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doesephs · 2 months

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it’s always ‘inuit inspired’, girl just admit you can’t be bothered to open google

#but cmon it’s literally right there #stop making cultural accuracy under the assumption of pan-asianism #sokka #avatar the last airbender #atla fanart #digital art #digital painting #katara #katara art #sokka art #inuit art #inuk katara #kakiniit

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mango-sideburns · 9 months

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My fav thing about TAZ is that any aspect out of context sounds fucking bonkers.

Like, in the balance finale there's a scene in which Garfield (who is very specifically never described visually bc most people imagine him as like. The Lasagna Cat. Who in this universe is the most powerful warlock in the realm and also has a hobby of cloning people, which is great for the one character that got forced into haunting a mannequin) is summoned by an alien spaceship that runs on the power of friendship so he could beat up some flashing balls. In D&D.

And that was just. Such a normal scene in the narrative. No one blinked an eye. I would like to bow down to Griffins clear unmatched talent for making me feel such big emotions over ridiculous shit like a goddamned umbrella or a regular ass pair of jeans or the idea of a taco recipe.

#taz balance #the adventure zone #taz #i have. so many drafts of this post decontexualizing so many different scenes.#merle killing a room of autism creature looking things by asking them to tell the truth which then summons god #also merle retiring from his retirement to run fantasy margaritaville under the title Earl Merle #magnus the mannequin telling taako and merle to find the baby voidfish bc the big voidfish sung at him real hard bc in the century he #just now remembered (bc hes a mannequin not a human boy)#he gifted an alien jellyfish with dozens of shitty wooden ducks. he forgot that century bc his friend fed the jellyfishs baby a book #the gnome version of Teddy Rucksbin turns out to be the universes most competent spaceship pilot. hes also a talented opera singer #a man named Barry Bluejeans is dead and uses his ghost haunting powers to gift the three heroes badges that they cant see #right before theyre shuttled off in a cannonball to save a space lab full of kitschy elevators thats snowing pink tourmaline #barry also uses his ghost powers to hold hands with magnus and make random shapes in midair like a dresser when theyre trapped in a #fantasy version of The Dating Game hosted by ghost Jesse and James Rocket who steal bodyparts if you lose their game.#or like in campaign how a dude who wiped out in the first three seconds of ninja warrior convinces a human wifi router #who owns a bible theme park to take the apparent King of America to the white house on their hovercraft to be trued for treason #after he announced his intent to take over the country in a televised debate with an inuit goddess who is sometimes trapped in the body #of an HR worker all Donald Blake/Thor style #anyways. this show is ridiculous and i love it So Much

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piizunn · 2 months

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not your founding father (mouthpiece)

My thoughts on Louis Riel being named first premier of Manitoba.

Taanshi kiyawow, Riel dishinikashoon. I descend maternally from seven Métis families from the historic Red River Settlement in Manitoba and Batoche, Saskatchewan. Notably, my Berthelett ancestors worked for the North West Company and were community leaders in the Métis settlement of Pointe a Grouette before it was systemically overtaken by French settlers who claim we formed no roots in the area (St. Onge). My Caron ancestors from Batoche fought in the North West Resistance alongside Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont. My fifth-great-uncle Jean Caron Sr. fought alongside his sons at the age of 52; his house still stands in Batoche to this day, where thousands of Métis make pilgrimages every year to remember the events of 1885.

What do you know about Louis Riel?

I can only read his words and imagine what guidance he would have provided had he lived longer than 41 years. Or imagine myself in his place as he walked to the gallows on November 16th, 1885. As a child when I visited Manitoba my grandpa and my kokum would take me to visit his grave, just as they did with my mother, who named me ‘Riel’.

We are inextricably linked through time and across our homelands. What’s in a name? Unasked for? Not yet earned? I do not yet know who I am to my people but I carry an important name and the trickster’s spirit, and with these comes the responsibility of understanding and revealing cultural and societal truths (Stimson).

I am still growing into my name

Today I am a mouthpiece

An interpreter of the past

What do you know about the trial of Louis Riel?

July 31st, 1885, Riel gives his final speech. Historical weather data shows that it was a hot day in Regina. Cooler than the days before but still hot with the swelter of the plains. He spoke long, in English, not the language of his birth.

