#indigenous people's day

[uwmspeccoll]

Indigenous People's Day

DR. HENRIETTA MANN Cheyenne

On this Indigenous People’s Day, we are featuring Matika Wilbur’s recent publication Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America, published by Ten Speed Press in 2023. Wilbur (b. 1984) is a visual storyteller and member of the Swinomish and Tulalip peoples of coastal Washington. She holds a degree from the Brooks Institute of Photography alongside a teaching certificate that has shaped her style of educating through narrative portraits.  

Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America, a book born from a documentary project of the same name, resolves to share contemporary Native issues and culture. In 2012 Wilbur set out from Seattle to visit and photograph all 562 plus Native American sovereign territories in the United States.

Wilbur’s engagement with the communities she visited resulted in the creation of hundreds of dynamic portraits and documentation of conversations about “tribal sovereignty, self-determination, wellness, recovery from historical trauma, decolonization of the mind, and revitalization of culture.” She refers to her portraiture approach as “an indigenous photography method” that includes several hours and sometimes days of interaction with the participants, an exchange of energy and gifts, and asking sitters to choose their portrait location. The outcome is a stunning collection of Native narratives and portraits.  

GREG BISKAKONE JOHNSON Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians

HOLLY MITITQUQ NORDLUM  Iñupiaq

J. MIKO THOMAS Chickasaw Nation

MOIRA REDCORN Osage, Caddo

HELENA and PRESTON ARROW-WEED Taos Pueblo/Kwaatsaan, Kamia

STEPHEN YELLOWTAIL Apsáalooke (Crow Nation)

LEI'OHU and LA'AKEA CHUN Kānaka Maoli

ORLANDO BEGAY Diné

KALE NISSEN Colville Tribes

GRACE ROMERO PACHECO Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians

ISABELLA and ALYSSA KLAIN Diné

NANCY WILBUR Swinomish

DR. JEREMIAH "JERRY" WOLFE Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

RUTH DEMMERT Tlingit

MARVA SII~XUUTESNA JONES Tolowa Dee-Ni' Nation, Yurok, Karuk, Wintu

Matika Wilbur will be speaking on UW-Milwaukee's campus Thursday, November 16 from 6-7p.m. in conjunction with her exhibition Seeds of Culture: The Portraits and Voices of Native American Women on view at the Union Art Gallery November 16 through December 15, 2023. 

-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

We acknowledge that in Milwaukee we live and work on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, and Menominee homelands along the southwest shores of Michigami, part of North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee, and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida, and Mohican nations remain present.

#indigenous people's day #matika wilbur #project 562 #Ten Speed Press #Native Americans #holidays #UWM Native American Literature Collecton

[myxozoan]

hi folks, i'm rewind, i am Sł'púlmš(Cowlitz) native american. on account of it being indigenous peoples day today (oct 9th), it would be cool if anyone could help me out. i have autism and i'm severely disabled and getting worse, and money is so tight still, i cant buy anything to take care of myself. appreciate you all so much🙏

ko-fi

my p@yp@l

my amazn wishlist

& my indigenous siblings everywhere, hope you have a wonderful day, i love you

#indigenous people's day

[princessefemmelesbian]

I hope all indigenous lesbians reading this are having a good day today! Drink lots of water and spend time with friends and family! I am here for you!

#lesbian #indigenous people's day

[teakwoodtimes]

1. Listen To and Call Other White Settlers to Listen to Indigenous Truth Telling

2. Support and Donate Money or Land to Indigenous Land Return Efforts

3. Abdicate Time and Space to Indigenous People and Issues in Your Intersectional Social Justice Work

4. Stop Treating Indigenous Genocide and Settler Violence as Things of the Past

#mmiw #land back #native americans #indigenous rights #indigenous people's day

[incinerated]

TA’KAHI’NO EVERYONE TODAY’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY.

I AM A BORIKEN TAÍNO 2S MAOROCOTI AND ANY SETTLERS WHO SEE THIS SHOULD PAY ME!

$voidhex <- CASH 4PP

ASK FOR VMO AND PAYPAL

#GUNKJUNK #indigenous crowdfund #indigenous people's day

[redpanther23]

happy indigenous people's day (isn't it so nice to have a day? doesn't it make up for not having a country? lol)

#furry art #furry #retro #grunge #fursona #punk #comic art #nostalgiacore #panther #cat #columbus day #indigenous people's day

[zo1nkss]

If Google isn't going to give me reparations they should at least let me delete "Columbus Day" out of my calender

#Indigenous #Native #Indigenous people's day

[noahhawthorneauthor]

Happy Indigenous People's Day 📜📚🏳️‍🌈

#noahs book recs #queer books #indie books #book recs #indigenous people's day #writeblr

[ya-world-challenge]

Ah, I realized it's Fuck Columbus Day and people are reblogging my old post of indigenous books. I meant to make a new, updated one at some point. So here's a bunch of covers of ones I'd like to read (and one that I have). I'm especially eyeing those anthologies (the first 2 images)

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Love After the End: Two-Spirit Utopias and Dystopias

A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Barren Grounds by David A Robertson

Weird Rules to Follow by Kim Spencer

Rez Ball by Byron Graves

A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger

Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley

We Didn't Think It Through by Gary Lonesborough

Living on Stolen Land by Ambelin Kwaymullina

Fire from the Sky by Moa Backe Astot

#indigenous people's day #indigenous books #first nations #native american #united states #canada #australia #fuck columbus day

[derseprinceoftbd]

Incidentally, yesterday was the biggest slaughter of the indigenous group I am a part of since what is generally considered to be the worst thing that has ever happened, ever, stopped.

Never forget. We are not the oppressors. All we want is somewhere we can be free. Something the world will always deny us. Bit by bit.

