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ravennoxx · 9 months

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Knee High Socks make you lose your thoughts 💭

#alternative goth #alt goddess #natural #naturalgoddess #tattooed #alaskan native #ravennoxx #nose piercing #tattoos and piercings #girls with piercings #goth #alt babe #altblackgirl #alt native

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ironysgrace · 10 months

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Anyone else struggle with going from a cool beige in the winter to a warm brown in the summer?

Like I get an identity crisis when the seasons change 💀

I mean not only do I need to change the way I dress and apply makeup but also I go from white passing racially ambiguous to very obviously not real MaYoNnAiSe

And idk it’s just a weird way to exist? From white people who know me grabbing me randomly to freak out over how tan I suddenly got and/or asking if it’s real, to the up tick in people wanting to play the “what are you game”

And because of my curls a lot of people make the assumption that I’m part Black or Hispanic/Latinx and that feels weird cause I’m being assigned like complex weighted social identities that I don’t really have anything to do with while never having the ones I actually do be recognized?(I’m Athabaskan, Alaskan native)

I honestly don’t know how to word all the feelings around that or if it’s even worth trying for or if it’s more just internalized issue that I need to work on personally and not worry so much about other peoples perceptions

Which is a bit of an identity crisis in its own way because being able to clearly articulate nuanced ideas in a meaningful way is something I’ve had grafted to my idea of self since I was a child

And I mean struggling with the reverse of this when the sun leaves and my melanin recedes with it is also really hard because instead of being conflate with the wrong minority I start to wonder if I still have one at all

Which is weird because it’s not like I turn ghost white or my hair is turns straight so it’s not like everything disappears but also those aren’t even really things that I associate at all with my native identity at all, in fact the curls are from my Irish side of the family, they’re simply things I know others use to gage my otherness

I guess I just feel I’m constantly trying to juggle having cultures that aren’t mine handed to me and then exchanged for another while never getting to really hold my own, I wanna be so careful because if either I drop or hold anything I’m handed I can easily hurt and offend people

even holding the white culture I’m actually kind of a part of feels not only disingenuous but dangerous

But there is one thing growing up like this has taught me, if all that I am can appear subjective, then why would I ever take anyone’s appraisal of my beauty as written in stone?

If all the pain, love, and knowledge passed from my ancestors to me can be mistaken for blood sweat and tears of another with the passing blase of small talk then how on earth could I take another’s word for what is or isn’t beautiful about me?

You can’t tell me my features aren’t beautiful if you don’t know who’s beauty they were born from

#I have no idea how to even begin tagging this #also I don’t wanna trigger any just trying to enjoy their daily mindless doom scrolling #I don’t wanna tag the wrong people or leave out the right people or just generally offend anyone but also I wanna know I’m not alone #cw racial profiling #that doesn’t feel like the right tag but idk what else to put #it’s what auto generated so Ig I’ll try that #native beauty #alaskan native #athabascan #native people #indigineous people #mixed race #racially ambiguous

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kbjones · 1 year

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Number 54 of 150

Next comes three characters in the 10-12 age range. The colorful sweater and space buns were cute, I thought.

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cowboy-inuk · 1 year

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My main blog is more like a personal diary for me, but I’ll miss Native Twitter—I met so many cool people on there and made so many friends… So I made this side blog so I could feel less self conscious about potentially sharing this account with my mutuals over there lmao

#indigenous #indigenous tumblr #inupiaq #inuk #yup’ik #yupik #alaskan native #native tumblr #native #even on my main though idk how to meet people on this app anymore lmao

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harvestheart · 2 years

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Coming to Congress, Mary Peltola

#Alaska #Native American Congresswoman #Mary Peltola #Sarah Palin #politics #elections #Alaskan Native

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bleuhillbitz · 2 years

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Another pet commission, this time this beautiful Alaskan Kleekai named Skai has crossed the rainbow bridge 🥺🧡 I’m so glad I was able to bring her to life again in this piece!

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joineryjack · 2 years

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#indian tribes #alaskan native #native hawaiian #indian boarding schools #investigation

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vharriscreative · 15 days

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Trans Joy earrings now available! DM to buy 😊

These earrings have hypoallergenic sterling silver ear hooks, Czech glass seed beads, bugle beads, pink glass pearls, and little gold-colored hollow metal wiffle balls.

my Instagram 💜

#art #beaded jewelry #beading #beadwork #indigenous #jewelry #earrings #native alaskan #native american #shiny #trans #trans pride #trans joy #trans flag

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arthistoryanimalia · 1 month

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Happy #InternationalDayOfTheSeal ! 🦭

Seal Decoy Helmet

Alutiiq (Pacific Eskimo), Kodiak Island, Alaska, before 1869

Carved & painted spruce wood, inlay whiskers, 17.5 x 25.5 x 19 cm (6 7/8 x 10 1/16 x 7 1/2 in.)

Harvard Peabody Museum 69-30-10/64700

“Carved from wood, hunters would have worn this hat to approach and trap seals.”

#animals in art #animal holiday #museum visit #19th century art #seal #woodwork #Indigenous art #Native American art #First Nations art #Alaskan art #Alutiiq #decoy helmet #carving #International Day of the Seal #Harvard Peabody Museum

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alinahdee · 2 months

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Brian Smith was convicted on all counts.

#MMIW #mmiwg2s #native women #no more stolen sisters #alaskan natives

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ravennoxx · 6 months

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Are you ready for your next quest?