“The day of my birth I was helpless and my mother took care of me although she was not able to do it alone; there was someone to help her to take care of me and I lived. Today, although a man, I am as helpless before this court, in the Dominion of Canada and in this world, as I was helpless on the knees of my mother the day of my birth. The Northwest is also my mother; it is my mother country and although my mother country is sick and confirmed in a certain way, there are some from Lower Canada who came to help her to take care of me during her sickness and I am sure that my mother country will not kill me more than my mother did forty years ago when I came into the world, because a mother is always a mother, and even if I have my faults, if she can see I am true, she will be full of love for me.”

“When I came into the Northwest in July, the 1st of July 1884, I found the Indians suffering. I found the half-breeds eating the rotten pork of the Hudson Bay Company and getting sick and weak every day. Although a half-breed, and having no pretension to help the whites, I also paid attention to them. [...] We have made petitions, I have made petitions with others to the Canadian government asking to relieve the condition of this country.”

“We have taken time; we have tried to unite all classes, even may speak, all parties.”

“During my life I have aimed at practical results. I have writings, and after my death I hope that my spirit will bring practical results.”

“When we sent petitions to the Government, they used to answer us by sending police [...] There are papers which the Crown has in its hands, and which show that demoralisation exists among the police, if you will allow me to say it in the court, as I have said it in writing.”

“If I am blessed without measure I can see something into the future, we all see into the future more or less.”

“The only things I would like to call your attention to before you retire to deliberate are:

1st That the House of Commons, Senate and Ministers of the Dominion, and who make laws for this land and govern it, are no representation whatever of the people of the North-West.

2nd That the North-West Council generated by the Federal Government has the great defect of its parent.

3rd The number of members elected for the Council by the people make it only a sham representative legislature and no representative government at all.”

“I have never had any pay. It has always been my hope to have a fair living one day. It will be for you to pronounce - if you say I was right, you can conscientiously acquit me, as I hope through the help of God you will. You will console those who have been fifteen years around me only partaking in my sufferings. What you will do in justice to me, in justice to my family, in justice to my friends, in justice to the North-West, will be rendered a hundred times to you in this world, and to use a sacred expression, life everlasting in the other.”

What do you know about Louis Riel?

I have done this walk in my mind so many times that I have lost count. Historical accounts of the day note that it was a chill, clear, autumn morning. The prairies stretched out, silver frost bathed in sunlight. He faced it all and was brave until the end. Despite reports of it being destroyed, former premier of Manitoba Duff Roblin and his family, and the RCMP gloat over the supposed fragments of the rope that hanged the traitor, and I wonder how long the rope would be if you lined up every single scrap of twine rumoured to be the noose that killed Riel?

Does it make you feel less guilty to call him a founding father? Canadians are only able to remember him through his murder and not through his words that can still animate his presence. Written words and objects once owned are ghosts, extensions of our bodies and spirits. When I read his letters and journals I see the urgency in his penmanship, and I think about the sweat and invisible oils of his skin becoming a part of each page as he wrote and wrote and wrote. I wonder where each journal travelled with him during his exile, and why he chose each book. There is one with an illustration of a guardian angel watching over two children, and I wonder if he thought of himself as one of them being shepherded through life by his ancestors.

Canadians argue about whether or not Riel should have been hanged instead of talking about what he had believed and said and accomplished, and what he wanted to do with the rest of his life had it not been cut short.

No one talks about his dreams or his fears, and he did not live long enough to answer the question of if he would have wanted to be revered as the first premier of Manitoba. Or, in response would he ask for clean water for all, to stop the sweeps, and starlight tours? Would he ask for the Winnipeg police to search the landfills for our murdered women instead of brutalizing and killing us? Would he call for an end to all colonialism and genocide? Or would he simply ask for a place to smudge and be in peace for a while?

When we send petitions to the government they still answer us by sending the police, before turning around and calling Louis Riel a founding father (Riel).

Canada cannot answer these questions for him by giving him that title posthumously, only sit with the discomfort of blood-soaked hands, and wonder how different things would have been had that sacred fire not been snuffed out in 1885.

I cannot answer these questions for him either

And I am still growing into our name.

Works Cited

Riel, Louis. Excerpts from his final statement in court on trial, July 31st, 1885

Stimson, Adrian, “Buffalo Boy: Then and Now.” Fuse Magazine, vol. 32, no. 2, 2009, pp. 18-25.

St-Onge, Nicole J.M. “The Dissolution of a Métis Community: Pointe à Grouette, 1860–1885.” Studies in Political Economy 18.1 (1985): 149–172. Web.

