Trevor Noah defends Standing Rock protestors.

I hope this won’t fall on deaf ears.

#NoDapl #StandingRock

Trevor Noah defends Standing Rock protestors.

I hope this won’t fall on deaf ears.

#NoDapl #StandingRock

So in case you’re not following the Dakota situation too carefully, the companies drove the dozers about 20 miles away from their stated planned construction to specifically doze over areas of interest (burial sites, prayer sites, etc.), covered in the survey submitted to the court the day before. Their course exactly followed the identification of the scared sites on the survey sent to the court, and did not follow the plans for the pipeline.

I guess people didn’t know. I thought that was common knowledge by now and was pointedly asserting thee purposefulness towards a few mutuals of mine.

Thing is, if you follow aboriginal politics, this isn’t unexpected, and in fact, would assume this particular scenario to be the case in the pipelines plans already. The Northern Sioux, unlike some others though, have *never* surveyed the land. When people actively hate you, Legal protections < people not knowing what to destroy. Read: they refused to survey even before it was declared private land (something which really doesn’t stop them, btw), because this was an expected outcome. If they HAD previously surveyed the land, it’s a damn good guess that the original pipeline plans would’ve already been on track to destroy their cultural heritage, and honestly, that’s what me and many others assumed was already the case. When I heard they hadn’t surveyed because of private land, I thought that meant they had an survey submitted that they couldn’t get legal protections for because of the private land concern. Guess they were smarter than me. There are many aboriginal peoples who have refused to survey or list their cultural sites for the same reason. If you ever had a reason to come across the relevant law, you may remember that some provinces/states have laws or considered laws that would make aboriginal cultural sites, once given legal protection, secret, even to owners, (where applicable). And then denied permits can be given other valid reasons, like ‘damages the water supply’, or occasionally have to let loose that there are cultural sites on the land. (Astute readers will note that this is similar to how permits are denied for forgotten graveyards or other such not-really-secret sites) Among things like this, it is also quite the common anti-protester tactic to set fire to cultural sites to distract protesters from construction zones. (If you’ve read about aboriginal protest tactics before and heard about ‘fire groups’/’fire squads’/etc., those folks are there to hit up nearby cultural sites, check that they’re not on fire, and put them out if still small. They are not, as some radio hosts have insisted, there to brandish firearms) TL;DR: If you were horrified at humanity before…

i don’t really understand what i just read can someone please explain?

Any particular part? Okay, so long story short: 1st post: 1) There is a pipeline currently being built across native land & sacred sites 2) To block the pipeline across their sacred sites, the native peoples submitted a amp of their sacred sites 3)The company then drove miles out of their way to bulldoze the sites on the survey, making sure to use the long weekend to avoid court orders to stop 2nd post: 1) It is quite common for pipeline or other development projects to specifically choose sites that require demolition of aboriginal sites. 2) Me and others thought that the company had already purposefully done this 3)They couldn’t have because the sites were never mapped out before for the gov’t 4) As soon as they were mapped out, to gain legal protection, 1st post happens 5)Many aboriginal peoples have never applied for legal protection of their sites for fear of people using the legal protection as demolition site maps. 6)Other tactics often used by companies include burning down other sacred sites not in the pipeline/other thing construction route, to distract protestors from the construction site so it can proceed over *other* sacred sites 7)The tactic is common enough that it has a dedicated proactive  preventative countertactic Hopefully that’s easier to read than my rambly posts before

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/6/did_the_dakota_access_pipeline_company

So in case you’re not following the Dakota situation too carefully, the companies drove the dozers about 20 miles away from their stated planned construction to specifically doze over areas of interest (burial sites, prayer sites, etc.), covered in the survey submitted to the court the day before. Their course exactly followed the identification of the scared sites on the survey sent to the court, and did not follow the plans for the pipeline.

I guess people didn’t know. I thought that was common knowledge by now and was pointedly asserting thee purposefulness towards a few mutuals of mine.

