Bead work by Native American artist and designer JAMIE OKUMA.

(inspired by this classic tumblr post)

you’re so chronically offline.. go inside and touch some keyboard damn

a pal dropped this palette challenge in our group chat and we had a ball making a lot of messy doodles :)

Baby's first Christmas (and baby's baby's first Christmas too)

Orgasm denial. Orgasm anger. Orgasm bargaining. Orgasm depression and orgasm acceptance.

its so fucked that not only did they erase our languages and beat and kill our people for using them but they stole the words of important tribes and important people and used them for the military and for trees and for food and for summer camps. average native american name is seen by non ntvs as a joke or something to use or consume, not a human being

i like that ppl r thinking abt town names and things thats very good to be aware of but just to be clear this is actually specifically about other things actually, the things everyone but those looking up their nation forget about

sequoyah was the man who created the tsalagi syllabary before it was ever a tree

if i try to look for apparel or crafts to show off my chickasaw pride, i get results for chickasaw plums which is just a specific species of plum before i get results about human beings

others have mentioned if they google their nations name they get boot companies before their nations website!

theres a tweet that still haunts me that was about a Quirky Quasi American Restaurant in europe or somewhere that was being funny by being cowboy themed and their steaks were named after native american nations. even outside the usa we are nothing but literal dead meat for others consumption

"blackhawk" "apache" - fuck theres a whole wikipedia page for the way weve had our names used for weapons used to colonize and kill us and others!

yes talk about town and location names but you need to look farther than that. it gets so much worse, i promise

He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being. So don't talk of our separation again: it is impracticable.

listen I know anti-native racism is not specifically talked about a whole lot and also is deeply ingrained in American culture in a way that makes it difficult for a lot of people to recognize. And like I’m not going to tell someone they’re irredeemable scum for reposting the two wolves inside you meme or dressing up as a cowboy or not being super thoroughly educated on the history of thanksgiving. But at the end of the day the normalization and lack of education around Indigenous history and anti-native racism does not absolve you from your responsibility to learn about these things and to correct your behaviour. It should not be the responsibility of natives to coddle you just because your government didn’t spoon-feed you the history of it’s own worst crimes. You gotta do the work.

I should clarify: When I say "American", I am not talking about the United States. I'm talking about the Americas, and that absolutely includes Canada. This post is written by an Indigenous Canadian. My criticisms of colonialism and anti-indigineity in America do not and will never exclude the country whose anti-Indigenous policy i see and feel firsthand every day of my life.

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this Thanksgiving consider donating to Indigenous Women Rising a native run org that helps native/indigenous women in the US access abortion and reproductive care

currently watching my wife and my best friend split a red bull with the longing of a wife for her sailor husband lost at sea. i miss her every day <3. i'll be back for you one day, my love.

what do you MEAN the red bull advent calendar has THE SUGARFREE GRAPEFRUIT :'(((((((((((