#Native Family History

[mimi-0007]

Introducing My Great Great Grandma. Mrs. Lula Franklin Black Wright. This beautiful native American (free slave) Woman was born in 1888. She passed in 1996. She had a story to tell. Please check out her story.

#black history #black tumblr #black literature #black excellence #black community #black girl magic #beautiful woman #native women #native american #black family #family

[patriamrealm]

This, this silly little thought is what caused the brainworm from the last post. Just Ingo absently solving century long mysteries. One that Emmet has been struggling to solve since he was a kid.

Bonus: Emmet, and Drayden are terrible at telling Ingo basic things about their family. It’s very frustrating for Ingo. Admittedly they don’t tell him in the hopes that enough familiar stimuli will help with him remembering. It does not.

Despite their worries, being told things does not cause sudden memory flashes nor headaches even if he does remember something. Bit of misunderstanding of his amnesia. Really he’d much prefer them stop treating him like glass and just tell him things.

#pokemon!aspects #submas #ingo #emmet #Something happened to the diamond and pearl clans that their nobles and info of them is just gone #that doesn't mean the people decedent from them #don't know they're native sinnoan #they actively keep their history and culture alive and well but many things were lost #Like a collection of about 10 clans that still all call themselves the celestica #all the clans come together once a year for a grand celebration and those that live in other regions return to Sinnoh during that time too #Unfortunatly Ingo doesn't remember this and his family is very good at not telling him anything #they also don't relize that he does know all the clan's lost history #he was there before it was all lost #it hurts him a lot to find out what happened though

[queenlucythevaliant]

We see him come and know him ours

Russia: "Carol of the Russian Children," traditional // Kenya: The Nativity, Elima Njau // France: "Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella," Nicolas Saboly // Haiti: Madonna and Child, Ismael Saincilus // Australia: "The Three Drovers," William James // China: Tryptic by Lu Hongnian // Canadian/Algonquian: "Huron Carol," Jean de Brébeuf

#the visual depictions are lovely #but what really gets me every time are the little cultural details in the music #music that tells the story of the Nativity while placing it in a world that's familiar to the listener #fur robed moujiks on snowboard plateaus in place of middle eastern shepherds #bark lodges instead of stables and rabbit skin in place of swaddling clothes #wandering hunter and chiefs from far off places instead of shepherds and wise men (man i love the Huron Carol) #and little french girls running to gather the village to come see Jesus #it's easy for an excess of historical concern to make Jesus feel distant and far off #/I know/ that Jesus was born in the ancient near east and have had my fill of books and sermons and the like unpacking the implications #I've laughed with my friends and family at the wild inaccuracies of Nativity sets and tellings #the crazy blonde mary in the kids nativity set at Walmart #what is that alpaca doing at the living Nativity don't they know those are south American? #yada yada #and then i look at these carols and think. it's okay not to get mired in the history. good even #yes Jesus entered into time and space in a very specific manner #but he also came for all of us #as another carol says: we see him come and know him ours #i just think this practice is lovely #that the impact of the Incarnation was such that it send little french girls running to their villages #and drew algonquin hunters and russian peasants to the manger to see him #it's the great crowd of witnesses in a way #all of us together preparing him room throughout all the corners of the earth #in Bethlehem that night it was only the shepherds who got to see him #but in spirit it was all of us #because it's just like the angel said: #good news of great joy which will be to all people #to all people #starting with the shepherds and going out to all the earth #unto us a child is born #intertextuality

[aroaceleovaldez]

one more post to round off my night of ramblings of details everyone forgot: reminder that Leo Valdez is canonically Native! We’re never given any details but Sammy explicitly states that he is Native, which makes Leo also Native.

#pjo #riordanverse #hoo #heroes of olympus #leo valdez #this also means Jason is the only member of the LH Trio who isn't Native #[holding out headcanon] with your help though we can change that /hj #listen. listen. Jason was raised by the romans so it figures he wouldn't know his family history #and Thalia never says anything about it SO. LIKE. HEAR ME OUT- #its free real estate

[whenweallvote]

Three years ago today, Secretary Deb Haaland became the first Native American person to hold a Cabinet position in U.S. history.

She is also one of the first Native women to serve in Congress, where she focused on environmental justice, climate change, missing and murdered Indigenous women, and family-friendly policies. 

