. Bachelor is a first-gen anglo Upper Canada twerp (possibly with some Irish ancestry), Haruspex is…possibly French-Cree Métis, Changeling is Canadien, the game is set in a black-fly-ridden, possibly Irish Catholic-dominated village in probably Manitoba prior to the Red River Rebellion.

#kelsey liveblogs patho #the central tension of pathologic relies on indigenous and settler communities of similar sizes living in close proximity #with the way the government kidnapped First Nations people and executed any community leaders that emerged #it would be hard to set it any later than the mid-to-late 19th C #Irish Catholic townsfolk would have the super religious overtones while also alienating the Protestant Bachelor and French Changeling #picking Haruspex’ place is more difficult. Métis Haruspex eliminates some of the tension in his identity by having him and his father share #a mixed culture. at the same time as far as I recall Métis communities were more aligned to work with settler industry at the time #while most blackfeet communities kept to themselves and cree communities were often under direct attack by settler forces #though I’d need to look into it further a métis Haruspex would have grown up with an uneasy commercial cooperation with the settlers #that mirrors the core of the story

[unsp0k3n-desires]

SDSU Powwow 2023 🌞🥁

#mine #aunties it’s our time to go outside #ootd #powwow #yoeme #purhepecha #indigenous #powwow season #california #youtuber #indigena #yaqui #ndn #purepecha #vlogger #native american #ribbon skirt #braids #long hair #first nations

[gargoyleofhumankindness]

its such a small thing in the scheme of all the things that annoy me about the show macgyver 2016 

but the thing that most annoys me might be in s1e6 wrench 

theyre talking the whole episode about the ‘peace talks at the un’ and they never specify any countries involved or what conflict theyre talking about

it seems like a massive multilateral it just really really annoys me that they repeatedly say peace talks and were supposed to just accept that oh yeah peace talks thats what happens at the un

#also riley calling the delegates nerdy diplomats very offensive those are my people riley #yes we are all nerdy you have to know a lot of stupid stuff to do ir #also this ep has so many whumportunities that are not exploited #and mac and jack should hug at the end #anyway i have a hefty chest infection and feel pretty weird so im watching season 1 macgyver in the hopes it makes me feel better #meanwhile at the real un aus is talking about Indigenous diplomacy which is very sexy and we heavily support #but also dfat still being unneccesarily cagey about what Indigenous diplomacy is gonna look like #getting a First Nations ambassador #seems like a good idea in theory but not great that theyre suggesting one person can represent the hundreds of Nations to the rest of the wo #not to mention aus only got first female Aboriginal ambassador like 2 years ago and she doesnt work there anymore #idk i feel like theyre saing a lot of the right things but unless they address the systemic racism in dfat theyre gonna be pretty limited #this has been a macgyver rant #this has been a today in world politics rant #this has been a combination macgyver world politics rant #thank you for your time

[ashtrayfloors]

Winter Songs

Two coyotes. Full winter coats puffed out. Follow their morning run through the back alleys and train tracks under generations of graffiti and abandoned murals of 80s sports stars. The discarded shells of burned-out and abandoned land-value-only buildings stand watch over their paw prints left in snow not yet spoiled. Somewhere above, magpies announce their arrival into the territory. Angels welcoming gods of a city gone back to the land through trumpet fare, and the remnants of an “O Canada” anthem playing on endless repeat from abandoned stadiums.

Two coyotes walk back 150 years to a time before skyscrapers and suburbs—man-made lakes, dams, bridges and power plants—and dig up the bones of ancestors laid along the riverbanks. Watch them rise up to dismantle the structures placed on top of quarter sections that divided a country. They spool back barbed wire and let the bison pound the houses into kindling for their winter fires. Marble legislature pillars crushed under the weight of an elk skull. A coyote’s god lives in bones.

—Conor Kerr (x)

#poetry #conor kerr #coyotes #coyote #first nations #indigenous poetry #and it's time time time #recently read #this fucking poem

[aacme]

the problem ultimately with trying to both-sides the nakba is that it’s not israeli history. at least, not in the sense that it really deserves their input. the nakba, in israeli history, is merely a detail. and so they only ever feel it’s necessary to get their side of the story when palestinians tell theirs. they would never feel inclined to tell the story if palestinians didn’t. in fact, they would rather it not be included in history books at all (and it isn’t). but americans, of course, will always feel they need to get the israeli side, which inevitably invites the only zionists who have a perspective on the matter: propagandists.

#this is of course similar to the american view of native american history #minus the propaganda #by the time indigenous rights entered the national conversation the colonial project was basically complete #so propaganda wouldve been unnecessary and redundant #that’s israel’s disadvantage — it was positioned squarely in an armed region hostile to western powers #and developed in an era greatly informed by indigenous rights (see: vietnam and algeria)

[probablyasocialecologist]

Palestine Action ruined a 1914 painting by Philip Alexius de László inside Trinity College, University of Cambridge of Lord Arthur James Balfour – the colonial administrator and signatory of the Balfour Declaration [1]. An activist slashed the homage and sprayed the artwork with red paint, symbolising the bloodshed of the Palestinian people since the Balfour Declaration was issued in 1917.  Arthur Balfour, then UK Foreign secretary, issued a declaration which promised to build “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, where the majority of the indigenous population were not Jewish [2]. He gave away the Palestinians homeland — a land that wasn’t his to give away.   After the Declaration, until 1948, the British burnt down indigenous villages to prepare the way; with this came arbitrary killings, arrests, torture, sexual violence including rape against women and men, the use of human shields and the introduction of home demolitions as collective punishment to repress Palestinian resistance [3] [4]. The British were initiating the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, fulfilling the Zionist aim to build their ‘home’ over the top of what were Palestinian communities, towns, villages, farms and ancestral land, rich in heritage, culture and ancient archeological history [5]. The Palestinians refer to this time as the Nakba — which translates into the great catastrophe. In 1948, the Zionist militia, trained by the British, forced over 750,000 Palestinians into exile, destroyed over 500 villages and forced those who remained to live under a brutal reign of occupation [6].

#palestine #israel #gaza #palestine action #zionism