if you’re near gatineau, you can drop off food donations for mitchikanibikok inik at the ramada plaza; you can also email info/@/health.rapidlake.com with mutual aid donations. please note that the maniwaki native friendship center is now closed to donations
i’ll update this as i find more fundraising initiatives and please free to share your own. reblogs with anything than sharing resources/mutual aid requests/fundraising opportunities get blocked.
Rromani are a diasporic people from south asia, mostly scattered across Europe.
Rromani are treated appallingly through out Europe- sterilizations, segregated education, mass evictions, attempted mass deportations of actual citizens, illegal registries made by governments to track peaceful Rromani citizens, and not surprisingly crime against Rroma often goes unpunished. Oh, and these are the current issues.
To Non-Rromani- Dont call us G*psies, its a racial slur stemming from the fact that people thought we came from Egypt.
To Non-Rromani- Dont call yourselves G*psies. It ain’t your word to reclaim, and dressing up like a bellydancer doesn’t make you Rromani. I’m looking at you Rennfair people.
Other than that, if you have the time, show support for your Rromani friends. Whether its looking up current articles and educating yourself, deciding to eradicate G*psy from your vocabulary if you didnt know it was a slur, or just reblogging their April 8th selfie with a kind word. Showing support will mean a lot.
Folks, friends, y’all…. esk*mo is a slur. I understand a lot of people don’t know that, I don’t want to be a dick about it, but I’ve been seeing it in fics. Wanna write “esk*mo kisses”? Just say “nuzzled noses” or something.
I’m not here to call anybody out, it’s been in multiple fics, I’m not vague posting. This is just a psa. 👍🏻
If you could help me spread awareness about this by reblogging, I’d really appreciate it.
I’ve had this post on insta saved for sometime ❤️
[Text Description: “Hey! Reminder: Eskimo is a slur. It means ‘snow eaters’ in Cree and is a slur against Inuit . Also don’t use ‘Eskimo kisses’. It’s called Kunik. It is a greeting mostly used for family… Kunik was how I’d greet my mom and grandmother as a small child.” /TD]
Rebloging for the awareness and especially for the alternative words
And so people who are just learning this now know the proper usage: “Inuit” is plural. The singular is “Inuk”, as in “he is an Inuk”
non-Natives cannot be w/nd/go/g. non-Natives cannot be w/nd/gokin, nor w/nd/go extranths, nor any other sort of w/nd/go identity. i don’t say this to be exclusionary, i say this as a Native person who’s tired of our culture and religion being bastardized, appropriated, and stolen by colonizers. i say this as someone who’s tired of plain old racism being excused by those who straight-up don’t care about Native voices
a w/nd/go is not just some cannibal ice monster, nor is it some deer cryptid, nor is it merely a Native personification of evil. it is far, far more than that, and it requires cultural knowledge and experience to really understand. this is knowledge and experience that non-Natives are not let into because of centuries of us sharing our culture with people who take it, misunderstand it, silence us when we try to correct them about it, and then continue to oppress Natives while enjoying cherrypicked parts of our culture
if you, as a non-Native, believe that you may be a w/nd/go; no, you are not. i’d recommend looking into monsters and such that aren’t from closed cultures, as well as potentially taking a look at invented species from things such as the furry culture, and then proceeding to uplift Native voices on this topic
non-Natives are encouraged to reblog this, and please, don’t uncensor the word unless you have to. i don’t want anything coming after me that i’m not prepared for
Text: after half a year of work, my academic zine on the history of antisemitism & appropriation in western occult movements is done 🖤 a 22-page PDF full of citations, illustrated with historic & public domain images, pay-what-you-want (or FREE!): https://ezrarose.itch.io/fyma-a-lesser-key
I’m saying this from a place of genuine care: if you are seeing ghosts or shadows or having nightmares… and sageing, eggshells, Crystal’s, and psychics arent cutting it..
Please.. please… check for things like gas leaks, water damage, vermin. I’m not saying your house isnt haunted, I’m just saying that carbon monoxide poisoning looks a LOT like being haunted.
I know that, you know that, but when it looks like supernatural things you look to supernatural solutions and you might not be thinking clearly.
