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nonnatives, we need your help:
because it's native heritage month, everyone, please make sure to sign these, we& used the body's chosen name & it works just as well, so we& demand — not ask — that all of you reading this, especially those in polyfragmented systems, sign each of your names to this petition, because we& will be doing this ourselves&, too. please sign this petition to close mount rushmore & return all public lands in the black hills & mount rushmore to the oceti sakowin !!
this would be one of the first many steps in helping natives get their lands back in indigenous hands !! & especially for any polyfragmented did/osdd systems that may be reading this, this works for several signatures, we've& tried this ourselves& & it worked !! the more signatures the better & we're almost there !! everyone, but especially polyfragmented systems can help us !! i& ask that any polyfragmented systems please sign this with as many of you as you can per each signature !!
there are 5,847 signatures left until it reaches the goal of 51,200, so that way, the black hills & mount rushmore can be returned back to the oglala lakota nation & furthermore take a stand against antinative & antiblack racism. please spread this around and share this with as many people as you can. it's your duty, especially white settlers, that put your money where your mouth is and practice what you preach and you sign this and return these lands to their rightful stewards & protectors
sign the petition here!
nonnatives & white settlers, are required & obligated to rb this & spread the word but don't clown!
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Happy Native Heritage Month from your local 2spirit Lakota 🥰😘
if you're feeling generous, my foodstamps did not come when they were expected to and I have to reapply. Would be so so amazing to have some $$ to help cover any food needs until it comes in!
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🗣️Native Book Spotlight 📖
Title: Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
Author: Kevin Noble Maillard
#native american history#native heritage month#native american#native american heritage month#afropuffsstudios#afropuffs studios#fry bread#childhood books#diverse reads
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I got another pay increase from the Indiginerds project!!
Every $5,000 above the funding goal, I get an extra $5 per page.
Plus! The stretch goal we just reached means that we'll be sending copies to libraries!
There are only 59 hours left to back the project, and it'll be another $4,000 to reach the next pay increase and stretch goal.
Thank you everyone who's backed so far! It'd be sick to reach the next goal! And I think it's possible with ur help~
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I don't want to celebrate Thanksgiving.
Parts of my heritage are lost to me because of what happened, to my own mother who has native blood falling for beliefs that the natives were backwards idiots. She fell for the lie that no worth-while society would have been built on this continent without colonization.
I don't want to celebrate genocide.
I don't want to celebrate lies that persist to this day.
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OK so there's request on a discord I'm on
I was hoping for some help digging up some resources? Maybe a queer NA person they could quote or something?
mod ali
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🕊️freedom from settler colonialism now and forever🪶🇵🇸
#my art#native american heritage month#indigenous art#if anyone has any advice on how to do alt text for drawings / what i should use for this please let me know
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If you’re outside the US and want to help, here are ten things you can do to protect ICWA, Indigenous children, and Tribal Sovereignty as a whole.
Share information about ICWA, Brackeen v Haaland, and Tribal Sovereignty
Share information about rallies, protests, and strategy meetings
Share the donation information of organizations that are fighting to protect ICWA
Donate to those organizations to help them continue to fight
Share the stories of Indigenous adoptees, survivors of residential schools, and the families involved in Brackeen v Haaland
Follow @protectICWA on twitter for live updates
Educate yourself on Tribal Sovereignty, residential schools and the 60s scoop, and cultural genocide as a tool of genocide.
Educate yourself on MMIP/MMIWG2S and familiarize yourself with the tactics those against Tribal Sovereignty use to undermine us.
Learn exactly who is fighting to get rid of ICWA and why. Hint: Gibson Dunn (representing the Brackeens) is the same law firm that supported the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) Now I wonder who benefits from slowly but surely removing Indigenous people from our lands? 🤔
Uplift Indigenous voices that are speaking out and speaking up on ALL platforms. Tell your friends, tell your family, and show up to support us if you can. If ICWA is struck down, we will not be going without a fight. Be prepared.
This linktree has tons of information about ICWA, why it is important, what’s at stake, and what you can do to help. Even simply sharing an article link from here to 10 followers that go on to share to their 10 followers can help!
Every Child Matters 🪶
#icwa#indian child welfare act#us politics#current events#supreme court cases#supreme court#protect icwa#indigenous sovereignty#native american#native american heritage month#native#ndn tumblr#ndn#every child matters#mmiw#mmiwawareness#mmiwg2s
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Indigenous vs. European perspectives on etymology: pumpkin
There are two theories about the origin of the word pumpkin, which represent two very different perspectives on history:
All major dictionaries say that the most likely origin for pumpkin is the French word pompion ‘melon’ + the English diminutive suffix -kin ‘little’.
The Wampanoag tribe of Massachusetts says that pumpkin comes from its word pôhpukun ‘pumpkin’, but literally meaning ‘it grows forth round’.
