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ker4unos · 2 years
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WEST INDIGENOUS NORTH AMERICAN RESOURCES
The Anthropological Masterlist is HERE.
The Western United States is a North American region that constitutes the western part of the United States. Alaska and Hawaii are also considered part of the Western United States.
AHTNA ─ “The Ahtna, or Ahtena, people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to the Copper River in southern Alaska.” ─ Ahtna Information
ALEUT ─ “The Aleuts, or Unangas, are an Inuit people. They are native to the Aleutian Islands between Russia and Alaska.” ─ Aleut Information ─ Aleut Museum ─ Aleut Language
ATHABASKAN ─ “Athabaskan, or Dene, is an Indigenous American linguistic group that share the Athabaskan language family. They are native to Alaska, north Canada, and southwest United States of America.” ─ Athabaskan Languages ─ Athabaskan Language Conference
CAHUILLA ─ “The Cahuilla, or Ivilyuqaletem, people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to the center of southern California.” ─ Cahuilla Information ─ Cahuilla Language ─ Cahuilla Language
CROW ─ “The Crow, or Absaroka, people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to central and south Montana.” ─ Crow Information ─ Crow Language
HOPI ─ “The Hopi are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to northeastern Arizona.” ─ Hopi Information ─ Hopi Culture and History ─ Hopi Dictionary
INUIT ─ “The Inuit are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to Greenland, Canada, and Alaska.” ─ Inuit Collections ─ Inuit Religion ─ Inuit Dictionary
KUMEYAAY ─ “The Kumeyaay, or Tipai-Ipai, people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to southern California.” ─ Kumeyaay Culture ─ Kumeyaay Language ─ Diegueño Dialect
KWAKWAKA’WAKW ─ “The Kwakwaka’wakw, or the Kwakiutl, people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to Vancouver Island.” ─ Kwakwaka’wakw Mythology ─ Revival of the Kwakwaka’wakw Langauge ─ The Bible in Kwakwaka’wakw
LUISEÑO ─ “The Luiseño, or Payómkawichum, people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to the coastal area of southern California.” ─ Luiseño Culture ─ Luiseño History ─ Luiseño Language
MIWOK ─ “The Miwok, or Miwuk, people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to northern California.” ─ Miwok Mythology ─ Miwok History ─ Miwok Dictionary
NAVAJO ─ “The Navajo, or Diné, people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to the southwestern United States of America.” ─ Navajo Culture ─ Navajo Mythology ─ Navajo Language
O’ODHAM ─ “The O’odham people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona.” ─ O’odham Dictionary
PAIUTE ─ “The Northern Paiute people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to the Great Basin in the United States of America.” ─ Paiute Culture ─ Paiute Culture ─ Paiute History
PUEBLO ─ “The Pueblo, or Puebloan, people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to New Mexico and Arizona.” ─ Isleta Pueblo Information
SHOSHONE ─ “The Shoshone, or Shoshoni, people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to Wyoming, Idaho, and Nevada.” ─ Shoshone Information ─ Shoshoni Language Project
SNOHOMISH ─ “The Snohomish people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to the Puget Sound area of Washington.” ─ Snohomish Culture and History
TEWA ─ “The Tewa are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to the Rio Grande, New Mexico.” ─ The Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indian
WINTUN ─ “The Wintun people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to North California.” ─ Wintu Language
ZUNI ─ “The Zuni, or Zuñi, people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to western New Mexico.” ─ Zuni Culture ─ Zuni Culture ─ Zuni Language
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toastys · 3 months
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C'etsesen
Dahwdezeldiin' koht'aene kenaege',
ukesdezt'aet.
Yaane' koht'aene yaen',
nekenaege' nadahdelna.
Koht'aene kenaege' k'os nadestaan,
lukae c'ena ti'taan', Tez'aedzi Na',
Sii 'e koht'aene k'e kenaes,
Sii ndahwdel'en,
dandiił'en
s'dayn'tnel'en.
