Frank Waln
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Lakota | music artist, performer & public speaker | streaming on all platforms | booking: frankwalnbooking @gmail
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I wrote this song in 2019 inspired by my trip to Palestine. There is so much to say about that trip but at the root of our shared experiences I learned we must find ways to maintain hope even in the face of ongoing genocide & war which led me to write the lyrics in Lakota
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When johnny cash released his bitter tears album (an album about native issues and stories) he toured reservations and when he performed at an old basketball gym on our rez my mom was a child and jingle dress danced for him
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Natives should NOT have to pay taxes. That stereotype should be true. This entire country is sitting on our land tax free like wtf
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I was in Palestine shortly after Palestinian prisoners went on a hunger strike to protest their genocide & Pizza Hut created an Israel only ad which showed them wafting the smell of their pizzas into the prison while the prisoners were on hunger strike to mock them
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They knew white ppl were coming
More than 100 million years ago, dinosaurs started fleeing Europe in a mass exodus. But why?
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When I was in Palestine we visited the Tamimi family at their home and heard their stories first hand. One of the things that messed me up so bad during the 11 days I spent in Palestine was being witness to the blatant violence against unarmed women & children by the IDF DAILY
Ahed Tamimi, who was locked up at 16 for slapping an Israeli soldier, was reportedly detained overnight.
Listen to her speak in 2022 about the 12,000 Palestinian children Israel has imprisoned since 2000.
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You know how Harvard’s Peabody museum announced that they have hair samples taken from native children in collections? Well I was at Harvard for an artist residency at their ArtLab a month before they announced that and found out my great grandmother’s hair in that collection
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Americans will watch avatar and feel empathy for the na’vi blue space indians and will leave the theater still harboring hate for actual native americans 😭
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When I was in Palestine we visited a Palestinian refugee camp. My western American mind was expecting an encampment of tents but instead found a community that looked & felt eerily similar to reservations in the US
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I often think about how major labels have surprised native music and stories throughout time from banning Link Wray’s song “rumble” which didn’t even have lyrics to Johnny cash’s label refusing to promote the record and it was during one of the peaks of his career
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If you subscribe to Zionism you are no ally or friend to Indigenous people
Zionism is basically manifest destiny repackaged
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Also I want to note it’s the exact same labels who historically erased and suppressed native music controlling American music and entertainment rn
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There’s never “two sides” when it comes to genocide. When you understand the history of how settler colonialism has impacted nations and land you understand there’s a hard line when it comes to genocide and you’re either on the right or wrong side of that line and history
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Americans will fight harder to defend native mascots than they will to defend the lives of actual native ppl whose land they live on
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I still think about that time someone sent their dog’s dna into a dna testing company as an experiment and the test came back saying the dog was 20% native
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The hair samples were taken from my grandmother while she was in boarding school. Thankfully I was able to see hers and pray with it. The timing of it all was intense and interesting
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The native lady who told me is the one going through all the samples and she was relieved because she found two of her grandparents hair in the collection and I was the first person she spoke to who also had a relative’s hair in that collection. We cried together
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One time a white tweeted me saying Natives can’t make films about ourselves because the films are biased. They said only non Natives can make unbiased films about Native people 🤔🙃
Please give me an example of something someone said to you that was so astonishingly stupid that you can never forget it.
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Here’s an article about it written by two brilliant native students from Harvard I had the pleasure of meeting
@vlocarmen
@sdmalt96
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Me when I get another email from another white grad student asking to interview me for another dissertation
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I’m grateful to the native staff at Harvard who worked with me and responded when they seen someone in the collection had the same last name as me. They made sure to inform me while I was on campus for a residency unrelated to this. I knew who it was when they told me the name
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This native heritage month is reminding me of that one year when an oil corporation sprayed NDNs with water canons in below freezing temps for trying to stop them from building an a illegal pipeline through the Standing Rock Rez the night before everyone celebrated thanksgiving
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We’ve gotten to that point in media representation for Natives where I’m seeing people who owe me money on tv
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Still
Americans will fight harder to defend native mascots than they will to defend the lives of actual native ppl whose land they live on
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They were using Palestinian suffering & genocide to sell products in their colonial world. Sound familiar?
