BIA Livestock Impoundment crews are confiscating sheep, goats, horses, cattle belonging to the Dine People of Big Mountain/Black Mesa, Arizona right now. Human rights violations against traditional Dine (Navajo) taking away one of their major food sources as well as wool essential to their livelihood.
Please flood the office of Robert Carolin and tell him the elders need to eat during the winter and these confiscations are WRONG! Slow motion genocide in action. This must be stopped!
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Mae Tso, Bessie Begay and Pauline Whitesinger are those whose names i have been given who are being impacted. We can’t let them get away with this!
Hopi Agency
Bureau of Indian Affairs
P.O. Box 158
Keams Canyon, AZ 86034
P: 928/738-2228
F: 928/738-5522
Robert Carolin
a piquant blend of cats, foxes, dolls, beautiful people and whatever else may tickle my fancy.
“Tom Torlino, Navajo, before and after.” Photograph by John N. Choate ca. 1882.
Source: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University
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I think I’m going to make a continuing series about traditional native crafts here.
One of the things we keep seeing is this whole “Navajo inspired” fashion nonsense. This is a video about Sadie Curtis, a Navajo woman who creates actual Navajo weaving starting from the sheep.
A young Diné woman from Arizona, facing a police riot squad with nothing but a drum back in December at the Shut Down ALEC! protest.
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The Root: Black, Red and Proud
Radmilla Cody’s crowning as Miss Navajo Nation in 1997 triggered an outcry and a conversation about what it means to be Native American. Now she’s featured in a museum exhibit showing the rarely told history of African-Native Americans.
Cynthia Gordy | February 22, 2011
Radmilla Cody’s crowning as Miss Navajo Nation in 1997 triggered an outcry and a conversation about what it means to be Native American. Now she’s featured in a museum exhibit showing the rarely told history of African-Native Americans.
In a 1920 edition of the Journal of Negro History, Carter G. Woodson observed, “One of the longest unwritten chapters in the history of the United States is that treating of the relations of the Negroes and the Indians.”
“Red/Black: Related Through History,” a new exhibit at Indianapolis’ Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, illuminates this rarely told story. Since the first arrival of enslaved Africans in North America, the relationships between African Americans and Native Americans have encompassed alliances and adversaries, as well as the indivisible blending of customs and culture.
“It’s not received a lot of attention because it’s not the dominant culture’s story, although it’s very important to the dominant culture’s bigger view of the past,” says James Nottage, curator of the exhibit, which includes narratives of enslaved blacks who traveled the Trail of Tears with their Native owners; slaves who intermarried into Native tribes as an escape from bondage; and the largely African-featured members of the Shinnecock tribe of New York, as well as shared traditions in food, dress and music.
Radmilla Cody, 35, a Native American Music Award-winning singer and anti-do
mestic violence activist, is also featured in the exhibit. The daughter of a Navajo mother and an African-American father, Cody was raised by her grandmother in the Arizona Navajo community, initially speaking only the Navajo language. In 1997 she was crowned Miss Navajo Nation, sparking controversy from some members who refused to accept her.
As one disapproving letter to the editor of the Navajo Times put it, “Miss Cody’s appearance and physical characteristics are clearly black, and thus are representative of another race of people. It appears that those judges who selected Miss Cody have problems with their own sense of identity.”
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Navajo boy telling a story in Navajo - So cute!
The NativeAmericanTagHallofShame is back up.
This is a new, fresh start. Though the tumblr was down this morning, the NATHoS is back up and running. There is a new layout, so those of you having issues with the last one will not have that again. The list of resources are back up and a few more have been added to deal specifically with dream catchers.
The Native American Tag Hall of Shame seeks to act as a resource guide and educational tool for the tumblr community and general internet community. If you have found your image reblogged here, please realize that whether you know it or not, it is offensive. We, the tumblr native community, understand that because of the institutionalized racism in America and Canada, you may not be aware of the fact that the images and other material reblogged here is culturally appropriation and perpetuating racist stereotypes. You may not have even come across the terms cultural appropriation and institutionalized racism before. However, this is your time to learn.
