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Happy Indigenous People's Day!!

Here are some Indigenous owned brands to support, and some wonderful artists to follow/support as well! I've linked websites where possible, and instagrams for those that don't have websites.

Clothing/Shoes:

Manitobah Mukluks

B.Yellowtail

Her Braids (also the author of Nibi's Water Song)

Born In the North

Urban Native Era

Reclaim your power

Ginew

Moccasin Mama

Kokom Scrunchies

Winston Paul Co

Eighth Generation

Beyond Bucksin

4Kinship

Oxdx Clothing

Lauren Good Day

Section 35

The Rez Life

Akiska Clothing

Scarlett Designs

Skin Care/Soap/Makeup:

Mother Earth Essentials

Bison Star Naturals

Cheekbone Beauty

Quwutsunmade

Satya Organic

Blendedgirl Cosmetics

Sisters Sage

Skwálwen Botanicals

Yukon Soap Company

Niá:wen Skincare

Sequoia Soaps

RavenSongSoap

Ocean Kiana

Prados Beauty

Jack 59 Inc

Miscellaneous:

Raven Reads

Xalish Medicines

SheNative Goods

Unorthodox Yukon (collective of Yukon artists)

Summer Solstice Indigenous Festival Marketplace (virtual marketplace hosting products and arts created by Indigenous artisans from across Turtle Island)

LotusnSage holistics

Lodge Soy Candles

Westcoast Wildflowers

Jewellery/Beadwork/Artists:

Wapahkesis

Harvest Moon Designs

AK Cloudberry

Maxkwikee.co

Beksbeads

Beadmeupscotty

Runningfoxbeads

Jennifer Lawes

Only Child Handicrafts

Beading Bizhiki

Golden Eye Designs

Blu Hummingbird

Terry Dactel

Sage and Cedar Studio

Monarch Beadwork

JustxBeadxIt

Mo Thunder

White Otter Design

Alli Matchett Beadwork

Lisa Beading

The Birch Trail

Culture Shock Jewellery

Sun and Sea Encasings

Raven's Beaded Creations

Busy Bees Beading

Makwa Ikwe Designs

Penawapskewi Designs

Second Aura

Anouapik

Piujutit

Nusmata

Anishnaabekwe

Music:

Angel Baribeau

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Redbone

N'we Jinan

Cody Coyote

Troy Kingi

Nadjiwan

Drezus

Snotty Nosed Rez Kids

Aodhan

Once A Tree

Riit

The Halluci Nation

Mariame

Jahkota

Aasiva

iskwe

Bobby Sanchez

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Underrated Native Music Artists

This list is organized by genre, because everyone has different tastes. (But I’m not confident with the genre placing of all these, so please be forgiving of that.) That said, as someone who personally has a pretty wide taste, I would certainly encourage branching out, because who knows what you might discover you like. And please feel free to add more!

Each link is to a sample song.

Alternative

Digging Roots

Nêhiyawak

Classic Rock

Adrian Sutherland & Midnight Shine (personal favourite!)

Derek Miller

Nadjiwan

Robbie Robertson

Classical

Elisapie (some folk too)

Jeremy Dutcher

Dance

The Halluci Nation (formerly known as A Tribe Called Red)

DJ Shub

Electropop

Iskwē (personal favourite! Acākosīk is a masterpiece of an album especially, IMO)

Folk

Buffy Sainte-Marie (also Folk Rock / Rock and Country) (personal favourite!)

Joanne Shenandoah (also Country)

Samantha Crain

Tanaya Winder

William Prince (also Country)

Folk Rock

Jay Gilday

Leela Gilday

Logan Staats

Twin Flames (personal favourite! I am obsessed with their entire album Omen, and their cover of Grace Too is to die for)

Hip Hop

Drezus

Frank Waln

Joey Stylez (also pop)

Leonard Sumner

Snotty Nose Rez Kids (personal favourite!)

T-Rhyme

Pop

Carsen Gray

Shawnee Kish

Wolf Saga

Traditional

Fawn Wood

Tanya Tagaq

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Big up to all Indigenous folks on Indigenous Peoples Day!

It’s Indigenous Peoples Day and I figure we should look at music that goes over the evolution of Indigenous sounds and styles, and the fusion of Indigenous and Black culture through sound.

I’m going to start off with two records that I really love. First up the OG baddie Buffy Sainte Marie and her record Illuminations.

Buffy St. Marie is such a legendary artist, poet and creative mind. Right up there with Joni, Tina, & Carole King — she was giving us story, performance and artistry. This is a record I heard working at HMV back in the day. Again, thanks to so my dope friend N. who shared such interesting records with me that I probably would never had heard on my own. Buffy is just otherworldly. Illuminations, like it’s title shares so many truths and my favourite cut is the opening God is Alive, Magic is Afoot. Guess Who I Saw in Paris is a magic track. I love that cut, it’s just a woman who saw a man she’s enamoured with and it’s gorgeous. I love her voice and her reflections. He’s a keeper of the fire is a lively one track too, pure rock and roll goodness.

Another dope record is Heartbeat: Voices of First Nation Women. Layers and layers of voices meeting in unison, magnetic and syncopated in their delivery.

Jumping into the future, two of my favourite newer records is 1) We Are the Halluci Nation by the Halluci Nation formerly known as A Tribe Called Red.

Of course, this record needs no words — it’s been dope, it’s a game changer, the fusion of cultural sounds, electronica, heavy drums & hip-hop. It’s madness. FIRE.

Also, for the women, Tanya Tagaq has been using her voice in ways completely new to me. She creates audial landscapes you have to hear to believe. I killed Animism on it's original release.

A completely new release from a young queen, Prado. Prado is from Vancouver doing it big for Black Indigenous girls everywhere. Her new record Prado Monroe is fire.

I love that we’re seeing new artists break through and create roads for the rest of their community. In celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day, pick up a record and get comfortable or get shook.

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People will watch things like parasite and squid game, media that blatantly calls out capitalism and the effect that it has on the lower class and still come out of it like "wow I can't believe poor people are morally bad because they're poor and there's no other outside influence"

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UniPak Designs Ruffles Frog

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when somebody insists you're angry because they don't like how your voice sounds until you legitimately get angry about being aggressively gaslit and they say see I told you so so there's no winning

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terrible website feature that came to me in a dream

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on a whim I made a palette game dedicated to…. UNUSUAL color palettes. feel free to participate in any way you’d like

anyways send me some requests and a palette combo and i’ll try to draw stuff for my own challenge lmao (though i might just draw stuff on my own idk)

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Courgette (they/them)

Forest Dragon by Jellycat with wings modified to be floppy, bought from TK Maxx July 2021

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you heathens will reblog day specific posts any day of the week. i woke up thinking it was wednesday

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I should be less worried about seeming annoying. plenty of people are annoying and they all seem to be doing fine

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peeling those sour rainbow gummy strips into long thin strings and putting them into cheap energy drink to create something im calling battery acid spaghetti will update once ive finished it

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I heard another video game is coming out soon

this has to stop