#indigineous

[astralbondpro]

Blackbraid // The Spirit Returns

#Blackbraid #Black Metal #Native American #Indigineous #Metal Music #Metal #Music #Blackbraid Gifs #Music Gifs #Gifs #AVGifs #AVMusic #AvMusicGifs #AVBlackbraid #AVBlackbraidGifs

[oldshowbiz]

The Tall Tales of Tonight Show regular Chief Red Fox

#chief red fox #native stereotypes #Indigineous #johnny carson #tonight show

[local-yurei]

a little thing i like to remind myself:

my ancestors won't be upset at me for wanting short hair

my ancestors won't be upset at me for wanting/having curlier/wavier hair

my ancestors won't be upset at me for being mixed

my ancestors won't be upset at me

#━⭐ ₊˚ˑ༄ؘ rambles #indigineous

[aaanthonytran]

#victor vegas #primer rebelde de america #fashion photography #lucka ngo #fashion #analog photography #americans #america #native american #indigineous #indigenous fashion

[sapphia]

So for anyone who doesn’t keep up with nz politics, which i’m assuming is most of you, our new radical right government have decided one of their main aims of their term will be to re-interpret the Treaty of Waitangi.

The Treaty is an agreement between Maori and the Crown, now the NZ government. It is the founding document of new zealand and is recognised as a constitutional document today; it is the only treaty of its kind/time still honoured, and it is the steps we’ve taken through the Treaty to provide restitution and build an ongoing relationship with Maori and their iwi (tribes) that has allowed the relationship between Maori and the government to thrive where other indigenous groups have struggled to achieve recognition of their rights.

This is going to be entirely undone. Not only is this issue inflammatory and a threat to race relations in Aotearoa, leaked documents show the proposed “reinterpretation” wants to negate pretty much the entirety of the legal rights provided to Maori under the treaty. For example, the treaty article that guarantees land rights for Maori will be reinterpreted to guarantee land rights for “all New Zealanders”. Which means this article would be essentially meaningless for Maori.

By removing Maori from the context they are trying to put Maori on an “equal footing” with all New Zealanders; they are riding the idea that Maori have special rights and privileges above that of the average New Zealander. Obviously this is bullshit but it’s effective rhetoric and there’s a grain of truth to in that the extent of Maori rights hadn’t been clearly defined due to the ongoing nature of the process. So this has got a lot of people with a poor grasp of the issues very upset and baying for change.

There is a hui (meeting) being held today for all the iwi to begin discussions of how Maori will respond to this. New Zealand politics isn’t very interesting usually, but our progress on indigenous rights, until now, has been absolutely ahead of the field. If you care about indigenous rights globally, you should care about this, because in the same way Australia’s referendum loss has spurred on this action, the loss of rights here will spur other right wing governments to be similarly bold to their own indigenous groups.

Indigenous rights in New Zealand are under attack. They are meeting today to discuss it, and New Zealand will be listening, but I want the world to be listening. Because our government needs the shame of being called out by more than just the people who they’ve already decided don’t vote for them.

Maori have a long and proud history of fighting for their rights, and they’ll do it again here. And I’ll be on the pickets beside them, but there’ll be plenty of my own pickets to attend, because this government is radical in every sense of the word.

So please, even if you’re very far away, stand behind them in this. Keep your eyes on us. Amplify their voices. Don’t let the racism drown them out.

#New Zealand #nz #aotearoa #maori #nzpol #david seymour #racism #treaty of waitangi #indiginous

[artfilmfan]

Chase Iron Eyes & Tokata Iron Eyes in Oyate (2022)

#native american #oglala lakota #dapl #indigineous people #indigenous #tokata iron eyes #chase iron eyes #biodiversity #dakota access pipeline

[gothgleek]

Michelle Dee, Miss Phillipines 2023, wore a dress as a tribute to the last and oldest living Kalinga (Indigenous Filipinos) tattoo artist, Apo Whang Od and her work

#michelle dee #Michelle Marquez dee #Maria Whang Od Oggay #apo whang od #philippines #miss universe #miss universe 2023 #filipino #fashion #couture #fashion history #tattoo #indigenous #indigineous people #history #Art history #Vogue #miss Philippines #miss Philippines 2023 #mine

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

So my post on Oklahoma making it legal to take indigenous children from their parents without tribal consent is blowing up, and I'm glad people are horrified. But what I need people to know is that this might happen on a national level.

