I was 12 when my family doctor told me I needed birth control the depo-provera shot because “native women are very fertile and we don’t need more native teen moms”
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Indigenous peoples have the inherent right to feed themselves by hunting, fishing and harvesting from the lands they live on. This right was passed down from our ancestors, not treaty.
Don’t forget countries like Canada and the US support Israel because they’re also settler colonial states who rely on genocide of Indigenous people and the denial of said genocide
everyone always talks about how the last residential school closed in the 90s but never about how child removal, displacement & assimilation didn’t stop with residential schools, or the 60s scoop, or day schools.. it is still happening.
It’s not “cultural genocide” when our living conditions on rez are still causing us to die younger on average, when settlers are free to murder us & walk free, when children are being apprehended & dying in care & half of all children in care are still indigenous children, etc..
when people say “it’s in the past” about colonialism but my mom was stolen and sold to a French Catholic family as part of a government program to civilize indigenous people through apprehending and displacing our children 🙃 yeah, I’m gonna be mean
let native kids whose skills aren’t valued or given space to grow in schools drop out.
we need more native kids who can speak their language, know their ceremonies, re-tell their grandparent’s stories, navigate using the stars and less kids struggling in western institutions
Here’s “6 turtles” in natural light! I got too excited and posted yesterday but prefer natural light to the yellow light I was using last night to take pictures
Racist artwork suggesting that my community’s elders only approached the pope for an apology for some kind of compensation.
My great uncle had his hip broken by a teacher at an Indian Day School. My aunt never spoke her language out loud again after Indian Residential School.
Maybe the sixties scoop doesn’t get talked about as much as residential schools because Canada doesn’t want anyone else to realize they never stopped taking our children. Maybe they want everyone to believe that the genocide ended in 1996.
Two spirit people have always existed in Indigenous cultures under different words that didn’t exist in the English language, it wasn’t until the 90s someone created the English term for it. That doesn’t two spirit identities were created in the 90s.
Again - non-indigenous people should not be raising Indigenous children.
It is in the best interest of every Indigenous child to be raised in their culture, preferably with relatives.
The money spend on apprehending & displacing our children could be better spent on families.
This guy has been hanging out around the rez for a few days now, at the gas station, in my yard, by the band office, at the park. His name is Ichabod Jijaak or Ichabod Crane. We adopted him as a community member & made him a status card
Hi new followers 🥹 my name is Autumn, I’m an Ojibwe and Odawa (Anishinaabe) painter from Magnetawan First Nation, north of Parry Sound, Ontario. I like to tell stories about my dreams and things my teachers shared with me through my art. Thank you for being here. 💗
even my nearly 11 month old when he cries because I don’t let him put gross stuff in his mouth lol. he cries because he doesn’t get it & his teeth hurt and that’s why he’s putting stuff in his mouth. Poor guy
Happy Indigenous People’s day!
Here’s some recent paintings I made. I’m an Ojibway artist from Magnetawan First Nation in Ontario, Canada.
The leaves are still available. 🥰
Indigenous followers pls share your art in the replies & I’ll share it!
Anishinaabe art is not Canadian art.
The Anishinaabek are a nation that predate Canada, and Canada only exists because of agreements they made with our ancestors.
ppl are mad about it but she’s right. Indigenous people have been saying this. how tf you gonna pay foster families, group home workers, social workers & their supervisors but can’t give support to a family living in poverty so they can avoid losing their children to the system?
102 indigenous children died under the care of child welfare workers in Ontario between 2013-2017.. just in case u were gonna say some more bullshit about how social workers should replace cops. Fuck that.
I don't want to work anymore, I want to wake up and cook and make coffee over a fire and then clean up my camp and paint in the bush like I used to. I want to go pick medicines for teas and tell stories at night, I don't want to walk in two worlds I just want to be Anishinaabe.
thinking about how on this so called Truth and Reconciliation day more than half of children “in care” in Canada are still Indigenous, and how my mom was scooped and people still don’t really talk much about the child welfare system on TRC day but I think
non-indigenous people are not the experts on Indigenous cultures.
argue with me all you want, there’s nothing you can do to convince me.
You are not the expert on my own lived experience and cultural knowledge.
let native kids know that there’s other options than western education & encourage them to do what feels right.
let them know we still need healers and artists and storytellers. We need people with knowledge about plant medicines, language speakers and ceremony leaders. 💖
Indigenous children represent more than half of the child welfare system yet we make up only around 5% of the population in Canada.
This is a continuation of the sixties scoop, Indian day schools and residential schools, the goal being to assimilate us and destroy our cultures.
I just made this available as a colouring page!
It is free to print out and colour for personal use - a gift to show my appreciation for the support I’ve received online since I started painting full-time in 2018.
Download it here
Miigwech. 💗
I always lose followers when I remind you guys but I like they/them pronouns - I live in rural northern Ontario so can handle she/her but it makes me feel good when my pronouns are respected, thanks friends
English is a foreign language in the Americas & the reason you think everyone should be speaking English is a result of British colonialism & white supremacy!! Embarrassing.
Truthfully you should all be learning the language of whatever indigenous people’s lands you’re on.
Don’t beat me up when I say this but immigrants should be required to learn English when they first come to America it’s no way in hell we are REQUIRED to graduate highschool with at least 2 years of Spanish or a foreign language meanwhile they’re kicking their feet up in esol🤔
reasons why some children in my family were taken according to the CFS:
mother “too young”
baby not baptized
children not going to church
other siblings already in care
crowded housing
If you’re not comfortable telling people what indigenous community you belong to and who your people are, maybe you’re not ready to be an artist, musician, filmmaker or in a position where you’re making a living off of being indigenous.
just deleted a white woman on my Facebook who got a job working for a native child welfare agency.
I don’t care how culturally sensitive you think you are,
If you’re non-indigenous working for an agency that apprehends indigenous children, you’re a modern day colonizer.
I sat down to make art today and all I could think about was the ongoing genocide happening in Palestine.
ode'iminan, the heart berry represents love and life, and caring for our communities among other things, and the watermelon is a symbol of Palestinian resistance.
indigenous artwork doesn’t have to look like “indigenous art.” all art made by indigenous people is indigenous art.
and the idea that it has to look a certain way to be authentic native art is why a lot of native art sucks.