#womens history month #whm #WomensHistoryMonth #womens history #native american #indigenous #deb haaland #congress #cabinet #climate change #environmental justice #family

[goldiipond]

maybe this is me having too much faith in the people calling for the extermination of an entire ethnic group but idk. i feel like the fact that israel has the most powerful settler colony on the fucking planet bending over backwards to defend them from literally every other country should be enough to make at least some zionists realize that they are not the good guys

#skye's ramblings #i dont know man im just. so tired. im so fucking angry all the time. i want this to end #i dont understand how people dont see that this is literally just textbook colonialism. and how some do know and simply dont care #i dont have enough contact with the native side of my family to feel justified saying 'as a native person-' #and i certainly dont want to speak over palestinians but fuck man. this just cuts so deep. white people have been doing this for centuries #they dont care about the lives the history the rich beautiful culture they dont fucking care about anything that lacks 'pure western values #they dont fucking care all they fucking do is destroy and steal because everything belongs to them in their eyes #israel is an illegitimate state composed of europeans living on stolen land that they say is theirs bc they're 'gods chosen people' #the 'savages' are now 'terrorists' but the sentiment remains that they are a stain that must be erased to make way fr the good white people #your philosophy is a poorly disguised recreation of manifest destiny that uses judaism as a shield #as if your religion has any relevancy to the fact that people fucking hate you for gleefully slaughtering families and stealing their homes #i dont know. i grieve the lack of connection to that side of my culture and these people are having theirs ripped away from them as i speak #i dont know how people can support this. i dont know. i feel sick.

[lionofchaeronea]

The Nativity, Lorenzo Leonbruno da Mantova, ca. 1515

#Christmas #Christmas Day #art #art history #Lorenzo Leonbruno da Mantova #religious art #Biblical art #Christian art #Christianity #Gospels #New Testament #Holy Family #Nativity #Renaissance #Renaissance art #Italian Renaissance #Cinquecento #Italian art #16th century art #National Museum of Western Art #oil on panel

[eurydice-and-the-off-beats]

Having many family members who are of vastly different cultures and ethnicities is fun and all until they get to you and ask what you are.

#like culturally I’m Native American (Cree. Mi’kmaq. Dene. and Taino) #like my Caribbean chapan literally passed down her family’s spiritual traditions #so uh. ceremony is a bit different #ethnically I think I’m just indigenous #but like it changes drastically for my parents #my mom is native and Asian #while her mom is culturally Asian and native #dad is native #while his mom is French and native #his dad is native #all while being Latino and Fijian decent #no joke I have cousins who are actually from fiji all thanks to my third chapan #and the thing is that they all passed down stories and cultures #they just stopped when residential schools became mandatory #so the cultural practices and family history all stopped with my grandparents. #my parents saw the remnants of it #they just weren’t told anything #it was a whole can of worms we unleashed #coming from generations of mixed people is difficult #but it definitely makes a cool story! #like a whole family album would be insane to look at

[hjellacott]

The problem with diversity, Woke and Cancel Culture in TV & film (written by an actual filmmaker)

These days you surely have noticed plenty of attempts to "mend history". People destroy Christopher Columbus memorials, pretend like their ancestors didn't violently conquer territory that was already occupied (by either native tribes or other established civilizations), and try to rewrite history in a way that is less offensive, as if that undoes the "wrongs" that were done. And I say "wrongs" because of course the past is always going to look wrong if you look at it with the lenses of the present. For example, think of the most embarrassing thing you ever did in childhood; the reason why you think it was embarrassing is only that you're looking at it now as a grown-up, and grown-up you wouldn't do that thing - doesn't mean it was wrong for a child to do it, nor even really embarrassing.

The same goes to history. Imagine if Germany had spent its post WW2 years destroying every evidence of the holocaust, Nazism and WW2 and pretending it didn't happen. Not only would it have been incredibly offensive and hurtful to the victims and their descendants, but also, erasing history means forgetting history, and when you forget history, you're doomed to repeat it. Yet somehow, it's been OK to do this with literally anything else, leading to the phenomenom of "Cancel Culture".

Now everyone's getting hurt, offended and ashamed by things that are well in the past, and instead of looking at them like a repressentative of the past, people seek to erase them, pretend they never happened, cancel them, try to vanish them from the Earth. For example when they throw Columbus' monuments into the ocean, or rewrite school books and neglect to inform children of how truly sad our past as human race is (and all these things have actually happened, I'm not exaggerating).

