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Lily Gladstone, winner of the Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture, poses in the press room during the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards on January 07, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California

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probably the single most beautiful art by fetchart.ca

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Longhouse Gang!!

Hi-res source here

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#palestine #landback

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when I drew this comic 3 years ago I had NO idea how far it would reach. I'm happy to finally share a corrected version with proper abbreviations, and even MORE state names of indigenous origin ♥️

however, the goal of this comic was to inspire people to do your OWN research on indigenous history. To question everything we have been taught, and everything that has been pointedly left out. This erasure, this “forgetting”, of history is not just of the past… it is happening now. - Across so-called Canada, the US, and US-occupied islands, native women are victims of murder at 10-12x the rate of non-native people, and are the most likely to go missing without being searched for by the law. - Native reservations have the highest rates of poverty in the US, with over HALF of tribal homes with no access to clean water (with more joining this list by the year) - Native people are 6-10x more likely to be unhoused than the rest of the population, and native teens suffer suicide rates higher than any other demographic. This list of modern day genocide goes on (thank you for compiling @theindigenousanarchist <3) and yet take a look at those environmental stats!

Native people manage to do SO much for the planet as a whole - thanklessly - and with all this stacked against them. Don't even get me started on kin fighting in south america. Could you imagine if there was help? #landback is resistance to genocide, and it is the key to saving our warming earth.

So look into it and the other hashtags, cuz a cartoon goose ain't a substitute for a proper education. Love to my grandparents who always kept a map of tribal territories of turtle island on their wall, to speaking on our Tsalagi & Saponi heritage. Love & solidarity forever, happy research, and happy #indigenouspeoplesday

LANDBACK.ORG

(Also, if you care to support the artist, I'm publishing a book ! and writing another - a fantastical afroindigenous graphic novel - that I post exclusively about with tons of other art on my patreon.)

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Our city flag is really trash if ya look at it.

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Iroquois is a negative name we were given

Native American Confederacies:

Haudenosaunee: Also known as the Iroquois Confederacy or the Six Nations, consist of the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca, and later, Tuscarora. They were formed prior to European contact, and their form of government started by the Great Law of Peace was used as a Model for that of the United States Constitution. Oral tradition suggests the confederacy was formed before an eclipse circa the early 12th century.

The Triple Alliance: Later known as the Aztec Empire, was formed in 1428 under the leader Itzcoatl, wherein the Mexica formed a three-way alliance with the Texcocans and the Tacubans to defeat their most powerful rivals for influence of the region. They later became a dominant force ruling over multiple tribes and political factions until the invasion by the Spanish.

Powhatan Confederacy: Created in the late 16th century, was founded by Paramount Chief Wahunsenacah (Father of Matoaka, also known as Pocahontas), affiliating some 30 tribes in Virginia, creating the Powhatan Confederacy. Each tribe was led by a weroance that paid tribute to the Paramount Chief and allied together politically, economically, and militarily. Affiliated tribes included the Pamunkey, Patawomeck, Quiyoughcohannock, Chesapeake, Appomattock, Kiskiak, Mattaponi, Rappahannock, Werowocomoco, and more.

Iron Confederacy: political and military alliance of individual tribes against common enemies, membership included the Cree, Stoney, Metis, Saulteaux, and Nakota. It is unknown when it was first founded, but it existed at the arrival of settlers during the early 17th century and likely was created earlier.

Wabanaki Confederacy: Made up of the Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, and Western Abenaki, this alliance was formed due to the common enemy of the English colonizers, whom they would go to war with in the First Abenaki war, which was then ended with the Treaty of Casco. They incorporated political elements from neighboring confederacies, such as the use of wampum for treaties, and they have their own symbol for the alliance.

Oceti Sakowin: known as the Seven Council Fires, (Titunwan, Yankton, Yanktonai, Mdewakanton, Wahpeton, Wahpekute, & Sisseton) is and was an alliance of Peoples divided into 3 ethnic groups, the Lakota, the Eastern & Western Dakota. Around 1300 AD, after years of moving from their ancestral lands of the central Mississippi Valley region, they adopted the characteristics of a northern tribal society and became known as the Seven Council Fires. Their battles against colonizers are some of the most well known, such as the Battle of Little Big Horn.

Blackfoot Confederacy: Is made up of 4 Nations with the same language. The Nations have their own governments, but banded together in political, spiritual, and social alliance. The affiliated tribes are the Siksika, Kainai, Peigan, and Pikani, and later, Tsuu T’ina was added to the confederacy. Their territory stretched from along the North Saskatchewan River in Canada to the Yellowstone River in Montana, and within the Rocky Mountains. They were known as a formidable alliance, often going to war with the Iron Confederacy.

Wampanoag Confederacy: Once a loose Confederation in the early 17th century, now one consisting of 10 tribes, are and were an alliance of multiple Peoples in Southern Massachussetts and Rhode Island, including the Chappaquiddick, Nantucket, Mashpee, Patuxet, Assawompsett Nemasket, Pocasset, Pokanoket, Nauset, Herring Pond, and Aquinnah. Being located on the Eastern coast of the United States, they were some of the first to meet colonists in the United States, and suffered casualities of illness, and  resisted Colonization such as with King Phillip’s war.

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a glass of lost at sea

by darius greene / ghost owl attic

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revised – mní wičóni

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Image created by Manitou mounds.

Sept 30 - Orange shirt day

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Alright

I want to talk about how cryptozoology is often toxic for Natives interested in it. I personally love cryptozoology, but I'm often uncomfortable while going through it because of how much content with w*ndigo, sk*nwalkers, or thunderbirds in it. So I can't stress enough to those involved in cryptozoology, please stop adding these spirits in with cryptids. Mothman, Jersey Devil, Nessie are all cryptids, but not Native spirits.

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North American Indian Association of Detroit (my work) is putting on our annual Contest Pow-Wow in Westland, Michigan, September 23rd! Come Watch Native dancing at its finest as dancers from all across Turtle Island come to compete against each other.

#native tumblr #native american #michigan #pow wow #westland #Hines Park #detroit #grass dance #woodland #traditional #fancy dancer's #jingle dress #contest pow-wow

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I was looking into it, and my family only lost our language a relatively short time ago, about two generations?

It goes back to my grandma and her dad. My great grandpa. His mom was able to speak Ojibwe, but didn’t pass the language on to her kids because they were taken away and out into boarding schools. It seems crazy to me that barely a hundred years ago my family had first language speakers and everything and it’s all eradicated now.

I try and speak Ojibwe every day for them