#unceded territory

[immaculatasknight]

Forever war

[runadreams]

Tahoma • Mount Rainier, WA

@civilmind117 💟

[absolute-immunities]

hey! give it back!!!

[jaegerbroshoe]

I finally got around to watching Indian Horse in honour of Truth and Reconciliation and every time I learn more about what Canada did to Indigenous people, I feel my blood pressure rise. 

It took way too long to even admit and acknowledge what happened, and even to this day, most Canadians barely give a fuck and the sheer apathy of it makes me so angry.

Anyways, the movie was really good, albeit heavy and heart-wrenching given its subject matter. I will never for the life of me understand how humans can be so horrible and cruel.

[theabsurdity]

I truly hate vancouver popular culture, which is a deep concern for investors and business owners and property owners and their right to stay rich.

The retail landscape is the last thing that needs to recover here.

I hate the stupid mayor and his love of cops and profiteers, I hate cops, and honestly I hate CEOs and business owners and real estate agents and developers in general.

I will clarify I also have a deep hatred for non- profit CEOs, not just banks and car companies and shit. If your non-profit has a CEO it’s probably too big already to be making community minded change. It’s all disproportionate distribution of resources and labour.

If you have a small business that’s cool, I know you work really hard, if you have a family to support, that’s cool I get it and whatever reason we justify to participate in this absolutely absurd routine of believing in ownership and property and profits and being ready to die for it all.

[plenilunada]

[butchwink]

yeah im a plant for team santa whats up bozos

[kagrenacs]

I haven’t seen anyone talk about this on tumblr yet. Environmental racism is Canada choosing land sacred to the Algonquin First Nations to place nuclear waste.

[radicalgraff]

“As a force, we defend, protect, and take the initiative to strike. Indigenous Anarchism presents the possibility of attack; it is the embodiment of anti-colonial struggle and being.” - Klee Benally

Seen on occupied & unceded Snunymeux Territory, so-called “Nanaimo, BC, Canada”

[neechees]

I feel like most people even misunderstand the numbered treaties: people see "unceded territories" and think that treaty land must mean the Natives there said "okay you can have all our land now and tell us what to do and we have to live by your rules and government and we mean the exact same thing".

The treaties had a lot of miscommunication (intentional on the colonizers side or not) but the idea was that we said "settlers can live in these agreed upon areas, but understand that we are still our own Nations and sovereign, and you can only live here if you give us x things in return and conduct yourselves by the agreed upon terms". That wasn't us "giving" our land away, that was us assuming we entered into a civil contract that we could live peacefully by.

[odera]

Hi tumblr! I figured I would reintroduce myself here, since I have decided tumblr is simply my favorite place to share online *still* to this day.

My name is Odera and I am a painter and illustrator! The main places you can find me are here, my side blog @burritobowlofthepelvis, my website, and @ oderaigbokwe on IG. I'm physically located on the unceded ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations (aka known as Vancouver Canada).

Alot of my work centers the magic of the African diaspora and the Black Queer Imagination. The foundational years of my career were complimentary to Black speculative works, Afrofuturism, and Fantasy as a gateway to healing. This has since grown to explore the spirit based, ancestral work of the diaspora, and most recently I have been combining it all and trying to find that magic in the physical, daily, embodied things.

My side blog is @burritobowlofthepelvis which I am slowly but surely reorganizing. This blog is filled with reblogs for inspiration, potential reference images, more casual glimpses of my life, selfies, and outfits of the day. (Some of the reblogs are NSFW, so minors DNI there). Ultimately I am trying to use that blog as a combination journal/resource for my sketchbook.

Below are some of my favorite paintings and illustrations over the years that give an idea of the kinds of things I am exploring or have done throughout my career.

The Spirit Child. 2022. Oils on board. This painting is the centerpiece of my series of Tarot/Oracle/Afrodiasporic Divination paintings. The series is slowly but surely coming together, and once I get to the minor arcana I am excited to make some stylistic shifts that not only match the messaging but are also much faster to make.

Selections from my solo exhibition 'New Yam Festival'. These paintings are all big, juicy, vibrant, improvisational, and embody the playfulness, pleasure, and joy of the Black Queer imagination! Up until that point I was working mostly at a smaller scale (anywhere from 8x10 to 20x30 inches). So it was fun to size up to 6-8 feet for each of these!

Above are some of my favorite commercial illustrations for book covers and comics. Covers are their own particular fun design challenge, but of all the illustration assignments they can feel the most fulfilling to me.

And something classic from the archive: Odera Redesigns the cast of Sailor Moon.

I can't believe most of those were created almost 10 years ago. But that's where we are, and it feels good to still want to use this platform despite how much the world is changing.

Feel free to reblog, like, comment, or ask me any questions you have!

[immaculatasknight]

You can’t destroy the earth to save the Earth.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Several First Nations and environment advocates are criticizing a decision by Canada’s nuclear regulator to greenlight a proposed nuclear waste site near the Ottawa River. The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has, following an environmental assessment, authorized construction of a waste facility on the site of the Crown-owned Chalk River Laboratories, which tests nuclear technology in Deep River, Ont., about 180 kilometres northwest of Ottawa. The site sits within a kilometre of the Ottawa River, on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg peoples.

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[royalteachitchat]

🔥 🇨🇦 Now Kelowna B.C. is burning too as well as Yellowknife...... 💔😭 😡

Land Acknowledgement

TOTA acknowledges that the Thompson Okanagan region lies on the unceded, ancestral, and traditional territory of the Syilx, Secwépemc, and Nlaka'pamux Nations, who have inhabited these lands for over 10,000 years.

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

Hi all, mod L here. We've had some questions about the country tags in our poll posts, and I figured I'd offer some clarity:

We tag our posts according to the information provided by IMDB (and to a lesser extent, Wikipedia.) The country tags specifically are based on the stated country of origin of the production company. The reason for this is twofold. One, the tags exist to make it easier for people to find what they're looking for, and so we apply the most widely available information to link polls to other existing records. The other is that tagging by the rightful ownership of a given piece of territory does not necessarily reflect the backgrounds and perspectives of the filmmakers. If, for instance, we tagged a movie like Black Christmas (1976) with "Huron/Wendat" or "Turtle Island" because it was filmed on unceded Wendat land, that provides the false impression that Wendat creatives were involved in the making of the film. This both misleads people coming to the film cold, and clogs the tag (both on the blog and on Tumblr more broadly) for people who are looking for actual Wendat films. The same goes for films made by Chinese production companies on Tibetan land, and Israeli-produced films made on Palestinian land. So, for example, the creative team behind Jeruzalem (2015) does not include any ethnic Palestinians, or - crucially - any Palestinian perspectives, and thus, we tag it "Israel" rather than "Palestine." The tags are not a statement on the actions of any given country's government, or the rightful ownership of a piece of contested land. We do not have the expertise or the scope to do that.

[supersonicart]

Hanna Lee Joshi's "What Is It You Seek?"

Currently on view at Thinkspace Projects in Los Angeles, California is artist Hanna Lee Joshi's solo exhibition, "What Is It You Seek?"

Hanna Lee Joshi is a Korean-Canadian artist who is residing in Vancouver, on the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Her work currently explores the search for autonomy within and themes of individuality and how it relates to universal identity. The vibrant faceless figurative works evoke an ethereal goddess, luminous and full of wonder and yet also deeply human. Drawing from her own lived experience, her work offers a glimpse into synesthetic realms that chart a journey through the inner landscape. With this show the artist is asking “what is it you seek?” as a question that arises within. At the same time the figures depicted evoke mystical beings asking the same of the viewers as if granting a boon or wish.

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