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Nidoking and his clutch of Nidorans in a poppy field. I drew this maybe 3 years ago for a zine that was never released and I think about it every spring since then. If you’d like a print, I’m taking currently taking preorders! Get it here: gumroad.com/l/nidok

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people reblog shit like "love every trans woman until it's too late" and then mob trans women moments later

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Cole Brings Plenty’s death was said to show “no signs of foul play”, ruled as a suicide, and the case was closed. I’ve seen from several sources they also tried to say it was a cardiac event. Alexis Zabala openly admitted to having something to do with his disappearance in a Facebook comment section. Her own cousin went to the police and they brushed her off and kept diverting to the DV allegations against Cole. Stand with us in demanding a thorough investigation and share this petition!!

#it is beyond distressing to me that two natives’ deaths have made national news for being assaulted before their deaths were rules suicides #just this year so far #and there are others i’m probably not seeing

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#ndn tag

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"Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed"

Okay for context the other rabbit is nanabozho! (Also called Wenabozho, Nanaboozhoo, Nanabush and Manabozho, they have a lotta names--) and he's a prolific and prominent character in many of my people, the anishinaabe (Ojibwe), stories!

I drew him interacting with el-ahrairah because he reminds me so much of nanabush-- they both have a connection to a higher power, their gods, both are tricksters, both are part of their respective creation myths, and both care deeply about their people!

Nanabozho is a shape shifter, while he takes many forms their most common is a hare! So that just made me think of them even more fjdndndn

(I posted this on insta a while back and the artist for the Watership Down graphic novel liked it and I still haven't recovered mentally from that--/pos)

Oh btw, nanabush is genderfluid, no I am not joking--

#art #ndn tag #indigenous art

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exactly 👆🏽

the way i worded my original statements may have made it seem like this is all past-tense exclusive but let me assure you, it’s all still happening to this day

it is so fucking exhausting and annoying how white women, including and maybe even especially in progressive and leftist spaces, continue acting like they are not themselves still beneficiaries of tremendous privilege simply because they endure sexist or misogynistic discrimination. being a woman does not excuse the fact that you are still white and you still reap the benefits of being white! you do not get to "but sexism!" your way out of being held accountable for saying and doing racist shit!

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how many times do natives need to say it before you all listen? the “there are two wolves inside you” meme is racist, it comes from a lie made up by a white person about a story that they claimed was cherokee

Inside Me Are Two Wolves Sticker by Sparkiiro

#most of you were able to stop saying shit was your spirit animal #you can stop making the two wolves joke now thx #i literally am an autistic person with adhd so don’t act up in my askbox over this

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and it's WHITE WOMEN who are going to see this post and ignore it like they always do, that is, if they don't add unnecessary paragraphs of "well, actually" full of logical fallacies and outright misunderstandings of how the fucking world works...

it is so fucking exhausting and annoying how white women, including and maybe even especially in progressive and leftist spaces, continue acting like they are not themselves still beneficiaries of tremendous privilege simply because they endure sexist or misogynistic discrimination. being a woman does not excuse the fact that you are still white and you still reap the benefits of being white! you do not get to "but sexism!" your way out of being held accountable for saying and doing racist shit!

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growing sick and tired of people acting as if white women do not hold structural power over all people of color. yes, including men of color.

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i think this video should be mandatory watching material for all the white people on this website

#Youtube

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Truly evil

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#nart

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filmed a truck coming in that contained the oranges that Abu Rabeh, the shop owner, was throwing onto the aid trucks ♥️

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“Sexual assault rates and violence against Native American women did not just drop from the sky. They are a process of history.””

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Jacqueline Agtuca, Alaska Native Women’s Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2005. (via anishinaabequay)

In Haudenosaunee cultures pre-Contact, rape was virtually unknown. If one was committed, all the men — including the toddler boys — would leave the perpetrator alone with the women in the village and come back after three days, after which time a condolence ceremony would be held and life would go on as usual. #iwantthatback

(via redindianwoman)

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Joseph Cornell (American, 1903-1972) Untitled (Celestial Navigation) 1956-1958 Box construction 30.8 x 43.2 x 9.2cm The Robert Lehrman Art Trust, courtesy of Aimee and Robert Lehrman Photo The Robert Lehrman Art Trust, courtesy of Aimee and Robert Lehrman Photography: Quicksilver Photographers, LLC © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2015

#art

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BRENDA LENAGHAN R.S.W. (SCOTTISH 1941-2020) §

GIRLS AND PEACHES

Mixed media

Lyon and Turnbull

#art

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“there is no Indian Problem and there never was; but there always has been and still is a Settler Problem. It is the theft of our lands and the disconnection of our people, as collectivities, from the lands that sustain us that is the root of the problem in this society.”

— “Twenty-five years after Oka, it’s still all about the land” - Taiaiake Alfred | Montreal Gazette (via decolonizingmedia)

#ndn tag #indigenous