- John Elvis Smelcer
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The Poet I am beginning to write in our language, but it is difficult. Only the elders speak our words, and they are forgetting. There are not many words anyhow. They are scattered like clouds, like Salmon in Stepping Creek at Tonsina River. I do not speak like an Ahtna elder, but I hear the voice of a spirit, hear it at a distance speaking quietly to me.
(translated from Ahtna to English by the poet.)
[Ahtna, which has four regional dialects, is one of the nineteen indigenous languages of Alaska. It had no written form until only a few decades ago... Today, only about a dozen fluent speakers remain. The mythology of the Ahtna people claims the language was given to them by a raven, and the raven figures in many of the stories and myths the Ahtna people tell... Smelcer, who is a member of the Ahtna tribe, is one of only two known people who have worked on documenting the language in writing, and he has undertaken the incredible task of creating an Ahtna dictionary, traveling for years through Ahtna villages to meet and talk with the elders of communities based in remote places. He also teaches Ahtna on YouTube in a series called 'Ahtna 101'. When he became the executive director of the Ahtna Heritage Foundation, the elders visited him, enthusiastically educating in their language and mythology. 'The end result,' Smelcer says, 'was that I became a living repository of our language.'
The poem.. in some parts documents Smelcer's mountainous task of documenting the Ahtna language.. On one hand, Smelver is committed to doing what he can to capture and sustain cultural memory, but he has to work quickly against the declining memories of the last speakers. He uses an image which brings together his work in documenting the words of the Ahtna with the Ahtna language itself, 'scattered like clouds, / like the Salmon in Stepping Creek / at Tonsina River'... A vocabulary that is pivotal to their consciousness within a living landscape... As the youngest speaker of Ahtna, he is the one to whom the task of documenting the culture and customs of an ancient people has fallen.]
Poem and excerpt from Poems from the Edge of Extinction, edited by Chris McCabe.
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The Poet - John Elvis Smelcer - USA
Translator: John Elvis Smelcer (Ahtna)
I am beginning to write in our language, but it is difficult.
Only the elders speak our words, and they are forgetting.
There are not many words anyhow. They are scattered like clouds,
like Salmon in Stepping Creek at Tonsina River.
I do not speak like an Ahtna elder, but I hear the voice of a spirit,
hear it at a distance speaking quietly to me.
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waitmyturtles · 5 months
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This season’s socially-conscious pop anthem comes from a very different trio than you’re probably imagining: an Indigenous trans musician, an environmentalist drag queen, and cello legend Yo-Yo Ma. “Won’t Give Up,” streaming now on major platforms, is a collaboration between Ma, climate-conscious drag performer Pattie Gonia, and Quinn Christopherson, a transgender singer-songwriter of Ahtna Athabascan and Iñupiaq descent. According to an interview with the three in Broadway World this week, Ma first reached out to Gonia (whose real name is Wyn Wiley) to join his ongoing project, “Our Common Nature,” which Ma describes as a “cultural journey” uniting communities with one another and the planet to promote climate action. Upon discovering she was already working on a song centered around Alaskan glaciers, the two combined their projects and brought on Christopherson, who is native to the region. Gonia sings on the track, backed up by Christopherson, who also rounds out the instrumentation with acoustic guitar.
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Why do i headcanon Jet as Athabascan? Many reasons!
More Native or Native-coded characters is always better
Athabascan actor Martin Sensmeier makes a great faceclaim for Jet as an adult
Yakone from Legend of Korra has an Ahtna Athabascan name, so Athabascan Jet wouldn't be the only Athabascan influence in the atlaverse
There is a real life history of bloody wars between the southern Inupiat and the Koyukon Athabascan nation with brutality and trickery from both sides, and making Jet Athabascan would add an interesting subtext to Sokka immediately distrusting him and Katara questioning his instincts
But most of all because Alaska State Troopers was really big when I was in high school and one of the Athabascan boys i went to school with expressed disappointment at managing to get on the show (by getting caught doing something illegal, and I think he said he was arrested but I can't remember) only to have his face blurred out because he was a minor and if that isn't the most Jet thing ever, i don't know what is
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dear-indies · 1 year
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hi!! i was wondering if you knew of any 6'1+ trans men with blonde hair? the character is based on a literary character, so the description is pretty specific. thank you!