The Supreme Court is debating overturning the Indian Child Welfare Act.

What this act does is give Native American and Alaska Native tribes and nations control over the foster and adoption placement of their children. To overturn it would be to say tribes and nations aren't sovereign, and it would also allow the U.S. government to forcibly assimilate indigenous children into other cultures.

Please:

Spread the word about what is happening.

Read online news articles about this; the more traffic on those articles, the more likely the press is to write more articles.

If there are protests in your area, join them.

If there are indigenous nations or tribes in your area, ask them how you can help.

Donate to indigenous rights organizations like Native American Rights Fund.

Write to your representatives.

If ICWA falls, keep all of the above up. Don't just shrug and think it's over.

#indigineous people #alaska natives #native americans #ICWA #indian child welfare act

[sayruq]

#palestine #free palestine #free gaza #gaza #indigineous people

[entheognosis]

#indigineous people

[oldshowbiz]

1974

#western #westerns #Indigineous

[mypilot-fr]

Preface: I am native.

I've seen posts asking for the connections to native mythology to be changed, to be erased. I saw one saying coatls should have their name changed because of its connection to quetzalcoatl. I think the belief that staff can't pull from indigenous mythology is unfair both to staff and to natives, when fantasy itself as a genre exists almost entirely based off of cultural mythologies. Dragons themselves are mythology. Yetis are mythology. Quetzalcoatl is mythology. There's wisps, there's dryads, there's kelpie. A game about dragons is going to have connections to mythology around the world, it is the nature of fantasy.

I love how much the FR community supports one another, but please don't ask native mythology to be removed. We exist and our mythology is the same as any other, and I think it's lovely when it gets explored and inspires creativity. Ask for it to be done tastefully, yes! But don't ask for it to be removed entirely, please.

#flight rising #again I am strictly talking about the posts Ive seen saying they shouldnt use indiginous mythology #and not about the other issues pointed out with the lore

[thatspectacularpigeon]

Listen up please

This is incredibly important.

The united States government has been trying to remove the protections of native children mainly via possibly overturning the ICWA (Indian Child Welfare Act)

This will allow white families to continue to take native children from their lands their family and their culture just like they did for centuries before the ICWA was passed.

This is both incredibly important and incredibly personal as my family was permanently harmed because of children being taken away from their families.

So please spread awareness about this and I have a link below that you can go to the first Nations website learn more about this and and write a response that they can use about how we should be saving the ICWA

#information #native american #indigineous people #indiginous #icwa #save icwa #protect icwa

[reasonsforhope]

Interior Department Announces New Guidance to Honor and Elevate Hawaiian Language

"In commemoration of Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, or Hawaiian Language Month, and in recognition of its unique relationship with the Native Hawaiian Community, the Department of the Interior today announced new guidance on the use of the Hawaiian language.  

A comprehensive new Departmental Manual chapter underscores the Department’s commitment to further integrating Indigenous Knowledge and cultural practices into conservation stewardship.  

“Prioritizing the preservation of the Hawaiian language and culture and elevating Indigenous Knowledge is central to the Biden-Harris administration's work to meet the unique needs of the Native Hawaiian Community,” said Secretary Deb Haaland. “As we deploy historic resources to Hawaiʻi from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the Interior Department is committed to ensuring our internal policies and communications use accurate language and data."  

Department bureaus and offices that engage in communication with the Native Hawaiian Community or produce documentation addressing places, resources, actions or interests in Hawaiʻi will use the new guidance on ‘ōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language) for various identifications and references, including flora and fauna, cultural sites, geographic place names, and government units within the state.  The guidance recognizes the evolving nature of ‘ōlelo Hawaiʻi and acknowledges the absence of a single authoritative source. While the Hawaiian Dictionary (Pukui & Elbert 2003) is designated as the baseline standard for non-geographic words and place names, Department bureaus and offices are encouraged to consult other standard works, as well as the Board on Geographic Names database.  

Developed collaboratively and informed by ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi practitioners, instructors and advocates, the new guidance emerged from virtual consultation sessions and public comment in 2023 with the Native Hawaiian Community. 

