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mudaship39 · 11 months

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Chronicles of War

Kanai Makoa Latu/Attahua Kamalani Latu was sleeping in bed with his/her/their/xer native partners of color as a queer trans and polyam native of color. He/she/they were trans as someone bi-gender or gender-fluid and mahu/fakaleiti native third gender. He/she/they were queer as someone pansexual or omnisexual. He/she/they were also polyamorous. He/she/they were a native of color as an Asian Pasifika and Afro Latine Native. He/she/they were a superhuman as an alien hybrid and a metahuman as a demigod. A shapeshifter, changeling, and metamorph as an alien hybrid. A elemental demigod with power over most elemental powers. He/she/they were in bed with their native of color partners Loretta Dawn Isip (Anishinaabe Ojibwe Asian Native), Tyanita Castillo (Tsalagi), Dyani Maka (Lakota), and Inayat Aloomse Barnett (Cree and Cheyenne Indigenous). He/she/they were disabled as someone autistic, neurodivergent (with add, adhd ocd, and hyperlexia), disabled with personality disorders (of bpd or borderline personality disorder, did or dissociative identity disorder, & schizophrenia), disabled with mental illnesses (of anxiety, panic attacks, & ptsd or post traumatic stress disorder), & with prosthetic limbs (a cybernetic eye, a cybernetic arm, & bionic leg. As he/she/they got up the put on jeans, a hoodie, socks, & a leather jacket, over their underwear of a t shirt and boxer briefs. Their clothes had magic and tech to shapeshift with them no matter their sex, gender, & gender identities. His her their Polynesian, Micronesian, & or Melanesian Indigenous Pasifika partners Hokulani Kaimana Keali’i, Dior Linh Heimana Tran, Vaulina Jiya Tagi, & Runica Hana Keju helped them put on their cybernetic arm and bionic leg that they take off when resting. Their prosthetics were maintained by disabled Afro Asian South Asian Desi Indian and Afro European British Amelia Himmat Mishra who had a bionic leg and cybernetic arm. They later made breakfast for their adoptive children of color Maria Morales, Nathaniel Nguyen, Farah Ali, and adoptive indigenous Cree Indigenous children Wapun Barnett, Kitchi Barnett, & Ahanu Barnett. Inayat Aloomse Barnett a Cree and Cheyenne Indigenous woman because of her disability couldn’t have children so after a conversation she and her partner Kanai/Attahua decided to adopt children of color and indigenous children. Before he/she/they left the door they put on their size 12 men’s black and red high stop sneakers with white laces. They in their hover car a futuristic version of a scion frs and a Toyota gt 86 took their adoptive children to junior high and high school. Their older biological native of color children (that they had with their indigenous spouses and partners of color and indigenous exes of color) took themselves and their younger siblings to high school and college by their own hover cars and hover motorcycles.

#indigenous #indigenous artist #native artist #native art #indigenous art #ndn tag #ndn artist #native writer #ndn writer #native representation #trans creator #trans writers #trans representation #disabled writer #disabled artist #disabled representation #bipoc characters #disabled character #character of color

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olowan-waphiya · 29 days

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https://ictnews.org/news/big-pink-truck-delivers-books-love-of-native-literature

https://ictnews.org/news/big-pink-truck-delivers-books-love-of-native-literature

The truck is from the founders of the NDN Book Club, Kinsale Drake, Navajo, and Pte San Win Little Whiteman, Oglala Lakota. The club truck hit the road April 1-5. In addition to distributing books, the team handed out product donations curated by sponsor Amy Denet Deal from 4KINSHIP, a Navajo brand that uses runway fashion to fund social good projects on Navajo Nation like the Yilta Book Drop.

NDN Book Club is a nonprofit, literary organization run by and for Indigenous peoples that hosts free youth workshops, author talks, uplifts Indigenous literature, supports Indigenous booksellers, and sends out free Native books. They are supported by Native actress Amber Midthunder (“Prey”) and model activist Quannah Chasinghorse.

In 2023, they distributed more than 2,000 free books by Indigenous authors to Native youth across Turtle Island, supplied by diverse Indigenous booksellers, publishers and authors. From Muckleshoot in Washington to Piscataway lands in the Northeast, they lead workshops in classrooms, tribal libraries, tribal colleges, book festivals and museums.

#indigenous #native american #books #navajo nation #oglala lakota #indigenous people #indigenous writers #indigenous artists #good news #ndn #literature #native literature

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giiwedinongkwe · 5 months

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Remember Your Asemaa

There was once a boy. He lived by a creek with his grandmother. In the early evenings, he would go out before the sun set to look for things.

His grandmother had a gift. She was a maker, and she always transformed anything he brought home to her into something magical.

His grandmother taught him from very young the importance of laying your asemaa down as an offering, to say miigwetch for what you are taking from the land.