It's happening again.

It's happening again.

#indigenous people's day #israel #judaism #jewish #zionism #jumblr #free the west bank #free israel #antisemitism

[nugothrhythms]

Happy Indigenous People's Day!

For those of you who use Spotify, DJ Mystic of Two Broke Goths made this playlist of indigenous goth/goth-adjacent bands from the US and Canada, starting the playlist with the episode of the Cemetery Confessions episode on indigenous goths.

#Indigenous People's Day #Dj Mystic #indigenous #native american #indigegoth #native goth #Cemetery Confessions #Two Broke Goths #goths of color #goth poc #poc goth #gothgoth #goth adjacent #darkly inclined #goth music #nu goth #new wave #darkwave #gothic #goth #gothwave #gothcore #podcast #playlist #alt #alternative #Spotify

[uwmspeccoll]

Indigenous People’s Day 2022

Today we commemorate Indigenous People’s Day with art by Native American Women from Hearts of Our People: Native American Artists. This exhibition catalog was published in Minneapolis in 2019 by the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) in conjunction with the University of Washington Press to accompany the traveling exhibit “Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists.” The exhibition catalog was prepared by MIA curator Jill Ahlberg Yohe and Kiowa artist Teri Greeves. 

While the exhibit and its catalog featured art from antiquity through the present, I decided to primarily focus on the work of living artists, with the exception of the marble by Edmonia Lewis. Lewis, born in the mid-19th century to an African-Hatian father and a Black and Mississauga mother, is credited with being the first African American and first Native American to attain international success in the art scene. Trained in and working out of Rome, Lewis incorporated themes of Blackness and Indigeneity into her Neoclassical sculptural work. Whether through the subversion of traditionally European artforms or the reimagining of Indigenous traditions, the contemporary artists featured here alongside Lewis bring the depth of Native visual languages to a wide range of mediums.

Explore the exhibit further through the exhibition page from the Smithsonian American Art Institute, which hosted the exhibit from February 21-March 13, 2020.  

View past Indigenous People’s Day posts here.

Find more posts on Native Americans here. 

-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#Indigenous People's Day #Hearts of Our People #minneapolis institute of art #University of Washington Press #Teri Greeves #jill ahlberg yohe #Edmonia Lewis #Ashley Fairbanks #Joan Hill #Lou-ann Neel #Jamie Okuma #Jody Folwell #C. Maxx Stevens #Christine McHorse #Cara Romero #Keri Ataumbi #Indigenous Artists #Indigenous Art #Indigenous Women #Native American Art #Native American Artists #Native Americans #olivia

[vpgoldenrod]

I'd like to talk about why I hate "Indigenous People's Day." (Trigger warning for sexual violence and body horror.)

It's well meaning, I think. And for the longest I appreciated it. But part of the insidious nature of genocide is that it erases culture, and lumping the over one thousand independent tribes of the Americas as “indigenous peoples,” a broad term for people who existed in a land before they were colonized, does exactly that.

Christopher Columbus was a vile pendejo whose torture and genocide of my ancestors was so disgusting that he was arrested and tried for horrific acts that included live dismemberment, cannibalism and sexual crimes even against children. In 1500 Columbus wrote,

“A hundred castellanoes are easily obtained for a woman as a farm...and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from about nine to ten are now in demand.”

Bartolome de Las Casas was a Spanish priest and contemporary of Columbus who detailed many of his abuses. After watching Columbus and his men dismember, decapitate and otherwise murder over 3,000 Taino people in a single day wrote,

“Such inhumanities and barbarisms were committed in my sight as no age can parallel...My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature that now I tremble as I write.”

I want day of remembrance for the Iraquios, the Cherokee, the Lenape, the Shawnee. Replacing Thanksgiving with a day of remembrance of the Wampanoag tribe would be a great start, I think.

But the story of Christopher Columbus is the story of the suffering of the Taino, the Arawak, and the Lucayan. Please remember them.

#indigenous people's day #indigenous peoples day #Columbus Day #Christopher Columbus #indigenous people #Taino #Arawak #Lucayan #colonialism #colonizers #They were not fucking Indians

[sastiel-is-my-serotonin]

Happy Indigenous People's Day, I am an indigenous person who is currently homeless. In these past three days I've walked forty miles with my older sister trying to pull enough money together for our younger siblings to have a place to sleep. For two days we didn't sleep, and when we finally did it was at a park for a few hours after having to keep ourselves up all night. We're incredibly bit up, sore, have many blisters and bruises, and are getting sick again. If you want to help an indigenous family here are many links you can share or donate to! We've nearly been homeless for a year and are simply trying to survive!! If anyone can help we appreciate it a ton! Much love to other indigenous people, hope things are well or will be well for you all!! <333

Gofund.me

Cash.app

Paypal

Venmo

#Indigenous People's Day #This is late bc I am so tired and had to wait for my phone to charge #It was dead all day yesterday and hasn't fully been charged for a while #Even now #Anything anyone could do to help means the world to us <333

[noxwithoutstars]

HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY!!!

#cw caps #indigenous people's day

[chaotic-archaeologist]

Indigenous People's Day Spotlight

Dr. Sonya Atalay is an Indigenous archaeologist who has published a series of comic books on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).

NAGPRA was passed in 1990 (in the United States) with the intention of beginning to rectify colonial/archaeological harms perpetuated against remains and cultural artifacts of Indigenous Ancestors.

This work of repatriation is ongoing, and Dr. Atalay's comic series draws attention to recent NAGPRA initiatives being undertaken by various Indigenous groups across the country.

You can download the PDF versions of both current issues for free from the official website (above).

#he speaks #indigenous people's day #indigenous people #nagpra