auntie kat
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Art & Indigenous advocacy. Haud💜/Nish🍓—Oneida Nation of the Thames, 🐻 Ohkwalihné:ke. M.Ed. LAND BACK. Beads? Beads. (she/they)
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Snipers on Elijah’s mother while she spoke. Riot gear to dismantle a violin vigil with children in a park. Tear gas & pepper spray on children barely in their teens. How can you look away?
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Be the decolonial deer you want to see in the world
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Non natives shouldn’t be profiting from “landback” initiatives. I feel like this should be uncontroversial.
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I hate that “basket weaving” is so often used as shorthand for something irrelevant & useless.
Do you know how much math, plant care, planning, symbolism, story & skill goes into basket weaving?
It’s such settler arrogance that dismisses these knowledge systems
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Quannah Chasinghorse always holding it down for the Native Beadworkers!! Rubia Joy made it THE MOMENT with this stunning bead & quillwork set!!
@Qchasinghorse
#MetGala
#MetGala2023
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“Protest peacefully”
You mean like a violin vigil in the afternoon attended by literal children?
“No not like that”
Peace isn’t even an option. All they will accept is compliance with oppression.
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@lingerie_addict
Had 2of my supervisors over for dinner & they both did this—Still mad!
The worst though, was an acquaintance I let stay while I was away. He picked a LOCKED door to my spare room then teased me about how messy it was! Duh!! That’s where I moved stuff to make room for him! Jail.
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Hide tanning in the most sustainable & humane way possible, but they can’t help themselves
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Me waiting for the thrift stores to fill up with all the good stuff now bc of this Marie Kondo Netflix special
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Success! The stolen design item has been taken down from TNgiftlove
- so grateful for the sudden, immediate & full hearted support of everyone in this community. I’m deeply moved by everyone’s encouragement & help standing up to the theft of Native art ✊🏼
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Land Acknowledgments used to be cool when they made settlers uncomfortable.
Now? They’re weaponized against Natives & make settlers feel like that’s enough atonement for ✨*genocide*✨😌🇨🇦
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There’s no amount of peaceful mourning even, that will not be met with unrestrained violence. It’s absurd. How can they live with themselves? How is this cruelty not registering to so many?
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@imbobswaget
As a teacher, this is so frightening for his future abilities to even *be curious* about any subject because without meaningful reading comprehension he won’t even be able to stumble onto new topics without video or audio!
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An example of how they use stolen Native imagery as costume to make themselves feel “savage” & enact violence.
Don’t mistake this for an accident.
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Violin vigil in Aurora for Elijah McClain, who was a violinist.
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Totem poles aren’t hierarchical and the phrase “low on the totem pole” is never a necessary metaphor!
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Police then used pepper spray to clear the park. There were families and kids out in Aurora. It was literally just a violin vigil for Elijah.
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A Kanaka friend of mine shared this about beach access in Kailua, seems like a pattern considering Koolina & the “resort bubble” ideas of late. Sickening.
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I 🤔wonder 🤔why 🤔they’re 🤔suddenly 🤔so 🤔interested 🤔in 🤔the 🤔predator🤔 hanging 🤔out 🤔with vikings 🤨
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For everything you stood for, spoke on, and shared with the world, mahalo, miigwetch.
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Also: uncanny how much Graham Greene looked like my grampa!!
Always nice to see some unphased post-apocalyptic Natives thriving on tv, sense of humor still intact!! Thrilled as ever to laugh along with Geraldine Keams!
#LastOfUsHBO
#lastofus
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I am so uncomfortable with these types of comments.
Buying art from me isn’t charity. It’s not “giving back” - it’s supporting an artist like any other! I make good art! Pick what you like! I know what’s ok to sell ffs
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I need people to stop using the term “cultural genocide” when we are literally exhuming Native children’s bodies.
Stop couching.
It’s genocide.
Full stop.
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“Stomping Grounds”
Linocut ink on heavyweight paper
For the animals who still hold to their treaties
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Reservation Dogs & Rutherford Falls deserved an emmy nomination!
But we live in a world where carpool karaoke got one 😒
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And here’s proof I own / created the design: LAND BACK Tee Shirt *PREORDER*
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Why are certain Canadians only comfortable uplifting Native topics only if Dan Levy or Gord Downie are involved
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Here’s the link for reporting it:
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A years-long dream come true!! 🌈!! A rainbow of razor sharp quills, encased in a perfect ring of resin! 🦔🌈♥️
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Ralph Lauren ripping off Haudenosaunee wampum belts & mixing in Plains geometric designs to try & throw us off the scent 🧐
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Natives.
