#Tsalagi

[xylographica]

the frog swallows the sun

#eclipse #solar eclipse #ᏣᎳᎩ #frog #digital art #reductive #animal #Cherokee #tsalagi

[sahonithereadwolf]

So my nation (ᏣᎳᎩᏱ ᏕᏣᏓᏂᎸᎩ) has this thing where they will put bear statues up and get local artist to paint them and it's one of my favorite things

#eastern band cherokee #tsalagi #bears

[akayv]

Reposting because Tumblr is Not having the other photoset of this thang

Cherokee Double Wall Basket Purse

ᎯᎠ ᏔᎷᏣ ᎠᏬᏢᏅ - I made this basket!

ᎦᎵᏉᎩ ᎢᏳᏟᎶᏓ - 7 hours

Gauge 3 round reed, 1/2" flat reed belt, some half oval reed at the base. Gauge 2 round reed bow.

An experimental commission! Basket itself is about 10 inches deep. Thrifted the shoulder chain from a belt. 🤔 Going to look into this more since I need the income and I like the direction of making these more accessible/ easy to use.

#ᏣᎳᎩ #Tsalagi #Cherokee #indigenous art #basket weaving

[thundahouse]

as i said in previous posts, mouth's apocalypse, now known as Wormwood has had some serious rewrites in it's worldbuilding. likewise a lot of the characters got complete makeovers, so meet nicolas once again! admittedly he does feel like a completely brand new character with the same name as another, but i like him this way and i think he finally has an identity of his own

#nicolas #wormwood #tsalagi #he does still have his braids you just cant see them in this instance lol

[purpledamonarch]

ᎣᏏᏲ ᏂᎦᏓ, ᎠᎦᏍᎦ ᏓᏆᏙᎥ ᏔᎵᏍᎦ ᏌᏊ ᏯᏩᏓᏘᏴᏛ ᏥᏣᎳᎩ ᎣᎦᎳᎰᎻ ᏥᏁᎳ.

Hello everyone, my name is Rain, I'm 21 years old. I'm Cherokee from Oklahoma, and I'm a full time student currently with no job. I have art commissions open, but if anyone feels like tossing some money my way my cashapp is $RaggedyRain.

ᎭᎵᎮᎵᏍᏗ ᎠᏂᏴᏫ ᎢᎦ

Happy Indigenous People's Day

ᏩᏙ

Thank you.

#rain speaks #indigenous #cherokee #tsalagi #ᏣᎳᎩ

[litlestpinkmoon]

I want to learn the Cherokee language

My mother speaks a fair amount of Cherokee and Gaelic, so does my sister, grandmother and most members of my family.

We’ll likely be going to visit family on the reservation this summer, and while obviously they weren’t all only speaking Cherokee, it still feels weird being the only one who doesn’t speak any of it.

Are there any good ( free ) resources? I’ve heard of an online children’s show, I just can’t find it anywhere as I don’t remember the name. Any help would be appreciated!

#tsalagi #cherokee #language #langauge learning tips #langblr #ᏣᎳᎩ

[cipher-the-sidhe]

I love you cedar and tobacco smoke

I love you feather fan and jingle dress

I love you wood flute and beading

I love you fry bread and jewel corn

I love you ribbon skirt and shawl

I love you drum and electric powwow

I love you ancestors

I love you descendants

Sgi sgi sgi nigvda

Gvgeyui

Thank you thank you thank you everyone

I love you

#indigenous #orange shirt day #ndn #tsalagi

[atiglain]

I wish I understood a little more about the underlying ethos behind the tsalagi/ᏣᏔᎩ syllabary construction. Why did Sequoyah choose these specific symbols? Like obviously some of them resemble Latin letters and some of them Cyrillic or Greek but they do not correspond to the sounds those letters represent at all. And I think this is intentional but I do wonder about.. I Guess his art direction? I want to pick his brain he was obviously a super smart dude

But god the more i learn the more i realize how fucking genius this language is. I think it was Albert Gallatin that said that tsalagi could be read almost immediately after learning the syllabary? And he’s right, it’s way faster than Navajo/Diné which uses Latin script. Basically it has the efficiency mechanism of Japanese Kana but like. That’s the whole language. It’s really really awesome. Also I like the grammar structure and on an aesthetic level I think the syllabary is very pretty. I think I might put Diné on the back burner and just learn Tsalagi from now on.

#language tag #<-starting this #tsalagi

[kemetic-dreams]

Traditionally, the people now known as Cherokee refer to themselves as Aniyunwiya (ah nee yun wee yah), a name usually translated as "the Real People," sometimes "the Original People."

▪The Cherokee never had princesses. This is a concept based on European folktales and has no reality in Cherokee history and culture. In fact, Cherokee women were very powerful. They owned all the houses and fields, and they could marry and divorce as they pleased. Kinship was determined through the mother's line.

Clan mothers administered justice in many matters. Beloved women were very special women chosen for their outstanding qualities. As in other aspects of Cherokee culture, there was a balance of power between men and women. Although they had different roles, they both were valued.

▪The Cherokee never lived in tipis. Only the nomadic Plains tribes did. The Cherokee were southeastern woodland natives, and in the winter they lived in houses made of woven saplings, plastered with mud and roofed with poplar bark. In the summer they lived in open-air dwellings roofed with bark.