Alex Blue Davis (1983) - has had blond hair.
Aydian Dowling (1987)
Shiki Aoki (1990) Japanese - is pansexual.
Jake Zyrus (1992) Bisaya Filipino, Tagalog Filipino, Chinese - has had blond tips!
Quinn Christopherson (1992) Ahtna and Inupiat - is gay.
Morgan Davies (2001)
Scott Turner Schofield (?)
Casil McArthur (?)
Here you go - I'm not sure of their heights though but I don't think that matters!
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bethelalaska · 2 years
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All part of there plan for our assimilation. Why both the working group and ITFC are a joke. Collecting numbers to use against us. If the State really feels this way the entire river would close for the benefit of all same as the Yukon...
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gwendolynlerman · 3 years
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Languages of the world
Ahtna (Atnakenaege’)
Basic facts
Number of native speakers: 45
Official language: Alaska (United States)
Script: Latin, 32 letters
Grammatical cases: 0
Linguistic typology: polysynthetic, SOV
Language family: Na-Dené, Athabaskan, Northern Athabaskan
Number of dialects: 4 main groups
History
1970s - development of the alphabet
1990 - first dictionary
Writing system and pronunciation
These are the letters that make up the alphabet: a b c c’ d dl dz e g gg h hw i k k’ ł m n ng o p s t t’ tl tl’ ts ts’ u x yh ’.
When vowels are repeated, they represent long sounds.
Grammar
Nouns have three numbers (singular, dual, and plural) and no cases. There are several classifying nominal prefixes.
Possession is indicated by different prefixes depending on the possessor. Modifiers usually go after the noun.
Verbs feature different prefixes to express tense, mood, aspect, and object and subject agreement. These also raise or lower transitivity.
Dialects
There are four main dialects: Lower Ahtna, Central Ahtna, Western Ahtna, and Upper Ahtna.
Differences between them are mainly found in pronunciation.
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nativeskins · 6 years
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Chief Stickwan's two daughters holding buckets and carrying burdens on backs with trumplines, Klutina-Copper Center band of Lower Ahtna, 1903
The Ahtna (also Ahtena, Atna, Ahtna-kohtaene, or Copper River) are an Alaska Native Athabaskan people of the Athabaskan-speaking ethnolinguistic group. The people's homeland called Atna Nenn', is located in the Copper River area of southern Alaska, and the name Ahtna derives from the local name for the Copper River. 
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npr · 7 years
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Most American school children learn that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, leading us to join World War II. This week marks the 75th anniversary of Japanese-Americans being subsequently rounded up and interned as suspected enemies of the state. But there's another tragic and untold story of American citizens who were also interned during the war. I'm a member of the Ahtna tribe of Alaska and I've spent the better part of 30 years uncovering and putting together fragments of a story that deserves to be told.
In June 1942, Japan invaded and occupied Kiska and Attu, the westernmost islands of Alaska's Aleutian Chain, an archipelago of 69 islands stretching some 1,200 miles across the North Pacific Ocean toward Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. From a strategic perspective, Japan wanted to close what they perceived as America's back door to the Far East. For thousands of years, the islands have been inhabited by a resourceful indigenous people called Aleuts. During the Russian-American Period (1733 to 1867), when Alaska was a colonial possession of Russia, Russian fur-seekers decimated Aleut populations through warfare, disease, and slavery.
Shortly after Japan's invasion, American naval personnel arrived with orders to round up and evacuate Aleuts from the Aleutian Chain and the Pribilof Islands to internment camps almost 2,000 miles away near Juneau. Stewardship of the internment camps would fall under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services (USF&WS). Furthermore, orders included the burning of the villages to the ground, including their beloved churches, as part of a "scorched earth" policy. The Army's stated purpose was to protect the Aleuts, who were American citizens, from the dangers of war. But one officer told astonished Aleuts that it was, as he put it, "Because ya'll look like Japs and we wouldn't want to shoot you." That exchange is part of a documentary video called Aleut Evacuation.