One time, the boy went out looking, offered his tobacco, and brought home a big partridge miigwan. He gave the feather to ookomisan, and she made a beautiful dreamcatcher to hang above his bed by the window.

Another time, he found a nice birch tree. He put down some asemaa and began peeling the bark. When he got home, his grandmother spent the whole weekend weaving a strong basket so they could pick more miinan.

This time, though, the boy went out and found a short, smooth piece of driftwood. As he was examining it, something else down by the water caught his eye. A small, rounded rock with a hole in the center. The boy, now excited, took the piece of wood and the rock back with him in a hurry as the sun was beginning to set.

The next morning, his grandmother admired the piece of wood he brought back before deciding what it would become. She began working and the boy sat in the corner playing with the small rock he found. He looked up, and saw a transformation take place before his very eyes. His grandmother tossed the whittled bits from her lap into the fireplace and came over to the boy with mitigo-jiimaan. He took it from her and they headed outside to the creek to test it out.

He placed it down onto the water. It worked! It could float! The boy jumped up and hugged his grandmother to thank her. The boy stayed outside awhile to play with his little wooden canoe.

The next morning, the boy's grandmother was upset. She explained that when she woke up she found the small canoe she had worked so hard making had been broken in half.

The boy begged his grandmother to believe that he would never break it. She thought for a moment, and asked him to calmly explain what happened the day before. When he was done, his grandmother instantly knew what had gone wrong. He had forgotten to offer tobacco. She sent the boy out with some asemaa in one half of the broken canoe, and some maple taffy in the other to offer up to memegwesiwag. She told him that the little people would accept his apology if he made sure to always offer his tobacco.

Early the next morning, the boy went to grab his special rock to take with him to go see what had happened to his canoe down by the creek. It was gone! The boy raced down to the water, hoping for some good news. His canoe wasn't there anymore, either!

The boy ran back home to his grandmother and started crying. She hugged him and told him to calm down, and that she would make him some cedar tea. The boy went to his corner by the fireplace, and couldn't believe his eyes. There was his now-fixed mitigo-jiimaan, complete with tiny, ornate carvings along where the crack had been. Inside the canoe, he found his rock turned into a necklace. His grandmother told him that he should wear it every day, to remind him to always remember his asemaa.

Chi-miigwech for reading and sharing my story.

asemaa: tobacco

miigwetch: thank you

miigwan: feather

ookomisan: [his] grandmother

miinan: blueberries

memegwesiwag: little people (dwarf spirits)

mitigo-jiimaan: wooden canoe

#writblr #indigenous #indigenous heritage #native #indigenous stories #short stories #métis #anishinaabe #anishinaabemowin #ndn #indigenous writers

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tittedntatted · 13 days

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recent posts

the soft blue of a pale moon | Yautja x Reader dangle on the leash | Ghost x f!Reader (babytrap fic) when your need grows teeth | John Price x f!Reader (babytrap fic) down to the marrow | Ghoap x f!Reader (eldritch horror)

wips | upcoming fics

Apsis | Yautja Smut Series (Dark, Shaman, Yeyinde, Tichinde) Skin to the Bone | Ghoap x f!Reader (amnesia/forced marriage au); teaser not a lot (just forever) | Mountain Man!Soap x F!Reader; teaser Devour What's Truly Yours | Priest!Price; teaser i, teaser ii Desolate Field | Sukuna x f!Reader; teaser

#faq #masterlist #about #general updates and stuff

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androgynousfool · 6 months

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It is kind of shocking to me the amount of non-ndn folks out here are writing Charles. No, I am not offended. That isn't my point. I just figured there would be more native writers wanting to hop on the train.

Here we have Charles Smith. Dude that isn't connected to his culture but still hangs on to the frayed edges.

I don't know about y'all but I am hopping on this fuckin' train before it leaves. He is a character that I feel like I can finally relate to religion/culture wise. Even with the lack of story and interactions surrounding him.

How frequent do you see that? And in a native character? How frequent do you even see popular native characters?

It brings a toe curling excitement to me.

Also I would like to appreciate all of the Ao3 n Tumblr writers who took the time to research tribes in the area and get a general grasp on what they are talking about before just pulling up and saying "I eat the rocks and they tell me the weather for next month" kinda things.