I’m having a conversation with a pagan mom right now who thinks that dark forces are after her, so she’s tried all the things that she knows… which apparently is not checking the hvac system for leaks.
Shes mad at me because I suggested getting an inspection because shes lived in the house for 14 years and she’s always seen things like this and it’s just gotten worse since she took over the house. Shes seeing entities, things are moving on their own, doors open and close on their own, people are being touched and scratched. ‘Mold and gas dont do that!’
Drafty house. Uneven floors. Pressure changes.
Toxic mold syndrome can mimic depression and anxiety, cause listlessness. Guess what extreme anxiety can do. It can mess with your head. It can mess with your memory.
If you have scratches on you and you dont know where they came from, see a doctor. See a doctor. I dont know why you wont see a doctor. They can tell you if it comes from an animal. They can tell you if you’re suffering from a mold allergy. They can tell you if you’re experiencing side effects of gas exposure.
I wholeheartedly believe in ghosts. Absolutley not debating that ghosts and spirits and whatever you think you’re seeing. I am posting this in a pagan facebook group. I 100% believe in ghosts.
I also believe in carbon monoxide.
Please check for gas leaks in your home. Please check for mold. Please check for critters. Like girl I believe you but please check these things.
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It’s really unfortunate that National Geographic’s paywall will prevent most of you from accessing this story and reading about growing assertions of sovereignty from the Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada. (This exclusion of a big chunk of North America raises the issue of the Indigenous peoples of Mexico and Central America. I really know very little about this. Note to self: fix that.) Anyway, the story is really good, and as usual with National Geographic, the photos are awesome. I’m going to post some of the photos with the captions from the story, which might help a bit. All photos by Bykiliii Yüyan.
About climate change, the biodiversity crisis, ecological and environmental disasters all over the place, I have a solution: Return all this to the Indigenous peoples and learn from them.
This first photo is placed at the beginning of the story, and is so captivating it pushed me into the rest of the story.
Quannah Rose Chasinghorse, a groundbreaking Indigenous model, uses her fame to support her activism, reminding people “whose land you’re living on.” Native sovereignty, she says, is key to “defending my ways of life, trying to protect what’s left.” She is Hän Gwich’in and Sičangu/Oglala Lakota, but was born on Diné (Navajo) land in Arizona. Here, Chasinghorse stands in Tse’Bii’Ndzisgaii (Monument Valley), a park administered by the Diné.
This totem pole will rise in the village of Opitsaht on Meares Island to commemorate the Tla-o-qui-aht’s recent history. The skulls (at far right) symbolize victims of COVID-19, students who died in residential schools, and murdered and missing Indigenous women. “When the Europeans came, they said we were illiterate,” explains Joe Martin, the master carver who is overseeing the pole’s creation. “But so were they—they couldn’t read our totem poles.”
Highlighting the recovery of Nuu-chah-nulth, the Tla-o-qui-aht tongue, Masso displays two masks—one with no mouth to symbolize the loss of the language, one with an open mouth to show its revival. Beginning in the 1830s, Canada forced about 150,000 Indigenous children into residential schools and forbade them to use their mother tongues, which nearly put an end to them. Masso wrote a song and his brother, Hjalmer Wenstob, carved these masks for a performance they created to promote learning Nuu-chah-nulth—a vital part of reestablishing Tla-o-qui-aht culture.
The McGirt Decision is a hot-button issue in the state, and Hill now spends much of her time wrestling with the consequences, including what it means for the Cherokee Nation’s sovereignty. “I tend to think about it in terms of not only preserving what was,” she says, “but the right to be a separate people with a separate destiny.” For her, that means the tribe’s descendants creating their own future. “People took away Cherokee children for a century, putting them in boarding schools so they could become what others wanted them to be.”
With a dip net, Karuk fisherman Ryan Reed searches for Chinook salmon under the watchful eye of his father, Ron, on California’s Klamath River at Ishi Pishi Falls. The Reeds caught no fish—in stark contrast to earlier times. Before California became a state, the river saw about 500,000 salmon each fall, but last year just 53,954 mature Chinook swam up, a 90 percent decline. The nation now restricts salmon fishing to Ishi Pishi Falls, but with the slated removal of four dams, the Karuk hope the salmon will return.
