#native peoples

[jstor]

Oh wow, these Inuit prints!!! Kenojuak Ashevak, Observant Owl; Kenojuak Ashevak, Throat Singers Gathering; Ningiukulu Teevee, Seasonal Migration; Sheelaky (artist) and Iyola Kingwatsiak (printer), Sea Spirit.

More than 100 of these beauties are available in St. Lawrence University's Canadian Inuit Prints, Drawings, and Carvings collection on JSTOR, which is free and open to all!

#inuit #native peoples #indigenous art #canadian art #printmaking #art #just wow #wow wow wow #research #jstor

[merelygifted]

Jeffrey Gibson is first Indigenous artist with U.S. solo show at Venice Biennale : NPR

The U.S. State Department has selected an Indigenous artist to represent the country at the 2024 Venice Biennale.

Jeffrey Gibson, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, will be the first such artist to have a solo exhibition in the U.S. Pavilion at the prestigious international arts event.

That's according to a statement this week from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the government body responsible for co-curating the U.S. Pavilion, alongside Oregon's Portland Art Museum and SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico.

The State Department's records of the U.S. Pavilion exhibitions date back to when it was built, in 1930.

Although Indigenous artists have shown work more broadly in Venice over the years, the last time Indigenous artists appeared in the U.S. Pavilion at the Biennale was in 1932 — and that was in a group setting, as part of a mostly Eurocentric exhibition devoted to depictions of the American West.  ...

#Jeffrey Gibson #Arts #Native Peoples #Native Americans #Venice Bienniale #ABOUT TIME TOO

[janzoo]

Sharing something from the credits from episode 6/Kahhori's episode of "What If...?"

[Text: Marvel Studios would like to extend our deep gratitude to the citizens of the Kanien'kehá:ka - the Mohawk Nation who collaborated on this episode.]

It's cool to see the Kanien'kehá:ka get some extra credit and recognition, especially with their proper name.

#i did a thing #marvel #marvel what if #native peoples #doing it right

[sshortblnd]

Onondaga Lake

I recently read an incredible book, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. In one of the chapters, she writes about Onondaga Lake. I cried and had to write some kind of apology for how we, humans, have hurt native peoples and mother nature. Forgive us for caring more about progress than your preservation For taking your beauty and twisting, abusing you into a form unrecocognizzable My…

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#braiding sweetgrass #chemicals #forgiveness #hurt #mother nature #native peoples #onondaga #onondaga lake #onondaga people #poem #poetry #reconciliation #Robin wall kimmerer

[booknutmusings]

AudioBook:Harvest House

by Cynthia Leitich SmithRead by Shaun Taylor-Corbett and Charley FlyteSupport your local independent bookstore: buy it there!Or listen at Libro.fmContent: There are some intense moments involving danger for young indigenous women, instances of racism, some mild swearing, and mention of murder. It’s in the YA section ( grades 6-8) of the bookstore. It’s the fall, and since the play at school has…

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#ghost stories #Kansas #mysteries #Native Peoples

[astraphel]

🎉IT'S ELIZABETH PERATROVICH DAY

She was the Tlingit Civil Rights Leader responsible for the first (US) anti-discrimination law of the 20th century, which passed in 1945!

“Have you eliminated larceny or murder by passing a law against it? No law will eliminate crimes, but at least you, as legislators, can assert to the world that you recognize the evil of the present situation and speak your intent to help us overcome discrimination.”

Elizabeth Peratrovich, Ḵaax̲gal.aat, was a member of the Lukaax̱.ádi clan under the Raven moeity. Her Tlingit name means "person who packs for themselves."

Elizabeth held the position of Grand President of the Alaska Native Sisterhood (ANS), a partner organization of the Alaska Native Brotherhood (ANB). Founded in 1912 to address racism against Alaska Native peoples in Alaska, the ANB is one of the oldest Native-led Civil Rights Organizations in the world, followed closely by the ANS, established just three years later.

A restaurant in Juneau, Alaska, in 1908, advertises that its staff is White only. The Nelson Act (1905) had passed in Alaska three years earlier, segregating education systems between Whites and Alaska Natives. Mixed children weren't initially allowed in school, but this changed thanks to an ANB member. Playgrounds, theaters, and other public places were also segregated.

Today honors the fateful day she took the Senate floor and swayed the overtly racist Senate to pass the Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945. This law made Alaska the first Territory in the United States to abolish Jim Crow laws.

"Fighter in Velvet Gloves: Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich" (2021). Tlingit Author Ann Boochever reads from her book, which was written in collaboration with Peratrovich's family. Skip to 38:46 in the video for what happened that day in the Senate.

