blarg.

Native people will share: our food, our music, our dancing, our art.

Taboo #noDAPL protest music (Native Hip Hop):

Supaman (Prayer loop song, Rap)

Music!

Snotty Nosed Rez Kids (”I Remember My Name” Native hip-hop)

Frank Waln (”Wokiksuye” Rap)

JB the First Lady (”The Most Unprotected Girl” R&B)

Clothes! There’s also a lot of Native designers doing amazing work blending old and new styles. These are two of my favorites

OXDX Clothing - Diné

John Isaiah Pepion - Blackfeet

Food! There’s a been a major resurgence of interest in indigenous foods lead by Native chefs, many of whom are on youtube!

The Alaska Native Health Consortium runs a great channel

Sean Sherman - maybe one of the most famous Native chefs. There’s a great little video on him here and his website is here!

Dance! This one is a little trickier because no, you, non-Native person absolutely should not dance at the powwows unless it’s an open dance AND you’ve been invited to do so. (And if you have, please don’t do the white hippie dance. Please.) However, you can and absolute come out and support the circuit & the dancers. Some of my favorite dancers/competitions:

O.B. (Ohh Bizz) who mostly does grass dancing. (Yeah, I know he hasn’t updated in forever. the #NoDAPL protests derailed a lot of people’s lives.) He’s a lot of fun to watch and a complete sweetheart.

Rocky Boy 2018

FNUC Powwow 2019 (also, yes, the announcer is pretty much typical for a powwow. You want a person who can roast literally everyone in a 10 mile radius? A powwow announcer can do that.)

[Ducktales theme plays] Rattail! Woo ooh!

desktop version:

While I have no issue with tumblr trying out new website functions, this one is confounding to me? Less that it exists and more why it exists. In many of the above wordings, it takes the same keyword and ‘translates’ it into the same pictogram, such as ‘b. a .b .y’ or ‘c. h. i. l. d’ (spaced for legibility), or l.a.u.g.h and l.m.a.o. As far as I can see, it adds nothing of value to the post, often decreases legibility, and if anyone uses some of these extremely common keywords in a post they want to discuss a serious topic with it’s going to infantalise that conversation. Not to mention the living hell this will cause for screen readers. It even does it with the start of a word- for instance s.h.o.e.l.a.c.e. Is this a function that can be toggled? 

For anyone like myself who had no idea what was causing this, it’s in tumblr labs and it’s called ‘emojify’. I presumed the toggle would allow you to view emojis in desktop mode when they had been placed by a user on a mobile rather than showing a box.