#siksika

[littlefeather-wolf]

Chief Big Spring and Wolf Eagle (aka Buffalo Chief of the Blackfoot) stand in front of tipis ...

Date : 1930-1940

Big Spring, left, wearing war bonnet and traditional regalia, stands next to Wolf Eagle (aka Buffalo Chief of the Blackfoot) wearing buffalo horn headdress and traditional regalia. Tipis in background.Note by Dyck on verso "Big Spring Blackfoot."

Native Americans

Siksika Indians

McCracken Research Library, Buffalo Bill Center of the West

[mother-lee]

Chief Running Rabbit

[hussyknee]

[Source: This slide was presented by University of Alberta professor Cathy Blackstock at the 2014 conference of the National Indian Child Welfare Association. It compares and contrasts Western and First Nations perspectives.]

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However, to erase the Blackfoot influence on this theory is to support systemic racism and white supremacy, whether unconsciously or not. Beyond the historical invisibility, there’s the fact that Maslow’s hierarchy distorts and inverts the point of the Blackfoot worldview. You’ll note that self-actualization is the base of the First Nations tipi (not a hierarchy, by the way… we’ll talk about the symbolism of the tipi in my next blog, which will include interviews with Blackfoot elders), not the peak. After “self” comes community, which is the purpose of becoming an actualized human being—to be of service to our communities as independent webs of humanity. And above community, reaching toward the expansiveness of the sky, lies cultural perpetuity, or the idea of sustaining cultural values across space, time, and generations.

The Blackfoot belief is not a triangle. It is a tipi where they believe tipis reach to the sky. Self-actualization is at the base of the tipi, not at the top, and is the foundation on which community actualization is built. The highest form that a Blackfoot can attain is called “cultural perpetuity.

Cross presented in 2007 at a keynote that Western views are linear and native and tribal views are relational: - Fluid, cyclical view of time - Each aspect of life is related - Services aim to restore balance - Interventions may not be directed at “symptoms” - Underlying question is “how?”

Blackstock explained cultural perpetuity as something her Gitksan people call “the breath of life.” It’s an understanding that you will be forgotten, but you have a part in ensuring that your people’s important teachings live on.

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“Blackfoot people have their own systems for developing new knowledge in traditional ways,” says Ryan Heavy Head, one of the researchers at Red Crow. “It’s less focused on categories and more interested in how things come together.”

Do white people have anything they didn't just steal? Asking for a friend.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Hardy Women Warriors Inherit Skill, Stamina of Ancestors," Toronto Star. October 30, 1943. Page 2. --- ADVANTAGE of inherited ability is held by Private Minnie Spotted Wolf, when she picks up a bow and arrow on the archery range at the New River, N.C., army camp.

OF A SEAFARING RACE, these Norwegian "Wrens" were right at home during recent exercises taken aboard the destroyer Glaisdale, and none complained of sea-sickness.

[beecakes]

"The federal government said the settlement dates back more than a century when Canada broke its Blackfoot Treaty promise and took almost half of Siksika Nation's reserve land, including some of its agricultural lands, to sell to people who settled in the area.

The agreement provides $1.3 billion in compensation to Siksika Nation to resolve outstanding land claims, which includes about 46,500 hectares of Siksika's Reserve and certain mineral rights taken by Canada"

Congratulations to the Siksika nation!

[phoenixofthestars]

Petition to change the Canadian anthem in respect of Canadian Indigenous Peoples.

[michiko-museum]

Original publishing date, February 13, 2023.

["The debate over restitution may be dominated by a few famous artworks, but the thorny issues of decolonisation and return of artefacts have long been grappled with by museums in Britain and beyond. What makes Buxton’s move unusual, according to Ros Westwood, the museum’s manager, was that rather than waiting for a request from Indigenous communities for items to be returned, it actively sought them out to offer."]

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[littlefeather-wolf]

Native American ... Blackfoot ... c. 1884 ...

Old Brass (?), Siksika, Blackfoot ... (note the Union Jack over his shoulder) - Alex Ross - 1884 ...

Courtesy of #Native Sioux

[the-quotable-alberta-hansard]

November 20, 2023

Mr. Schow: When the Member for Edmonton-Gold Bar was speaking in his second supplemental, with reference to the Premier and changes to the conflicts of interest, he said – and I have the benefit of the Blues: “the minister wouldn’t have his job if the Premier had been up front about her plan to line her own pockets during the campaign.” The Member for Edmonton-Gold Bar is clearly making an accusation that the Premier is taking bribes and lining her own pockets.

The Speaker: Order. That is an absolutely unacceptable gesture directed to the Government House Leader, for which you can return to your seat and apologize.

Mr. McIver: Jackass.

The Speaker: Order. The hon. Member for Calgary-Hays will rise to his feet and apologize.

Mr. McIver: I do apologize, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Schmidt: I apologize that the House leader is so sensitive and had to rise on that point.

The Speaker: No. You don’t apologize for that. You apologize for making an inappropriate gesture at the doorway to the Chamber. You will do so, or you will be named and you will leave the Chamber until a committee deals with it.

Mr. Schmidt: I have offered my apology, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.

The Speaker: You will be well served that the Speaker spoke last week about not judging the quality of an apology. You behaved like my 12-year-old, slowly waltzing across this Chamber after being spoken to directly. It’s absolutely unacceptable and unbecoming of a member of this Assembly.

[missing-girls-and-women]

Desiree Oldwoman, 21

Last seen in Siksika First Nations Reserve, Alberta in 2011. She is autistic and non-verbal.

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[twicedailyquotes]

What is life? It is a flash of firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Chief Crowfoot (born Isapo-Muxika)

[smurphyse]

Friendly reminder to people reblogging my fics saying "white reader"... I'm not white and neither are my ocs or readers in my fics. They're my projections of myself and are not white. Feel free to imagine them looking like you but please don't alienate my work by labeling them as a white reader. My mood boards are usually white girls or medium skinned bc pinterest never pops up anything else, but i imagine my readers as mixed Indigenous like myself 🤘🏽

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

New Audio: Indigenous Canadian Trio Double Rider Share a Sweet and Old-Timey Love Song

New Audio: Indigenous Canadian Trio Double Rider Share a Sweet and Old-Timey Love Song @doubleriderband @presstownpr @heygroover @romainpalmieri @DorianPerron

Siksika Nation, Alberta, Canada-based trio Double Rider (formerly Third Generation) — Hannah and Lennon Owlchild and Erin Many Heads — grew up in a rather musical home: their late grandfather Matthew Many Heads was a singer/songwriter. The trio started the band back in 2014. And in their first year or so as a band, they quickly established a sound that draws simultaneously from classic and…