Thank you

It makes me happy. I know it isn't for me but thank you

#rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #arthur morgan #rdr2 arthur #red dead redemption community #charthur #charles smith

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bfpnola · 6 months

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the full 4 hours worth of speeches and chants before the national march even actually began to march. being there in-person was truly another experience, so i wanted to share this here so y'all could get even just a sliver of that same amazement! speeches you can listen to include:

Opening Chant

Introduction with Manolo De Los Santos

Nadya Tannous from Palestinian Youth Movement

Ahlam from Maryland2Palestine

Arsema Kifle from Dissenters

Jasmin Nicole Williams from Artists Against Apartheid

Dr. Hatem Bazian from UC Berkeley

Lauren Pineiro from the Tampa 5

Mahdi Bray from the American Muslim Alliance

Black Alliance for Peace

Melanie Yazzie from The Red Nation

Marte White from Community Movement Builders

Omar Suleiman, an American imam

Mohammed Nabulsi from Palestinian Youth Movement

Brian Becker from ANSWER Coalition

Layan Fuleihan from The People's Forum

Macklemore (yes, the muisician)

Ya'oub from the National Students for Justice in Palestine

Maysoon Abu Gharbieh from Arab Women's Committee (Chicago)

Tara Alalami, Sarah Ihmoud, and Rasha Mubarak from Palestinian Feminist Collective and Susan Sarandon

Ahmad Abuznaid from US Campaign for Palestinian Rights

Nihad Awad from Council on American-Islamic Relations

Mohammed El-Kurd, a writer

Nazek Sankari from US Palestinian Community Network

Nour Jafghama and Medea Benjamin from CODEPINK

Meredith from Anti War Committee MN

Osama Abu Irshaid from American Muslims for Palestine

Noura Erakat, a human rights attorney

Majid Gadsen from December 12 Movement

Nina from Bayan USA

Rania Mustafa from Palestinian American Community Center NJ

Krystal Two Bulls from Honor the Earth

Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss from Neturei Karta

Jonel Edwards from Dream Defenders

Raja Abdulhag from Al Quds News

Ángel from Malcolm X Grassroots Movement

Nick Tilsen from NDN Collective

Lamis Deek from Al Awda: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition

Ju-Hyun Park from Nodutdol

Eugene Puryear from Party for Socialism and Liberation

Vijay Prashad from Tricontinental Institute

Celine Qussiny from Palestinian Youth Movement

as well as several interviews towards the end of the video in front of the white house! go watch! go share!

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mudaship39 · 11 months

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To everyone helping with my bipoc and qtipoc futurism project a cyberpunk science fiction and magical high fantasy hybrid comic book or graphic novel series precontact and post land back for bipoc and qtipoc readers and gamers

#indigenous #indigenous artist #native artist #native art #indigenous art #ndn artist #ndn writer #poc representation #indigenous representation #native representation #trans writers #poc writers #queer writers

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eddiegirls · 13 days

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okay cool hi lol let's be haters together <3

so my post earlier was abt 3x01 and specifically the pregnant woman gets attacked and has her baby stolen from her body call. it annoyed me on my first watch and then REALLY annoyed me on my second bc that is such a racialized form of violence mostly perpetuated by white women (or a couple) against black and/or indigenous women.

important context i am indigenous and 2s (usamerican specifically mohawk) which is why i feel like maybe i'm overreacting a bit but also fuck that lmao

and we know that sometimes the calls on 911 are inspired by real events right (the milky way call and also maddie telling that dv caller to pretend to order pizza come to mind)? and considering it is such a visceral crime i can't help but assume that they were inspired by one of the real life women that it's happened to. or any number of them. and they're mostly indigenous or black or other women of color!!

and like there's a reason bipoc are targeted for those types of crimes! so to tell a story like that and choose to victimize a white woman... idk leaves a bad taste in my mouth

and this is kinda an ongoing thing in 911 where they either completely avoid racial stuff while still using those stories or make the most milquetoast liberal statement that boils down to "racism bad". the whole michael and may and harry getting stopped and almost being brutalized thing comes to mind!

I know I shouldn't have high expectations for a copaganda show and I wouldn't even want them to touch the topic of racialized violence against bipoc bc they will fuck it up but also. I'm pissed bc violence against native women is PERVASIVE and also never fucking acknowledged by society at large.

Idk I'm salty about it and no one probably even noticed bc it's a small moment overall and maybe I'm being sensitive but also I feel like I deserve to be sensitive about this kind of thing. all I could think of while watching were those indigenous women who probably inspired that call and it sucks

anyway thoughts? LMAO

second part:

oh also to add on to the essay i dropped in your inbox yesterday i don't think the writers were in any way being malicious or bad writers or anything like that. they didn't anything wrong per se, it just made me uncomfortable to watch bc of my perspective as an ndn so i'm being a hater abt it to feel better lol obviously i still love the show

thank you so much for these thoughts!! i've never considered this but i think it makes total sense. you're 100% right that they base calls on real life stories, like a LOT of the calls. (random but i think it's cute that in the blackout episode, the call maddie takes from someone seeing the milky way in the sky is based on real calls from the LA blackouts in the 90s)

i actually just went and rewatched the scenes from 3x01 with the kidnapped mother & stolen baby. you are absolutely not wrong to be frustrated/uncomfortable w this portrayal. they really did it in the most viscerally disturbing way too, with the kidnapper literally removing the baby from the mother herself...definitely trying to play up the sensation in a situation where they could have addressed a deeper issue. instead they just did like "haha this crazy lady is so mentally ill and insane! let's use it as an opportunity for everyone to reflect!" (which, side note - this show does not handle certain mental health issues well either, despite being all pro-therapy for the characters when they're going through stuff....). and then they just used it as a way for chim & maddie to reflect on their own want for kids (and set up the possibility of maddie getting pregnant). the story did not need to be set up that way. like it was all for shock value...but marginalized/vulnerable people's babies being stolen is a real thing that happens (both by individuals and by the state/CPS/etc).

