#mexican native american

[vampgojo]

being a reconnecting native is very difficult, I feel like especially if you’re like hispanic indigenous, i’m mexican native american and i’m trying to reconnect and find what tribe i’m from but tracking down my lineage on both sides is so hard, i feel stuck and like i don’t know where to start :/

[ancient-healer]

[lightheal]

a new ref for riet! my dearest oc who's accompanied my art journey since the start of this blog, he's my baby boy and means more than the world to me 🥺💕

[satellites-halo]

mexica Miku (mexiku)

(she's lightskinned bc I am as well 🫶)

[hygalax]

Xochiquetzal the god of love, patron of mothers, and Tezcatlipoca the god of darkness, chaos, and the gruesomeness of war.

this painting is based on the mythology of Tezcatlipoca kidnapping Xochiquetzal, and making her his wife. Yikes.

I took a lot of inspiration from woodland native art

[my-midlife-crisis]

[neechees]

Pre-colonial Native American cities/settlements/meeting sites.

Sivan Vahki: just north of Casa Grande, Arizona, Sivan Vahki or Siwañ Waʼa Ki: was a large farming and trade network site of the Sonoran Desert people starting in the early 13th century.

Werowocomoco: With habitation beginning from the 13th century, Werowocomo was a village that later served as the headquarters of the werowance Wahunsenacah, Paramount Chief of the Powhatan confederacy.

Cahokia: Mississippian culture city dating from circa 1050–1350 CE, containing elaborately planned community, woodhenge, mounds, and burials.

Tenochtitlan: built atop a lake, Tenochtitlan was an Aztec altepetl, and was the largest city in the pre-columbian Americas at its peak. It is considered one of the most impressive cities in North America, and is today known as Mexico city.

Tikal: one of the most powerful ancient kingdoms of the Maya, and dates back as far as the 4th century BC, and may have had a population of up to 90,000.

Omahkoyis: Meeting place and trading and cultural hub for the Blackfoot, and later other tribes as well as settlers. The Blackfoot and their ancestors had inhabited the area as early as 12,000 BC, and would later also be known by other names. Colonizing efforts turned the area into a settlement, known today as the city of Edmonton.

Qusqu: also known as “Cuzco”, the city served as the capital for the Inca Empire from the 13th century up into the 16th century upon colonization. However, evidence shows that The Killke people occupied the region from 900 to 1200 CE, prior to the arrival of the Inca, and had constructed a fortress about 1100 CE.

Uttewas: later known as “Old Masset”, was one of the largest Haida villages on Haida Gwaii, and is home to a number of important cultural artifacts, such as numerous totem poles. Today its land is legally designated as Masset Indian Reserve No. 1.

[yourdailyqueer]

Johnnie Garcia

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Bisexual

DOB: Born 1998

Ethnicity: Mexican, Filipino, Native American, German

Nationality: American

Occupation: Reality star

[baebeylik]

Comala Dog Effigy

Precolumbian Mexico. Colima Culture. 100-400 CE.

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.

[sartorialadventure]

Aztec clothing

Edit: Have been informed that this graphic comes from @zotzart . Apologies, and definitely check out their work! 

[kemetic-dreams]

Un increíble descenso de los voladores de Cuetzalan en el municipio de Ixcateopan Guerrero. Me sentí muy bien de verlos ahí. ✨🍃🫶🏻 #puebla

#cuetzalan

#mexico

#roma

#MEXISHOOTS

#napoli

#LOVES_MEXICO

#venezia

#loves_madeinmexico

#milano

#mexico_tour

#Mexico_Maravilloso

#centrohistorico

#firenze

#CDMX_oficial

#torino

#lifestyle

#palermo

#ig_Mexico

#mexicotravelchannel

#mexicosorprendente

#verona

#mexico_tour

#pueblosdemexicoconhistoria

#pueblosmagicosdemexico

#mexicoesfotografia

#pueblosmagicosoficial

[thebekashow]

One thing that pisses me off is that Black History month is advertised more than Native American History month.

Native American History Month happens in November.

NOVEMBER. A LITERAL MONTH WHERE PEOPLE SKIP OVER THE MOST IMPORTANT HOLIDAY INVOLVING SAID NATIVE AMERICANS. BECAUSE AMERICANS ARE TOO BUSY WAITING FOR A FAT GUY TO BREAK INTO THEIR HOUSE TO DO REVERSE STEALING.

I feel like it should be a law that after middle school, each high school grade year, we learn about all of the cultures. Freshman is Black History, Sophmore is Native Americans, Junior is Mexican History, and Senior is Asian Culture.

