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If I made a Discord channel specifically for Native American / First Nations / Indigenous Creatives with a focus on writing and content creation (Youtube, Tiktok, Twitch, etc) who would be interested in joining?

This would be my first time running a Discord so anybody (Indigenous ONLY) with experience who would be interested in being a mod would be most helpful!

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Just because I've seen it online before, but a reminder that saying "Pocahontas/Matoaka was the first (or "first documented") MMIW" is factually incorrect. There were hundreds of Taíno, Indigenous Mexican, Eastern Native American, and kidnapped African Indigenous women who were victimized before her, both documented and undocumented.

Even just working within the framework of Native Americans, here's a list of Indigenous women who were documented cases of being MMIW that came before Matoaka (who was kidnapped in 1613 & died in 1617):

Anacaona (Taíno ruler who was murdered in 1504)

Yuisa (another Taíno ruler who was murdered in 1515)

Higuanama (Taíno ruler who was hanged by the Spanish in 1502)

Yayo (Taíno cacica & wife of leader Orocobix, who was captured & enslaved alongside her husband in 1514)

Opossunoquonuske (Matoaka's aunt, Werowansqua of the Appomattoc within the Powhatan confederacy, who was wounded & killed by the English in 1610)

Apacuana (Indigenous leader from Venezuela who was kidnapped & murdered by the Spanish in 1577 while trying to defend her land from invasion)

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LOOKING FOR NATIVES FOR UPCOMING PROJECT

For the sake of this specific project, I am looking for NATIVE AMERICAN volunteers. Specifically Natives from tribes/communities in the United States.

This is in response to the Trump administration's DEI purge of their military websites that honor the BIPOC and women in military history, including the Navajo Code Talkers, Ira Hayes, and all the non-white men and women at Arlington Cemetery.

If you are interested in being in my video please let me know.

Please send me a picture or a video of you holding a sign or saying aloud "MY _____ IS A VETERAN" or "I AM A VETERAN".

If you are not a veteran or don't have veterans/active military in your family, feel free to send pictures/videos of you saying "HONOR THE CODE TALKERS" I would really appreciate all of your help.

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I read somewhere that Taylor Lautner’s agent was overhead in conversations that helped him lie about being native and no one would notice because he fits Jacob blacks description

I’m surprised no one cancelled him because he’s rich off of that but his career went no where and his doing nothing now

It's always funny when Pretendians lie about being Native to get a role in a movie or TV series and then can't get roles anywhere else because big studios aren't interested in Native actors/actresses unless it's for a very narrow, specific type of project. Like congrats dude, you played yourself.

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LOOKING FOR NATIVES FOR UPCOMING PROJECT

For the sake of this specific project, I am looking for NATIVE AMERICAN volunteers. Specifically Natives from tribes/communities in the United States.

This is in response to the Trump administration's DEI purge of their military websites that honor the BIPOC and women in military history, including the Navajo Code Talkers, Ira Hayes, and all the non-white men and women at Arlington Cemetery.

If you are interested in being in my video please let me know.

Please send me a picture or a video of you holding a sign or saying aloud "MY _____ IS A VETERAN" or "I AM A VETERAN".

If you are not a veteran or don't have veterans/active military in your family, feel free to send pictures/videos of you saying "HONOR THE CODE TALKERS" I would really appreciate all of your help.

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LOOKING FOR NATIVES FOR UPCOMING PROJECT

For the sake of this specific project, I am looking for NATIVE AMERICAN volunteers. Specifically Natives from tribes/communities in the United States.

This is in response to the Trump administration's DEI purge of their military websites that honor the BIPOC and women in military history, including the Navajo Code Talkers, Ira Hayes, and all the non-white men and women at Arlington Cemetery.

If you are interested in being in my video please let me know.

Please send me a picture or a video of you holding a sign or saying aloud "MY _____ IS A VETERAN" or "I AM A VETERAN".

If you are not a veteran or don't have veterans/active military in your family, feel free to send pictures/videos of you saying "HONOR THE CODE TALKERS" I would really appreciate all of your help.

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The NDN Inuk lives!

Hi idk if someone s answered this yet but sjaja from north of north is an inuk main character who does not fall in love with a white man and does not end up raped or murdered, so she does pass the aila test

Yess!!!

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Maybe it's because I'm Indigenous but I don't get the whole colonizer mentality of "x group of people were 'conquered' so you have to get over it" (meaning, we just have to lie down and take any discrimination, further oppression, further colonization against us, and not complain) because like we're still alive though. We aren't "conquered" we're still alive, fucker. I honestly think it's just their way of continuing to say something to make themselves believe it

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From CourtYellowwolf

If you are a non-Native and thinking about asking Indigenous People for Emotional/Educational Labor:

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I think male indigenous characters should have something like the Aila Test, too, with similar criteria such as being main characters, not falling in love with white people, not getting murdered, etc.

Exists in a current timeline instead of 1800s and older

Doesn't interact with white people

Doesn't exist to teach white people a lesson

Doesn't turn into an animal

Man the list is endless...

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Jax and Roki both live! So does Crystle Lightning's character, Sapphire.

SPOILERS:

unfortunately Tawi does not survive, but you never see the body and the details of her death are not discussed.

1. Is she a main character? YES.

2. Does this character fall in love with a white man? NO.

3. Does this character end up raped or killed at any point during the story? NO / NO.

Jax and Roki from Fancy Dance both pass The Ali Nahdee Test!

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The Aila Test / Ali Nahdee Test turns 8 <3

January 21st, 2025 is the 8th birthday of the Aila Test, later called the Ali Nahdee Test. Thank you everybody.

Thank you Jeff Barnaby for creating Rhymes for Young Ghouls and thank you @kdeveryjacobs for bringing our girl to life <3

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If you are Native / Indigenous and are effected by the LA wildfires, drop your GoFundMes, paypals, CashApps, etc. here using the tag NATIVES HELPING NATIVES and we'll boost it here. Everybody please be safe.

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If you are Native / Indigenous and are effected by the LA wildfires, drop your GoFundMes, paypals, CashApps, etc. here using the tag NATIVES HELPING NATIVES and we'll boost it here. Everybody please be safe.

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Thomas Rainwater, Mo, Monica Dutton from Yellowstone live but Kelsey Chow is not a Native American / First Nations actress so...

Kayce is finally free of the ranch and can now live in peace with his wife and son

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An excerpt from ONE SCENE FOR FORGIVENESS: THE TWILIGHT SAGA IS RACIST.

A montage of anti-native racism that is prevalent in mainstream media.

CW: racist imagery, non-Natives in redface, racist mascots/team names, brief depictions of attempted SA, brief depiction of a dead Native* woman

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YOUR FAVE IS ANTI NATIVE: GUILLERMO DEL TORO & DANIEL KRAUS

This is from the novelization of The Shape of Water:

I was never a fan of how they included the whole "The Indigenous people of the Amazon worshipped this creature as a God" thing because it's so stereotypical and cliche.

I'm told that "indios bravos" is a slur, and the fact that he depicts the violent suicides of several Indigenous people in this scene is REALLY unnecessary and gross especially since suicide rates in Indigenous communities are at such high rates.

Also there's this scene, in which they compare the murder of monkeys to killing children in Korea, which.... what...