#indiginous american

[nooks-cranny-mogai]

Since it's disability pride month and yesterday was burn the American flag day, I just wanna give a shout out to all the native Americans like me who, despite wanting to, cannot keep their hair long because of bad sensory issues.

You are not less native than those who can grow their hair long.

Your ancestors love and understand why you cut your hair.

You are not required to follow traditions you cannot participate in due to your sensory issues.

Having short hair is not a "white thing" or " disrespectful towards the great spirit and our ancestors".

Your hair can look, feel and be as long or as short as you want and you are still just as beloved by your ancestors.

White people can rb but don't clown with info about tribes you had to google.

[psykisika]

Some sketches of the outfit design for the rehability/psychiatric clinic Ed enrolls in to infiltrate the facility in my graphic novel.

[artfilmfan]

Chase Iron Eyes & Tokata Iron Eyes in Oyate (2022)

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

So my post on Oklahoma making it legal to take indigenous children from their parents without tribal consent is blowing up, and I'm glad people are horrified. But what I need people to know is that this might happen on a national level.

The Supreme Court is debating overturning the Indian Child Welfare Act.

What this act does is give Native American and Alaska Native tribes and nations control over the foster and adoption placement of their children. To overturn it would be to say tribes and nations aren't sovereign, and it would also allow the U.S. government to forcibly assimilate indigenous children into other cultures.

Please:

Spread the word about what is happening.

Read online news articles about this; the more traffic on those articles, the more likely the press is to write more articles.

If there are protests in your area, join them.

If there are indigenous nations or tribes in your area, ask them how you can help.

Donate to indigenous rights organizations like Native American Rights Fund.

Write to your representatives.

If ICWA falls, keep all of the above up. Don't just shrug and think it's over.

[thatspectacularpigeon]

Listen up please

This is incredibly important.

The united States government has been trying to remove the protections of native children mainly via possibly overturning the ICWA (Indian Child Welfare Act)

This will allow white families to continue to take native children from their lands their family and their culture just like they did for centuries before the ICWA was passed.

This is both incredibly important and incredibly personal as my family was permanently harmed because of children being taken away from their families.

So please spread awareness about this and I have a link below that you can go to the first Nations website learn more about this and and write a response that they can use about how we should be saving the ICWA

[reasonsforhope]

"The U.S. government is entering a new era of collaboration with Native American and Alaska Native leaders in managing public lands and other resources, with top federal officials saying that incorporating more Indigenous knowledge into decision-making can help spur conservation and combat climate change.

Federal emergency managers on Thursday also announced updates to recovery policies to aid tribal communities in the repair or rebuilding of traditional homes or ceremonial buildings after a series of wildfires, floods and other disasters around the country.

With hundreds of tribal leaders gathering in Washington this week for an annual summit, the Biden administration is celebrating nearly 200 new agreements that are designed to boost federal cooperation with tribes nationwide.

The agreements cover everything from fishery restoration projects in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest to management of new national monuments in the Southwestern U.S., seed collection work in Montana and plant restoration in the Great Smoky Mountains.

“The United States manages hundreds of millions of acres of what we call federal public lands. Why wouldn’t we want added capacity, added expertise, millennia of knowledge and understanding of how to manage those lands?” U.S. Interior Assistant Secretary Bryan Newland said during a panel discussion.

The new co-management and co-stewardship agreements announced this week mark a tenfold increase over what had been inked just a year earlier, and officials said more are in the pipeline.

Newland, a citizen of the Bay Mills Indian Community in northern Michigan, said each agreement is unique. He said each arrangement is tailored to a tribe’s needs and capacity for helping to manage public lands — and at the very least assures their presence at the table when decisions are made.

The federal government is not looking to dictate to tribal leaders what a partnership should look like, he said...

The U.S. government controls more than a quarter of the land in the United States, with much of that encompassing the ancestral homelands of federally recognized tribes...

Tribes and advocacy groups have been pushing for arrangements that go beyond the consultation requirements mandated by federal law.

Researchers at the University of Washington and legal experts with the Native American Rights Fund have put together a new clearinghouse on the topic. They point out that public lands now central to the country’s national heritage originated from the dispossession and displacement of Indigenous people and that co-management could present on opportunity for the U.S. to reckon with that complicated legacy...

