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anishinaa-bae · 5 years

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the US has been, and still is, a fascist & genocidal settler-colonial state on stolen land.

IMPORTANT CRISIS AT BORDER

I’m back from my break just to say this: if you’re not aware of the atrocities happening to innocent people at the border right now, then please read this. Even if you are already aware READ THIS.

#never again is now #immigration #human rights #signal boost #not indigenous #very important #the us is a fascist colonial state

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anishinaa-bae · 5 years

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Tlingit weaving by Anna Brown Ehlers of the Tlingit Chilkat tribe, Pacific Northwest Coast

#beautiful #Tlingit #indigenous art #indigenous peoples #indigenous culture

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I have a question that maybe you’ll be able to answer. Is it offensive to use the word “tribal” as a broad descriptor for something or someone? I’ve always felt like it is because there is so much diversity in world cultures that the term doesn’t acknowledge, and it seems like a racist way to say “primitive”. However, I’m a white person so I have no way of understanding on my own. Is it a bad word to use, and could you suggest any alternatives?

From my perspective yes it can be offensive, in most situations, so I would steer clear from it. That being said, “indigenous” is a much better term as an alternative! It’s very inclusive as well so it works great. Thank you so much for asking, and I hope this helped! Sorry for not answering for so long I have been out of the country, but am back

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anishinaa-bae · 5 years

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Hi everyone! So sorry I haven’t been on in so long, I am trying to get things back to normal, just got back from visiting my gf in her country and am settling in back home. Will be posting fairly regularly again soon, and if you want to follow me on twitter where I am a bit more active, my user is @anishinaa_bae

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Tribalist is a bad word in general but it’s especially awful when being used to describe actual indigenous people.

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anishinaa-bae · 5 years

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How to Summon the Great Horned Serpent:

We que moh wee will l'mick, We que moh m'cha micso, Som'awo wee will l'mick! Cardup ke su m'so wo Sawo!

I call on the Wee-Will-l'mick! I call on the Terrible One! On the One with the Horns! I dare him to appear!

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[Added note: This is only for reference purposes, not for practice. The Great Horned Serpent is a dangerous water spirit, and whether or not you believe please be respectful of this not to act on. It is not something appropriate to mess with. That being said, it’s also important to share and pass on knowledge whether it is to be used or not.]

#great horned serpent #anishinaabe #anishinaabe culture #anishinaabe peoples #beliefs #supernatural #native beliefs #native magic #anishinaabe magic #mide #summon #anishinaabe legends #reference #study #indigenous culture #indigenous peoples #water spirits

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"When the forest weeps, the Anishinabe who listens will look back at the years. In each generation of Ojibwe there will be a person who will hear the Si-si-gwa-d (Spirit), and he who listens will remember and pass it on to the children."

An Anishinaabe Belief

#anishinaabe #native american #indigenous culture #indigenous #Indigenous Peoples #native culture #native peoples #proverb #quote #belief #ojibwe #chippewa #anishinaabe legends #indigenous people #indigenous legends #beautiful

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Rebecca Nagle on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rebeccanagle/status/1113535249617526784

Source: https://twitter.com/aviciouskoala/status/1113534682824474624

This is exactly why I made The Aila Test. I just kept seeing this happen over and over and over again. And NOBODY was talking about it in any feminist/media space. I always knew it was reoccurring but I never knew the statistics. This is horrible.

#native peoples #rape tw #native representation #indigenous #indigenous peoples #indigenous women #indigenous representation #native women #native american

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So I’m part of a Native American tribe, but I also identify as part of the Wiccan spirituality. Do you think it’s bad if I incorporate my tribe’s mythology and traditions into my craft? It seems frowned upon, though I’m not sure.

If you’re an active member in your tribe, it should be fine. I see other Native American witches on here combining cultural practices and their craft, but if you aren’t like connecting with your tribe than I would suggest doing that and perhaps asking someone from your tribe how you could go about doing so respectfully.

Off the bad, I do have a list of practitioners of color here, some of the Native American, who might be able to help you. But if anyone else can offer input, that would probably help too!

You should also be specific as to which tribe you’re from so that other people can find you!