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allthecanadianpolitics · 2 years

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Dozens of employees at primary and secondary schools in Nunavik are sounding the alarm about the region's deteriorating water supply, saying the situation is putting their students at risk, a union report seen by Radio-Canada shows.

Thirteen of the 14 towns in Nunavik don't have an aqueduct or sewer system. People there normally rely on tanker trucks to supply drinking water and remove wastewater.

But in recent months there have been supply interruptions because of broken infrastructure, a lack of trucks and a worker shortage, problems that were worsened by the pandemic and a harsh winter last year.

As a result, Nunavik residents have had to boil water and to do without running water to wash or flush their toilets.

Employees at the Kativik Ilisarnilirniq school board, most of them Inuit, denounced the poor quality of life in a report written by the Centrale des syndicats du Québec (CSQ), one of the largest trade unions in the province.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#Quebec #Nunavik #Inuit #Indigenous #cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #canadian #Drinking water #water is a human right

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darkwood-sleddog · 9 months

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proselytizing about your "anti-carnism" and animal rights activist views is not a trauma response lmao.

#dogblr #animal welfare not animal rights #sorry but even if you're politely expressing what is frankly bullshit in my notes #i have the right to make fun of you #did you know people can and do see horrific things in the animal world without becoming animal rights activists #anyways please get out of my notes #i gotta wonder what these anti-carnism people would think of the inuit diet lol #it takes five seconds for these people to make their own posts btw instead of infecting my notes #but again they're here to spread their message so...

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countryfriedcatboy · 4 months

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can we pls just have a jack marston game where he has a happy ending and shows that you can be a proud draft dodger and be happy also i NEED him to meet up with charles and sadie and charles's family because they should be allowed to get their happy endings and that everything arthur and john and the gang all stood for wasn't for naught. like please

#phase weeps #also i think they should include the inuit (i think thats how you spell it?) in it and like their whole journey and fighting for their and #other tribes rights in canada as a like. other conflict n stuffs cus i think thatd be cool #and i hc that charles wife is a indigenous canadian #and yeah #peace and love in red dead redemption

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souvlakiandcocaine · 3 months

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one time I was violently high blogging incoherently n all I said was that imo + in the modern opinion of my culture 23 yrs is too young 2 b married/pregnant n some rando called me a 20smthn w no life that’s mad at others making something of themselves bc I’m childless at the archaic age of early 20s 😭

#my txt #I wasn’t rlly mad I was high as shit n had zero clue what they were on abt #just. baffled #like they do realize in order to have multiple kids by 21 I’d have to first b pregnant at 19 right #like ur speaking to someone w multiple teen pregnancies in the family #so ya I still stand by that statement #“ur equating a 20 yr old to a teen!’’ cmon. like cmooon. u know that’s not what I mean. liked inuitively u should just know #sorry for not making that crystal fucking clear when I’m high blogging on my tiny ass PERSONAL blog

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nerdyenby · 6 months

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Growing up in an extremely white community is so odd because I am 20 years old and in the shower when I realize there is zero fucking reason Santa would be white

#he’d be inuk right??#I’m not too familiar with Santa lore or the proper terminology for indigenous peoples #but he would not be white wtf #unless Santa is a colonizer #which would make sense tbh #idek #someone please educate me #preferably on Inuit culture but I wouldn’t say no to some Santa lore #cw swearing

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daincrediblegg · 11 months

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no actually wait it’ll be really funny if the only way to watch The Terror is on Disney Plus next year

#or painfully disheartening #well I guess I'm gonna get a physical copy now #it'd be really fucking funny tho if they decide to host that like holy shit imagine #you log into disney plus. the mouse greets you 'hi egg! what are we watching today!' I scroll to my queue. The terror is right up front #the mouse watches in horror as I shun all other properties and watch these white guys get fucked by an inuit spirit over and over again #as I make lustful comments about the captain online #traumatize that bitch for life #I get a notification. it's the mouse himself. 'you've been watching The Terror on loop for 48 hours. are you ok?' my only reply 'I'm good'#horror upon horror

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britishchick09 · 1 year

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#did i meme right?#first in he's in a movie about the great london fire and now he's in an inuit movie! (i have stories for both)#poto is everywhere!#especially cherik! ;)

