November is Native American Heritage Month! And if you want a great way to educate yourself and others about how Native folks are combining traditional teachings and modern pop culture, then you should check out Indiginerds!
I'm the editor on this project so believe me when I say that this book is SO GORGEOUS and each and every one of the stories is authentic and revolutionary in it's own way. Want to hear about creating VR cultural spaces? Or using pirate radio to support Indigenous resistance movements? We've got it!
My story in this book is about the infamous Star Trek: TNG episode, Dorvan V, where Native folks are being forcibly removed from the planet they resettled on after Earth didn't want them. I'll be posting pages from it here soon, and I hope you check them out!
Supporting this project means that you're directly supporting Indigenous comic artists! So please back us and share on all your socials! kinanâskomitin!
Cole Brings Plenty (an indigenous actor) was killed at age 27 with his braid cut off. Hair in Indigenous culture is sacred ,we know he loved his Braids, only the Indigenous person should choose to cut their braid
Indigenous lives are in need so please commemorate him, spread the message and donate to indigenous charities
Don’t tell me that genderfluid people aren’t as trans as you. Don’t tell me that genderfluid people aren’t as discriminated against as you. Don’t tell me that we can’t really understand the fear that you live with. We do.
Remember their name. Nex Benedict. Say it. Repeat it. Burn it into your skull.
And remember that this wasn’t just an attack on trans and queer people. This was an attack on poc as well. This was an attack on Native Americans across the nation.
Remember their name. Nex Benedict. Say it. Repeat it. Burn it into your skull.
Gather is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide.
Gather follows Nephi Craig, a chef from the White Mountain Apache Nation (Arizona), opening an indigenous café as a nutritional recovery clinic; Elsie Dubray, a young scientist from the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation (South Dakota), conducting landmark studies on bison; and the Ancestral Guard, a group of environmental activists from the Yurok Nation (Northern California), trying to save the Klamath river.
Iconic myths about the American White Bison are scattered among the oral tradition of various Native American tribes stretching from Canada to Mexico. Respected mythologist Joseph Campbell sometimes shared the essence of the white buffalo mythology in his lucid lectures. He spoke of the abundant wisdom and universal truth to be found in the seed of such oral tradition. Campbell declared the white bison oral stories to be more than myth.
One of the 12 American Saints, St. Katharine Drexel was an American heiress, philanthropist, religious sister, educator, and foundress. Taking religious vows in 1891, she is known for her selfless service of the oppressed. Donating her life and considerable fortune to the betterment and education of others with an avid interest in Native American and African-American peoples. “The patient and humble endurance of the cross - whatever nature it may be - is the highest work we have to do.” ~ St. Katharine Drexel
Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)
🔥 🇨🇦 Now Kelowna B.C. is burning too as well as Yellowknife...... 💔😭 😡
Land Acknowledgement
TOTA acknowledges that the Thompson Okanagan region lies on the unceded, ancestral, and traditional territory of the Syilx, Secwépemc, and Nlaka'pamux Nations, who have inhabited these lands for over 10,000 years.