Thing is, if you follow aboriginal politics, this isn’t unexpected, and in fact, would assume this particular scenario to be the case in the pipelines plans already. The Northern Sioux, unlike some others though, have *never* surveyed the land. When people actively hate you, Legal protections < people not knowing what to destroy. Read: they refused to survey even before it was declared private land (something which really doesn’t stop them, btw), because this was an expected outcome. If they HAD previously surveyed the land, it’s a damn good guess that the original pipeline plans would’ve already been on track to destroy their cultural heritage, and honestly, that’s what me and many others assumed was already the case. When I heard they hadn’t surveyed because of private land, I thought that meant they had an survey submitted that they couldn’t get legal protections for because of the private land concern. Guess they were smarter than me. There are many aboriginal peoples who have refused to survey or list their cultural sites for the same reason. If you ever had a reason to come across the relevant law, you may remember that some provinces/states have laws or considered laws that would make aboriginal cultural sites, once given legal protection, secret, even to owners, (where applicable). And then denied permits can be given other valid reasons, like ‘damages the water supply’, or occasionally have to let loose that there are cultural sites on the land. (Astute readers will note that this is similar to how permits are denied for forgotten graveyards or other such not-really-secret sites) Among things like this, it is also quite the common anti-protester tactic to set fire to cultural sites to distract protesters from construction zones. (If you’ve read about aboriginal protest tactics before and heard about ‘fire groups’/’fire squads’/etc., those folks are there to hit up nearby cultural sites, check that they’re not on fire, and put them out if still small. They are not, as some radio hosts have insisted, there to brandish firearms) TL;DR: If you were horrified at humanity before…

i don’t really understand what i just read can someone please explain?

Any particular part? Okay, so long story short: 1st post: 1) There is a pipeline currently being built across native land & sacred sites 2) To block the pipeline across their sacred sites, the native peoples submitted a amp of their sacred sites 3)The company then drove miles out of their way to bulldoze the sites on the survey, making sure to use the long weekend to avoid court orders to stop 2nd post: 1) It is quite common for pipeline or other development projects to specifically choose sites that require demolition of aboriginal sites. 2) Me and others thought that the company had already purposefully done this 3)They couldn’t have because the sites were never mapped out before for the gov’t 4) As soon as they were mapped out, to gain legal protection, 1st post happens 5)Many aboriginal peoples have never applied for legal protection of their sites for fear of people using the legal protection as demolition site maps. 6)Other tactics often used by companies include burning down other sacred sites not in the pipeline/other thing construction route, to distract protestors from the construction site so it can proceed over *other* sacred sites 7)The tactic is common enough that it has a dedicated proactive  preventative countertactic Hopefully that’s easier to read than my rambly posts before

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/6/did_the_dakota_access_pipeline_company

So in case you’re not following the Dakota situation too carefully, the companies drove the dozers about 20 miles away from their stated planned construction to specifically doze over areas of interest (burial sites, prayer sites, etc.), covered in the survey submitted to the court the day before. Their course exactly followed the identification of the scared sites on the survey sent to the court, and did not follow the plans for the pipeline.

I guess people didn’t know. I thought that was common knowledge by now and was pointedly asserting thee purposefulness towards a few mutuals of mine.

Thing is, if you follow aboriginal politics, this isn’t unexpected, and in fact, would assume this particular scenario to be the case in the pipelines plans already. The Northern Sioux, unlike some others though, have *never* surveyed the land. When people actively hate you, Legal protections < people not knowing what to destroy. Read: they refused to survey even before it was declared private land (something which really doesn’t stop them, btw), because this was an expected outcome. If they HAD previously surveyed the land, it’s a damn good guess that the original pipeline plans would’ve already been on track to destroy their cultural heritage, and honestly, that’s what me and many others assumed was already the case. When I heard they hadn’t surveyed because of private land, I thought that meant they had an survey submitted that they couldn’t get legal protections for because of the private land concern. Guess they were smarter than me. There are many aboriginal peoples who have refused to survey or list their cultural sites for the same reason. If you ever had a reason to come across the relevant law, you may remember that some provinces/states have laws or considered laws that would make aboriginal cultural sites, once given legal protection, secret, even to owners, (where applicable). And then denied permits can be given other valid reasons, like ‘damages the water supply’, or occasionally have to let loose that there are cultural sites on the land. (Astute readers will note that this is similar to how permits are denied for forgotten graveyards or other such not-really-secret sites) Among things like this, it is also quite the common anti-protester tactic to set fire to cultural sites to distract protesters from construction zones. (If you’ve read about aboriginal protest tactics before and heard about ‘fire groups’/’fire squads’/etc., those folks are there to hit up nearby cultural sites, check that they’re not on fire, and put them out if still small. They are not, as some radio hosts have insisted, there to brandish firearms) TL;DR: If you were horrified at humanity before…

i don’t really understand what i just read can someone please explain?

