#métis

[piizunn]

ᓄᐦᑕᐃᐧᕀ ᐊᐢᑯᑖᐢᑯᐱᓱᐣ nohtawiy askotâskopison, My Father’s Cradleboard by Morgan Possberg Denne

The New Gallery, November 18 - December 22, 2023

“Cradleboards have been used for thousands of years by our ancestors to carry and love for our future generations. They have protected us, acted as an external womb, and given us a place as children to watch our parents' culture and learn from a safe distance. I’ve always wondered if the fact that neither my father, his father, or myself was ever put in a cradleboard may have had a long term impact on our development, personhood, and our coping mechanisms to the ways that colonialism, residential schools and the foster care system has affected my family.

Now as an adult I deeply wish I could rewind the clock and put myself, and my father before me, and his father before him in a cradleboard as a child. To softly sing songs to us, give us safety, and to give us a connection to our culture in a safe environment. Maybe this would fix things. As kids when we were supposed to be kept safe and playing in the woods we were instead being prepped for the meat factory - the eternal meat grinder of colonialism.

The western world teaches us to push aside this childhood imagining and innocence - “These things can’t be undone!”, but what if they could? In another world somebody took better care of us, in another time we learned to drum and sing and dance, in another place we were listened to by adults who had the capacity to love and care for us.

These hot chest and aching throat feelings, the times of biting back angry tears and saying “It’s fine” have to count for something….right?”

“Morgan Possberg Denne is Two-Spirit millennial scoop and foster care survivor; with settler, Cree, Metis, and Chippewa blood connections. They have grown up in treaty 7 territory, and have relatives in southern and northern Ontario. Morgan creates imaginative, illustrative objects which could be seen as pieces of possible narratives, different ways to connect with the past and potential futures through layers of abstraction with no right or wrong answer. What matters to them is not accurately recreating the past or to predict the future, but rather to capture an inner truth and a possible alternative reality of colonial experiences. In a sense, creating new culture from a series of “what-ifs” and new stories / lore. Their work has been recently shown at the Confederation Centre for the Arts and Gallery Gachet.”

(Photos belong to me and the description and artist bio are courtesy of The New Gallery’s website)

[IDs:

1. a large wall hanging made from fish leather,

2. a close up of the same piece. the artwork has faint text cut out of the green tea tanned fish that reads “hey it’s not your fault, you know that right?”

3. a photo of the space showing a video projected onto several fish skins, a table with a vest and a hat made of fish leather, and on the table are cartons made from rawhide.

4. a coatrack on which are a rawhide hunting ruffle and rawhide fishing net resembling a badminton racket

5. a shelf seen in the background of image 3 containing a astro-turf shirt, a hand gun and pocket knife made from rawhide and a fish leather circular clip with a piece of dark hair hanging off the shelf.]

#my picks #morgan is a dear friend of mine <3 #they taught me how to tan fish leather! #art #indigenous art #cree #métis #chippewa #canadian art #contemporary art #indigenous contemporary art #curation #artist run centre #artists #fish leather #leather #rawhide #traditional art #sculpture #installation #video art #my images

[folkfashion]

Métis woman, Canada, by Heywood Yu

#métis #canada #america #north america #folk clothing #traditional clothing #traditional fashion #cultural clothing

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A portrait of Louis Riel displayed in the provincial legislature now recognizes the Metis leader as Manitoba's first premier.

Premier Wab Kinew and Manitoba Metis Federation President David Chartrand unveiled the updated plaque below the portrait today, which is recognized as Louis Riel Day in the province.

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #canadian #manitoba #louis riel #wab kinew #métis #Indigenous

[skruffie]

Dibaajimowin. Kade Ferris put this site together as a hub for research--both in stories but also to provide links on learning Ojibwe, Cree, and Michif.

