November 2011
38 posts
so driving back from the city yesterday, i get a...
most-awkward-moments:
^lil playa~~
IndiVisible - African-Native American Lives in the...
(Description of photo from website as follows) Here is a family from the Comanche Nation located in southwestern Oklahoma. The elder man in Comanche traditional clothing is Ta-Ten-e-quer. His wife, Ta-Tat-ty, also wears Comanche clothing. Their niece (center) is Wife-per, also known as Frances E. Wright. Her father was a Buffalo Soldier (an African American cavalryman) who deserted and ...
Una Guerra Sin Fondo: yo →
soydulcedeleche:
unaguerrasinfondo:
where the fuck is the acerola juice around here
my grammy had a big cherry tree of those in her backyard. when dominicans mention cerezas thats usually what we’re referring too. we stuffed our faces full of em daily.
le sigh. the best. but i have…
Have you ever heard of “Bossa Nova Superfruits”? They make two different acerola juices,...
“American Indians suffer from the most serious health problems in the U.S. On...”
– Andrea Smith, Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
To add to this: 1 in 3 Native American Women will face sexual violence in their lifetime. This is much higher than national estimates of 1 in 4 or 1 in 6 for other groups of women. And, unlike other racial groups (which have...
“They (Native Americans) didn’t have any rights to the land, and there was no...”
– Ayn Rand, statement at a Q and A session following her address to the graduating class of The United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, March 6, 1974
“Any white person who brings the element of civilization has the right to take over this continent.”
I don’t even need to analyze...
Liquor&Spice: "This is the way it has been for the... →
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
karnythia:
liquornspice:
O RLY??????????????????????????????????
The Chickasaw ALWAYS take in Black Chickasaw? REALLY? THAT HAPPENED? BLACK CHICKASAW WEREN’T KICKED OFF THEIR LAND AND CHASED OUT OF OKLAHOMA????? CHICKASAW DID NOT CALL THE US MILITARY AND…
I’d like to think you know that I meant what did the Chickasaw do traditionally, of their own...
You know...
There has been times when an American white person goes to a blog belonging to someone from another country, says something cruel or stupid, that person deletes it…and then that white guy is all about “freedom of speech! Don’t you know about the Bill of Rights?” and the same people who I normally would have a good laugh over that asshat using American laws and culture to...
Liquor&Spice: My Rape Culture: "Freedmen aren't... →
liquornspice:
soofriends:
liquornspice:
This is what anti-Black, racist, misogyny looks like. Also rape.
From “Tribal Kulturkampf: The Role of Race Ideology in Constructing Native American Identity” by CD Pratt:
[60] Sexual encounters between Native American slave masters and African slave women were documented by the…
Where were the black men in all of this? Celibate? Impotent? If...
Liquor&Spice: My Rape Culture: "Freedmen aren't... →
liquornspice:
This is what anti-Black, racist, misogyny looks like. Also rape.
From “Tribal Kulturkampf: The Role of Race Ideology in Constructing Native American Identity” by CD Pratt:
[60] Sexual encounters between Native American slave masters and African slave women were documented by the…
Where were the black men in all of this? Celibate? Impotent? If everyone has Indian blood...
“Many Americans can’t believe their government would kill innocents in drone...”
– Does the CIA Even Know Who Its Drones Are Killing? (via azspot)
Many Americans can’t believe their government would kill innocents in drone strikes.
No, I think they do know this. They don’t care. These drone strikes are targeting brown people. It’s okay to kill hundreds, even...
Liquor&Spice: another repost. →
liquornspice:
soofriends:
liquornspice:
soofriends:
so-treu:
deluxvivens:
Over time “black blood” has become defined as a contaminating force that delegitimizes many of the claims of people of African and Indian descent to Indian communities and nations. A revamped “one drop” rule has permeated some discourses regarding Indian…
What do you mean by the northeast tribes? I’m from a...
Liquor&Spice: another repost. →
liquornspice:
soofriends:
so-treu:
deluxvivens:
Over time “black blood” has become defined as a contaminating force that delegitimizes many of the claims of people of African and Indian descent to Indian communities and nations. A revamped “one drop” rule has permeated some discourses regarding Indian…
What do you mean by the northeast tribes? I’m from a northeastern tribe (Maritimes...
Liquor&Spice: another repost. →
so-treu:
deluxvivens:
Over time “black blood” has become defined as a contaminating force that delegitimizes many of the claims of people of African and Indian descent to Indian communities and nations. A revamped “one drop” rule has permeated some discourses regarding Indian…
What do you mean by the northeast tribes? I’m from a northeastern tribe (Maritimes Canada and Maine...
Some History
My grandfather’s side of the family had the name Joe in the 1800s, but around 1890-1900 changed it to Perley.
