#native american products

[raymurata]

Guys, check out this kickstarter for Koboa, a South American inspired high fantasy setting for DnD 5e, PF2 and CFR! Its trilingual (English, Spanish and Portuguese versions) and made by writers, artists and game-designers from several different countries in South America, including native indigenous creators! The art is incredibly beautiful, and the setting seems fun to play in. Please support them, there's 13 days to go!

#tabletop rpgs #dnd #dungeons and dragons #dnd setting #kickstarter #koboa #diverse setting #south american coded dnd fantasy setting #latine inspired setting for high fantasy #native indigenous fantasy setting #yes yes yes #i know they already met their goal but the more the get the more they'll be able to improve the final product #and maybe more adventures and expansions later #or even just help with hiring more artists and designers

[mariverses]

huh. i need to watch antikiller. 3 in particular

#has a song i like in it..... i didnt know...... #also american horror story hotel but hm. american horror story stuff was never appealing to me #i prefer uhh. non-native-english-speaker-country productions. anyway. antikiller seems to be made in russia #it's a matter of style to me

[shirkers2018dirsanditan]

The pressing issue was land. In the post-Civil War years, Black-freedom advocates such as Edward P. McCabe proposed flooding Indian Territory with Black towns, establishing the demographic foothold for a future Black-majority state. As the chronicler A. G. Stacey wrote at the time, “There is a secret political society in existence . . . which is based upon the principles of Negro advancement, mentally and morally, and the future control of Oklahoma whenever it shall become a state.” The creators of such plans were blind to the concerns of Indians and did not hesitate to align Black and white settlers against them. Frederick Douglass assured a crowd in 1869, “The negro is more like the white man than the Indian, in his tastes and tendencies, and disposition to accept civilization.” Where the Indian “rejects our civilization,” he went on, “it is not so with the negro. He loves you and remains with you, under all circumstances, in slavery and in freedom.”

Gayle is not wrong to name Claude Cox and Alexander Posey as anti-Black racists. The more interesting question, however, is how their racism was shaped by concerns for their people, their polities, and their dwindling land. At the Sequoyah Constitutional Convention of 1905, several tribes sought to establish an Indian state from Indian Territory, bringing a petition to Congress that was swiftly rejected. The secretary to that convention was Posey, a complicated, sometimes contradictory thinker who was devoted to the politics and the aspirations of his tribe. To see his racism clearly is to see a desperate collision between the ambitions of Black and Native peoples.

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When it comes to belonging, two cultural problems intertwine. Black Creek claims to Creek identity—at least in Gayle’s account—tend to be genealogical, full of blood essentialisms, and sometimes disengaged from the ongoing vitality of Muscogee culture. Figures such as Jake Simmons, Jr., for instance, seem to care most about leveraging Black success out of Native citizenship, leasing and selling Creek land to corporations. At the same time, the historically rooted culture of Muscogee anti-Black racism is not merely abhorrent but unsustainable, offering no path to the future for anyone involved. When it comes to citizenship, two political problems intertwine. Native sovereignty, in the American context, rests upon the legal authority of treaties. So, too, do Black rights to Native membership. The various arguments about Native identity bounce between cultural ties and political claims, all exuding moral authority but none fully authoritative. In this sense, one of Gayle’s maxims proves compelling: Black Creek stories, rich with both the subtleties and the crudenesses of America’s racial history, force us all to contemplate new forms of reckoning.

#this article is crazyyyy good #it provides a great perspective on slavery in the civilized tribes; ongoing conflicts over tribal membership; and is not overly simplistic #the more that we talk about slavery in the civilized tribes and discrimination against freedmen in these tribes the more the issues gets #shoehorned into the afropessimist perspective #even when people attribute the conflict to white supremacy #and yes. although beneath white supremacy is capitalism and forced scarcity #not to mention nationalism and nation state politics #but my point is always. always. that history never actually fits into the narratives we create to understand it #just like the present doesn't #its hard to avoid essentializing issues because you want to have a moral center and you want to comprehend something #especially through the lens of current politics and social organizations #and our historical foundation literally has taught us to look at american society as divided into a hierarchy #that roughly goes white/east and south asian/everybody else/brown latinos/natives/black people with natives and black people sometimes #reversed #and then we operate with the idea that someone is always on the bottom and someone is always on the top #and that oppression is the product of individuals all together choosing to hurt others for their own gain #or that certain elites use various oppressed people like marionettes to do their bidding #white elite rich elite whatever #and that oppression is a sliding scale based on how much you are oppressed but also how you are used to or on your own will oppress others #but there is not a single group in america that has not contributed to the oppression of another #not to say of what we do to people in the third world #none of our hands our clean and we are not ‘innocent’ #but the vast majority of us are oppressed and suffering in one way or another #and any liberation will be by for and with all of us #yeah

[animatejournal]

Go Go Gophers | Studio: Total TeleVision Animation Studio: Gamma Productions | USA, 1964

#Go Go Gophers #60s #Cartoon #Animation #Native Americans #Army #Root Beer #Total TeleVision #Gamma Productions #George S. Irving #W. Watts Biggers #Joseph Harris

[filmmakerdreamst]

#the original design of Tiger lily by j.m.barrie #peter pan #play #j.m. barrie #author #literature #design #peter pan and wendy #peter and wendy #theatre #production #costume #history #indigineous people #native american #book #novel

[helpfulbug]

ok I know this is about the Amazon thing but. there has to be a better name

#truly sorry for native English speakers you may never experience the fever dream of random english product names #luna.txt #then again amazon is american so idk

[k3mistryproductions]

K3mistry News Brief 📰

President Obama’s Misguided Tweet

The following speaks on American history.