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Silent jingle dress. Dedicated to all the
#MMIWG2S
. This piece has long been on my mind. Jingle dresses are medicine, and in this time of unrest and unease, we need medicine. We must also remember our loved ones, and fight so that they may be found, that they may find justice ♥️
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When i said i got my beading ideas from my dreams, i never said my dreams made sense…✏️✏️
#latenitebeadtweets
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Never thought I’d see an actual phalanx, wow.
Wow. The cops have no idea what to do about the organized shield wall in Portland tonight.
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My father in law always drops the most astonishing photos with captions like “beach pic”
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If folks who want to dance at powwow don’t have “full regalia” - instead of excluding them, do what some powwows are already doing and build a LENDING LIBRARY of REGALIA so they can dance!!
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@RottenInDenmark
Hey Michael, J. Keeler is a really, really biased & unreliable source on this specific topic. She’s been coming for Sacheen for years, and is using Colonial definitions of US borders to make her case. Indian country doesn’t stand behind her work, generally. Please reconsider!
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From a friend who still works at Starbucks: don’t cross the line this Saturday.
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This is Haudenosaunee raised beadwork. It’s from the era when we weren’t allowed to practice our traditional arts & culture. But we were allowed to sell pieces for tourists.
Just add “Niagara Falls” & that’s how we were able to practice & pass on our beading skills
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Kamloops is not a unit of measurement. Please. Stop using it like that- it is hollow and callous.
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Being on Navajo Nation & everyone just happily wearing masks to care for each other’s health = so so refreshing
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How genius is this little phone booth library at the big Waianae library?!
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I paid $20 for this literal tiny jar of “tiny gold” paint and I’d do it again bc it’s the shiniest gold paint I’ve ever worked with. No bleed. No scuff. No dandruffy puff. It��s perfect.
Native made, Beam Paints!
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Grossed out at N*il De Gr*ss T*son using a “mysterious Native elder” to pass off his creepy gaslighting behaviour.
😒😒😒😒😒😒
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These earrings were destined for greatness. I’m so humbled to see someone like Sivan wear them 🖤💛❤️🧡
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I’m not arguing with settlers today about IRS or the TRC or why schools have graveyards. I’m not answering their demands for sources on Native lived experience. I’m not acknowledging their needless onslaught of picking apart what I say. I won’t be tone policed about my grief.
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Displacing Indigenous food systems. Driving up costs of trendy foods of Indigenous staples. Droughts for almond milk. Shaming people for sustainable sustenance hunting of whales &seals. Monocrops. Agricultural practices that exploit poor & immigrant laborers, all rooted in racism
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It bothers me how non-Natives are getting comfortable saying “pretendian” & weighing in on this extremely sensitive discussion.
If it’s not okay for you to say “Indian” it’s definitely not cool for you to use pretendian.
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Spoilers for
#PreyMovie
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I want to talk about the way they did such a good job of including Native hide tanning processes INTENTIONALLY as a contrast to the way the fur traders were taking skins.
And the weight of that contrast? Phenomenally communicated.
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@RottenInDenmark
Keeler is not Apache or Yaqui- those are the only people who can make a call on Sacheen’s identity. It’s not Keeler’s place.
Keeler has done a LOT of damage to actual Native people without ever admitting her mistakes. She never makes anything right, just tears down Native women
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This thread is brought to you by my recent foray into Ulana: traditional Hawaiian weaving with lauhala (pandanus). I’m learning in a community setting, doing my best to contribute & honour these traditions & the protocols my Ulana Kumu has given me. - photos of the process:
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Noticing that settlers use however many generations they’ve been settlers to their advantage.
5 generations +? = “we’ve been here ages! Get over it! We’re basically indigenous too”
Less than 3 gens? = “none of MY family colonized anything! I’m innocent!”
They win either way.
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I love the sound of jelly jar lids popping into place as they cool in a nearby kitchen—
Fireweed jelly, wild harvested, made in the kitchens of family as we bounce from visit to visit.
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You know how rich folks have a water tap above their stove to fill pots?
If I was rich, I’d want one of those at my nightstand, so I never had to wake up thirsty & have to navigate to the sink in the dark again!
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Basket weaving isn’t something that most people can do alone. It is long term community building.