The Other WWII American-Internment Atrocity
Photo: National Archives, General Records of the Department of the Navy
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blueiskewl · 2 years
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460-Year-Old Hunting Bow Discovered in Alaska
Archaeologists and other experts are still working to uncover more details about the bow’s origin and history
National Park Service employees made an unlikely discovery in the backcountry of Lake Clark National Park and Preserve in Alaska this past September: a 54-inch wooden hunting bow that was found under 2 feet of water, but still intact.
Scientists and archeologists are analyzing the hunting bow in an attempt to learn more about its origin and history. According to radiocarbon dating conducted by the NPS, the bow is estimated to be 460 years old, ranging in origin between 1506 and 1660. The real mystery lies not in how old the bow is, but where it came from.
Park officials found the antique weapon on Dena’ina lands, an Athabascan indigenous people whose ancestral lands cover much of South-Central Alaska, including a large portion of Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. However, preliminary research suggests that the handcrafted bow might not be of Dena’ina origin. After consulting with Elders and comparing the bow with similar artifacts from that time period, experts believe the artifact has more in common with a Yup’ik or Alutiq style bow.
The homeland of the Dena’ina, which comprises roughly 41,000 square miles along the coast of the Cook Inlet, is called the Denaʼina Ełnena, and it includes lands where present-day Anchorage is located. Dena’ina lands also cover much of Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, including the lake itself, which is traditionally known as “Qizhjeh Vena”.
The Dena’ina culture, which prioritizes a connection to nature and respect for the wilderness, has a rich history in the Athabascan region. “We call this ‘K’etniyi’ meaning ‘it’s saying something,” writes Karen Evanhoff, cultural anthropologist for Lake Clark National Park and Preserve.
Anthropologists have also learned that the Dena’ina regularly interacted with indigenous peoples from neighboring regions, including the Yup’ik who live in the coastal region of southwestern Alaska, from Bristol Bay along the Bering coast and up to Norton Sound. This intercultural history would help explain how a Yup’ik bow might end up on Dena’ina homelands in the first place.    
“For the Dena’ina people, trading and sharing knowledge with their Yup’ik neighbors as well as other groups such as the Tanana, Tlingit, Ahtna, Deg Hit’an and coastal residents of Prince William Sound and Kodiak was common,” the NPS explains.
Experts are still working to piece together the clues, however, and the cultural history of the bow is just one part of the puzzle.
Soon after it was discovered, the bow was transported to the Park Service’s Regional Curatorial Center in Anchorage, where experts have inspected the artifact and analyzed its natural origins. As part of this analysis, the NPS brought in Dr. Priscilla Morris, a wood identification consultant with the U.S. Forest Service.
“After inspecting the artifact, I am leaning towards spruce,” Morris told the NPS after taking a closer look at the bow. “Birch is also a suspected species, but I did not see any anatomical characteristics that lead me to believe birch over spruce.”
Morris explained that her hypothesis was based solely on what she could see underneath a hand lens, and that a concrete identification would require looking at a cut-up sample underneath a microscope. This is unlikely to happen anytime soon, however, as the NPS wants to preserve the bow and keep it intact for the time being. As NPS archaeologist Jason Rogers explained, these discoveries are rare in Alaska, especially when compared to Europe and other more developed parts of the world.
“In Alaska, we just don’t have that kind of development so it’s very rare,” Rogers told the local news earlier this week. “It’s very rare for us to come across material like this.”
By Keegan Sentner.
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80stacos · 3 years
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1. About me + my blog:
Hello! I’m Charm! I am a lover of all things 80s and Rami Malek.
I am 20 and I go by she/her, cisgender female
Alaska Native (#Ahtna)
#Okie
I don’t use labels for my sexuality. If you do, I completely respect that. :)
Please no discussion of politics or controversies whatsoever on my page. I am here to have fun, and those topics are not fun for me.
Please do not interact with my blog if you are under 18. I’m just not comfortable with young people coming here since I’m an adult 😬.