But when it comes to TV and film, you can't make them disappear, specially not in the era of Netflix, so what do they do? Try to redo them but "better". And then, legendary products of TV and film, such as Charmed, Friends, and so on, get either rebooted or attempted to be repeated in some similar fashion, and the "copy" sinks abysmally, while the popularity of the original rises.

There's a reason why the Charmed reboot hasn't been even a third of well-known as the original, why HIMYF sank after only two seasons, why there has never been anything quite like Friends, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, why the new Star Wars movies don't get as popular as the original six, why Modern Family couldn't be done today, why TV and film are running out of original ideas and getting stupider and stupider, why Woke and Cancel Culture are setting fire to the world of good film and TV, or why the only good reboot I can think of was The Ghostbusters (women's version). Spending life trying to do the past again but "better" (or what you think is better according to your present lenses), instead of accepting the past as it is and coming up with new, original things that revolutionise film and TV, doesn't lead to anything but boredom and failure.

I've been working in film for years, it's what I studied, what I devoted my life to, and over and over, we all in the industry keep discussing the same thing: there are no new ideas, and this "diversity" thing is a farce. Diversity cannot come from non-diversity. Until you have diversity in production companies, script writers, show creators, directors... there won't be diversity. Not for real. Taking a show as great as Charmed for example and do it again "but with POC actors" is NOT diversity, is a joke. Same can be said about HIMYF.

And thing is, there is nothing wrong with having shows without diversity, or with barely any. There is nothing wrong with having shows or movies where everyone is white or male, I mean, look at the Marvel Universe, it's mostly built around grown-up white men with good looks playing superheroes. Men like it because it's got superheroes and action, women like it because the men look great, and children like it for the great special effects. Thing is, the writer's mantra is "write about what you know". So if you're white, went to Harvard in the 1980s, and grew up in say, Ohio, you should totally be writing about white people, because anything else is dishonest, with yourself and everyone else. How are you going to write about the lived experiences of people who you aren't even friends with? who you don't know anything about but stereotypes? No. If what you know about is a bunch of white men in NYC, then that's what you fucking write about. Yes, you do your research, but you, white boy from Arizona, don't start to do research about a lesbian girl from Sri Lanka to make her your main character in your new TV series, because all the research in the world won't make it right, unless you actually know well a real lesbian girl from Sri Lanka (or a country with a similar culture). Because your research will end up in stereotypes, trust me. And it'll suck.

And you definitely don't write about diversity behaving and pretending to be white men. For example, HIMYF. A show that attempts to be the diverse version of HIMYM. But it's not funny. It's not half as great. Why? Because it's too Woke. It showcases POC and women trying to behave like white American men, and it doesn't work.

I could go on about this for years and years (and please do feel free to ask anything) because it's such a massive issue, truly, and as a filmmaker, my ovaries are fucking huge with rage about the whole thing. But I'll leave it at this. We as a civilization need to develop thicker skin and learn to laugh at ourselves. No kidding the new generation is being called "crystal", damn, it's so bloody fragile. We need to be OK with jokes and even insults, and take them as what they are: the real repressentation of somebody's lived experience. I'm not saying racism is OK, but I am saying that I'd much rather someone is true to themselves so I know they're racists and choose not to be mates with them, than creating a fake world where everyone's fake and dishonest and pretending to be what they're not. Fake it until you make it never works. Not even actors do it.

What we see today in film and TV with the reboots and the "correction" is precisely that: fake and dishonest. Pretending like black actors have it as easy as white actors to get cast, like black stories can be identical to white stories, like producers and big companies aren't racist and sexist and homophobic because they make rainbow T-Shirts and say Love is Love like they're being paid for it (because they are), is fooling yourself and giving money to actual assholes pretending to be angels. We're forgetting what it means to have actual principles set in stone, and we're being content with people simply "pretending" for the sake of money and fame.