Portrait of Elizabeth Peratrovich

Alaska State Legislature House of Representatives

A Recollection of Civil Rights Leader Elizabeth Peratrovich 1911-1958

Alaska Celebrates Civil Rights Pioneer (PDF)

For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska (Video)

Celebrating Elizabeth Peratrovich (Google Doodle)

Overlooked No More: Elizabeth Peratrovich, Rights Advocate for Alaska Natives

Treasury urged to mint 5M Peratrovich coins

1945: Alaska’s territorial legislature adopts anti-discrimination law

Alaskans and the Nation Celebrate Elizabeth Peratrovich

Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945 and Elizabeth Peratrovich

Sealaska Corporation

#elizabeth peratrovich #indigenous women #civil rights #ndn #civil rights leader #alaska native #native american #ndn tag #native peoples #ndn tumblr #elizabeth peratrovich day #native history #indigenous history #civil rights history #american indian #first nations #indigenous #indigneous people #tw racism

[karingottschalk]

SBS Australia: The Australian Wars | Trailer #1 (Content Warning) | SBS and NITV – Commentary

SBS Australia: The Australian Wars | Trailer #1 (Content Warning) | SBS and NITV – Commentary

“The story of Australia’s longest and perhaps most defining war has been kept silent – until now. Over three parts, this ground-breaking documentary series gives voice to the story of The Australian Wars – the battles fought on home soil, as the colonial frontier pushed forward, and First Nations peoples resisted. The series directed and presented by filmmaker Rachel Perkins, reveals the truth of…

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#aborigines #Australia #Australian Aborigines #Big Lies #colonisation #eugenics #extermination #exterminations #extinctions #frontier wars #genocide #indigenous peoples #invasions #lies #mass murder #native peoples #Rachel Perkins #SBS Australia #settlers #The Big Lie #the fatal shore #white supremacy #Youtube

[glowing-disciple]

This might get buried under the news about Roe vs Wade, but um, if anybody was looking forward to buying Never Alone, aka that game on Steam about Iñupiat mythology made with the help of the Iñupiat people, it's currently on sale for $4.

This would be the perfect time to jump in and pick it up.

#steam sale #never alone #native peoples #Iñupiat

[artfilmfan]

Lakota Nation vs. United States (Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli, 2022)

#lakota #indigenous #indigenous people #jesse short bull #laura tomaselli #female filmmakers #female directors #female directed films #women in film #native american #lakota nations vs. united states #documentary

[embraceyourdestiny]

to any americans who feel "paralyzed" and "dont know what to do" to help with gaza:

reading a fucking book. i beg of you.

in a time of knowledge suppression is it your duty to arm yourself with knowledge.

read about americas occupations in the middle east.

read about 9/11 from outside of america and see how they inflicted senseless harm and violence to countless amounts of people and have been suppressing your rights for the past 2 fucking decades.

read about any of the countless wars from the past 30 years. especially from a civilian's. and the victims and survivors' perspective. listen to the horror stories and do not plug your fucking ears as to what your country is doing.

and read about fucking gaza and palestine and keep up with what is happening no matter how "sad" or "uncountable" you might get.

dont look away from this.

you dont have the right to be comfortable during countless active genocides.

if you're knowledgeable, you're powerful, and our current state doesnt fucking want that.

you have the power to change things if you open your eyes and scream to the world.

wake the fuck up.

Edit: please check the reblogs there are readings and ways to help

#og #truly if youre not about it your against it and i dont fuck with you because you're complacent #wake the fuck up #we're all responsible and dont you dare say you're not #americans need to stop living in the world with their eyes closed and their ears covered #look at what your fucking 'glorious country' is doing to people #everyone should be against america no fucking exceptions because america is violent and evil and needs to be stopped #then read about what america has done to the natives of their land #radicalize yourself #decolonize your mind #free palestine #land back #palestine will be free #theres too many fucking movements of just the past couple years all happening at once to act like the world is fucking fine #we are in a human rights CRISIS #WAKE THE FUCK UP PLEASE

[safije]

Native Americans march in solidarity with Palestine

Denver, Colorado USA

© Malek Asfeer 

#Photography #People #Native American #Indigenous #USA #Palestine #Palestinian #Arab #America #American #Dener #Colorado #Folk dress

[merelygifted]

The US' 2,000-year-old mystery mounds - BBC Travel

Constructed by a mysterious civilisation that left no written records, the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks are a testament to indigenous sophistication.

Autumn leaves crackled under our shoes as dozens of eager tourists and I followed a guide along a grassy mound. We stopped when we reached the opening of a turf-topped circle, which was formed by another wall of mounded earth. We were at The Octagon, part of the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, a large network of hand-constructed hills spread throughout central and southern Ohio that were built as many as 2,000 years ago. Indigenous people would come to The Octagon from hundreds of miles away, gathering regularly for shared rituals and worship.

"There was a sweat lodge or some kind of purification place there," said our guide Brad Lepper, the senior archaeologist for the Ohio History Connection's World Heritage Program (OHC), as he pointed to the circle. I looked inside to see a perfectly manicured lawn – a putting green. A tall flag marked a hole at its centre.

The Octagon is currently being used as a golf course.  ...

...  However, after the Hopewell Culture gradually began to disappear starting around 500 CE, other indigenous peoples stepped in to become caretakers of the land. One of those groups was the Shawnee Tribe, which called Ohio home before they were forcibly removed west of the Mississippi River in the 1830s.