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I feel like I haven’t had the time, energy or headspace to process anything post 2020 😵💫😵💫😵💫
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I honestly haven’t processed it all because it happened while I was on tour and I had a lot going on so I wasn’t able to take the time I needed to process
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Frequently I encounter non Native folks who tell me they think reservations are some form of reparations to Natives from the US government. I even had someone close to me tell me they thought reservations were places to “reserve” our cultures
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James Cameron called the Lakota nation a “hopeless” and “dead end society”
Besides that statement being a blatant lie he was actually talking about his films post ‘97. All hopeless dead ends and now he’s dying at the final dead end
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I heard western science finally caught up to the fact that plains natives have connections to horses that are older than America. Spaniards sure as hell didn’t bring them here when we have stories about plains horse culture that predate colonial contact on this continent
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USA: systemically & historically erases Indigenous people & Indigenous voices from media
*racist event happens involving Indigenous people. USA has chance to amplify Indigenous voices in media
USA:
Sitting down with Nicholas Sandmann - the student at the center of the protest controversy at the Lincoln Memorial. Airs tomorrow on
@TODAYshow
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Things like earth, women & water only get one day of respect in settler societies. No thank you
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Poor housing, limited to no resources, colonial laws stacked against them, settlers stealing & profiting off all their natural resources. The kids I met at the refugee camp reminded me of rez kids so much I felt at home
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White people when they tour the Rez with a non profit org and wonder why everyone’s staring at them while they view the destruction of their colonialism
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I’m super excited to announce that this summer I started working one of the most unique projects of my life. I am working with the Field Museum in Chicago to design a space in the new Native American Exhibit Hall debuting in 2021!
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I started out making beats on my laptop and building a home recording studio in my cousins basement on the Rosebud Rez in South Dakota. Tonight I get to share that story and my process at the Apple Store in downtown Chicago
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We got war criminals trying to tell us what is and isn’t a war crime 🤡🇺🇸
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TW: western hospitals/medicine
On Fri I had a bad seizure & 911 had to be called. Last yr I almost drowned so I have hella PTSD about suffocating. When they brought me into the hospital I freaked out when I came to cuz I had a tube down my throat & felt like I was suffocating
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This type of sick shit is a testament to the way native people are dehumanized by colonization and native genocide is glorified by the people who founded and run this country. This makes me sick but I’m not surprised
Harlan Crow, a best friend of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has a “death mask” of Sitting Bull in his library.
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Lakota's have been saying we are star ppl since before settler "science" existed. We have extensive star knowledge & stories abt this
Half the atoms inside your body came from across the universe
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Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!
I just released a new song and music video created by youth on the Pine Ridge Rez. Read about here in
@TeenVogue
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@dodaistewart
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Help us share it with the world!
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As a Lakota lakotaman1 does not represent me or the Lakota nation. He represents that small faction of weird/messed up uncles who pander to settlers, wear sunglasses 24/7 and bring white women to Sundance
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When settlers ask “what can I do to help Native people?”
Give back the land and resources we were displaced and separated from
On Sunday, a Nebraska farmer signed a deed returning ancestral tribal land back to the Ponca Tribe — sacred land that lies on the historic Ponca “Trail of Tears.”