#alt goddess #naturalgoddess #tattooed #alaskan native #altblackgirl #ravennoxx #alt native #natural #goth #cloak

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jeffrey-beaumont · 11 months

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I Walk on Water Searching for My Lost Children

Shiela Wyne, 2004

Photographed at the Museum of the North, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

#I was going through some photos from last year and remembered this sculpture #i wish i knew more information about it #alaska native artwork #indigenous art #museum photography #my photography #native american art #culture #alaskan art

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kbjones · 1 year

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Number 52 of 150

Here’s the first larger body size character for this batch. A boy aged 7-9.

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uwmspeccoll · 1 year

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Native American/First Nations Woman Writer of the Week

NORA MARKS DAUENHAUER

Continuing on our trek through what remains of March, I offer you another Indigenous woman writer, Nora Marks Keixwnéi Dauenhauer (1927-2017), a Tlingit writer from Juneau, Alaska. Born in Juneau, Dauenhauer grew up there as well as in Hoonah, Alaska with a father who was a fisherman and carver, and a mother who was a beader. Dauenhauer lived at times with her parents on a fishing boat and in seasonal camps. Being a member of the Tlingit tribe, her first language was Łingít, and she did not learn English until she was eight.

Following her mother in the Tlingit matrilineal system, she was a member of the Raven moiety of the Tlingit nation, of the Yakutat Lukaax̱.ádi (Sockeye Salmon) clan, of the Shaka Hít or Canoe Prow House, from Alsek River. She was chosen as clan co-leader of Lukaax̱.ádi (Sockeye Salmon) in 1986 and as trustee of the Raven House and other clan property. She was then given the title Naa Tláa (Clan Mother) in 2010, becoming the ceremonial leader of the clan.

Dauenhauer earned a BA in anthropology from Alaska Methodist University in Anchorage. In the early 1970s, she married poet and Tlingit scholar Richard Dauenhauer and together they made significant contributions to preserve the Tlingit oral traditions in their Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature book series. Nora Dauenhauer became a Tlingit language researcher for the Native Language Center at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks from 1972-1973, and then became the principal researcher in language and cultural studies at the Sealaska Heritage Foundation in Juneau from 1983-1997.

On the subject of preserving the Tlingit oral tradition and its importance, Dauenhaur said:

People are now beginning to take action for language and cultural survival, and my work is to help provide inspiration and tools for this through my writing.

Dauenhauer had several accomplishments, including being named the 1980 Humanist of the Year by the Alaska Humanities Forum. Together, the Dauenhauers were awarded the Alaska Governor’s Award for the Arts, two American Book Awards, and a Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. In 2005, Nora Dauenhauer was the recipient of the Community Spirit Award from the First People’s Fund.

As a poet, Nora Dauenhauer published two collections, one of which we hold in Special Collections, Life Woven With Song, published by the University of Arizona Press in 2000 (the other is The Droning Shaman, Black Current Press, 1989). This book recreates the oral tradition of the Tlingit people through written language in a variety of literary forms, and records memories of Dauenhauer’s heritage from old relatives and Tlingit elders, to trolling for salmon and preparing food in the dryfish camps and making a living by working in canneries.

Author Photo is by Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie

See other writers we have featured in Native American/First Nations Woman Writer of the Week.

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-- Elizabeth V., Special Collections Undergraduate Writing Intern

#Native American/First Nations Woman Writer of the Week #women's history month #Native Americans #Native American writers #Native American women writers #Nora Marks Dauenhauer #Richard Dauenhauer #Tlingit #Life Woven With Song #University of Arizona Press #Alaskan writers #poets #poetry #Elizabeth V.#Native American Literature Collection

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jager-bruder · 7 months

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I love American and Native history around the time of pioneers, Indian wars, expansion, and conquest. I think North America had an equally interesting history before record and before european contact also.

#thinking about Natives #just watched wind river again and i grew up around them #the alaskan natives were definitely a different vibe

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coworkers-office · 21 days

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> Oh hey. Do you like that one plushie you got?

[ WITHOUT WAITING FOR AN ANSWER, ANOTHER BOX APPEARED. THIS TIME WITH A PLUSHIE OF YOU and the INTERVIEWER! ]

[ THE NOTE INSIDE IS DIFFERENT! ]

[ “ Do you have any favorite foods? “ ]

[ NO SIGN-OFF ]

< Your coworker opens the box to see the two plushies with the note on top. This time, the note obscures the dolls' features, so he reads the paper first. >

"Favourite foods? I like caviar and other things like that, and I occasionally treat myself to a gold steak. I remember going to a buisness potluck once where one of the people brought something called 'muktuk.' Apparently it's a native Alaskan delicacy. Tasted horrible; way to rubbery and not enough flavour."

< He shudders, remembering the experience. Never again. He slips the note into a pocket before turning back to check out the other items. >

"Hey, another doll of the boss! Seriously, where are you guys getting these?"

< Coworker places the doll next to the other one of normal guy/interviewer and the protagonist doll. Turning back to the box once more, he reaches for the plush of himself. >

"Haha! It seems the people just can't get enough of me!!"

< Coworker holds the plush, excited and admiring it. >

OOC/Mod: BASED OFF THIS OFFICIAL ART OF COWORKER REACTING TO HIS PLUSH

art credits to @racheldrawsthis ^w^

#elevator hitch #studio investigrave #racheldrawsthis #coworker elevator hitch #elevator hitch rp & ask blog #coworker #coworker.answers #ooc/mod: i was given the chance to try muktuk once (from a native alaskan) and i actually liked it. my dad hates it though. btw muktuk is #whale meat and im lucky to have been able to try it! definitely rubbery though and i dipped it in soy sauce lol #muktuk #maktak #its spelled differently idk

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