#indigenous witch #indigenous witchcraft #magic #native american #indigenous people

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#native american #sacred land #Six Grandfathers #mt. rushmore #indigenous culture #indigenous people #indigenous

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It can be tough for those who have been taken from their culture as well and put into the foster system, adopted or fostered to families who aren’t indigenous and can’t help raise their kids in indigenous culture. Especially with no indigenous/native people living nearby.

It can make you feel very isolated, and disconnected, and feel as if you don’t have a right to express your own culture.

But you do.

It doesn’t matter what family you were raised in, many of us (2.7 times more than proportioned in the gen population) are, or were, in the foster care system, more than most groups in the US. It can be confusing growing up that way but kids should know that they have a right to express their culture no matter their circumstances, however awful. And that they’re not alone.

Situations like any of these are hard, painful, and not an easy way to grow up living.

i have a question for some of you, obviously don’t have to answer if you don’t want to: if you live in a place where you don’t know anyone of the same ethnic background as you except for your family, does it ever feel like. isolating? i feel this sometimes and i know i’m not alone

#indigenous culture #Indigenous Peoples #native american #native peoples #culture #cultural backgrounds #native people #indigenous people #indigenous #adoption #foster system

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Just a reminder to native lgbt people that our cultures had no biases against lgbt people until colonialism. You are not betraying you roots by being who you are

#native culture #native american #native american lgbt #lgbt #indigenous culture #indigenous people #indigenous

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support all indigenous people

- support indigenous people you’re hearing about for the first time - support black indigenous people - support all dark-skinned indigenous people, mixed or not - support indigenous people who are disconnected from their roots and are only now rediscovering them - support indigenous people who arent white-passing or mixed with white - support multiracial indigenous people - support indigenous people who are mixed with white but refuse to identify with that part of their heritage - support all indigenous people regardless if they speak their tribal/native language, whether they live on their land or not, whether they know a lot of their heritage or not

#indigenous people #indigenous #positivity

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Look. I fully understand the struggle of being disconnected from your Native heritage and having to go through all the pain and heartbreak and stress of reconnecting. I am intimately familiar with that struggle.

Which is why I’m hyper-aware of people who AREN’T actually doing that work and are instead only using their supposed heritage as a weapon or tool, something that they only bring up when it’s fun or convenient.

Native identity is not something that you can wear when you want to and take off when you don’t. It’s not a cute outfit that helps you get roles or a fun roleplay game that you can stop playing when it loses its novelty. It is love and pain and family and fear and so many amazing and terrifying things all wrapped up in a beautiful community. It’s blood and life and heritage and culture and connection, tragedy in your family history and a sunrise on the horizon. It’s a conscious decision to fight for your people, to fight for your heritage and your family even when the world is telling you to lay down and accept that you’ve lost. It’s an act of defiance against the world but also an act of simply existing.

Being Native is about so much more than a percentage or a DNA test. I wish people understood that.

#this is so important #native american #indigenous people #indigenous #indigenous culture

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fandomshatepeopleofcolor is telling people that getting a dna test is a way to prove that they're indigenous. i agree with them on the point about celebrities, but what they're saying about dna is utterly disgusting.

Agreed on the DNA test thing ofc, but I think the situation is more complicated than you’re making it out to be, anon.

First of all, mod Mal is talking about celebrities who have provided absolutely no proof that they even have “Native American ancestry” when just a simple DNA test could help them get started on that. Second of all, while they haven’t made it as clear as I would’ve liked, they’ve talked about how important DNA tests can be for people who don’t have anywhere else to start, who know they’re indigenous but don’t have any other paths they can follow to help with that for whatever reason.

It’s easy to reject the use of DNA tests when you have other options, but they’re a necessary reality for a lot of indigenous people. It’s something that we need to discuss as a community and figure out solutions to because blanket statements don’t do anything except make isolated and disconnected Natives (many of whom were forcefully taken from their families and communities) feel rejected and alone.

#native american #indigenous people #dna #important

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Unpopular opinion but even if indigenous communities had 100% access to other food sources, they should still be able to continue with their traditional and sustainable hunting practices.

Indigenous people shouldn’t be expected to abandon their cultures’ traditions just because outsiders have decided that those traditions are “wrong” or that there’s better options.

#indigenous #indigenous culture #hunting

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