I should tell a story…back in the day we had few resources and survival was a struggle. We couldn’t be trusted to handle our own affairs, so we were assigned Indian Agents to “help” us…but Indian Agents treated us like dirt and are known for stealing...
come on up to the house: sigh. →
karnythia:
soofriends:
deluxvivens:
soofriends:
so-treu:
okay. cause what’s being ignored here, is that it’s not that people don’t understand the difference between a white person and an indigenous person that can pass for white/has passing privilege. we know that there is a difference between being perceived vs. actually being. no really, we KNOW. that tension is part of our history...
come on up to the house: sigh. →
deluxvivens:
soofriends:
so-treu:
okay. cause what’s being ignored here, is that it’s not that people don’t understand the difference between a white person and an indigenous person that can pass for white/has passing privilege. we know that there is a difference between being perceived vs. actually being. no really, we KNOW. that tension is part of our history too. it’s part of our...
Esoterica: liquornspice: So…everybody’s just gonna... →
liquornspice:
So…everybody’s just gonna act like antiblackness only affects 5 tribes? That the US government doesn’t use Blackness to strip folks of the right to exist as Natives? And that that hasn’t affected how Native people define themselves and guard against Blackness? We’re just not…
I don’t know what anyone else is telling you, all I am saying is that…YOU KNOW MORE...
come on up to the house: sigh. →
so-treu:
soofriends:
so-treu:
okay. cause what’s being ignored here, is that it’s not that people don’t understand the difference between a white person and an indigenous person that can pass for white/has passing privilege. we know that there is a difference between being perceived vs. actually being. no really, we KNOW. that tension is part of our history too. it’s part of our...
come on up to the house: sigh. →
so-treu:
okay. cause what’s being ignored here, is that it’s not that people don’t understand the difference between a white person and an indigenous person that can pass for white/has passing privilege. we know that there is a difference between being perceived vs. actually being. no really, we KNOW. that tension is part of our history too. it’s part of our families, it’s part of US. we...
Black Natives
I just read the latest clusterfuck regarding blacks/NAs and my head is just spinning. I’m not sure if I have much helpful to say but I’ll say what it’s got me thinking. First, it appears that the black people are talking about the Cherokee Freedmen, for the most part, and that’s where the misunderstandings are coming from. There are over 500 tribes in North America, we...
Cups of tea and history: When I'm sitting at a... →
somewhitenonsense:
acethewonderdog:
celluloidlove:
tehblackbird:
nunmoreblack:
shewalkslikethunder:
somewhitenonsense:
acethewonderdog:
I feel the need to make fun of them but I can’t because they’re sitting right here…this is so difficult.
#im not racist
Uh hate to break it to you, OP, but if…
Aaaaallllllllrrrrrriiiightt.
The “racist” post I made yesterday was ...
“Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural...”
– bell hooks, “Killing Rage” (via bhavitavyata)
timely… thank you Hasan.
(via notyourkinddear)
“I don’t see color!”
“Why can’t we all just be people?”
Yeah. About that…
(previous) “We All Bleed Red!!! “
(via squeetothegee)
Makes me think of how the US is “a melting pot” too, but...
Esoterica: thinking about starting some sort of... →
darkjez:
so-treu:
which is kind of a corny title……….but my point is.
so one of the things i am struck by these past few weeks - really this past year, but especially the past few months as OWS and SlutWalk has ballooned to the big things they’ve become - is the ignorance that abounds…
I love this idea and even though tumblr has a lot of problems, I think that it would be good for a...
June 2011
5 posts
When Non Native Participation in Powwows Goes... →
hyphywifey:
cassket:
by Guest Contributor Adrienne K., originally published at Native Appropriations
Let’s set the scene: Friday afternoon, Stanford powwow–one of the largest powwow’s on the West Coast. Three Native powwow committee members and a friend are checking in on the vendor booths, making sure things are ready to go, and they come across the group pictured above. 6 non-Native...
vikkiage: Please help. →
ohnoitsbatman:
thespitfireemporium:
badlandspolaroid:
I would appreciate it if all of my friends who work hard to promote a positive image of our Native Cultures could call or e-mail Free People clothing. Their inspiration wall is beyond heinous and it breaks my heart in more ways than one.
To me,…
reblogging again because someone added a direct link to the “mood board” (which isn’t...
Every time I meet another Native on Tumblr I'm...
hyphywifey:
Well hello, pleased to meet you! lol (I’m Maliseet)
April 2011
90 posts
Forgetting Slavery →
neutralangel:
jerkyourmind:
Not only do a full 48 percent of Americans say that the Civil War was “mainly about states’ rights,” but among those younger than 30, a whopping 60 percent agree with the assessment. Pew notes that seniors are the only other age group in which more say that states right caused the war, and even then, only 50 percent of seniors agree with the statement. Given the...
Blackamazon is too much: The heart of the matter →
blackamazon:
I think what is bothering most about the hell yeah they don’t like an educated black man part of the Obama response is the age old chesnut that beats around the black community
Respectability.
It says something to me about myself deeply that I am somewhat unmoved by the tears of ” I am never…
I wonder if part of this isn’t generational. I was born in the early 60s,...