Any particular part? Okay, so long story short: 1st post: 1) There is a pipeline currently being built across native land & sacred sites 2) To block the pipeline across their sacred sites, the native peoples submitted a amp of their sacred sites 3)The company then drove miles out of their way to bulldoze the sites on the survey, making sure to use the long weekend to avoid court orders to stop 2nd post: 1) It is quite common for pipeline or other development projects to specifically choose sites that require demolition of aboriginal sites. 2) Me and others thought that the company had already purposefully done this 3)They couldn’t have because the sites were never mapped out before for the gov’t 4) As soon as they were mapped out, to gain legal protection, 1st post happens 5)Many aboriginal peoples have never applied for legal protection of their sites for fear of people using the legal protection as demolition site maps. 6)Other tactics often used by companies include burning down other sacred sites not in the pipeline/other thing construction route, to distract protestors from the construction site so it can proceed over *other* sacred sites 7)The tactic is common enough that it has a dedicated proactive  preventative countertactic Hopefully that’s easier to read than my rambly posts before

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/6/did_the_dakota_access_pipeline_company

roses—and—rue:

Zitkala-Ša, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was the most amazing woman you’ve never heard of.

A writer, editor, musician, teacher and political activist, she was born on February 22, 1876 on the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Her mother was Sioux and her father, who abandoned the family when she was very young, was European-American.

When she was eight, missionaries came to the res and took Zitkala-Ša along with several other children to the White’s Manual Labor Institute in Wabash, Indiana, one of many such institutions where Native children were forced to assimilate into white American culture. She studied piano and violin and eventually took the place of her teacher when she resigned. When she received her diploma in 1895, she delivered a speech on women’s rights.

She earned a scholarship to Earlham College, where she continued to study music. From 1897-99, she played with the New England Conservatory in Boston and played at the Paris Exposition in 1900. She collaborated with composer William F. Hanson on the world’s first Native American opera, based entirely on Sioux melodies that had previously existed only as oral tradition. She would play the melodies and Hanson transcribed them. The Sun Dance Opera debuted in 1913 to warm reviews, but I can find no recordings of it, and it seems it’s never performed.

Zitkala-Ša also wrote a number of collections of Native American stories and legends. She wrote them in Latin when she was at school and then translated them into English. She was the first Native person to do so in her own words, without a white editor or translator. In addition, she wrote extensively about her schooling and how it left her torn between her Sioux heritage and her assimilation into white culture. Her writings were published in The Atlantic Monthly and in Harper’s and she served as editor for the American Indian Magazine.

Unsurprisingly, most of her writings were political. She was a fierce yet charismatic advocate for Native American rights. Her efforts helped pass the Indian Citizenship Act and the Indian Reorganization Act. Having founded the National Coalition of American Indians, she spent the rest of her life fighting to protect our many indigenous communities from exploitation.

Her accomplishments were incredible- but have you ever heard of her? I had never heard of her either. Just another example of a history-changing woman omitted from the history books.

These are actual tiny child handcuffs used by the U.S. government to restrain captured Native American children and drag them away from their families to send them to the Indian boarding schools where their identities, cultures and their rights to speak their Native languages were forcefully stripped away from them.

As of this year: the U.S. supreme court ruled in a 5-4 decision that this systemic kidnapping of Native children is legal.

As of today: there are far more First Nations & Native American children in foster care than there were at the HEIGHT of this residential “school” system.

Over 60% of foster kids who age outta “care” are kicked out on the streets, imprisoned, or dead by the age of 20.

Your receipts: #ethnocide #adoption industry #white savior industrial complex

the article about this picture never fails to make me sick.  i really encourage people to read it, though.  for me, it helps to put even more into perspective just how evil the residential schools were.  like, just imagine how young the child was that wore these handcuffs.  it’s absolutely mind-blowing.

