Last weekend, Last year, I was in Timmins, ON dancing at Northern College pow wow. Monday afternoon, last year, after the pow wow my ex hu?b**d came and got me & took back to Wawa, ON to his house. The next day, he drove me back to Netmizaaggamig Nishnaabe Pic Mobert, ON my home.
How time flies....
Experience from then to now. I did it...... I did it. Now image next year.
#anishnaabe #ojibwe #smallbusiness #entrepreneur #nativebusiness #indigenouspeoples #indigenousrights
Chi Miigwetch
100% Anishinaabe Ojibwe Made.
Bundle Bags for SALE
$50.00 now.
Pow wow season coming prices will rise. @highlight and I'm taking a week off....
Custom made mini art zine, printed. This was so much fun.
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I am an Indigiqueer, Occult, and Indie poet who explores themes such as identity, rebellion, liberation, and transformation through my creative work.
If you are an outcast, a scapegoat, or someone who finds poetry within the margins, you are not alone!
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Happy heavenly birthday Daddy
I love & I miss you, wish you were here to see me. I'm working hard, imma still trying, imma still believing & somehow following faith.
My father Felix & his mother, my grandmother Charlotte.
Ozaawindib forever and always.
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They collaborate on projects that “foster the well-being of our members and uplift our communities.” Their mission is rooted in an Indigenous business model that embraces a healthy, supportive, and community-centered approach.”
In other news, I've confirmed DNA connections to my ancestors from the #WhiteCraneClan of the #Ojibwe / #Anishinaabe people. I'll be applying for #Metis membership because it does mean something to me. And I want to support the local Metis #PowWows and members of other tribes who have accepted me even before I confirmed my heritage.
In other news, I've managed to confirm my connection to the White Crane Clan of the #Ojibwe / #Anishinaabe both genealogically and through DNA, and I might also be connected with the Bear Clan. I'll be sending my genealogical materials to #Métis of #Maine soon. I hope to become a member before 2025 #PowWow season begins.
#Ojibwe sister-friend / #Indigenous comrade, Silena, doing some traditional #JingleDancing as part of remote healing ceremonies at our past landback camp (only Indigenous & #POCactivists at that resistance camp).
Learn more about Indigenous jingle dance & why it's important to native culture:
https://www.powwows.com/jingle-dress-dance/
Two of the #Indigenous ribbon skirt #instructors from #SNIWWOC event. #BIPOC womens' weekend cultural learning & sharing workshop.
They're #cousins.
Waubshki-Migisi / Elaine Kwandibens (in blue)
Eliaine is from the #Anishiinabek community of #WhitesandFirstNation in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. Indigenous beader & textile crafts specialist.
https://www.loonsturgeon.ca/
Kristina Netemegesic is #Ojibwe #Anishinaabe & also connected to the #Tsawwassen #FirstNation. She's a student support worker at SNIWWOC & moving to Victoria next year to start school at Camosun College. Kristina is an Indigenous #beader & sewer. She's been beading since age 6.
https://anishnaabeads.etsy.com
#PeggyFlanagan wearing beaded earrings and a #ProtectTransKids shirt
Via The #NewRepublic @ 12:04am EDT on Aug 06, 2024
Should #Harris and #Walz win in November, prompting Walz to step down from the governorship, Lieutenant Governor #PeggyFlanagan, a citizen of the #WhiteEarthBand of #Ojibwe, would take his place. That means that Flanagan would become the first #NativeAmerican #woman to serve as a U.S. governor, as well as #Minnesota’s first female governor
Here is another great thing: when Harris and Walz win, Minnesota will get a new Governor, and it will be the first Ojibwe Governor, and Minnesota's first Woman Governor.
https://19thnews.org/2024/08/peggy-flanagan-could-replace-tim-walz-minnesota-governor/
Biography: Winona LaDuke
"#WinonaLaDuke, a #NativeAmerican #activist, economist, and author, has devoted her life to advocating for #Indigenous control of their homelands, natural resources, and cultural practices. She combines economic and #environmental approaches in her efforts to create a thriving and sustainable community for her own White Earth reservation and Indigenous populations across the country.