This blog is a mess but idgaf.
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I have a Sodapop Rp blog! @sodapop-anon (#rp life)
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I write preferences, fics, headcanons, and incorrect quotes for The Outsiders.
I also do take requests! Just nothing ~absurd~ (such as incest, pedophilia, etc.)
I do not do mature content.
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All content with trigger warnings have the standard tags; I.E. tw: {insert triggering subject here}.
Also I myself have triggers, which include pedophilia, r*pe/SA, abortion, body shaming/dysmorphia and self-harm, so please be considerate of those, it would be much appreciated <3.
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dividers by @disruptxr and @streets-crimes
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chronologousrp · 3 years
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quick question! in what part of the state is Rotska located?
hi!
rotska is located on the alaskan panhandle (southeast). it borders with british columbia, and neighbouring towns / cities would be juneau, yakutat and sitka.
furthermore rotska is on unceded Tlingit territory, and neighbours with Haida Gwaii. other surrounding Indigenous nations include: Eyak, Ahtna, Tahltan, Nass-Gitxan and Tutchone.
as an additional location note, the panhandle was colonized first by the russians before europeans came, so the panhandle in general does have some russian influences. as we unveil more lore, further information about the people and the land will be provided!
- chrono staff
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rage-city · 4 years
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radical gardener vol. 7: land recognition
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This is Dena’ina ełnena.
In recent years, more and more events and rally open with a land recognition. A land recognition, or territory acknowledgement, is a statement that recognizes the indigenous people who have been dispossessed of their land by settler-colonial nations.
In Alaska, 1/7 of the population is Alaska Native or Native American. Native people and culture are integrated into the general population. It is crucial that indigenous peoples’ claim to the land is recognized, as their rights to land and livelihood has been degraded for centuries.
Prior to colonization, indigenous people did not “own” the land. Property was not a concept. The land did not belong to the people – people belonged to the land. People stewarded the land, and its bounty was shared by all.
Land recognition is one of the first steps of the larger process of decolonization. But it is not enough to simply state who lived on the land first; land recognitions must also recognize the broken treaties, the fact that indigenous people were dispossessed and evicted from their land, and that the settler-colonial system continues to oppress indigenous people to this day, by depriving them of their health and wellbeing, culture and traditions.
Settlers must recognize that they are guests on indigenous land, and that they are not entitled to its governance.
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Scope of Project
In this volume, there are two maps.
The first is the Indigenous Peoples and Languages of Alaska, published by the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. This map is so familiar to me, as it is posted at all levels of educational institutions throughout Alaska. There are high resolutions available online, where you can see the indigenous place names for most major communities within Alaska. It is important to note that the delineation between regions is not a strict border. I was inspired by the ANLC map to create my own version, featuring place names within southcentral Alaska, which is the second map shown.
Southcentral Alaska is home to more than half of Alaska’s population, and is the most densely populated region of Alaska. This map features the Anchorage Bowl and the southern half of the Matanuska-Susitna River valleys. It is within the traditional territory of the Dena’ina people, and Ahtna people have also lived in the area, and they frequently intermingled. The Dena’ina and the Ahtna people are Dene (Athabascan) people, and are related to other Dene peoples within Alaska, Canada, along the Pacific coast, as well as the Navajo and Apache nations.
Shem Pete’s Alaska: The Territory of the Upper Inlet Dena’ina, James Kari’s seminal work about Dene place names, was invaluable in the creation of my map. The man interviewed by James Kari, Shem Pete (1896-1989), was an intrepid traveler who had a vast repository of knowledge about Dena’ina place names. In his work, there is a wealth of stories and legends. For Alaskans, it is a must-read.
Where there is only one place name present, it is in Dena’ina only; where there are two places names, it is in both Dena’ina and Ahtna. I decided to insert recorded Ahtna place names when they were present, to recognize the fact that this is a traditionally bilingual region. Dene people in this area were versed in both languages as they traveled, traded, and intermarried, and in the later colonial period, Native people here frequently spoke four or more languages: Dena’ina, Ahtna, Russian, and English.