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fuzzysparrow · 2 years

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Throughout history, women have been sidelined in favour of men, who were believed to be the stronger, smarter sex. In the last couple of centuries, women have protested these traditional views of feminity and proved they can equal men in many areas of life. The human rights lawyer Rabia Siddique (b. 1971) believes, “We need more feminine energy in the world today. We need more women in positions of power and influence.” Whilst this is the aim of many feminists in the 21st century, ancient history reveals that women once held such power and influence, particularly in religion. Until 25th September 2022, the British Museum aims to show visitors the significant role that goddesses, witches, female spirits and so forth have shaped the world today. With support from Siddique and other high-profile collaborators, the museum’s exhibition Feminine Power links the past with the present to prove that women have never been the weak, powerless individuals they were forced into being.

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piplupod · 2 years

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#is veganism racist or am i way off base here fjsdfjkl #i just get a little irked whenever i see vegans saying all meat consumption is inehrently immoral #like... bro. indigenous ppl have eaten meat for thousands of years #using whales for food (and other resources) is a big part of inuit culture!!!#so i always feel my hackles rise a little bit whenever i see ppl talking about how veganism is The Correct Moral Path #also. i may be wrong here. but isn't the overexploitation and terrible agriculture practices the fault of white ppl??#thats the main issue w meat consumption these days is the exploitation and cruelty of the animal farming practices #so...... uh. POC have been doing just fine for hundreds and thousands of years before white ppl fucked everything up #so like. veganism seems like white ppl fucked things up and then blamed it on EVERYONE and now EVERYONE has to suffer and change #AM I WAY OFF BASE HERE OR AM I ON THE RIGHT TRACK SJDFJDKL I FEEL CRAZY #pippen needs 2nd breakfast

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des8pudels8kern · 1 year

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Witcher folks: Do you think TWN will pick up what Blood Origin taught us about the monoliths’ origin, or will they remain nothing but portal-openers?

Blood Origin had these themes of imperialism and privilege/nobles vs. common people, and TWN has a focus on rasicm (speciesism?). I’d love to have a “Mystery? Subject of scholastic research that has stumped the greatest minds for centuries? But we know? We’ve always known! It’s been part of our oral tradition all this time, you just couldn't be bothered to listen to us!” moment.

#i think everybody who wants to has watched blood origin by now i'm being vague just in case #the witcher #the witcher netflix #the witcher blood origin #inuit tradition kept alive knowledge of the fate of the franklin expedition #rapa nui folklore has been telling about the walking statues of easter island #craftspeople sometimes solve archaeological mysteries because they e.g. know leatherworking tools while academics do not #many questions could be answered if we only asked the right people #but they are often considered too insignificant and uneducated to be listened to

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list-of-common-misconceptions · 1 year

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Inuits do not have a disproportionate number of words representing snow in their languages. The myth comes from a misconstruction of Franz Boas' original statement noting that Inuits had a variety of words for various snow-related concepts; Boas noted that the same was true to a lesser extent for English (see, for example, "blizzard," "flurry" and "squall"). However, Inuit languages do have many more root words for "snow" than does English.

#list of common misconceptions #common misconceptions #wikipedia #arts and culture #language #changed the e slur for inuit everywhere i hope i got it right #inuit

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darkwood-sleddog · 2 years

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Also can we stop and think for a moment how ‘only indigenous people should be allowed to hunt because XYZ’ is borderline (or straight up) fetishising? Like do the people saying things like that not realise this?

It is straight up fetishization, but the people that say things like this don’t realize this because they’re too busy trying to reconcile their anti-hunting and often vegan morals with their desire to be woke and progressive about indigenous right.

#not dogs #pro hunting #they’re uncomfortable with animals being used as food #but are trying to not be racists while at the same time being…really gross about the whole thing #an individual does not have to be personally comfortable with eating meat #that’s a PERSONAL choice #but one cannot press their own individual morality about this on others #like yeah I’m in a few Inuit specific hunting fb groups #and within that I am exposed to a number of animals hunted for useful purposes #that sometimes don’t make me comfy to view #such as wolves bc they do remind me of my dogs #but it is one’s ability to set those emotions aside and understand that #my personal discomfort should not get in the way of an individual’s right to hunt #I am fine with certain animals when I see them hunted #it is just exposure over time to the things that used to make me uncomfy that helps deconstruct that uncomfortable-ness #many people are not widely exposed to hunting besides sensationalist articles about trophy and poaching hunts #and it’s so much more than that

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