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You can help by spreading the word of this human rights violation happening in Finland!
#standwithsápmi
reminder to keep your immigrant family members safe and that they’re detaining citizens too, be aware of your surroundings and of your rights. this behavior is disgusting and I’m scared for my native american family members
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Since today is clean water day, remember that 1/3 of the Navajo Nation doesn't have access to clean water. I personally have donated, and I encourage anyone else with available funds to do the same.
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I grew up lucky to be around my culture, to be around other natives and to live on the rez. A lot of my cousins didn't get that, and even some of them who did, we still don't know our culture like the generations before.
I was named in our language but I can't speak it. I haven't met anyone fluent in it, and hearing someone else whose named in it is a rarity.
I don't know a whole lot about my culture, I just know things my teachers taught. I know how to pay an offering, I know how to enter a sweat lodge, how to prepare one, how to cook for one, I know how to bless my house and family. I know how to dance for my people and the importance of practicing good medicine.
But there's a lot of knowledge I don't know. I don't know how to bead. How to weave a basket on my own. How to make a ribbon skirt. How to make my own regalia. How to live off the land. How to sing in my language.
It hurts knowing there's a lot I don't know. And I am one of the lucky ones. I was raised with my culture.
I am grateful for everything I have been taught, I try to not take it for granted. Seeing what they want to do with ICWA, words can't describe the pain it that.
I shouldn't be a lucky one, in the past this was knowledge all my people knew. The genocide to my people, to my culture still hasn't stopped.
However, I'm well aware that native issues tend to be ignored, ICWA is just one part of the puzzle though.
I'll let this video explain:
VIDEO LINK
The profile with the links:
I tried to do a direct link but had no luck, but you should still be able to find the information.
The resources page will look like this:
This is the one you need:
I do suggest looking at the other ones as well!
Please, it doesn't take long at all to do but it helps out a lot! It took longer to put this together than it does to fill this out. You're not only helping protecting our culture but the climates future!
Tumblr needs to bring more attention to this issue happening right in North America. Please spread the word and show support for the Wet'suwet'en people!
Protect the land, and protect the land defenders.
Right?? And grown adults have no clue about the absolute HORRORS indigenous women, or just any indigenous person faces today. And nobody cares to learn either. We're so busy comparing ourselves to the US and patting ourselves on the back for being "progressive" that we don't know and don't even care to learn about our own issues.c The reserves are so insanely unsafe and isolated people are forced to HITCH HIKE to escape to Vancouver (which is STILL unsafe) or literally any city. Vancouver, downtown is a hell hole.
I think it's horrific how long we wait to tell kids about their country's bad history. Like you spend your whole life thinking you live in the best country in the whole wide world until high school when they tell you the government actually eradicated an entire culture a couple hundred years ago. Like isn't that insane? No wonder there's so many people who think it didn't happen.
Canada Isn't Perfect, So Stop Pretending It Is.
Yes, I get the desire to beat the US's rising claim to fascism and republican values, but that doesn't mean we need to base our entire image off of them. Our display of leftism and being 'progressive' is so insanely performative it makes me sick. How many times have you seen our government "apologizing", and "acknowledging" instead of actually doing shit to help the people Canada has literally killed. Yet, here we sit, content with "sticking it to american's" while thousands of indigenous women die, tortured, raped, are sex trafficked, etc. Please for the love of god, TALK about these things with your community - teachers, friends, students, neighbours, family, even online like I'm doing right now. - just start with spreading the news, which can lead to organizing, protesting, riots, getting our government to actually DO SOMETHING. If we want to fix our problems we have to first acknowledge them.
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I know most of tumblr is thinking about the USA right now. but fuck the nz government right now too. tomorrow, the treaty principles bill, the 'worst, most comprehensive breach of Te Tiriti in modern times' is being introduced to parliament early, because there were activations planned country wide and the cowards decided to pull it forwards. fuck this government. a friend of mine had to go home early, crying. I've been in shock all day since it came out.
check on your Māori friends, e hoa mā. see what they need. see how you can help. everyday, we see and experience racism. from people around us, up to our government. community care will save us.