#michif #Métis #ojibwe #cree #indigenous #miigwetch kade

[missegyptiana]

HAPPY NATIONAL INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY!!! And National Indigenous History Month! Today is to celebrate the First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples of Canada! Please take the time to support and honour the Indigenous peoples, not only in Canada but everywhere! Educate and learn about Indigenous communities around the world and support them! And celebrate with us! I am so happy we have today and the entire month to celebrate Indigenous Peoples, but especially all year round!! (A reminder that international Indigenous Peoples day in august 9th!)

#indigenous #national indigenous peoples day #national indigenous history month #indigenous peoples day #indigenous history month #important #indigenous history #inuit #métis #first nations

[itskindofareallyniceday]

Something new for Native American Heritage Month this year:

This playlist features indigenous musicians from North, Central, and South America. It includes a variety of genres (post-classical composers, folk punk, indie pop, pow wow punk rock (yes, that's a thing!), indie rock, etc.), as well as a variety of languages (Wolastoqey, Inuktitut, Atikamekw, Cherokee, Navajo, Cree, Quechua, Greenlandic (Kalaallisut), Tłı̨chǫ, English, French, and Spanish).

#indigenous #music #native american #first nations #inuit #métis #native american heritage month #language revitalization #folk #punk #indie #itskindofme #still working on adding more from central & south america #okay I guess it only allows 100 songs in the preview thing... but there are more than 100 songs

[butch-with-a-deep-voice]

So I recently received a rather hateful anon. I chose to block them instead of responding to the anon itself, so as not to receive any further bullshit from them. But they were attacking me on grounds that I was white, and faking being indigenous (along with some rather hateful slurs mixed in), and I do want to address that.

I never claimed to not be white. I'm Métis, a community that is entirely predicated on being mixed race. I am of both white family roots and indigenous. Glossing over the fact that light-skinned Indigenous and Latinx people exist all over North and South America, and that the internalized colonial racism-binary received on that basis is its own expired can of worms (thank you blood quantum debates 🤮), mixed race people exist y'all. In fact, most Métis people are light skinned. Our people's history is defined by being "too white" for many indigenous communities, and "too Indian" for white society, and that comes with its own generational stories, traditions, and trauma.

When I joke that "my family's shit is in the colonizers museum" that's because it literally is. It's like a 5 minute drive away, and a request to access the vaults to go look at it. When I go to ceremony with Métis community members and Elders I don't stop being white, and when I interact with purely "white" aspects of society I don't stop being indigenous. Both are true, that's how dialectics work. I am very aware of the privilege my skin colour affords me, and I never take it for granted. In fact I actively try to use it when I can to create opportunities for my indigenous siblings who aren't as light skinned.

I don't make this post as some form of defense or argument to my indigeneity. I have enough security in myself and my community that some anon isn't going to shake me that easily. But I make it because the notion that a blood quantum or a hue of my skin color negates my family's heritage is what colonization aimed to achieve in the first damn place. Attacking eachother for shit like how pale I am during winter (cuz honey, I *TOAST* during summer) achieves nothing but furthering internalized racism plaguing indigenous people baseline.

To that anon, if you find a way around my block somehow, I'm sorry you've been hurt by people enough to find it appropriate to drop vitriol like that into people's inboxes unannounced. I hope you can find healing and love within your life, to turn that around. I'm gonna light a smudge for you.

#also this cost everyone anon privilege again sorry y'all #im not dealing with hate in my inbox #bite me #two spirit #métis #indigenous

[giiwedinongodekwe]

"My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back." - Louis Riel

#indigenous #indigenous artist #indigenous heritage #native #native artist #native art #metis #métis #métis art #louis riel #mixed

[agirlinachevy]

Métis is not a bad word - november 29th 2023 at 21:00

half-breed pretendian "but your eyes are so blue?" when i bleed it comes out red will you be satisfied once i'm covered in wounds?

seven generations? what about my children and their children too? not indigenous enough or just not indigenous enough to you? i speak more of the language than nookomis ever could i do it to honour her you don't get to tell me if i should i started beading at 13 thankful to at least be cultured in my hands but still afraid i was too pale to ever claim this was my land proud i'll be the day when my spirit name is carried by the winds how sad my ancestors will be to learn my cousins think my identity is half-sin