Kathy McCovey, a Karuk tribal member, tosses black oak acorns to reseed her land in Happy Camp, California, after a wildfire destroyed her retirement home. A former U.S. Forest Service anthropologist, McCovey belongs to a Karuk team that sets controlled fires to reduce underbrush, the fuel for future fires. Last year California expanded the use of prescribed burns, an important victory for Native peoples.
As she grew up, Robbins watched U.S. fire suppression policies transform the forests around her into monocultures of Douglas fir that no longer sustained species important to the Yurok people. Particularly painful was the loss of new hazel shoots, essential to making baskets, caps, and, especially, cradles. Not wanting to see her grandchildren raised without Yurok cradles, she co-founded the Indigenous Peoples Burning Network, which teaches fire-setting techniques to maintain the landscape as her ancestors did.
Angela Ferguson [ of the Onondaga, who are one of the six nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy)], whose homelands are in what is now upstate New York and southern Ontarioworks with Indigenous colleagues to bring back varieties of corn nearly lost to colonization and industrialization. For Native people wanting to make a statement, she says, “the biggest protest you can make is to put one of your seeds in the ground.”
Corn was a staple of the Haudenosaunee diet, and Jimerson hopes the Iroquois White Corn Project at the Ganondagan State Historic Site in New York, where the Seneca had a town in the 17th century, will restore that role. Founded in the 1990s, the project hand-raises and hand-processes white corn. As a young Native American, Jimerson says they struggled in their early years but found their purpose working with their cultural heritage, learning patience, resourcefulness, gratitude, and mindfulness.
Katsi Tekatsi:tsia’kwa Cook embraces her grandson Karakwatiron during the corn harvest at her family farm in Akwesasne, New York. Raised in a prominent Mohawk (Kanien’kehá:ka) family, she became a midwife in the late 1970s and helped found the Birthing Centre of Six Nations Health Services in Ontario. By integrating traditional customs with modern protocols, she says, Indigenous midwifery plays a role in revitalizing Mohawk culture.
The Siksikaitsitapi have raised buffalo in Montana since the mid-1970s, but systematic restoration began there only in 2009 on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Today they have almost a thousand animals, and meat is available at the reservation grocery. But to buffalo program director Ervin Carlson, the larger goal is to re-create Siksikaitsitapi landscapes—ecosystems teeming with free-ranging buffalo.
Not the “oh Einstein was probably autistic” or the sanitized Helen Keller story. but this history disabled people have made and has been made for us.
Teach them about Carrie Buck, who was sterilized against her will, sued in 1927, and lost because “Three generations of imbeciles [were] enough.” (A decision which still has not been reversed)
Teach them about Judith Heumann and her associates, who in 1977, held the longest sit in a government building for the enactment of 504 protection passed three years earlier.
Teach them about all the Baby Does, newborns in 1980s who were born disabled and who doctors and parents left to die without treatment, who’s deaths lead to the passing of The Baby Doe amendment to the child abuse law in 1984.
Teach them about the deaf students at Gallaudet University, a liberal arts school for the deaf, who in 1988, protested the appointment of yet another hearing president and successfully elected I. King Jordan as their first deaf president.
Teach them about Jim Sinclair, who at the 1993 international Autism Conference stood and said “don’t mourn for us. We are alive. We are real. And we’re here waiting for you.”
Teach about the disability activists who laid down in front of buses for accessible transit in 1978, crawled up the steps of congress in 1990 for the ADA, and fight against police brutality, poverty, restricted access to medical care, and abuse today.
Teach about us.
Talk about Ed Roberts who partnered with the Black Panthers and gay rights activists in the sit-in for Section 504 at the Carter Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare office. Who had to force Berkeley College to let him put his iron lung in his dorm room. Who became the California’s Director of Rehabilitation when a previous director said he would never be able to hold a job.
Teach about Willowbrook Institution where kids with intellectual disabilities were deliberately infected with Hepatitis so that doctors could use them to study the disease. Where they exceeded their maximum capacity of 4000 residents by 2000, warehousing people in massive rooms. Where physical and sexual assault was absolutely rampant.
