"Our children are thirsty for knowledge. If we don’t give them something to drink they will drink something else."

custerdiedforyoursins:

Statistics on sexual assault and suicide in Native communities aren’t something that you should flippantly throw around. Not to win an argument. Not even if you’re Native. Not even if you think you’re being supportive.
Those are real problems that certain communities actually, truly face. It’s really painful and infuriating to see them thrown around as some sort of gotcha in an internet argument.
I guess the same could be said for other issues that hit Native communities especially hard.

clockwork-parallels asked: I'm curious to see if you include Native Hawaiians in your idea of indigenous peoples, and would subsequently be included in your indigenous list, seeing as it /is/ rather Americas-centric.

Of course! Any indigenous people. Most of the people on the list are from the Americas, but not everyone! Included are some people who are Saami and Scottish Gael, Chamorro, Amazigh, Tuareg, Gnawi, and Romani.

Just send me another ask with exactly what you want included beside your name. :)

mylittlehyena:

So the RunWithTheTribe feature and comment thread has officially become a shit show.  I held my ground, but when met with “Maybe the ‘other’ native shops you are talking about simply are not good enough to be featured? :)” it’s time to leave the “conversation”.  It’s clear the shop owner or the commentor Lena do not mind being ignorant vultures. 

If anyone else wants to keep going you can click through the shop name above.

Everyone go gawk at the fuckfaces on etsy.

After browsing through the stat counter I have on this tumblr (and seeing some really horrific google searches bringing people here and a few other unsettling things) and remembering some stuff I’ve written and no longer agree with - I’m going through and deleting a lot of posts.

I see that any mention of blood quantum on here has a billion university hits and am really uncomfortable by that. I know a lot of people on tumblr browse through the internet their university provides and do so harmlessly, but I’m sure you can see how it still makes me uncomfortable, mainly because I’m paranoid. I also hate seeing people trawl through all my posts looking for any secrets I may have spilled about my culture or another tribe’s culture. The amount of searches for specific items by various tribes is ridiculous. Specific item that shows up more than any other: “Mohawk cradleboards”. So, all of those landing pages are getting deleted.

I’m so fucking irritated that people are googling shit like “native american indian girls on tumblr” “american indian squaw breed” and “native american women boobs”. I am so happy that I reblogged an amazing post by a Native woman on here about the sexualization of Native women and the harm that it does, and that these pervs keep landing there no matter how they phrase their searches.

I think I may be coming back to this tumblr soon. I am going to keep my personal posts on my other tumblr and use this for everything else.

Anonymous asked: I'm wondering what you think of responses to female appropriation of feather headdresses in contemporary fashion, along the lines of mycultureisnotatrend's: "Unfortunately if you’re a woman, you’re thumbing your nose at our culture which explicitly disallows you to wear the headdress." Do we have to excuse the sexism in the name of culture? Can't both be bad? I think we can do better.

You are trying to view a single part of a few tribes’ culture through the lens of western feminism. It doesn’t work like that. There were also women’s headdresses that men don’t wear. If you want to know more about this, there are plenty of resources out there on tumblr. You aren’t the first person to think out this kind of “ah ha, gotcha” response to being told you can’t wear a headdress.

Anonymous asked: tamil books

I don’t have any suggestions for books written in Tamil. I’m not entirely sure why you would ask me.

Thank you everyone for the suggestions. I’ll make a list and give all of this to them tomorrow.

This blog is going on a long hiatus.