#authors #creativewriting #feelings #literature #lovers #poem #poems #poemsbyme #poetic #poetry #indigenous #indigenous artist #indigenous heritage #native #native artist #native art #metis #métis #métis art #louis riel #mixed #writblr #indigenous writers #indigenous stories #language revitalization #language #resistance #ndn tumblr #anishinaabemowin #anishinaabe

[arcticflowerz]

Indigenous Lesbian

A flag for people who are Indigenous/Aboriginal/Native and a Lesbian.

Feel free to switch out Indigenous for Aboriginal or Native in the name of the flag.

Flag by: @arcticflowerz

Do not repost my flags/the things I coin with out credit.

This flag was made by an actual Inuk. DO NOT USE THIS FLAG IF YOUR TRANSRACE/TRANSINDIGENOUS! THIS FLAG IS EXCLUSIVE TO BODILY INDIGENOUS PEOPLE. By “bodily indigenous” I do not mean you have to be “indigenous passing” to use this flag. You can still use this flag if your white passing or not. By “bodily indigenous” I’m referring to having indigenous blood and indigenous relatives in your family tree. For those who don’t know what transrace is, it’s a transID label that means “you were born one race but BELIEVE you should have been born another race instead.” Transindigenous is just the indigenous version where “You BELIEVE you should be indigenous but aren’t”. I DO NOT SUPPORT TRANSRACE/TRANSINDIGENOUS, AS SUCH, THEY CANNOT USE THIS FLAG.

Here’s are the links to the Indigenous Vincian/Gay, Indigenous Varian, Indigenous Fluidian, and Indigenous Enbian versions I made.

#actually indigenous #actually inuk #actually lesbian #actually native #my flags #mogai safe #lgbt safe space #aboriginal #indigenous #native american #native #métis #first nations #inuit #inuk #flag coining #he/him lesbian #transfem lesbian #enby lesbian #mspec lesbian #lesbian pride #lesbianism #lesbian #new flag #pride flags #flag #pride flag #lgbtq flags #anti transrace #anti trace

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Three Métis groups signed a deal Friday with the federal government that recognizes them as Indigenous governments, putting them on equal constitutional standing with First Nations and opening the door to further negotiations such as compensation for land lost.

“For over 90 years, that has always been the dream — that proper recognition of a Métis government,” said Audrey Poitras, president of the Métis Nation of Alberta.

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller also signed the deal with the Métis Nation of Saskatchewan and Métis Nation of Ontario.

“We look forward to continuing to work in partnership with the Métis Nation of Alberta to co-develop approaches that deliver on our shared priorities for reconciliation and support their vision of a better future for the citizens and communities the Métis government represents,” Miller said in a release. [...]

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada, @abpoli

#cdnpoli #Indigenous activism #Indigenous government #Métis #First Nations #Saskatchewan #Ontario #Alberta #Indigenous sovereignty

[this-is-my-main-i-follow-from]

I GOT MY METIS IDENTIFICATION IN THE MAIL LET'S GO BESTIES

#otipemisiwak #metis #michif #Métis #fnmi #folk christian #metis folk catholic #dom personal #otipemisiw

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Canadian Indigenous Fiction

The Summer of Bitter and Sweet and Those Pink Mountain Nights by Jen Ferguson (YA, Métis) Into the Bright Open by Cherie Dimaline (YA, Métis) A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt (Cree) Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead (Oji-Cree) Buffalo is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel (Métis) Bonus: These are all novels, but for poetry, check out Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist, This Wound is a…

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#A Minor Chorus #Billy-Ray Belcourt #Buffalo is the New Buffalo #Canadian #Chelsea Vowel #Cherie Dimaline #Cree #First Nations #Indigenous #Into the Bright Open #Jen Ferguson #Métis #Oji-Cree #The Summer of Bitter &amp; Sweet #Those Pink Mountain Nights

