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BNSF Railway must pay nearly $400 million to the Swinomish Tribe in Washington state, a federal judge ordered Monday after finding that the company intentionally trespassed when it repeatedly ran 100-car trains carrying crude oil across the tribe’s reservation.
The route crosses sensitive marine ecosystems along the coast, over water that connects with the Salish Sea, where the tribe has treaty-protected rights to fish.
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Everyone else, BOOOOST and feel free to DM me stuff you'd like me to share that's #Indigenous related! It'd be super helpful if you'd stop using the #Native and #Indigenous tags... but I know y'all whites in particular love taking up space that ain't yours :blobfoxbreadsnootgoogly:
Went to an Indigenous event yesterday in San Francisco where they built a fire with volcanic rocks to make acorn mush. The guy doing it said it’s important to get these round, tumbled rocks and they usually come from east of the Sierras. They ran a very inclusive event yesterday where different Indigenous groups came and asked the Yelamu people for permission to come ashore (into the Bay). Everyone shared their songs and stories. I learned a lot.
Giving Two-Spirit people a safe place - Lakota couple opens Rapid City, S.D.’s first Indigenous Two-Spirit space
RAPID CITY, S.D. – Two women embraced each other on the north side of Rapid City surrounded by around 30 community members as they opened the city’s first Indigenous-led LGBTQIA+ center, Uniting Resilience, on Thursday, Feb. 29.
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#TwoSpirit people were the first targets of attempts to assimilate Native people into white culture because our identities were so incongruous with European values. Two Spirits represent the #Indigenous view of gender and sexuality-- one that is fluid, not fixed, not sex essentialist. #Queer people are essential to #Native communities.
With tornadoes and softball sized hail on the way, The Muscogee Nation Center for Victim Services hosted the MMIP Honor Walk on Monday, May 6.
This event allows our community to honor, remember and raise awareness for our Missing and Murdered Indigenous People not only within the Muscogee Nation Reservation but throughout Indian Country.
“Jim Thorpe showcased unparalleled athleticism and he transcended racial barriers…”
President Joe Biden recognized Native American athlete Jim Thorpe May 3, awarding the Olympian posthumously with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
It’s the highest civilian honour in the United States. Biden said he grew up hearing about Thorpe, “the greatest athlete of all time”, from his grandfather.
I need to make ~$800 for groceries, credit card bills, and cat expenses. I would super appreciate it if you could grab some beadwork from my store! Every sale helps 💗
please help my friend Evel! xen is #Indigenous, #trans, #disabled, exhausted, and has a family to support. xen is fundraising for their monthly bills and housing. anything helps! more monthly subscribers would really help xen's anxiety!
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Native/Indigenous artists always get ripped off
"Well-known artist fights back and wins against international appropriation of her designs
Sarah Agaton Howes was moved to tears describing the theft of her original artwork.
Howes couldn’t believe her eyes. Her original Ojibwe floral design had been reproduced in a number of prints for sale online and had even been included on the artist’s Facebook profile."
Eddie Aikau is a legend in Hawaii, and to surfers around the world. From the mid-60s to the mid-70s he rode the biggest waves at the most dangerous breaks. However, he was also a working-class hero, saving over 500 lives as a lifeguard on Oahu’s north shore, often swimming into 20–30-foot waves to do so. And in 1978, he tragically sacrificed his own life to save his shipwrecked comrades, as they held onto their capsized outrigger, miles from shore.
Eddie Ryon Makuahanai Aikau, born May 5, 1946, was an indigenous Hawaiian. He grew up at a time when locals were not allowed near the tourist hotels and beaches in Hawaii. Racism was rife and Hawaiian culture was suppressed. Like many Native Hawaiians, his family had lost their land when the Hawaiian kingdom was overthrown in the 1890s by mainland business leaders known as the “Committee of Safety.” His family lived on a Chinese graveyard, which they cared for in exchange for free rent. Eddie left school at the age of 16 to work at the Dole pineapple cannery to help support his family.
In 1972, he was invited to participate in a surf contest in Durban, South Africa. He was supposed to meet fellow Hawaiian surfers Bill Hamilton and Jeff Hakman at a hotel (both haoles or European-descended), but management refused to allow him entrance because of his dark skin color. The racism infuriated him. But the experience inspired him to fight harder against the prejudice Native Hawaiians experienced at home.
In the mid-1970s, the “Free Ride” generation of Australian surfers began making a name for themselves on the North Shore of Oahu. They were talented, but also arrogant, and disrespectful of the locals. This hit the Native Hawaiian surfers particularly hard, in light of the years they were denied access to their own beaches and contests, and the continued racism they experienced.
Da Hui, a gang of local enforcers, formed in response. They beat up Australian surfer Rabbit Bartholomew, knocking out several of his teeth. They supposedly made death threats against other Aussies. Ian Cairns began traveling with a loaded shotgun. Some of Australians barricaded themselves in their hotel rooms.
Eddie Aikau stepped in, forming a ho’oponopono (traditional Hawaiian parlay) at the Turtle Bay Hotel, which served as a tribunal to resolve the conflict and the racism. The resolution included apologies by the Aussie surfers, and acknowledgement of the injustices and racism that persisted against Native Hawaiians. And it also led to a growing awareness in professional surfing of the indigenous roots of the sport and acknowledgement of the indigenous inhabitants of the regions where its contests are held. Today, professional surfers are identified by their national citizenship, except for those from Hawaii, who are identified as Hawaiians.
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:sharesloved: (44% of 700USD goal)
We are a small #disabled#trans#autistic mostly #Native poor af family, doing our best to survive maknig cool stuff! And you can help by supporting us!