And I'll tell you one last thing: consume things and accept them and love them for what they are. I'm a woman and I come from minorities, but do I laugh when Barney Stinson says a sexist joke? yes. Because I accept he's a sexist asshole and I don't pretend to change him, I laugh and roll my eyes and think "typical Barney", and so far, having seen HIMYM several times, I haven't heard him say something so hurtful and inconsiderate that I actually got offended, mostly because I understand he's not a bad guy, he's just a product of the way he was raised and that's the whole point. To put it simple: don't get angry at a cat because it won't bark. And when I want to watch something that's feminist and all about female empowerment, I watch Charmed and see guys like Barney getting their arse handed to them by ferocious women.

And when I want badass POC or LGBT stories, guess what? Nothing, because we're yet to give POC or LGBT people enough of a platform as producers, script writers and creators to create badass LGBT or POC stories, so all we have is white people dressed as LGBT/POC in white shows dressing-up as diversity shows, and that's ladies and gentlemen how Sex and the City the reboot was born.

#diversity #tv #film #himym #friends #himyf #charmed #charmed reboot #modern family #history #race #war #natives #cancel culture #cancelling #harry potter #star wars #the lord of the rings #the ghostbusters #woke #sex and the city

[topgunreacts]

In the story for the Werewolf Ice, you said that each of Val Kilmer's characters should turn into werewolves. We couldn't agree more on that! But could you please tell us what breed and color of wolf you have in mind for Val’s characters?

I am extremely headcanon-promiscuous, so each iteration would definitely come with its own distinct type of wolf. Overlaps, if they happen, would be circumstantial. When I write Iceman, he has a completely different family in each story, for example. I like the diversity, and enjoy being forced to come up with a different background that makes me consider what it was about THAT background that made Ice himself.

It doesn’t always need to be deep, either. Werewolf Iceman is an Iberian wolf, a subspecies of gray wolf that lives in Greenland. Just kidding. It’s the Iberian peninsula. I picked that wolf for Top Gun Iceman because they are trim, tightly muscled, and golden in color, just like Iceman’s tits in the volleyball scene. Also, Iberian wolves are cool.

Time for a

~Thunderheart Intermission~

Werewolf Ray Levoi is a Eurasian wolf, also a subspecies of gray wolf. Because Thunderheart takes place on an Indian Reservation and features a character of mixed indigenous/western European descent, I incorporated that into the lore of the story. The ancestral werewolf who gives Ray his power lives in modern day France, where she is worshiped, respected, and mostly feared. Ray’s mother is from a line of females (my werewolves pas down their power matrilineally) who immigrated from Europe to America. They are out of place in the US. Lost and isolated from their arcane culture. Ray specifically struggles with that on both fronts. His mother the European werewolf was too afraid to pass most things down to her son, and white settlers initiated multiple genocides to wipe out local werewolf populations, even seeking to kill the local ancestors to hobble them. This is because werewolf magic works to prevent things like consolidation of magical power. They’re like the water cycle but for magic. That makes hoarding magic very difficult! So Ray has almost NO connection to his werewolf side. He can’t even get in with the local werewolves because there aren’t any left (that he knows of…).

Similarly, he feels disconnected from his father’s people, the Oglala. His dad died when he was young, so he had very little exposure to Oglala culture. He’s white passing, and only goes back because his bosses at the FBI want him to root out activists, which he will do suuuuuper successfully by ingratiating himself with the locals. This will happen because he [checks smudged writing on partially censored document] shares an ancestry with the people his bosses are trying to put in the ground. For obvious reasons, this does not make him popular there because everyone with a brain cell knows what the fuck is up.

This is Walter and Ray doing their First Look on their wedding day. :) The sexual tension here is palpable.

But wait there’s more!!! In this AU, Ray is a black Eurasian wolf. Why? Because all black wolves have a little domesticated dog in them. That’s where they get that color. I didn’t pick a representative identity for the wolf and dog parts, since that’s not what I’m going for, especially given the fact that this AU is working with indigenous Americans: marginalized groups of people frequently compared to animals by virulent racists. Instead, the color is meant to symbolize Ray being torn between the magical and mundane worlds, being unable to find complete belonging in either place.

~the intermission has ended~

And now what you probably came here for: a small, unofficial official list of potential Val Kilmer Werewolves.