It feels desperately unfair that the only reason we knew native americans is because of racist cartoons, thanksgiving, and columbus. The only reason I found out about what REALLY happened to native americans IS BECAUSE I MOVED TO OKLAHOMA.

1900s Cartoons stereotyped Native Americans as violent, smoking, red-faced idiots. Mexicans as Illegal bordercrossers and don't know how to keep it in their pants. Asians as dumb dumb guys who just eat rice and say "ching chong" >:(

WE AS AMERICA SHOULD CHANGE THAT.

[marshmallow-biscuit-blog]

I feel like their human counterparts finally look right now-

[nyiibat2]

A majority of things like “you don’t wash your hair every day? Gross” is rooted in racism.

I’m using hair as an example for this, a majority of POC people (black, indigenous, Mexican, south Asian, islanders) have thick curly hair or thick hair in general, and hair styles that protect our hair from damage and in turn so we don’t have to wash it as frequently, it’s just how our hair is.

White people hear this and immediately call it gross or dirty. They have this mentality that they’re the beauty standard and their (taught) cleanliness routines are best. Mind you POCs taught them how to wash and some still don’t do it properly.

Same goes for hair style and body hair as well. Big curls are seen as beautiful on white people, but on POCs big curls or quote flashy and quote hair styles are seen as “uncivilized” “unkept” or “unprofessional”

On the topic of body hair when it’s being screamed in your face “you need to shave” or “being hairy as a girl is gross” when it’s aimed at POCs who once again tend to have dark thick hair all over regardless of sex/gender, it’s definitely a colonized beauty standard to remove it.

Too each their own I shave for sensory reasons, but when I was actively being told to do it, I didn’t want to.

Makeup and clothing styles seen as “ghetto” that are historically worn and created by Black Mexican and Indigenous people, only seen as acceptable when worn by a white person

Same with long nails and big layered jewelry. Which once again were created by black women and popularized by black, Mexican and indigenous women and two spirits.

POCs taking part in their culture and what has become a part out our cultures is seen as “scary” “loud” “ghetto” or “gross” but praised when it’s repackaged on white people as “brownie lips and Latina makeup” or “Street style/ Billie eilish style” or “Long nails like Kylie Jenner or Marc Jacob’s”

What’s a trend for white people is a result of what’s born out of struggle and resistance for POCs. They want to look like us, have mixed babies, pretend to be us, or dress up like us but they will never understand the struggles or go completely silent when we’re in trouble and actively need them to use their privileges to boost our voices.

Btw if you’re mixed I’m not grouping you in with white people and neither should you. You’re mixed you’re just as much a POC, no matter if you’re lighter skinned or not.

[grogusbuir]

Cowboys, & Where They Started

so @bog-teeth has asked me for some of my (i admit somewhat limited) information on cowboys.

to preface this, i’d like to say where my appreciation for cowboys started. as horse people and rodeo goers on my mothers side, i was young when i first met the great beasts of my obsession and their riders. (one of my special interests when i was young was horses, and it still is). i listened to their wild stories and drank in their advice. i learned to appreciate the animal that humans have bred for work, and now are mostly pets or bought on the whim of those who have enough money to maintain them. (this is also where i learned how queer i was, and how to let insults roll off me, but that is a story for another day).

my father, an immigrant, taught me to love history, but to also look on the non-white side of it. as such, i became somewhat of a terror to have in a high school history class, as i would get in debates with bigots and then have to tell my teacher to research on the argued about topics so i could be proven right. i had two teachers, one from english 2 and the other from statistics, who i’d have long discussions on history and how it has been clouded.

so i was prompted to then research about what i grew up around, and the history of it. this led me down the rabbit hole of cowboys and the romanticism of the west. we all (hopefully) know about the colonizers and their genocides, and how that has still carried on today. so i would like to share some of what i have learned.

my number one rule for anyone who gets into something (be it fandom or history): research on the history of it. learn where it come from and how it came to be.

with that, my articles:

the original cowboys by katie gutierrez

black cowboys at “home on the range” a post in the library of congress

https://www.socialstudies.org/legacy-american-west-indian-cowboys-black-cowboys-and-vaqueros

if you are working and can’t read these articles, there are also some video essays on youtube you can listen to.

[kuramirocket]

Miles de hombres y mujeres con espíritu valiente murieron por un gran sueño de nación independiente

Recordemos a los héroes y honremos su memoria

Mexicanos de estos tiempos, volvamos a hacer historia

¡VIVA MEXICO! PERO VIVA MEXICO LIBRE