This is why I don’t tolerate even the most innocent Native American jokes from my white acquaintances. No one can be allowed to forget that this is still going on, right now, in our time. The genocide and ethnocide of indigenous American peoples, and of indigenous peoples around the world, continues as I’m typing.

This is one more reason why white appropriation of First Nations culture is not okay. You want to wear our costumes? Put on these fucking cuffs and tell me how they fit.

Chipewyan, a name given to us by the Cree which means ‘pointed skin’, (in reference to the clothes the Chipewyan wore) is an Aboriginal group that spans across the northern parts of Canada. However, most Chipewyan prefer to be called Dene (‘the people’) in place of Chipewyan.

I am not Indian. I have no ancestors from India.

I am a mixed race First Nations person whose history is rooted in the Dene people from Canada and the Aztec people in El Salvador.

Indigenous people are not a costume. Indigenous people are not a trend. Indigenous people are important and need to start getting the respect they deserve. - Mod M

While you’re at it don’t dress up as pirates either because pirates are not a costume. Pirates are not a trend. Pirates are important and need to start getting the respect they deserve. 

I say we just ban costumes over all so we don’t offend any group of people, because we all know; If you are offended, you’re always in the right.

Case 237618361318 of white people not getting it. - Mod M

Smh

Violence Against Native Women is Not Traditional:  Whisper at Ted x ABQWomen

I want every white person to look at this and understand, “Sexy Indian” costumes are detrimental. That hypersexualizing our sacred garb is detrimental. That for Native women the fear isn’t, ‘if’, it’s ‘when’

For the of the gods, trust and believe that is the reality we must live with and by doing the above, you are only making it worse.

i just now learned that apparently a native american actress auditioned for tigerlily and was told that they weren’t looking for a native american actor for the role.

i

am

…

eta:

wow

I will shit….yes

Shit on everyone

Context: Native representation in film hovers steady at 0%

0%

0%

"I’m sure the best actor for the part got the role"

ZERO. FUCKING. PERCENT.

the FUCK????

Chickasaw Nation: The Fight to Save a Dying Native American Language

A 50,000 year-old indigenous Native American tribe that has weathered the conquistadors, numerous wars with the Europeans, the American Revolution and the Civil War is now fighting to preserve its language and culture by embracing modern technology.

There are 6,000 languages spoken in the world but linguists fear that 50% of them will become extinct within the next century. In the US, 175 Native American languages are spoken, but fewer than 20 are expected to survive the next 100 years.

The language of the Chickasaws, known as “Chikashshanompa”, is a 3,000-year-old living language that is categorised by Unesco as being “severely endangered”.

The last remaining monolingual speaker of this language, Emily Johnson Dickerson, 93, died in December. Now the tribe is scrambling to make sure that its language does not become lost.

Dwindling native speakers

The Chickasaw Nation consists of 57,000 people, including 38,000 who live in 13 counties in Oklahoma, a state designated as the Indian Territory which boasts rich oil and natural gas preserves.

"There were over 3,000 speakers of Chickasaw in the 1960s," Joshua Hinson, director of the Chickasaw Nation Language Department tells IBTimes UK.

"The last native speakers who learnt the language at home were born in the late 1940s. From that point on, with people leaving Oklahoma for other parts of the US, mandatory schooling and political pressures to be bilingual in English, the number of people dropped, and now, our youngest native speakers are in their 60s."

There are now only 65 native speakers of the Chickasaw language who are also fully bilingual in English, and only four to five confident conversational speakers who are under the age of 35.

Modern Chickasaw people in Oklahoma live in houses on land held in trust for the Chickasaw Nation by the Federal government.

They have been Christian since the Civil War, although religion co-exists with traditional native Chickasaw customs.

Some customs have died out, such as the native doctors and practice of native medicine, but others, like the role of the woman as a matriarch in the family and in government, have continued, and 60% of the community’s leaders are women. Read more at: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/chickasaw-nation-fight-save-dying-native-american-language-1447670

Whoever reblogged this and got it to 280 notes…THANK YOU. Preservation of language is a cultural necessity!