Understand that we don’t want to fight with you. We would much rather have you as our friends and allies. However, you need to understand that your idea of who we are is incorrect. Studies have shown that 95% of what students know about American Indians was acquired through the media. This is a disturbing fact when you recognize that 90% of the representations in the media, in books, and online are false, skewed, and often racist stereotypes of us, our cultures, and our spiritualities.
Please understand also, that even if you do hold native american ancestry, this does not mean that you are exempt from being called out. You should now better, if you are connected to your tribal or pan-indian community, that if you are dressing up as a racist-stereotypical-caricature that that isn’t right.
Due to the lack of accurate representations, information, and education the Native American Tag Hall of Shame will be listing resources for you to help self educate yourself and decolonize your mind.
Before I send you to the list, I will satirically tell you in the tradition of the (blasted) “Two Wolves” story:
A wise person sat with an ignorant person and said “You can bring a horse to water, but you can not make it drink.” The ignorant person looked at the wise person perplexed, and the wise person said, “Will you drink the water?”
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ALERT: JUST RECEIVED WORD THAT
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As many of you don’t know my father is half native american (Navajo), which in turn makes me a quarter native american.
A lot of Navajo indians were polynesian to my best knowledge, making their ancestry and my ancestry the same motherfuckers.
Tonight I went to a Maori hotel and shared with them their traditional food, dance and blessings and it was pretty intense. Had a good night, nice friendly people although a lot of maori were cannibals.I had to reblog this
will some Navajo people on here please talk to this person?
What…the…?
Everything is hand made except for the dolls themselves by my brother. I thought they were so cute!
Trophy’s made for a pageant. The moccs are real leather & the concho belt is real silver.
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Pepper Ann: “Dances with Ignorance”
got this from feministdisney’s Q&A
“Pepper Ann was incredibly, well, racist, but the show “taught” her the right way/what she was doing wrong and why it was wrong, pretty well. It would probably be pretty instructive for a lot of the people on tumblr claiming to “honor” native americans by dressing up as them etc.”
THIS IS KIND OF AMAZING.
“THIS GIRL NEEDS HELP MORE THAN THE DONNER PARTY NEEDED A COMPASS & HOT PIZZA!” XD
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Navajo Nation Takes on Urban Outfitters and Wins
Urban Outfitters appears to have caved to the Navajo Nation.
As of Wednesday, the trendy chain store had removed the word “Navajo” from the description of about 20 items on its website, including the “Navajo flask” and the “Navajo Hipster Panty.”
Other items that bore the Navajo moniker include a pair of “Navajo” socks, a “Navajo” print tunic, and “Navajo” feathered earrings.
Urban Outfitters has replaced the word “Navajo” with “printed.”
This is a coup for the Navajo Nation, which sent Urban Outfitters’ chief executive, Glen Senk, a cease and desist order earlier this month, demanding the name “Navajo” be pulled from the store’s products. The tribe did not take issue with the items themselves — designers borrow (steal?) from indigenous cultures all the time. But the Navajo nation has at least 10 trademarks on the word “Navajo,” which covers clothing, textiles and household products.
“When products that have absolutely no connection to the Navajo Nation, its entities, its people, and their products are marketed and retailed under the guise that they are Navajo in origin, the Navajo Nation does not regard this as benign or trivial,” Brian Lewis, an attorney for the tribe told the Associated Press. “It takes appropriate action to maintain distinctiveness and clarity of valid name association in the market and society.”
Ed Looram, a spokesman for Urban Outfitters, had defended the company’s use of the word “Navajo” to describe its items.
“Like many other fashion brands, we interpret trends and will continue to do so for years to come,” he said, according to the AP. “The Native American-inspired trend and specifically the term ‘Navajo’ have been cycling through fashion, fine art and design for the last few years.”
(excerpt from LA Times)
HA. YOU LOSE, URBAN OUTFITTERS.
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