"Winona LaDuke was born in Los Angeles, California on August 18, 1959 to parents Vincent and Betty (Bernstein) LaDuke. Her father, also known as #SunBear, was #Anishinaabe (or #Ojibwe) from the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. He was an actor, writer, and activist. Her mother was an artist and activist. LaDuke is an #Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band #Anishinaabeg. Her father brought her to powwows and other tribal functions, events that made a deep impression on the young LaDuke. LaDuke’s parents divorced when she was five and she moved with her mother, who was of Russian Jewish descent, to Ashland, Oregon. LaDuke visited #WhiteEarth frequently and, at her mother’s encouragement, spent summers living in Native communities in order to strengthen her connection with her heritage.
"LaDuke attended Harvard University and graduated in 1982 with a degree in rural economic development. While at Harvard, LaDuke’s interest in Native issues grew. She spent a summer working on a campaign to stop uranium mining on Navajo land in Nevada, and testified before the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland about the exploitation of Indian lands.
"After Harvard, LaDuke took a position as principal of the reservation high school at the White Earth Ojibwe reservation in Minnesota. She soon became involved in a lawsuit filed by the Anishinaabeg people to recover lands promised to them by an 1867 federal treaty. At the time of the treaty, the White Earth Reservation included 837,000 acres, but government policies allowed lumber companies and other non-Native groups to take over more than 90 percent of the land by 1934. After four years of litigation, however, the lawsuit was dismissed.
"The lawsuit’s failure motivated LaDuke’s ensuing efforts to protect Native lands. In 1985, she helped establish and co-chaired the #IndigenousWomensNetwork (#IWN), a coalition of 400 Native women activists and groups dedicated to bolstering the visibility of Native women and empowering them to take active roles in tribal politics and culture. The coalition strives both to preserve Indigenous religious and cultural practices and to recover Indigenous lands and conserve their natural resources."
Read more:
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/winona-laduke
5 #TwoSpirit Heroes Who Paved the Way for Today's #NativeAmerican #LGBTQ+ Community
by Samuel White Swan-Perkins
Nov 20, 2018
"In the 1990s, Indian Country (as we called it) was a very different place for #NativeAmericans. Our rural communities were isolated, with communication limited to landlines and the mail.
"Cigarette and beer companies frequently sponsored our powwows, recycling was unheard of, and the entire Native scene portrayed itself as very straight. Not straight-laced, per se, but really #hetero.
"The term 'Two Spirit' for LGBTQ+ Native Americans didn’t exist yet, at least not outside #Ojibwe Territory. As for the concept—let’s just say that there were plenty of MCs making #winkte (gay) jokes at the powwows I attended in the early ’90s. Still, in spite of prejudice, it was common knowledge that in 'the old days,' most of our Nations accepted and honored #GenderFluidity.
"I recall one of my elders sharing about a man from home who was that way. 'I don’t like it,' I remember her telling me as she braided me up for one of our dances, 'but we love N. and so—not my way, mind you.' I don’t recall the rest of the conversation, but I understood her comments to mean that winkte was not OK.
"Fast forward a couple of decades, and wow.
"Not only did the Native-American population skyrocket in North America, but we’ve gone through a major shift in how Two Spirits are recognized and treated. Today, dozens of Two Spirit organizations exist across the United States and Canada (North Valley Two Spirits, represent!). We have several of our own powwows, 501c3s and models that help sustain and preserve the Two Spirit way of life.
"To get a sense of where we are today, let’s take a look back at some of the original Two-Spirit heroes who helped light the way."
#Ojibwe #horses #PleistoceneDisconinuity #extinction
"There isn’t any hard evidence of the Ojibwe pony being present in North America before then, says Texas A&M University equine geneticist Gus Cothran, who has studied Ojibwe pony genetics for more than two decades. 'Pre-Columbian horses, as far as we can see, don’t exist.'
Still, there are many people who stand by origin stories learned from their elders. 'The old story that’s been passed on in Ojibwe language is that the horse has always been here,' says Wise. The ponies are said to have braved the Ice Age with their unique adaptations and independence from humans, feeding on twigs and bark, like deer."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/return-of-the-ojibwe-pony-the-midwests-native-horse