I am someone who is descended from settlers. The purpose of this volume is to convey and amplify what I have learned from my Native friends and colleagues to the public at large. My goal is that settlers in Alaska will become more comfortable using longstanding indigenous places names, instead of marking familiar geographical features with colonial names. Captain Cook does not need the attention that he receives.
I encourage my readers to engage with the indigenous peoples of the land that they are living on.
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mostly-mundane-atla · 3 years
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Sometimes you're Inupiaq and have lived in interior Alaska until fairly recently and you see the name someone picked for their Water Tribe OC and you go "if you're Eskimo, why are you Athabaskan?"
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dear-indies · 2 years
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hi! do you think you could make a list of diverse fcs with no resources that you'd like to see more? i'm a gif maker and i want to make gifs for more diverse fcs but i don't have any idea of who to work on :(. thank you!
Lawrence Bayne (1960) Cree / Irish.
Frankie Loyal Delgado (1969) Mexican.
Selene Luna (1971) Mexican - has dwarfism.
Cherylee Houston (1974) - has Ehlers–Danlos syndrome.
Florence Kasumba (1976) Ugandan.
Adeel Akhtar (1980) Pakistani / Kenyan.
Justin Chu Cary (1982) African-American / Chinese.
Ashley Walters (1982) Afro-Jamaican.
Dulcé Sloan (1983) African-American.
Nomi Ruiz (1986) Puerto Rican - trans woman.
Atkins Estimond (1987) Afro-Haitian.
Mae Martin (1987) - non-binary - she/they.
Jimmy O. Yang (1987) Hongkonger.
Mamoudou Athie (1988) Afro-Mauritanian.
Kadeem Ramsay (1988) Black British.
Daniela Vega (1989) Chilean - trans woman.
Sushant Divgikr/ Rani KoHEnur (1990) Indian - genderfluid - he/she/they.
Samson Kayo (1991) Black British.
Lux Pascal (1992) Chilean - trans woman.
Jelani Alladin (1992) African-American.
Rivkah Reyes (1992) Filipino / Jewish - non-binary and queer - they/she/siya - has bipolar disorder.
Brandon Soo Hoo (1995) Chinese.
Leo Sheng (1996) Chinese - trans man.
Cosme Flores (1996) Mexican.
Micheal Ward (1997) Afro-Jamaican.
Bless Amada (1997) Togolese. 
Rico Rodriguez (1998) Mexican.
Nava Mau (?) Mexican - trans woman.
Vico Ortiz (?) Puerto Rican - non-binary - they/them.
Bilal Baig (?) Pakistani - genderqueer - they/them.
Tim Renkow (?) Mexican Jewish - has cerebral palsy.
James Moore (?) - has cerebral palsy.
Amy Conachan (?) - has a rare spinal condition and is a wheelchair user. 
Rachel Colwell (?) Ojibwe.
Nalita Murray (?) Aamsskáápipikani Blackfoot / Mexican, Irish.
Yolanda Bonnell (?) Ojibwe / Indian - queer, two-spirit - she/they.
Not actors but also!
iskwē / Waseskwan Iskwew (1981) Metis of Cree descent, Dene / Irish - queer.
Laura Niquay (1982) Atikamekw.
Ice Seguerra (1983) Filipino - trans man. 
JB The First Lady (1984) Nuxalk / Onondaga.
Aydian Dowling (1987) - trans man. 
Quinn Christopherson (1991 or 1992) Ahtna Athabaskan / Iñupiat - trans man.
Megan Jayne Crabbe (1994) Afro-Jamaican and White.
Natasha Fisher (1995 or 1996) Ojibwe.
Shina Nova / Shina Novalinga (1998) Inuit.
Kanen / Karen Pinette-Fontaine (1999) Innu.
HERE is an ask reply listing fat/plus size folk with no resources and HERE is an ask reply listing non-binary people with no resources! I have however included some folks from the asks above too! 
Feel free to ask for more and/or tag me in any gif packs!
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