"We may not have been responsible for building or creating them, but I know that my ancestors lived there, and that my ancestors protected them and respected them," said Chief Glenna Wallace of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, who believes that other tribes should have a role in the future of protecting the Hopewell Earthworks and communicating their cultural importance.

However, receiving Unesco status is a difficult, bureaucratic process. While sitting on land owned by the OHC, The Octagon is under the control of the Moundbuilders Country Club. The club negotiated an unprecedented lease that extends until 2078 and only allows visitors to walk the mounds four times a year. The rest of the time, visitors can access a platform in the car park to view a very small section of the property. OHC is currently suing to evict the country club (with compensation) through eminent domain. The lower courts ruled in favour of the historical society, but the Ohio Supreme Court is hearing an appeal. If OHC can't guarantee public access, this may affect Unesco's decision.

While a Unesco designation wouldn't entail the return of land or reparations, it does mean greater local representation and education about Ohio's Native American history. It also means more indigenous stakeholders, like the Shawnee, telling that story from an indigenous perspective for future generations.

"I just want people to know about it," said Chief Wallace, "I want people to be able to see it. I want people to be able to visit it and want people to realise that it is a cultural phenomenon. That it's priceless."

#Native Peoples #Indigenous Peoples #Hopewell Culture #Archaeology #ohio #WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK OHIO?!

[reasonsforhope]

"The Yurok will be the first Tribal nation to co-manage land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding signed on Tuesday [March 19, 2024] by the tribe, Redwood national and state parks, and the non-profit Save the Redwoods League, according to news reports.

The Yurok tribe has seen a wave of successes in recent years, successfully campaigning for the removal of a series of dams on the Klamath River, where salmon once ran up to their territory, and with the signing of a new memorandum of understanding, the Yurok are set to reclaim more of what was theirs.

Save the Redwoods League bought a property containing these remarkable trees in 2013, and began working with the tribe to restore it, planting 50,000 native plants in the process. The location was within lands the Yurok once owned but were taken during the Gold Rush period.

Centuries passed, and by the time it was purchased it had been used as a lumber operation for 50 years, and the nearby Prairie Creek where the Yurok once harvested salmon had been buried.

Currently located on the fringe of Redwoods National and State Parks which receive over 1 million visitors every year and is a UNESCO Natural Heritage Site, the property has been renamed ‘O Rew, a Yurok word for the area.

“Today we acknowledge and celebrate the opportunity to return Indigenous guardianship to ‘O Rew and reimagine how millions of visitors from around the world experience the redwoods,” said Sam Hodder, president and CEO of Save the Redwoods League.

Having restored Prarie Creek and filled it with chinook and coho salmon, red-legged frogs, northwestern salamanders, waterfowl, and other species, the tribe has said they will build a traditional village site to showcase their culture, including redwood-plank huts, a sweat house, and a museum to contain many of the tribal artifacts they’ve recovered from museum collections.

Believing the giant trees sacred, they only use fallen trees to build their lodges.

“As the original stewards of this land, we look forward to working together with the Redwood national and state parks to manage it,” said Rosie Clayburn, the tribe’s cultural resources director.

It will add an additional mile of trails to the park system, and connect them with popular redwood groves as well as new interactive exhibits.

“This is a first-of-its-kind arrangement, where Tribal land is co-stewarded with a national park as its gateway to millions of visitors. This action will deepen the relationship between Tribes and the National Park Service,” said Redwoods National Park Superintendent Steve Mietz, adding that it would “heal the land while healing the relationships among all the people who inhabit this magnificent forest.”"

-via Good News Network, March 25, 2024

#indigenous #land back #indigenous issues #first nations #native american #indigenous peoples #yurok #yurok tribe #national parks service #national park #redwoods #california #trees #trees and forests #united states #good news #hope #indigenous land

[immaculatasknight]

Dodgy neighbors

#America #settler colonialism #Native Peoples #genocide #Gaza #displacement #Palestinians #complicity

[booknutmusings]

Eagle Drums

by Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson First sentence: “Sweat trickled down his back.” Support your local independent bookstore: buy it there! Content: There are some intense moments and talk of death. It’s in the Middle Grade (grades 3-5) section of the bookstore, but I’d give it to the older end of the age range. I read this book for the Cybils, and this is a reflection of my opinion and not that of the…

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#folklore #Native Peoples

[zoe-oneesama]

Some "Special" Girls! And the late girls.

Ko-fi | Patreon

#you don't even know how long I've held onto the Zoe one I made her with the quickness #I still haven't seen the Shanghai or New York Special I went in mostly blind on their looks #all the 'Specials' girls did get a redesign from me so the version where their mimicking their render pose is the redesign #though I kept Jess's hair wraps even though I don't love them #I know Native American people DO wrap their hair sometimes but I think it was to cop-out of animating her braids #my art #fashion #ml paris special #emonette #jess #aeon #new york special #fei #shanghai special #socqueline #zoe #socqueline wang #zoe lee #marinette #marinette dupain-cheng #ml art #miraculous ladybug