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Lakotas used controlled burns to literally engineer a sprawling grassland where the Buffalo could thrive since we needed them to survive. It’s now known as the Great Plains. Our ancestors were scientists because they had to be in order to live in balance with our environment
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In 2017 I went to Palestine as a member of an artist delegation organized by
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Settlers/settler governments view Native bodies the same way they view the land & water. Disposable, unworthy of respect & open to violence
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I've always wanted to flip this racist Disney song. Listen to What Makes The Red Man Red
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I’ve been in the hospital since Friday. Western medicine does not know how to handle or care for Indigenous people
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So plz educate the ppl you love and care abt because everyone in the USA is living in an illegal settler colony, Indigenous ppl survived their genocide & we’re here to say these settlers never gave af abt us & never will
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My mom. The bull rider. She was riding bulls at age 15. I come from legends ❤️
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This is me recording my flute songs through a 50+ yard underground culvert on my rez aka the wildest natural echo chamber you’ve ever heard because I’m crazy will always find ways to combine my love of audio, natural spaces and creativity into one idea
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If I ever see James Cameron I’m gonna will smith smack the shit out of him for saying that about the Lakota Nation. During LNI to boot
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It's overwhelming being Indigenous in a country built on the genocide, dehumanization & erasure of your ppl. Everyday we fight for our lives
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Horses on my ears. Horses on my ribbon shirt. Eagle around my neck. Everything I wear when I perform is a gift
#Lakota
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Where I’m from (South Dakota) reservations were concentration camps where they sent us to die after they stole and colonized all of the land every US citizen occupies.
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Dying and crying at the “native” deodorant brand commercial I just witnessed with the slogan “it’s not a myth. It’s native” because that means people thinking natives are mythical or not real is so ingrained into American culture they use that idea to sell deodorant now
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What's happening in Standing Rock has been happening for 500+ yrs in the US. Settler colonialism & Native genocide are ongoing
#NoDAPL
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If I got paid for every time in my life I had to educate Americans on the history of their country I wouldn't be stressing rent every month
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The origins of the Lakota word for star mean “human flesh”
In 2019 NASA finally “discovered” that human bodies are made from the same particles found in stars. Western science is always catching up to what our ancestors already knew
I’m releasing a new song on Indigenous Peoples Day titled “Star Dust” inspired by Lakota star knowledge
It’s poetry written to piano
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The doctors marked me with combative disorder, strapped me down & took about 7 men to hold me down. The docs also said my Sundance ceremony scars were self mutilation & used that & my history of seeing a psychologist to try to send me to the psych ward
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If you're American & reading this, you have no excuse. You're living on Indigenous land. Help Indigenous ppl. Listen to us. Stand with us
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The doctors also straight up assumed I was high on PCP or some other hard drugs when I came in until my blood tests came back negative. Even when my relatives were telling them otherwise and trying to explain my reactions the whole time
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Pay attn to how the government, state officials, police & non Natives are treating
#NoDAPL
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The person in charge of patient experience for the whole institution just talked to me because of they’ve been hearing about how they treated me from you all. The damage is done but hopefully Natives will get treated better at this hospital after this. TY all for the support
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If you're excluding Indigenous ppl from conversations abt justice in the US then it really isn't justice. Don't forget you're on stolen land
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What's happening in Standing Rock is business as usual for a country built on the theft of Native land & violence on Native bodies
#NoDAPL
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A word on media as a propaganda tool for colonialism and genocide
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If we didn’t get permission from the white settler agent we couldn’t eat, fix our homes or visit relatives because we would be violating US law & could be arrested. Also our cultures & ceremonies were illegal under US law until the Indian Religious Freedom Act in 1978
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When we were in Palestine the group of artists I was with asked every person we met what we could do to help them as US artists and they all said the same thing: to share their story with the world because there’s so much propaganda
So keep sharing their story with the world 🇵🇸
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Reminds me of how in 2019 NASA finally “discovered” that human bodies are made from the same particles we see in stars yet the origins of the Lakota word for star literally mean “human flesh”. Natives were scientists before they even considered us human beings
