December 2011
Top 25 Significant Queer Women of 2011 →
laborreguitamestiza:
angela davis is queer!? i did NOT know that!
Possible Postal Shutdown Threatens Fort Berthold... →
Dear ICT Editor:
The Mandaree post office serves over 800 tribal members residing throughout this very rural, isolated area of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in western North Dakota. Further, the Mandaree population is also increasing. However, the U.S. Postal Service wants to permanently close the Mandaree post office as a part of its’ national budget restructuring.
Some Mandaree...
Recalled to Life: You guys remember the puppy we... →
fuckyeahtattoos:
baaconnn:
This one:
Well, I took him to the vet yesterday. Got his first shots, looked for a microchip (none), and we were on our way. Last night though, he got sick a couple of times and then wouldn’t eat this morning so I took him back to the vet. She felt a…
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REBLOG:... i saw Pariah. →
heysoapie:
tionam:
Reblogging this from when i had the chance to see Pariah at the New Director/New Films fest at the Lincoln Center earlier this year in March. please support this film if it happens to be playing in your city or a city near you!!!
TAKE ACTION!
Here’s what YOU can do:
1) BUY movie tickets opening week! Bring your friends & family to watch PARIAH or buy tickets for...
tooyoungforthelivingdead asked: FYI, that state-sanctioned sexual assault story's like a year old, though undercover policing's still going strong in the UK :X
AAA 'Tipsy Tow' not available in MOST STATES on... →
tigersmilk:
The only states that are possibly offering the service from 6pm Saturday, December 31, 2011 ‘til 6am on Sunday, January 1, 2012 are Hawaii, Texas, New Mexico, Alabama and California.
nakkyy:
The #Lakota tag has been getting better. Not quite as many random wolves and shit…
thank goodness. The same can’t really be said of other Native/First Nations tags.
my plan is to try to tag as many native/first nations, lakota, and others to try to tag bomb out all the shitty stereotypical shit that shows up in those tags searches
Undercover police cleared 'to have sex with... →
jesuswasacommunist:
sanityscraps:
tellwiddit:
State-sanctioned rape by deception in the UK.
That’s fucking disgusting.
Wow.
this shit already happened in olympia. Undercover cops dated an activist just so that they could get information out of them (obs. while acting like an activist, not a cop).
Badlands Polaroid: no wiwayaka: Think I'm going to... →
I guess we’re commenting from the top down… i was confused for a s
*cough* gearing up *cough*
That sounds like a good idea. I prob. wouldn’t also be runner up (hah.. only Lakota I can speak is in the songs)
I’m an urban native.
Maybe I guess we should try to let as many native/first nations/metis/inuit folks know that we’re down to do this to get feed back and...
Think I'm going to nominate myself as Miss Native...
angelangheart:
adailyriot:
hahaha can we please have tumblr native royalty
… who ever wins it has to take a picture and everything… make a video speech lol
Let’s do it! or y’all scared to go against me?! mwahaha
so down!
how are we gonna decide this?
who wants in?!
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Watchresults of hair cutting adventures
does anyone have experience in cutting curly hair?
I need advice in how to give myself layers tonight. I can’t stand my hair being unlayered… and i’m not about to pay someone for it when I’ve got scissors at home
Alexis only has 7 days left and still needs to... →
fatpeopleofcolor:
laborreguitamestiza:
mylifeasafeminista:
As I’ve said, Alexis is one of my good friends, an incredibly talented woman, and a beautiful human being.
If she does not reach her goal of $9,000 dollars by next week, her project will not be funded and she will not get any of the money that has already been pledged.
Please, please, please, help her with this project! Your...
Liquor&Spice: North Carolina!! AN ELDER NEEDS OUR... →
blackamazon:
She needs “a bedroom for me and my stuff and my cat, some pain meds, and a line on a job.” She’s getting kicked out of her place by the first of the month, but she’s a real established organizer, a genius trans woman of color former graphic designer and in need of community support. She needs help ASAP andwants to avoid institutions and civil services that are hostile to her...
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Métis Stake Their Claim in the Supreme Court →
The Métis are anxiously awaiting a Supreme Court decision on a potentially precedent-setting land claim covering 1.4 million acres in Manitoba.
Almost deeper than the claim itself is the recognition that a ruling in the Métis’ favor would give to the aboriginal group’s role in the founding of the country, The Globe and Mail reports. The claimants are descended from the Métis rebel and hero...
Proud to be Lakota!
Think I'm going to nominate myself as Miss Native...
hahaha can we please have tumblr native royalty
… who ever wins it has to take a picture and everything… make a video speech lol
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Confronting the Past on the Anniversary of the... →
The title of David Satter’s new book about the history of the former Soviet Union might well apply to a pervasive American attitude toward United States history in relation to the indigenous peoples of the continent: “It Was a Long Time Ago and It Never Happened Anyway.” A review in Newsweek magazine describes the book as “a sweeping study of how the former Soviet Union’s bloody past continues...
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‘Most Teachers Don’t Know Who First Nations Are’ →
We all pay when Aboriginal kids aren’t given their best chance to learn. Second in a series.
[Editor’s note: Young Canadians of First Nations, Metis, or Inuit heritage face the bleakest outlook for employment, addiction and the risk of incarceration of any demographic in the country. A better education could change that. In this new Tyee Solutions Society Series, reporter Katie Hyslop...
Best Chicago Music Of 2011: Albums And Bands Worth... →
two of my friends’ bands made this
Netherfriends and Yourfeetstoobig
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The return to Wounded Knee →
The journey to Wounded Knee first occurred in the middle of winter 121 years ago. Melanie Kuntz first made the journey eight years ago.
Kuntz was 14 at the time and she really didn’t want to participate in a two-week horseback ride through the badlands during the coldest time of the year. She valued her Lakota heritage, but like most teenagers she was busy with school, sports and friends back...
“Nobody tells an actor, ‘you’re playing a strong-minded man.’ We assume that men...”
– Meryl Streep, on being told that she often plays “strong-minded women.”
(via andyouhavetogivethemhope)
#occupywallstreet: Occupy protester 'banned' from... →
occupywallstreet:
anticapitalist:
A member of the Occupy London protests was stopped from boarding his flight home for Christmas after he was found carrying anarchist literature, it has been claimed.
The demonstrator, who is part of the group occupying the empty UBS building dubbed the “Bank of Ideas”, said he was told he would not be allowed on the Ryanair flight to Malaga because the...
The Selchie Warrior: reindeer herding →
neetainari:
It’s really close to my heart since I effectively grew up in the reindeer herding culture of Western Inari area, but it’s also tied to a lot of negative stuff.
The stereotype that all Saami are reindeer herders (and its legislation in some places) was created to disenfranchise and harm the Saami peoples.
Also, (large-scale) reindeer herding effectively destroyed the deer hunting...