What does it mean to survive from our relationship with the land?
What does it mean to have poisoned water to give your children?
What does this mean when these words you are reading become real tangible truths on your tongue and in your hearts.
The Time is NOW to lead sustainable life styles in solidarity for and with all - off of fossil fuels.
Truth About Canada's Tar Sands
VANCOUVER:
Be sure to check out the short film “Smoke Song” next week at DOXA Documentary Film Festival, featuring Navajo family punk-rock band Blackfire.
Smoke Songs is a rockumentary-come-family story-come political commentary about what it means to be an indigenous young person today.
Be sure to check it out. Info at doxafestival.ca/festival/films/groove.
Learn more about the film on Facebook at facebook.com/SmokeSongs.
Here’s Blackfire on RPM at rpm.fm/artist/blackfire.
Why You Don’t See Indians on Television
Seen any Indians on TV lately? Probably not, and you’re not likely to. Here’s why: The FCC has allowed the American television Industry, which I like to call “a content provider,” because the Internet has changed everything. They don’t know what to call themselves either. The federal government, through its oversight of the FCC, has allowed the content providers to do three things with us and our image. These will have a devastating impact on American Indians economically, and we don’t yet know the negative social and psychological impact to generations of American Indian children. READ FURTHER
The Seam: Recast
Primrose Everdeen, played by Madison Lindstrom (Métis)Katniss Everdeen, played by Q’orianka Kilcher (Quechua)
Gale Hawthorne, played by Alex Meraz (P’urhépecha)
Mr. Everdeen, played by Adam Beach (Saulteaux)
Haymitch Abernathy, played by Zahn McClarnon (Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux)
i like this much much more.
This works so much better.
yep, i’d def. watch/read this
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…because in 1993 you have little or no understanding of your colonial presence; because you believe the media images of Indigenous women and Indigenous society; because you fail to recognize that Black Australia is as diverse as your Australia; because you think that “part-Aboriginal” is a meaningful concept; because Black Australian history to you is a void or an irrelevance; because no major women’s body in Australia has come out publicly in favour of the High Court’s native title finding; because women’s services have few if any Black workers; because you insist on burying your own racism under an avalanche of pseudo-solidarity; because you do not know whose traditional land you stand on; because you are baffled by the idea that Black women are justified in fearing you; because you want to “help” Black women; because you presume that having attempted our genocide you can attempt our ideological resurrection; because you think that Indigenous culture survived for millennia in this country without Black feminists, and because of your imperialistic attitude that you alone hold a meaningful concept of female strength and solidarity, for these and for many other reasons, we Black feminists are not a part of the Australian women’s movement.
Lucashanki, M. 1994 No other Truth? Aboriginal Women and Australian Feminism. Social Alternatives. Vol. 12. No. 4. January. pp. 21-24. (via moniquemallo)
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Salish.
This makes me very happy. Language nests for endangered languages are the best thing in the world.
My native language is Nsyilxcen, a Salish language. Thanks for sharing!
— From Wikipedia:
The Salishan (also Salish) languages are a group of languages of the Pacific Northwest (the Canadian province of British Columbia and the American states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana).[1] They are characterised by agglutinativity and astonishing consonant clusters — for instance the Nuxálk word xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc̓ (IPA: [xɬpʼχʷɬtʰɬpʰɬːskʷʰt͡sʼ]) meaning ‘he had had [in his possession] a bunchberry plant’ has thirteen obstruent consonants in a row with no vowels. The Salishan languages are a geographically continuous block, with the exception of Bella Coola, on the north British Columbian coast, and Tillamook, to the south on the coast of Oregon.
The terms Salish and Salishan are used interchangeably by Salishan linguists and anthropologists. The name Salish is the endonym of the Flathead Nation. Linguists later applied the name to related languages. Many languages do not have self-designations and instead have specific names for local dialects, as the local group was more important culturally than larger tribal relations.
All Salishan languages are extinct or endangered—some extremely so, with only three or four speakers left. Few Salish languages currently have more than one to two thousand speakers. Practically all Salishan languages have only speakers who are over sixty years of age, and many have only speakers over eighty. Salish is most commonly written using the Americanist phonetic notation to account for the various vowels and consonants that do not exist in most modern alphabets.
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More Tribe Called Red, for a good reason too.
The best parties are often those that are rooted in – and gather – communities of people. First Nations trio A Tribe Called Red has shown this with Electric Pow Wow, their popular monthly club night in Ottawa dedicated to good times and native talent.
While DJs Bear Witness (Bear Thomas) and NDN (Ian Campeau) founded A Tribe Called Red in 2008, things really got off the ground in 2010 when two-time Canadian DMC champ DJ Shub (Dan General) joined the crew. The three began to produce parties and, soon after, music.
“We started the Electric Pow Wow parties to showcase ourselves as aboriginal DJs in Ottawa,” explains Thomas of the events held at Babylon Nightclub the second Saturday of each month. READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE AND LISTEN
Ten Little Indians - Violence Against Native Women - 1491s (by the1491s)
Startling statistics about the Violence against Native American Women. Native Woman #3 Walkeen Wahwassuck is currently missing please read below and help spread this video.
The family of Walkeen Wahwassuck, Osage, has asked the Osage News to send out an alert that she is missing and that if anyone has any information on her whereabouts they are to contact the Osage Nation Police Department at 918-287-5510 or toll free at 1-800-286-1867.
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In the image above, you are seeing the helmet and attendant logo of the Whiteskins, a fictional team based on the Washington Redskins. It is the work of a man named Brittain Peck, who’s created a project to draw attention to the “offensive nature of stereotypical American Indian sports mascots and the need to change them,” as he wrote to the website Uni-Watch.com.
Read the whole article here
ShopColumbia Presents: Nake Nula Waun
“I am always ready, at all times, for anything.”
Frank Waln speaks about using music to revitalize his culture, his traditions, and empower his community to rise from difficult, and times discouraging circumstances.