▪The Cherokee have never worn feathered headdresses except to please tourists. These long headdresses were worn by Plains Natives and were made popular through Wild West shows and Hollywood movies. Cherokee men traditionally wore a feather or two tied at the crown of the head. In the early 18th century, Cherokee men wore cotton trade shirts, loincloths, leggings, front-seam moccasins, finger-woven or beaded belts, multiple pierced earrings around the rim of the ear, and a blanket over one shoulder. At that time, Cherokee women wore mantles of leather or feathers, skirts of leather or woven mulberry bark, front-seam moccasins, and earrings pierced through the earlobe only. By the end of the 18th century, Cherokee men were dressing much like their white neighbors. Men were wearing shirts, pants, and trade coats, with a distinctly Cherokee turban. Women were wearing calico skirts, blouses, and shawls. Today Cherokee people dress like other Americans, except for special occasions, when the men wear ribbon shirts with jeans and moccasins, and the women wear tear dresses with corn beads, woven belts, and moccasins.

▪The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) are descended from Cherokee people who had taken land under the Treaty of 1819 and were allowed to remain in North Carolina; from those who hid in the woods and mountains until the U.S. Army left; and from those who turned around and walked back from Oklahoma. By 1850 they numbered almost a thousand. Today the Eastern Band includes about 11,000 members, while the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma claims more than 100,000 members, making the Cherokee the largest tribe in the United States.

▪Cherokee arts and crafts are still practiced: basket-weaving, pottery, carving, finger-weaving, and beadwork.

▪The Cherokee language is spoken as a first language by fewer than a thousand people and has declined rapidly because of the policies of federally operated schools. However, since the tribe has begun operation of their own schools, Cherokee language is being systematically taught in the schools.

▪Traditional Cherokee medicine, religion, and dance are practiced privately.

▪There have never been Cherokee shamans. Shamanism is a foreign concept to North America. The Cherokee have medicine men and women.

▪"aho" is not a Cherokee word and Cherokee speakers never use it. Most are actually offended by the misuse of this word. It's not some kind of universal Native word used by all tribes, as many believe. Each individual tribe have their own languages. We can respect these languages by using them correctly or not at all.

▪In order to belong to one of the seven Cherokee clans, your mother had to have been/be Cherokee and her clan is passed on to you. If the maternal line has been broken by a non Cherokee or someone had all sons, you have no clan, which is the case with many today.

▪There is only one Cherokee tribe that consist of three bands. The Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, United Keetoowah Band of Oklahoma and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina. All others who claim a different band than one of the three above are not considered Cherokee and are a direct threat to Cherokee tribal sovereignty. In fact, to be Cherokee, one must be registered with the tribe, as Cherokee is a citizenship granted through documentation. One can have Native DNA but is not considered Cherokee until they are a registered tribal citizen.

Via N. Bear

Cherokee man

North Carolina

#aniyunwiya #asian #asian american #native american #first nation peoples #kemetic dreams #tsalagi

[monarch-art]

ᏒᏃᏱ (Night)

#art #tsalagi

[xylographica]

Gift

From the Cherokee First Fire story

#reductive #digital #lil sketch cuz I was itching to do art yesterday but I didn’t wanna make anything big #the imagery is from the Cherokee first fire story #it just stuck in my brain and felt like it’d be really fun to draw #and it was #and I bet this is gunna look huge on peoples dashes and you’ll be able to see exactly how low res it is #tsalagi #cherokee #ᏣᎳᎩ

[sahonithereadwolf]

My nation put together this Tsalagi language children's show ...

as an language learning tool and it's just the cutest thing on the planet. I don't think I can explain the feeling of not only seeing your culture on screen and the language used in the way it is, but also... like to see these characters and what their wearing and it feels immediately familiar. Like I know who these people are immediately.

It's definitely made me not feel as alone in some of the stuff I make given how I see the same sorta notes and characters resonate here. If anything it’s made me want to create more. I'm bristling with energy. Just seeing my people out there. Being cool and in motion.

It’s just pure cozy elation. This would have meant everything to me as a kid.

#Inage'i #tsalagi #cherokee #animation

[akayv]

ᏜᎢᏓ - Dla'ida

8/19-9/30

Pokeberry dyed reeds.

Poke is a plant my grandmother and I would forage growing up, the plant is toxic so it has to be prepared right, you cannot eat the berries at all.

The ratio for pokeberry is 25:1 😊 had some trial and error with this. Foraged the berries myself and the second go around was more of a berry mash than a dye mix.

#Cherokee #Tsalagi #ᏣᎳᎩ #basket weaving #craftwork #pokeweed

[thundahouse]

uhh warrior girl doodle, kinda old but i never posted

#cherokee #tsalagi

[spaceysoupy]

In my feels about Anvdvnelisgi again. Begging all my tsalagi moots to go and listen to it if you haven’t yet ᎦᎸᎳᏗ has got me in a chokehold

#tsalagi #anvdvnelisgi #galvladi

[panther-os]

Kama - noun, Mando'a; belt-spat, battle-skirt

Kamama (ᎧᎹᎹ) - noun, Tsalagi; butterfly

Clones with butterfly wings on their butts

that is all

#/incoherent noises/ #star wars the clone wars #clone troopers #mandoa #ᏣᎳᎩ #tsalagi #captain rex #commander wolffe #commander fox #commander bly #commander thorn #arc trooper fives #arc trooper echo #arc trooper jesse #commander havoc #commander colt #commander blitz #commander hammer #alpha 17 #alpha clone troopers #commander fil #commander bacara #captain fordo #commander ponds #commander trauma #art prompt #fanart prompt #star wars prompt #there isn't a list of clones who wear kamas and thats a crime #commander jet