Narrated by: J. Stokes

#president obama #barack obama #twitter #tweet #american history #history #black history facts #black history matters #share #promote #repost #k3mistry productions #listen #learn #k3mistryproductions #black history #tennessee three #lawmakers #native american history #thoughts

[teehandystore]

Apache and Proud – Native American Indian Pride T-Shirt

Introducing the "Apache and Proud – Native American Indian Pride T-Shirt" — a powerful and meaningful garment that celebrates the rich heritage and resilience of the Apache people. This t-shirt combines cultural pride and style, allowing you to showcase your connection to Native American Indian traditions in a bold and fashionable way.

#https://teehandy.com/product/apache-and-proud-native-american-indian-pride-t-shirt/

[goshashka-design]

Echoes of Ancestral Patterns

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#Accessories #Ancestral Echoes #Black Ornament #Home Decor #hoodies #Indigenous #Native American #Price Range #Products #scarves #T-shirts #Tapestry

[witekspicsgoods]

Home decorations similar to native american products.

#merchandise #towary #goods #items #products #native american #ozdoby #polen #polska #decorations #dekoracje #poland

[jamsofdeath0]

Oof the 4th episode of Dragon Ball is really that patented early DB sexual humor. Shout outs to the twist actually being a hell of a twist tho ig. Also Goku getting hit in the head with an axe and shattering the axe head. Goku failing to understand the existence of gender is the funniest gag.

Also this episode has not necessarily malicious or mean representation of native Americans but it is definitely incorrect representation. Like it's not even the big offensive stereotypes just incorrect ones but be warned.

#dbbk

#dragon ball #dragon ball bookclub #DBBC: day 4 #db ep 4 #nope I'm not native American so if I'm wrong in any of these stereotypes shown in the episode are incredibly offensive olease let me know #dragon ball is definitely a product of its time #pre-internent making knowledge of other culture eider spread and easy access #but that is not an excuse to pretend like it does not have upsetting or offensive things in it

[daryllong]

It sounds like Racism Lite™ to me tbh

#like sure you do you and eat animal products or don't whatever #i literally dont care #but when you start talking shit about Native American communities #hunting animals to eat #thats when i know that your #beliefs arent really about the animals #if you're using your “activism” to police minorities when the real problem are all the billionaires and their fucking existence #then its not activism lmao #and im not paying thousands of dollars for some idiot professor to teach me racism lite #when i can get that shit for free in southern illinois #also fuck you

[goodpix2021]

American Indian

From New Mexico. Mmmm… veggies for breakfast. Oh, never mind. My poor career. As I root through my archives I realize just how little time I gave to the review process when it should have taken the longest. I think this is a wonderful photograph. I made it in 2010. I first saw it, really saw it, three days ago. This picture had potential. It probably still does. But, a lot of it has likely…

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#Albuquerque #American Indians #Art #Color #Color Photographer #Dancing #motion blur #native American #New Mexico #Photography #Post Production #Ray Laskowitz

[just-aro]

*sigh*

I'm seeing variations of this meme around again, so to today's (un)lucky 10000:

the "inside you there are two wolves" meme is racist. full stop. it was invented by a Christian pastor in the late 70s and attributed to the Cherokee nation, despite being completely made up. every native american / indigenous page I've ever followed denounces it as made up and racist, using their imagery to sound mystical and wise while ignoring the people themselves.

please consider using another format. try to use your guilt productively: I'm not calling you out, this is aimed at educating. You can't erase not knowing in the past, but you can elect to 1) not reblog these in the future, 2) delete any that are easy to delete, 3) help to spread education by following native people's accounts and news so that you hear this from them, not me.

#there is some 'debate' about the origins on the internet but i'm gonna be real: #when i can't find even one person who claims to be native who says it isn't racist and made up... it's racist and made up #do your own research but just... try to listen to the least heard voices and not just those trying to boost them #i'd go find a post on it from a native account but i am currently researched out due to IRL stuff i don't plan to talk about

[tenth-sentence]

Thus, Eurasian societies in the time of Columbus enjoyed big advantages over Native American societies in food production, germs, technology (including weapons), political organization, and writing.

"Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years" - Jared Diamond

#book quote #guns germs and steel #jared diamond #nonfiction #eurasia #native american #food production #microbe #pathogen #disease #technology #weapons #political organization #writing systems #columbus #christopher columbus

[reasonsforhope]

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"Minnetonka first started selling its “Thunderbird” moccasins in 1965. Now, for the first time, they’ve been redesigned by a Native American designer.

It’s one step in the company’s larger work to deal with its history of cultural appropriation. The Minneapolis-based company launched in the 1940s as a small business making souvenirs for roadside gift shops in the region—including Native American-inspired moccasins, though the business wasn��t started or run by Native Americans. The moccasins soon became its biggest seller.

[Photo: Minnetonka]

Adrienne Benjamin, an Anishanaabe artist and community activist who became the company’s “reconciliation advisor,” was initially reluctant when a tribal elder approached her about meeting with the company. Other activists had dismissed the idea that the company would do the work to truly transform. But Benjamin agreed to the meeting, and the conversation convinced her to move forward.

“I sensed a genuine commitment to positive change,” she says. “They had really done their homework as far as understanding and acknowledging the wrong and the appropriation. I think they knew for a long time that things needed to get better, and they just weren’t sure what a first step was.”

Pictured: Lucie Skjefte and son Animikii [Photo: Minnetonka]

In 2020, Minnetonka publicly apologized “for having benefited from selling Native-inspired designs without directly honoring Native culture or communities.” It also said that it was actively recruiting Native Americans to work at the company, reexamining its branding, looking for Native-owned businesses to partner with, continuing to support Native American nonprofits, and that it planned to collaborate with Native American artists and designers.

Benjamin partnered with the company on the first collaboration, a collection of hand-beaded hats, and then recruited the Minneapolis-based designer Lucie Skjefte, a citizen of the Red Lake Nation, who designed the beadwork for another moccasin style and a pair of slippers for the brand. Skjefte says that she felt comfortable working with the company knowing that it had already done work with Benjamin on reconciliation. And she wasn’t a stranger to the brand. “Our grandmothers and our mothers would always look for moccasins in a clutch kind of situation where they didn’t have a pair ready and available to make on their own—then they would buy Minnetonka mocs and walk into a traditional pow wow and wear them,” she says. Her mother, she says, who passed away in 2019, would have been “immensely proud” that Skjefte’s design work was part of the moccasins—and on the new version of the Thunderbird moccasin, one of the company’s top-selling styles.

[Photo: Minnetonka]

“I started thinking about all of those stories, and what resonated with me visually,” Skjefte says. The redesign, she says, is much more detailed and authentic than the previous version. “Through the redesign and beading process, we are actively reclaiming and reconnecting our Animikii or Thunderbird motif with its Indigenous roots,” she says. Skjefte will earn royalties for the design, and Minnetonka will also separately donate a portion of the sale of each shoe to Mni Sota Fund, a nonprofit that helps Native Americans in Minnesota get training and capital for home ownership and entrepreneurship.

Some companies go a step farther—Manitobah Mukluks, based in Canada, has an Indigenous founder and more than half Indigenous staff. (While Minnetonka is actively recruiting more Native American workers, the company says that employees self-report race and it can’t share any data about its current number of Indigenous employees.) Beyond its own line of products, Manitobah also has an online Indigenous Market that features artists who earn 100% of the profit for their work.

White Bear Moccasins, a Native-owned-and-made brand in Montana, makes moccasins from bison hide. Each custom pair can take six to eight hours to make; the shoes cost hundreds of dollars, though they can also be repaired and last as long as a lifetime, says owner Shauna White Bear. In interviews, White Bear has said that she wants “to take our craft back,” from companies like Minnetonka. But she also told Fast Company that she doesn’t think that Minnetonka, as a family-owned business, should have to lose its livelihood now and stop making moccasins.

The situation is arguably different for other fashion brands that might use a Native American symbol—or rip off a Native American design completely—on a single product that could easily be taken off the market. Benjamin says that she has also worked with other companies that have discontinued products.

She sees five steps in the process of reconciliation. First, the person or company who did wrong has to acknowledge the wrong. Then they need to publicly apologize, begin to change behavior, start to rebuild trust, and then, eventually, the wronged party might take the step of forgiveness. Right now, she says, Minnetonka is in the third phase of behavior change. The brand plans to continue to collaborate with Native American designers.

The company can be an example to others on how to listen and build true relationships, Benjamin says. “I think that’s the only way that these relationships are going to get any better—people have to sit down and talk about it,” she says. “People have to be real. People have to apologize. They have to want to reconcile with people.”

The leadership at Minnetonka can also be allies in pushing other companies to do better. “My voice is important at the table as an Indigenous woman,” Benjamin says. “Lucie’s voice is important. But at tables where there’s a majority of people that aren’t Indigenous, sometimes those allies’ voices are more powerful in those spaces, because that means that they’ve signed on to what we’re saying. The power has signed on to moving forward and we agree with ‘Yes, this was wrong.’ That’s the stuff that’s going to change [things] right there.”"

-via FastCompany, February 7, 2024

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