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
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“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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Navajo boy telling a story in Navajo - So cute!
ALERT: JUST RECEIVED WORD THAT
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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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