I heard western science finally caught up to the fact that plains natives have connections to horses that are older than America. Spaniards sure as hell didn’t bring them here when we have stories about plains horse culture that predate colonial contact on this continent
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My conspiracy theory is that lakotaman is a fed programmed settler soothing bot that gained sentience somewhere along the way & went rogue. After it blocked all the native people on Twitter (HOW?!) it has grown to a level where it can’t be stopped or contained by mere ndns alone
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Indigenous people are human beings too. We deserve to be happy, healthy and respected
#NoDAPL
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I really love videos that show how music and sound cause vibrations and waves in physical space and elements. I know I’m obviously biased but music is so powerful. Watch this and imagine our bodies are around 80% water and you can start to see how music effects us in so many ways
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This is how you look to me when you tell me that you’re white but Native on the inside
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I graduated valedictorian of my high school & didn’t have high enough test scores to apply to Ivy League schools. Now I get paid to perform my music & speak at Ivy League schools & beyond. I tell Native kids to never let colonial standards define our intelligence or self worth
I was born into an average “Native American IQ” family. You put me in an off-the-reservation public school & I graduated as the salutatorian. I was accepted to Stanford & graduated with an engineering degree. Give us equal opportunities & we will show you what “IQ” we are capable
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Carved into the Black Hills. Sacred site to the Lakota Nation. Fuck this monument to settler colonialism
Mount Rushmore — the largest, ugliest monument to white domination.
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In the early SD Rez days our ppl had to get permission from district agents (white settler men) to get food, fix our homes, or even leave our community to travel to another community on our Rez to visit relatives. We couldn’t hunt cuz they killed millions of our buffalo
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Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!!!
My new project "My People Come from the Land" is now live!!
Listen to the prelude, song and instrumental version here
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My new flute album Olówaŋ Wétu (Spring Songs) is available on all music streaming platforms. This is a collection of original flute songs I recorded outdoors in places and spaces that are important to me. The album also includes me sharing the stories of why I wrote each song
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When I left the Rez to attend college & later started gaining a platform as an artist, I learned some hard lessons abt ways ppl use Natives
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Settler governments are afraid of Indigenous resistance & Indigenous life b/c settler nations are built on & maintained by Indigenous death
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BREAKING: lakotaman is not in fact Lakota and has been revealed to be a descendant of the Navi tribe and was the inspiration for james camerons avatar series
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White Americans. Your ancestors would've died if Natives didn't feed & help when they arrived. They didn't know how to survive in this land
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Finding out a show’s co-creator/executive producer was a zionist this whole time puts so many things into perspective
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I was having a hard time remembering some of my own songs due to the short term memory loss. I’m still gaining my memory & weight back. Playing music is helping me come back and reconnect the mental & emotional dots
This is a new song I’m writing
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Apparently some right wing “voice/commentator” with millions of followers named matt walsh mentioned me & put a target on me in one of his videos because the comments of all my videos are flooded with his racist white man army telling me so 😂
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Instead of celebrating colonial propaganda masquerading as national holidays, amplify the voices of Indigenous ppl these "holidays" erase
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If you can't get why Natives want to be included in conversations abt justice on our stolen land you need to unpack your settler colonialism
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I just saw this and it was like watching horror. Big violation of cultural protocols
As a Lakota musician and performer I NEVER share ceremony songs or certain aspects of culture that are meant only for us. Especially since it was illegal for us to sing these songs until 1978
There’s a recording of a sacred Lakota song arranged for choir going around Facebook & folks are horrified. In an effort to increase rep of Native voices, a composer (of possible Lakota heritage) has stepped the line. We listen to the community first & let them call in their own.
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As an actual Rez Native who had to work my ass off to earn a Gates Millennium Scholarship just to attend school, I can confirm this is a lie
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Thinking about Palestine, the land I visited and the Palestinian relatives who have families impacted by a colonialism and genocide which felt all too familiar. This was from a 2017 artist delegation to Palestine with
@Dreamdefenders
which changed my life
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Remember that many Americans remained complacent and ignored the genocide of Indigenous ppl in the past. Don't let that cycle continue
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