May not be my culture, but institutions around the world are also in possession of our ancestors + thousands upon thousands of stolen artifacts. They mismanage and abuse them, and refuse to let us have them. Who’s to also stop them from doing something so stupid?
My earth day message is to support all indigenous beings of the land you live on. The people, the water, the soil, the plants, the animals. Plant gardens that match the ecology of the place you live. Support our land and water protectors, in all of their resistance
Just found out this was filmed in riverside which makes it sting more. Sherman Indian high school is also there, it was one of the last Indian boarding schools that now serves California Indian students. This is direct violence on our California Native youth
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Yesterday a Native American student filmed this video in his Math class. After several minutes of the teacher “war hooping & tomahawk chopping” the student began filming because he, “felt that violence was being committed against him and he had the right to record.”
The native headband thing elementary school teachers make kids do is actually so funny when you remember that those headbands only became a part of popular “Indian” aesthetics because the white actors doing redface in western films needed to hide their wiglines 🥴
Just a note: indigenous artists will usually state whether or not they are okay with u buying it. Don’t the OP as a 100% guarantee though. Many artists also do traditional and family designs or use objects like sweet grass in their beading that are off limits
@benzemasbigdick
Anyone who has a bad reaction to “expired” perfumes honestly has a skin condition, or they put something god awful in the bottle. But fragrances are mostly alcohol. They just smell less strong. No big deal
@latimes
@marymacTV
Just a vile display of white feminism. You do know Mollie Burkhart was a real woman and survivor, yes? You do know her grandchildren and the entire Osage Nation are still alive and in perpetual mourning over what happened to their relatives?
I hope everyone who harassed indigenous people on Twitter this week over frida kahlo take a good look at this. Me and my hñähñü friends didn’t get any support when we spoke on this except from other indigenous people. Y’all want the aesthetic but not protecting our people
The disrespect of dia de Los Muertos by non-indigenous people is annoying. We don’t celebrate it the same. The altars in my community don’t look like those in Oaxaca. Different traditions and beliefs, that have been molded down into Coco marketing
Having grown up around many white people, I hate seeing the naivety of statements and questions like “no one actually celebrates the history of thanksgiving” YES THEY DO
Also for anyone that is curious about my beadwork, I don’t make anything that is sacred or closed practice and I try to make modern pieces that everyone can buy because I operate as a business. That’s just me though, make sure you ask
Kim Kardashian repeatedly broke California drought rules, reports
@latimes
— exceeding her water limit by 230,000 gallons in June.
Other offenders include Sylvester Stallone and Kevin Hart. Millions in southern California are under strict water limits after 23 years of drought.
Target did not need to be closed today tf. Seriously of all the holidays it was the bunny one. But it was totally okay for me to work thanksgiving, Black Friday, Christmas Eve and Day, and New Years?
Natives are more than resilient:
how is it that our people were tattooing for 1000’s of years with thorns & bone while making ink out of soot and oil?……
but suburban teens can’t handpoke themselves without getting blood poisoning and a bacterial infection
The thing about the smallpox line is it wasn’t a joke, they were trying to be ‘woke’ so to speak.
It speaks to how cringe it is when non-Indigenous people think they can speak on our histories for brownie points after a google search. Just talk to us, include native writers
@steegesaurus
@JoshuaStockton0
I encounter raccoons nightly in my backyard because they eat my avocados. They normally are assholes that don’t get scared, but they don’t attack unprovoked. Most wild animals that suddenly have an inclination to go up to humans without fear have rabies
Texans, with the freeze coming, wrap your pipes, cover your plants, stay off icy roads & keep your family safe.
And, if it gets too damn cold, join me in Cancun!
@Char_Addams
@dejadehaan
Considering the fact that that thing has rabies, it actually would’ve been more peaceful for him to get his shit wrecked like that instead of what’s coming for him 🥴
@fruitinfilm
Baby I don’t want to disappoint you, or ruin your day….. but that’s just keratin treatments, we will never experience what the rich do 😭😭😭
Tal Mitnick, an 18-year-old from Tel-Aviv, just refused to enlist in the Israeli army to protest the war in Gaza and the occupation.
He was sentenced to 30 days in prison.
He's a hero and also the sweetest kid.
@TalMitnick
@Mesarvot_
@CandyTheApple
From studying addictions in my coursework, weed back that older generations used to smoke would operate around 4-8% THC, these days dabs, pens, oils are upwards of 95%. You’re completely right about all of it.
Maybe it’s just me but I don’t want indigenous ideologies that pre-date everything about Marx to be identified with communism and Marxism. We’re just doing our own thing, I don’t want to be inherently radical, I just want my people to thrive and be left alone
Please stop putting “Marxists” and “indigenous and racialized people” into two opposing categories as if indigenous and racialized folks haven’t always been central to Marxist theory and struggle.
Anyway, archaeological evidence shows the connections between California Indians and their navigation and trade with tribes in Mexico and as far south as Chile
Imagine the gaping wonder with which Native Americans watched the arrival of Columbus’ ships. They could scarcely conceive them, let alone build their own vessels to cross the Atlantic to Europe. This is the civilizational superiority that enabled the West to dominate the world
@comradecamgirl
I just read the comments and the girl FULLY acknowledges that tomatillos are accessible and that she doesn’t want to cook it correctly because cooking is “unpaid labor” and misogynistic 🥴🥴
@JustCallMeJamie
@killdads
@DevaughnMiree
I think there are accepted communities & I’m sure they don’t accept what Armie has done with this. The whole issue is just so gross because none of this was safely discussed or consensual and the fact that girls have come out of this feeling violated and abused 😔
Went on a harmless walk this morning with my dog and had to come across a house around the corner with a “dead Indian” on their porch as a Halloween decoration. This is the kind of vile racism we deal with everyday. I’m still fuming about it
“Efficient ways to feed more people” coming out of a white person means “we already have slave labor of black and brown people around the world and they can keep doing it for us”
Racists love proving time and time again they’re idiots. Clean dirt is excellent for what they have. Water aggravates grease fires. This is why fire extinguishers shoot out baking soda and potassium carbonate
Tbh I’m not in a good place right now, I’m feeling a lot of anxiety and emotions and trauma being resurfaced. It’s been a hard week for a lot of native women, and I just want to say that everyone being able to share has made me feel like I’m not crazy and not alone.
Also please stop referring to MMIW as an epidemic. The definition of epidemic doesn’t coincide with the issue. It’s not sudden or a phenomenon, it’s something that has plagued our communities from the very first day that we were all colonized and has never ceased
1. Colonialism isn’t fascism
2. America doesn’t have a large network of colonies
3. Palestine DEFINITELY isn’t an American colony
4. Authoritarianism also isn’t usually fascism
5. Biden isn’t any kind of authoritarian
6. This entire discourse is indefensibly absurd
Not only was it pouring rain at my polling booth, the main walkway was a trough for rainwater, not big enough for mobility aids/wheelchairs, and the ada sidewalk slope was blocked by construction gates 🤦♀️
So, I’m in PA and have gotten around 50 text messages regarding the election.
10 texted me just yesterday. So I did a little experiment and asked each of them about accessibility at the polls.
Only 2 of them got back to me and they both just said that accessibility is
I personally think it’s dumb to tell people that decolonizing is skipping a family dinner. I’m more interested in the average person solidifying an education of and solidarity of with the indigenous people of the world, ESPECIALLY of the Indigenous territories they live upon
That the US *needed* to drop the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki because we were desperate to win the war. My history teacher the badass that she was, encouraged us to prove this false