Tombstone Kilmer: red wolf that is always a lil dusty

Batman Kilmer: a timber wolf that was born in a zoo next to the bat enclosure

Real Genius Kilmer: a coyote pretending to be a wolf

Willow Kilmer: a tundra wolf wearing a wizard hat

Prince of Egypt Kilmer: Wepwawet's cousin

10th & Wolf Kilmer: human. too human.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Kilmer: extremely smart great plains wolf that willingly does enrichment puzzles with human field researchers for fun

#ask #Thunderheart #walter crow horse #ray levoi #werewolf lore #werewolf au #I really regret the shame in my dads side of the family that took away the opportunity to experience my Cherokee ancestry #I was so close! my great grandfather spoke the language and went to a boarding school #but the trauma of existing while native in the us led many people to throw away that history because it was so painful #I’ve got some physical traits and that’s it #my grandma also has Cherokee ancestry and was super passionate about researching that side of her family #her dads dad was the last to be born on a reservation proper; she was born in a sharecropper cabin in Oklahoma near but not within the rez #but she was so proud of that; the hours she put into honoring that painful past are humbling to me as a research professional #she had an 8th grade education #but because of her I know multiple generations of names and my clan heritage #she even found scans of enlistment papers showing one particular ancestor's participation in the war of 1812

[ciderjacks]

wish there were more ndn creole blogs on here, it’s all recipes and history pages, like we’re still around and being a creole ndn is way different to a non creole ndn experience, I know we’re around cause I met one a few weeks ago irl just by chance, but everyone acts like we’re either only in Louisiana and not worth acknowledging or just gone altogether.

#lousiana creole #Pls we have really interesting history #Ppl only talk about us when they want to prove something #It’s true most creoles r in Louisiana but clearly not all of us #Also ppl only ever consider creoles and cajuns as literally black and white #Cajuns are a subset creoles and cajuns are also often mixed. Like around 40% of all Cajuns are ndn. #Creoles can be mostly native creoles can be mostly white Cajuns can be mostly black #Most of us r all a lil mixed but it’s not as simple as everyone else makes it out to be #Issa whole culture and ethnic group that deserves recognition #Like my family left Louisiana we’re cut off from everyone else bc of family drama we live far away but we still keep our culture close #Or at least my grandpa did but you still see it echoing #idk sorry i’m just rambling now #But we used to be huge before Louisiana became America #American White supremacy fucked us over and our language and culture were all attempted to be wiped out #They forcefully segregated us that’s why now Cajuns are considered white Creoles are consider mixed or black #Makes me sad to see ppl treating us like we’re gone when we’re not

[harvestar]

tbh if I thought I could get away with it I would absolutely change my last name to two shirts. its so good. I am always wearing two shirts

#ktxt #the true native diaspora experience. I know nothing abt my tribe's basic shit but I could tell you my weird family history fun facts #I actually think we weren't technically a part of the tribe for Reasons from what my mom told me #like I think there was murder involved ?? like a bluebeard situation where the guy killed his wives. will have to ask my mom again #I know there were some generations who lived on the rez after that (my great grandpa and his mom) but I don't know the story #but yeah my mom thinks we're jicarilla apache based on everything she went through and compiled #hard tho cause my great grandpa wouldn't talk a lot about it bc he did get put in [the equivalent of a boarding school] #wow sorry for oversharing in tags its just really interesting to me I like talking abt it and remembering it #someday I will be trying to tell my nephews fragmented things like this about our history Lol

[bahbs]

#Thanksgiving1612 #Time Travel Adventure #Historical Feast #Kids Learning #Pilgrims and Natives #Gratitude Journey #Educational Fun #Interactive History #Family Friendly #Historical Crafts #Feast Preparation #Cultural Exploration #Friendship Tales #Time Travel Magic #Animated Storytelling #Festive Music #Lively Dances #First Thanksgiving #Historical Exploration #Kids Entertainment #Wild Canada for Kids #Youtube

[mimi-0007]

#native people #native love #native lives matter #native family #natve land #native american history #native american #black community #native beauty

[brave-aioli]

asked my grandpa his thoughts on Oppenheimer and if he had any stories about him (his village is very close to los alamos). his response:

#love that part of my family history is my great great grandpa sassing the father of the atomic bomb #oppenheimer #wish the film would’ve acknowledged how many Hispano and Native folks were displaced and forcibly removed from their homes #it wasn’t just a barren wasteland #feel free to reblog

[jaejoongs-nipple-piercing]

As you can see, the Europeans now overpower the Natives.

#random #personal post #this is part of my family history #also me at my last job #the pink ones are the natives