The Plymouth settlers borrowed lots of words from the local Wampanoag people, including moccasin, skunk, squash, and the name of the state, Massachusetts. Tisquantum (who history knows as Squanto) taught them a great deal about local plants and wildlife, so it stands to reason they would have also learned the word pumpkin from him, butchering the pronunciation in the process.
But the way they butchered the pronunciation is important. When English speakers heard the word pôhpukun without realizing it was an Algonquian word, they thought it was actually based on English or French. To them, it sounded like pompion with the -kin suffix added to it. The word pompion (or some similar version of it) appears in English documents in North America prior to the settlement of Plymouth, so it’s likely the Pilgrims were familiar with the word (but probably not strongly so, given that the word was only borrowed into English 80 years prior). As a result, they misanalyzed pôhpukun as pumpkin, thinking it was a combination of the French word pompion and the English suffix -kin.
This kind of misanalysis is called a folk etymology. Other examples are cockroach (< Spanish cucaracha) and woodchuck (< Cree otchek). Folk etymologies happen when speakers analyze a word as having different parts than it actually does.
In this particular case, it seems that the folk etymology is the one that made it into the dictionary, rather than the original Native American one.
#pumpkin#etymology#linguistics#language#Indigenous#Native#Native American#Native American Heritage Month#Thanksgiving#lingblr#langblr
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This Thanksgiving, if you’ve ever once in your life claimed Indian heritage, give a couple bucks to NICWA. Im not here to argue with you about whether or not you have NDN heritage, but if you truly do, the reason why you know nothing about it is because of your ancestor being taken away and colonized by the methods the Indian Child Welfare Act protects against. Right now ICWA is under attack by a horrifying court case that threatens to undo all the recent strides we’ve made in tribal sovereignty and NDN cultural preservation by eliminating NDN children.
The court case is called Brackeen v. Haaland and is spearheaded by a literal Oil & Gas lawyer named Matthew McGill that has succeeded in destroying the sovereignty of Tribal lands for pipeline construction and has even tried to disestablish entire reservations for his Big Oil paycheck. Their case is a disgusting attack with no legal merit, but still may pass in their favour because of the greed of our Supreme Court. Here’s the most important snippet from that link.
Do not let them trick you into thinking this is to protect NDN children. Child abuse is a widespread US problem and the federal and state governments have never handled it with the best interests of children in mind, let alone NDN children. This is why I am offering up a link to NICWA, a program that ACTUALLY intervenes in cases of child abuse among the NDN community, while allowing the child to remain an established member of the tribal nation. This program is led by tribal leaders who know the communities they are operating in intimately, and therefore can actually act on what is best for the child.
If you are concerned about NDN Child welfare, DO NOT support the striking down of ICWA and instead support public programs on tribal lands and tribal child welfare programs like NICWA.
Direct Link To Give
#indigenovember#native american heritage month#icwa#protect icwa#indigenous#ndn#native american#op text
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National Day of Mourning
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Native Hope
#national day of mourning#thanksgiving?#native american heritage month#Plymouth Massachusetts#native hope
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Friendly reminder that November is Native American Heritage month.
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AMERICA IS UNDER IMPERIAL OCCUPATION AND HAS BEEN FOR OVER 300 YEARS!
America is an imperial colony state and will be until we give the indigenous peoples their land back.
As far as I'm concerned, the fight is not over. Different tribes are gaining and losing land all the time to this day.
The colonization, genocide, whitewashing, and erasure of indigenous people in america is not just "history," it's the present. It's today, and it will be tomorrow.
I am not confident in my education on this topic, but I'm not the person you should be listening to anyway because my family has only been here for about 100 years.
Please, for the love of all that is good and just, learn. Do the research. Do something: end an offensive tradition, return an appropriated "family heirloom" to its rightful home, rob a museum, donate to a fund for a family or tribe to buy some of their land back, organize a sit-in or protest, literally anything.
Calling these injustices "history" is one of the ways that the US government tries to convince the people it dictates that there is nothing to be done and any effort to reclaim or salvage their culture is lost. But that's not true.
Please, instead of celebrating a fake story about colonizers and indigenous americans "finding common ground" and "sharing the land," just take some time to learn more about the people and cultures who called this massive and beautiful land home long before anyone from europe or russia even knew it existed. And, arguably more importantly, the atrocities that have been committed against it and its people SINCE those times.
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Today marks the first day of Native American Heritage Month! As we celebrate the rich and diverse culture, traditions, and contributions of Native Americans, discover 5 ways how you can support Indigenous communities 👆.
#native american heritage month#indigenous#indigenous rights#indigenous peoples#indigenous people#indigenous culture#native#natives#native american#native americans#ndn#american indian#land back#landback
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“My House is the Red Earth” from Secrets from the Center of the World by Joy Harjo, 1989
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