Lakota Beatty
@LBeatty23
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Natives have some of the highest rates of diabetes/high blood pressure & once I finish my masters in counseling my research is going to be focus on how colonialism/commodities given by gov’t hurt our DNA and genetics. Physically + psychologically.
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You still haven’t met all of the people who are going to love you.
Stay alive for that. 🌞
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I hope this film spurs conversations around depression/mental health/grief. I also hope it stirs something in you to find what makes life worth living, even for a moment, and to realize how much more you can love your people.
You can watch it now on
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Me explaining to my non-Native friends how my cousin’s kids are my nieces/nephews and my grandma/grandpa’s siblings are also my grandma/grandpa’s
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I don’t think the lands were unassigned!!
The first land run in our state was in 1889— it opened the unassigned lands to pioneers and settlers who built the foundation of Oklahoma.
During ‘89ers Week, we celebrate that awesome history.
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For the first time in 171 years an Indigenous [person] WOMAN will oversee the 574 federally recognized tribes. Natives are the original stewards of the land and understand the responsibility to take care of Unci Maka (Mother Earth)
AMAZING 🤩
BREAKING: Joe Biden has chosen Rep. Deb Haaland to head the Interior Department, The Washington Post reports. Haaland, who is from the Pueblos of Laguna and Jemez, would make history as the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet secretary.
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First official practice tomorrow & I still can’t believe my sissy’s not here with me. I feel so out of place & lost without my other half. However, I am fighting & trying to make the most of it because this is all so much bigger than just me.
I will praise Him either way.
#23
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We became so much a part of each other that I don’t know where I end and you begin. You will always be the very best part of me.
23 🖤
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I hit a lay up in pick up today and I swear I heard you say “good job sissy.”
I hope you are always with me.
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If you’re Native and believe this is honoring us, you are an idiot.
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Soft. Any of my college coaches could’ve slapped me in the face and I would’ve still ran through a wall for them.
I’ll be happy when this type of coaching finally goes extinct as this generation of coaches retire and fade away.
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one of my life goals is to go to Coachella and rip off all of the headdresses that I see people wearing
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When playing against another Native or watching one play, I think about all the obstacles our ancestors had to overcome to get us here and how many times they chose to just keep fighting. ✊🏼
#indigenouswiyan
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No one could hold that 14 year old. She was 2012 Oklahoma State Championship Game MVP.
#CashMonayB
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Your first birthday in Heaven. I bet it’s as beautiful as you are. 🖤 I can’t wait to be there with you.
#CashMonayBForever
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I wish there was a way to know you’re in the best moments of your life before you actually leave them
#cashmonaybforever
#AB23
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September is
#SuicidePreventionMonth
. Be kind to others but most importantly yourself. Remember that feelings are just visitors— let them come and go.
1-800-273-8255
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Happy
#IndigenousPeoplesDay
🪶
I am so proud to be a Caddo, Dakota, Lakota, Nakoda, and A’aniih woman. 🫶🏻
I’m celebrating overseas and I’m so thankful for my people that came before me. Without their strength I would not be living out this dream.
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have you ever tried explaining indian humor to a non-native?
it’s impossible
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Excited to announce that I signed a pro contract to go hoop in the Netherlands! 🇳🇱 I’m so grateful for this opportunity to represent my family and my Indigenous communities/people overseas. My younger self would be so proud of me and that’s what it’s all about. 🫶🏻
@NikeN7
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If you love someone you better tell them while they're here
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I worked a basketball camp over the weekend and this little boy doing the camp asked if he could come with me for the rest of the day. I said no and he said “please?? My mom will give you her EBT”
😂💀 why are Native kids like this lolllll
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This is exactly why people kneel. The amount of people who pretend to be good people but are vehemently racist behind closed doors is sickening.
Hey
@NFHSNetwork
looks like you forgot to cut the Mic!!! "F****** N******" is the one that really got me!! Tell us how you really feel!! THIS IS WHY THEY KNEEL!!!
@Migliorino_Nick
@tohara_o
@NHS_AthDept
@gonormantigers
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I hope Brooks & Dunn know how impactful Neon Moon is to the native community
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On my 21st birthday Ashley took me out to eat. We both got huge steaks and all that. We got the check and she leaned over and whispered in my ear “hey sis, you got it? I left my wallet.”
I paid for my birthday meal. & hers. 🙃
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please tell me how you can love Jesus and be racist???
In case you’re unaware, He is NOT a white man from America. LOL
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"she is more myself than I am. whatever our souls are made of, hers and mine are the same"
my
#1
forever 🖤
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the first person I went to whenever I had good or bad news, the one who could cheer me up, irritated me to no end and the one I needed the most. If you still have your person plz plz pray for them, hug them so tight and tell them you love them every chance you get 💘
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My commercial for
@MTV
is out now for
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
! Go watch 🤩
Former ORU basketball player Lakota Beatty's (Caddo/Lakota/Gros Ventre) video short documentary “Good Voice Woman,” is now the lead spot for MTV’s Native American Heritage Month campaign.