The new guidance aligns with the Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to strengthening relationships with the Native Hawaiian Community through efforts such as the Kapapahuliau Climate Resilience Program and Hawaiian Forest Bird Keystone Initiative. During her trip to Hawaiʻi in June, Secretary Haaland emphasized recognizing and including Indigenous Knowledge, promoting co-stewardship, protecting sacred sites, and recommitting to meaningful and robust consultation with the Native Hawaiian Community."

-via US Department of the Interior press release, February 1, 2024

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Note: I'm an editor so I have no idea whether this comes off like as big a deal as it potentially is. But it is potentially going to establish and massively accelerate the adoption of correctly written Native Hawaiian language, as determined by Native Hawaiians.

Basically US government communications, documentations, and "style guides" (sets of rules to follow about how to write/format/publish something, etc.) can be incredibly influential, especially for topics where there isn't much other official guidance. This rule means that all government documents that mention Hawai'i, places in Hawai'i, Hawaiian plants and animals, etc. will have to be written the way Native Hawaiians say it should be written, and the correct way of writing Hawaiian conveys a lot more information about how the words are pronounced, too, which could spread correct pronunciations more widely.

It also means that, as far as the US government is concerned, this is The Correct Way to Write the Hawaiian Language. Which, as an editor who just read the guidance document, is super important. That's because you need the 'okina (' in words) and kahakō in order to tell apart sizeable sets of different words, because Hawaiian uses so many fewer consonants, they need more of other types of different sounds.

And the US government official policy on how to write Hawaiian is exactly what editors, publishers, newspapers, and magazines are going to look at, sooner or later, because it's what style guides are looking at. Style guides are the official various sets of rules that books/publications follow; they're also incredibly detailed - the one used for almost all book publishing, for example, the Chicago Manual of Style (CMoS), is over a thousand pages long.

One of the things that CMoS does is tell you the basic rules of and what specialist further sources they think you should use for writing different languages. They have a whole chapter dedicated to this. It's not that impressive on non-European languages yet, but we're due for a new edition (the 18th) of CMoS in the next oh two to four years, probably? Actually numbering wise they'd be due for one this year, except presumably they would've announced it by now if that was the case.

I'm expecting one of the biggest revisions to the 18th edition to add much more comprehensive guidance on non-Western languages. Considering how far we've come since 2017, when the last one was released, I'll be judging the shit out of them if they do otherwise. (And CMoS actually keep with the times decently enough.)

Which means, as long as there's at least a year or two for these new rules/spellings/orthographies to establish themselves before the next edition comes out, it's likely that just about every (legit) publisher will start using the new rules/spellings/orthographies.

And of course, it would expand much further from there.

#don't ask me about the magazine and newspaper half of this #bc I do Not know AP style #except the differences I'm annoyed at lol #ap doesn't respect the oxford comma #hawaii #hawaiʻi #language #orthography #linguistics #language stuff #hawaiian #native hawaiian #united states #publishing #book publishing #indigenous #indigineous people #indigenous languages #language revitalization #language resources #editorial

[ssavaart]

Day 14 of my Hair Journal was painting during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AAPI).

I reached out to Professor Wayne Quilliam who specialized in photography of Aboriginal people (who works with the Aboriginal people and gets permission to photograph them) and he gave me permission to reference his photography for my portrait.

https://aboriginal.photography/

For the background, I referenced the traditional Aboriginal Dot Painting.

I always find it so interesting to paint people from all over the world. Though I bet traveling and doing it in person would be far more interesting than from my little Hobbit Hole.

Still... I really enjoyed it.

#aboriginal #aapiheritagemonth #aapi #hairjournal #aboriginalart #apahm #apaeverywhere #indiginous #art #traditional art #artists on tumblr #watercolor art #watercolor #drawing #art nouveau

[uncadasspreadlove]

A weeks worth of #Practice Hones The! #SKILLS #EveryThingIsATool Use Them To Your Advantage #AllNight #AllDay #AllWork #NoPlay #iCreateDaily #DailyIMustCreate #SpreadLoveCustomCreations #CustomCopperJewelryByDas #CustomIndigineousAboriginalJewelry #Indigineous #Aboriginal #Copper #CopperCuffs https://www.instagram.com/p/CeCJ2ZJvTWH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#practice #skills #everythingisatool #allnight #allday #allwork #noplay #icreatedaily #dailyimustcreate #spreadlovecustomcreations #customcopperjewelrybydas #customindigineousaboriginaljewelry #indigineous #aboriginal #copper #coppercuffs