In an attempt to address complaints about chronic underfunding across Indian Country, President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order on the first day of the summit that will make it easier for tribes to find and access grants.

Deanne Criswell, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told tribal leaders Thursday that her agency [FEMA] began work this year to upgrade its disaster guidance particularly in response to tribal needs.

The Indigenous people of Hawaii have increasingly been under siege from disasters, most recently a devastating fire that killed dozens of people and leveled an entire town. Just last month, another blaze scorched a stretch of irreplaceable rainforest on Oahu.

Tribes in California and Oregon also were forced to seek disaster declarations earlier this year after severe storms resulted in flooding and mudslides...

Criswell said the new guidance includes a pathway for Native American, Alaska Native and Hawaiian communities to request presidential disaster declarations, providing them with access to emergency federal relief funding. [Note: This alone is potentially a huge deal. A presidential disaster declaration unlocks literally millions of dollars in federal aid and does a lot to speed up the response.]

The agency also is now accepting tribal self-certified damage assessments and cost estimates for restoring ceremonial buildings or traditional homes, while not requiring site inspections, maps or other details that might compromise culturally sensitive data."

-via AP, December 7, 2023

[astralbondpro]

Blackbraid // The Spirit Returns

[shyfrog-says]

Friendly reminder that November is Native American Heritage month.

Ah-hem

AMERICA IS UNDER IMPERIAL OCCUPATION AND HAS BEEN FOR OVER 300 YEARS!

America is an imperial colony state and will be until we give the indigenous peoples their land back.

As far as I'm concerned, the fight is not over. Different tribes are gaining and losing land all the time to this day.

The colonization, genocide, whitewashing, and erasure of indigenous people in america is not just "history," it's the present. It's today, and it will be tomorrow.

I am not confident in my education on this topic, but I'm not the person you should be listening to anyway because my family has only been here for about 100 years.

Please, for the love of all that is good and just, learn. Do the research. Do something: end an offensive tradition, return an appropriated "family heirloom" to its rightful home, rob a museum, donate to a fund for a family or tribe to buy some of their land back, organize a sit-in or protest, literally anything.

Calling these injustices "history" is one of the ways that the US government tries to convince the people it dictates that there is nothing to be done and any effort to reclaim or salvage their culture is lost. But that's not true.

Please, instead of celebrating a fake story about colonizers and indigenous americans "finding common ground" and "sharing the land," just take some time to learn more about the people and cultures who called this massive and beautiful land home long before anyone from europe or russia even knew it existed. And, arguably more importantly, the atrocities that have been committed against it and its people SINCE those times.

[wondernwriter]

Yass!!!

[mysharona1987]

[cyarsk52-20]

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day and fuck Chris Columbus 🖕🏼

[psykisika]

[artfilmfan]

The Unknown Country (Morrisa Maltz, 2022)

[todaysdocument]

Letter to Superintendent concerning a possible outbreak of small-pox.

Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian AffairsSeries: Letters Received from Day School Teacher Clara D. True

In reply to: Department of the Interior, INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE, OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT. Espanola, N.M. Feb 2, 1904 Mr. C. J. Crandall, Supt U.S. Indian Schools Santa Fe, N.M. Dear Sir: There is no well-authenticated report of a small pox epidemic neared than Antonio and most likely there is no individual case in this vicinity. The Indian Geronimo Tofaya who reported a case Sunday still insists that a Mexican laborer en route home from the infected district stopped in Geronimo's house and that the Mexican had small pox. The Indian has been to me twice to have his children vaccinated. He himself has had the disease. He is one of the people who refused to be vaccinated some years ago and a little later took smallpox. He says he does not know where the Mexican is by this time. The doctor will be here today. I vaccinated myself and the housekeeper yesterday and as many of the children as I could. Very respectfully, Clara D. True.

[lokiandbuckysdoll]

I'm a little late to post this, but November is Native American Heritage Month. I thought I'd share a few photos of me and video doing traditional dancing called “ bird Dancing” to our traditional songs know as “ bird songs”

Wishing all my relations A good November A’ho! 🪶

[mannyblacque]

Graham Greene and D'Pharaoh Woon A Tai musing on the universe.

Reservation Dogs 3.02 "Maximus"