[missegyptiana]

i do not celebrate canada day or independence day for a reason. these countries are stolen land and were built around genocide. plz take the time today and july 4th to reflect, honour and remember the indigenous peoples that suffered throughout colonization especially when it first began. <3🪶

#canada day #independence day #july 4th #indigenous #tw genocide #métis #inuit #first nations #no pride in genocide

[archaeos]

Two Métis women, Fairford, Manitoba, c. 1895 (via Library and Archives Canada)

#Métis #I love these girls so so much #they're so vibrant #probably about my age too #I wonder if I'm distant cousins with either of them #I get the same dimples in my cheeks when I laugh like the girl on the right

[lingthusiasm]

Lingthusiasm Episode 76: Where language names come from and why they change

Language names come from many sources. Sometimes they’re related to a geographical feature or name of a group of people. Sometimes they’re related to the word for “talk” or “language” in the language itself; other times the name that outsiders call the language is completely different from the insider name. Sometimes they come from mistakes: a name that got mis-applied or even a pejorative description from a neighbouring group.

In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne get enthusiastic about how languages are named! We talk about how naming a language makes it more legible to broader organizations like governments and academics, similar to how birth certificates and passports make humans legible to institutions. And like how individual people can change their names, sometimes groups of people decide to change the name that their language is known by, a process that in both cases can take a lot of paperwork.

Read the transcript here. 

Announcements:

We’re doing another Lingthusiasm liveshow! February 18th (Canada) slash 19th (Australia)! (What time is that for me?) We'll be returning to one of our fan-favourite topics and answering your questions about language and gender with returning special guest Dr. Kirby Conrod! (See Kirby’s previous interview with us about the grammar of singular they.)

This liveshow is for Lingthusiam patrons and will take place on the Lingthusiasm Discord server. Become a patron before the event to ask us questions in advance or live-react in the text chat. This episode will also be available as an edited-for-legibility recording in your usual Patreon live feed if you prefer to listen at a later date. In the meantime: tell us about your favourite examples of gender in various languages and we might include them in the show! In this month’s bonus episode we get enthusiastic about some of our favourite deleted bits from previous interviews that we didn't quite have space to share with you. Think of it as a special bonus edition DVD from the past two years of Lingthusiasm with director's commentary and deleted scenes from interviews with Kat Gupta, Lucy Maddox, and Randall Munroe. Join us on Patreon now to get access to this and 70+ other bonus episodes, as well as access to the Lingthusiasm Discord server where you can chat with other language nerds, and get access to our upcoming liveshow! Here are the links mentioned in the episode:

‘A grammatical overview of Yolmo (Tibeto-Burman)’ by Dr Lauren Gawne

‘Language naming in Indigenous Australia: a view from western Arnhem Land’ by Jill Vaughan, Ruth Singer, and Murray Garde

Wikipedia List of Creole Languages

Wikipedia entry for Métis/Michif

‘A note on the term “Bantu” as first used by W. H. I. Bleek’ by Raymond O. Silverstein

Lingthusiasm episode ‘How languages influence each other - Interview with Hannah Gibson on Swahili, Rangi, and Bantu languages’

Wikipedia entry for Endonym and Exonym

All Things Linguistic post on exonym naming practices in colonised North America

Tribal Nations Map of North America

Wikipedia entry for Maliseet

OED entry for ‘endoscope’

Wikipedia entry for Light Warlpiri

Language Hat entry for Light Warlpiri

Los Angeles Times article about the use of Diné instead of Navajo

OED entry for ‘slave’

Wikipedia entry for names of Germany

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#linguistics #language #episodes #main episodes #episode 76 #names #language names #Arnhem Land #Yolmo #Creole #Kriol #Métis #Michif #Bantu #Swahili #endonym #exonym #Maliseet #Warlpiri #Light Warlpiri #Diné #Navajo #Slavic #German