#NativeAthlete
#Caddo
#Lakota
#GrosVentre
#MTV
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#AB23
forever. 💙
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It’s still
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
! This is my great grandpa, Roy Longknife— wanted dead with a reward of 25 CENTS for being Native. If he didn’t resist & fight I would not be here. Because of his resilience, I was able & still am able to truly be whoever I want to be. ✊🏼
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Contrary to what people think, frybread ISN’T ancestral food. It was SURVIVAL food because the genocidal US government only gave our ancestors the bare minimum in hopes of eradicating us completely.
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My hot take is that if an athlete wants to be a role model that’s great. However, their conduct on the court (good or bad) shouldn’t dictate the way your child acts. That’s your job as a parent.
Also this isn’t even bad. Let girls trash talk because guys do!
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some day my heart and soul are going to be whole again and I'm not going to know what to do with all of the happiness and love that I feel 🥀
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My sister’s 2nd annual basketball camp will be on Friday, June 14th here in Anadarko.
She absolutely loved the youth so there is not a better way to honor her life.
This camp is free and will be instructed by the ORU Women’s Basketball team and coaches 💙
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what I'd give for you to be all up in my space and annoy me with random questions, hugs and kisses ❤️
if you have younger siblings do you ever actually get your own space??
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My short for
@MTV
’s
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
campaign titled “Good Voice Woman” [Ho’ Wasté Wí in Dakota]
Mental health/wellness in the Indigenous community is vital so I hope this helps someone! You are SO loved.
Ashley Alberta Beatty🤎 I will never stop speaking your name.
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TodayI went back to my high school for their Depression Awareness Week. It was my hardest speech yet, but I shared my story of losing my sister, how I battle my depression, and mental illness/awareness in general. I’m so proud of the initiatives they’re doing.
Thank you 🤍
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4 whole months without you. Each breath that comes from my lungs will be a breath for the both of us. I love you more than anything, ever.
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#HappyIndigenousPeoplesDay
Here is a teaser from the documentary that I have been filming. It’s so hard to be vulnerable with this pain but I hope it will help others continue the difficult conversation of mental health, suicide, healing, and hope.
Releasing in 2022. 🖤
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Write down your dreams! 10 year old me wrote that down and would be so proud of the pro contract to play in New Zealand. It’s never too late to work for and go get exactly what you want. I’m so happy to represent my family and of course all my natives too 😚
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Collegiate athletics are in full swing & I am happy to see so many mental health initiatives by the
@NCAA
.
This picture, smile and all, was taken 4 months before my sister decided to take her own life.
She was beautiful, full ride scholarship, friends + her sister on the team.
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My upcoming documentary “Lakota” previewed at The Armory in Manhattan, New York alongside “Spirits” by Kyle Bell & Spike Lee’s upcoming doc.
I was also gifted a pair of J’s that haven’t released yet that Spike signed himself. 🤩 You know I had to get the kick picture with him ❤️🔥
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The Declaration of Independence references Native people as ‘Merciless Indian Savages’ and honestly, what a compliment.
I will continue being merciless thx xoxo
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One of the purest forms of love to me is praying, helping and pushing someone to be better because you want to see them in Heaven with you.
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My sister loved the youth and giving back. In honor of her, we are hosting a free camp with instruction from our Division I coaches. Any girl between 5th-10th grade is welcomed to attend.
#CashMonayBForever
#AAB
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forever my squad 💙🖤
#AB23
During tonight’s game we wore these jersey patches to honor our sister, Ashley Beatty. We will continue to wear them throughout the remainder of the season as we dedicate our conference play in honor of her.
#ORUWBB
#ORURiseUp
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One degree down! Grad school starts Monday. 😅 One more educated Native woman in this world 🙌🏼
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At the end of last season Ashley and I both agreed that no matter how many big arenas we played in, the Big House will always be our favorite. Seeing her win the State Championship Game MVP on that court, as a freshman, is my
#1
favorite moment of my basketball career.
With an ice day here, I need some help from
#OKPreps
fans. How attached are you to the Big House? Should the state tournaments remain there forever? Should they move? If so, where? I'll even take favorite memories from the tournaments. Email me: junruh
@oklahoman
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you loved so hard and so easy.
my whole heart and soul.
AAB 🖤
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These are my maternal great great grandparents— the Longknife’s. Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana. 1899.
I can’t imagine the obstacles they overcame for me to be here in this very moment.
I am so thankful for their resiliency to persist.
#IndigenousPeoplesDay
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Trying to celebrate the holidays while missing a loved one is truly a different type of hurt.
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One of the saddest things in the world to me is how we were forcefully stripped of our languages and forced to speak English.
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my beautiful sissy- my heart and soul ache for you. I’ll never love anyone the way that I love you.. 🖤
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Depression/anxiety tips that I currently use and that have helped me:
1. Take a nap.
It’s kind of like dying for a bit without the full commitment. (dark humor helps me cope don’t @ me)
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my favorite thing about natives is that we will insult each other based on tribe. if you’re being rugged it is simply because you’re Kiowa or Lakota or Apache lmaoo
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depression doesn’t care if you have aspirations. It doesn’t care if you have a heart for others, the future children you want, or the plans you’ve made with your loved ones.