The plants must be cared for by someone, gathered by someone at the right time, processed by a group of people - these arduous tasks are made easier with more hands.
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I had to buy pants for my guy today, & Old Navy had a sale on his fave kind.
Why was I greeted with an entire display of shitty beadwork? Come on. Stop it. It’s terrible. Bad beads. Bad thread. Bad stolen work. It’s garbage. Support the real thing &
#BuyNative
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Stop saying spirit animal. Stop wearing our regalia. Stop saying savage. Stop using sage. Stop saying pow wow when you mean meeting. Stop staying circle the wagons. Stop supporting racist team names. Stop it.
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I just saw
#AsteroidCity
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- Indian
- Native
-Tribe
-Tribal
- Apache
-Geronimo etc..
But never were these terms actually referring to a Native person or concept.
There appeared to be one Native actor, but he barely spoke.
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It is unreasonably difficult to find stock photos of Native people NOT in regalia.
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Finished these this afternoon! And I realized where I’d seen this colour combo before! My hybrid hibiscus! Wish I added a smidgen of yellow in now! ✨
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The fact that Red Hill / Oahu water contamination by the Navy isn’t front-page news outside of Hawaii is troubling.
Today there were puff piece headlines about “snow warnings in Hawaii!” - all over different networks
- yet they can’t manage to mention this massive catastrophe?
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Tis the season!
Experts are reminding tourists not to try and pet wild animals, like bison, for social media
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Native people give directions to scientists to “discover” another thing that apparently doesn’t count until a western scientist says it does exhibit 5,000,000,000:
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this photo from kristen bell’s dinner party gets increasingly WTF as you go down the table
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Weaving exists & has existed in some form or another in all communities since time immemorial.
Contemporary life without having to hand make our own baskets is a remarkably recent phenomenon. Why the rush to dismiss such critical technology that has served us and our ancestors?
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Watching Killers of the Flower Moon… and these zhaganash keep laughing at all the racist lines.
It’s so fucking unsettling.
I am feeling Lily’s rage lines so deeply.
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Enough with using “tribal” as a shorthand term for myopic selfish groupthink.
Tribes, actual tribes, are generous, supportive and nourishing
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It’s 🏳️savior complex stuff. It’s asking me to hold your hand through something extremely simple. It’s super weird and puts me in a weird “absolve your settler guilt & hold your hand” place.
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I don’t want to boost a blue check but I need to share & thank
@wordglass
for this phenomenal gift of an image!!
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There is no room for non-Natives in the Native Identity discussion right now.
Jfc, sit back.
You are beyond ill-equipped to weigh in & speaking up is far more likely to cause harm than just listening.
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Please stop making fun of folks who bead with supplies from the dollar store!
Not everyone has access to what you do. Beads are beads.
Sometimes the dollar store has surprises anyway! Let’s be gentler to each other 🧡
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Extra sensitive today because I had a shouting match on the beach with an old man who didn’t like my “you are on Native Land” hat.
He just kept saying “there is no Native land” & “you’re all immigrants from russia” like indigeneity is some fantasy we concocted on our own
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I brought strawberries to an event & mentioned it was the strawberry moon, and this nn woman immediately said “I’m going to use that!!”
Except she thought I meant the moon looked like a strawberry & didn’t understand it was a season/calendar name.
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For every time they say “find an Indigenous elder!!” but refuse to *compensate them for their time in the same way they would a western academic* 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
the entitlement white institutions feel they have on Indigenous community leaders is beyond me
the lack of boundaries and respect is disgusting
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In grade 7, a teacher I admired made a joke about our school offering a class in “underwater basket weaving”
- I was so excited that I went to see if I could transfer into it. Learning that they thought my interests were such a joke was my 1st glimpse of this dismissal
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That I didn’t know how to pronounce my own tribe’s name
What's the most racist thing that a teacher tried to convince you was true when you were in school? Please caption your answer with
#WeNeedCRT
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I’m seeing calls for armed guards in schools again, and I want to share something as someone went to a school with armed guards.
We didn’t feel safer. We just got sexually harassed by men with machine guns.
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Folks, please stop invoking the n-word in this convo about the word sq**w,
It may seem parallel, but the words have different histories.
I see a lot of willingness to use Black pain to illustrate why the word sq**w is offensive. It’s unnecessary and harmful. We can do better.
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The earrings
@lily_gladstone
is wearing are by Shelby LeeAnn Gorman (@/shell.b.beads_ on insta!) & Jennifer Younger Designs!!
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