a better way for them to address this would be like, they have a sinister CPS worker who goes rogue and uses their power to take kids away from parents when it's not needed - this would be more interesting/hard-hitting IMO bc it puts the focus more on state-sponsored violence instead of individual harm committed by 1 person, but we do still have one person who is the villain (probably a "sweet" middle-aged white lady).

that said i also completely agree that they would...not do a good job if they tried to address racialized violence against Indigenous women. i feel like we would get one offhand comment about MMIW and maybe like a 10-second black screen at the end with a hotline you can call or something. i'm just thinking about how horrifically anti-Black the Mara/abused dog comparison storyline was...the writers on this show need to be punished tbfh

and also, i totally get you - the writers aren't being malicious, but they CLEEEEEEEAAARLY have blind spots and it shows.

#ask #thedykenextdoor #thank you for this!!!

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popculturelib · 11 months

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From our collection: Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction (2020) ed. by Joshua Whitehead.

This exciting and groundbreaking fiction anthology showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer Indigenous) writers from across Turtle Island. These visionary authors show how queer Indigenous communities can bloom and thrive through utopian narratives that detail the vivacity and strength of 2SQness throughout its plight in the maw of settler colonialism’s histories. Here, readers will discover bio-engineered AI rats, transplanted trees in space, the rise of a 2SQ resistance camp, a primer on how to survive Indigiqueerly, virtual reality applications, motherships at sea, and the very bending of space-time continuums queered through NDN time. Love after the End demonstrates the imaginatively queer Two-Spirit futurisms we have all been dreaming of since 1492. Contributors include Darcie Little Badger, Mari Kurisato, Kai Minosh Pyle, David Alexander Robertson, and jaye simpson.

The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States. Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Visit our website at https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html.

#bgsu #pride month #indigiqueer #two-spirit #love after the end

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certifiedcharlatan · 6 months

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Sfw post

Been doing some reading this morning. I’m from a reserve in the frozen north and have been desperately searching for the writing of Drew Hayden Taylor; amazing and talented writer and play write; specifically his work: Toronto at Dreamer's Rock & Edu: link below to a site where you can get a look at it for free.

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It’s a fantastic play, I won’t spoil it but it’s amazing for any NDN/Firstnations/Aboriginal folks looking for a relatable and entertaining read. Found myself nearly tearing up while re-reading it this morning when our main character of this play, rusty, reads a particular article. So please give it a read, lemme know your thoughts about Drew Hayden Taylor’s work because I would love to analyze it with anyone anytime!

#sfw #safe for work #ndn #ndn tumblr #ndn tag #first nations #Odawa #ojibwe #Cree #moose Cree #Taykwa Tagamou

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gryphye · 9 months

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Copied this from @brendaonao3

name: Brenn

pronouns: she/they

where do you call home? upstairs in my office/craft room/cat play room

favorite animal: Horses. Never grew out of the horse girl phase.

cereal of choice: I don't eat much cereal. But I like Fruit Loops and Cap'n Crunch cause they still taste good without milk

are you a visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learner? a mix of all the above. And sometimes I need a step by step manual

first pet: My parents always had dogs. Even if dad said his dog was a working dog. (he wasn't)

favorite scent: Oklahoma grasslands. Sage and hot dirt and grasses, that's part of my soul.

do you believe in astrology? Only when I need to yell about something and say Mercury/the moon/whatever is fucking retrograde again.

how many playlists do you have on spotify/apple music? Only a couple. Have been contemplating some mood themes though.

sharpies or highlighters? Neither. I prefer ink pens

song that makes you cry? Who saved Who, by Wade Hayes

song that makes you happy? NDN Kars, remix by Halluci Nation

and finally, do you write/draw/create? I crochet and knit, I took a few drawing classes but I'm out of practice. I call myself a writer. Some people agree.

No taggings, unless you think this is fun

#questionaires

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tired-fandom-ndn · 7 months

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https://www.tumblr.com/tired-fandom-ndn/722673023359074304/still-makes-me-soooooo-bitter-how-joan-and?source=share

Hi, I wasn't sure if you aware, but thought it might make you happy: one of the people who liked this post, writergeekrhw, was an actual writer for the show

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WAIT WHAT

#Anonymous

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