My sister’s notebooks are filled with notes like this.
Truly too good for this earth. 🥀
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Hug your people and love them while you still can. There's nothing worse than losing someone whose life meant more to you than your own.
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had a full conversation with this man in Chicago but can I remember what he said to me? No. Wanna know why? Bc I was staring at his lips 🙂😅
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we had so many adventures planned out. After you graduated, trips overseas and trips with our kids-- but now you have the best view of all 🌹
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my late grandma, Alberta Beatty, was one of the last full-blood, fluent speakers within the Caddo Tribe. She isn’t here to see her granddaughter become princess but I know she’d be so proud. 🥰
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the only “natives” that dress up as a native for Halloween are the ones that rationalize it by saying their grandma was 1/256 Cherokee
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What a dream. My documentary premier in the Serena Williams Building at Nike World Headquarters. So thankful to celebrate
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
with my
@NikeN7
family.
Representation matters! Your mental health matters! You matter! 🫶🏻
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Life will never make sense without you
We’re so much better together
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The final cut of “LAKOTA” premiered in Brooklyn, NY at BAM Rose Cinemas. I gifted a medallion with his brand 40 Acres and a Mule on it that was made with love by my mama so that means he’s Uncle Spike now 😂🤍
I truly hope this helps even 1 person.
Releasing November 2022
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8 years ago I played in the NCAA Sweet 16 with
@OSUWBB
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@IndigAthAdv
to speak to NCAA coaches on we are underrepresented.
If you’re a native athlete with my same dreams, do not stop working cause there are people fighting for your success 💪🏼
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Native but make it ✨modern✨
My great grandma’s and ancestors set up tipi’s, hunted, and fought the United States Calvary in ribbon skirts.
Talk about strength.
Know who you come from 🖤
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A reminder:
Mental illness is associated with environment/chemical imbalances/genetics. It isn’t a character flaw.
You aren’t lazy or a bad friend for not replying when you’re sad. You aren’t irresponsible for putting off tasks when you feel helpless/everything feels impossible.
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Go read up on how the US government and Indian Health Services collaborated in the 1960’s and 70’s to forcefully sterilize Native women without their knowledge or consent.
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The sexual abuse/trauma within the native community is sickening. A lot of the wounds we carry are not our fault, yet we carry it around as if we’re the ones to blame.
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wellll couldn’t “cage those Indians” in the 2012 state championship 💁🏻
how do people still not understand that this is wrong?
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If I ever broke ur ankles you’ll be in my upcoming documentary sorry those are the rules
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to my fellow Indigenous people in academia:
I know sometimes it feels like you don’t belong in westernized institutions.
They were not made for us to succeed in.
Each time you step on campus/take a course, you are opening doorways for other Natives & breaking down barriers.
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Healing is hard work.
Being vulnerable about my struggles and what I’ve been through is heavy, painful, and I’ve ran from it for so long.
Our Native youth deserve transparency, joy, and hope for their future.
I am working so that can be my space to cultivate. 🌿
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I love when people ask if I’m a “real Indian” .. as if my tipi and horse are parked out front or something
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My beautiful sissy. 💗 No one could make me laugh the way she did. I'd give everything in this world to be able to do this one more time 💔
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Summit League Nominates Lakota Beatty as NCAA Woman of the Year 📝
#ORUWBB
#GoldenStandard
#SummitWBB
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everyone else is being attentive and focused on what we’re supposed to be doing and there’s my sissy.. in her own world, smiling away as usual. 💘
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Always check on your people
Ask them how their soul is doing
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I’m celebrating Indigenous People’s Day playing pro basketball in a country my ancestors never set foot in because they were fighting genocide on their own land. I imagine they fought for this to happen, with my dreams in mind.
I will do the same for my next generations.
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Please make insulin more affordable and accessible so we can prevent racism from happening 🖤
The announcer who made the racist statements is partially blaming it on low blood sugar.
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Don’t commit your life to anyone until you see them shoot a basketball
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The infamous Ashley Beatty spin move. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it 🤣🤍
The athleticism, the strength, and always the toughest player on the court.
None of that could ever even compare to the kind of person she was.
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Romanticizing mental illness isn’t funny/trendy. Saying FML isn’t funny. Talking about death or treating suicide as if it’s inconsequential is repulsive.
I will be heartbroken for the rest of my life. There is absolutely nothing glamorous about it.
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My Dakota ancestors suffered the largest mass execution in US history, under orders from President Lincoln. This isn’t talked about in school, much like a lot of our history as Native people.
We must keep talking, sharing our oral histories, and speaking our languages.
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to all my depressed seasonal depression people.. hold on because there is light at the end of the tunnel 🙏🏼
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Tomorrow isn’t promised.. make sure to make the racists as uncomfortable as they make other people feel 🖤
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Does the NCAA Tournament give any other former hoopers heartache because you miss playing so bad? 😖
That little native girl that grew up dribbling on a dirt court had so many dreams fulfilled in the month of March.
Also, s/o to the icon,
@S10Bird
. One of the greatest, ever.
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