#indeginous

English translation below/ traducción al inglés a continuación

 Quiero decir que ahora más que nuca estoy muy orgulloso ser chicana y una persona en la comunidad latina. Estoy orgulloso de nuestra historia, capacidad de recuperación, nuestra unidad, y nuestra diversidad. Somos más fuertes junto y espero que todas la personas en está comunidad saber que no estamos solos. 

Estoy a kilómetros de donde nací, y a una distancia dolorosa de mi familia, pero estos recordatorios ya sea en mi primer idioma o inglés me ayudan a recordar que soy chicana, incluso después de ser adoptada por personas fuera de mi familia, mi cultura y raza, mi identidad y mis raíces no han cambiado. Todavía soy mi nieta de las abuelas, aunque me llevaron lejos. Todavía soy la hermana pequeña de mis hermanos y todavía soy la niña que amaba el océano más que nada y que aprendió español como el idioma de mi familia y todavía lo veo como mi lengua materna.

Esta mesaje es para todos nostros Porque a pesar de lo lejos que estamos de casa, los idiomas que conocemos o usamos a diario y el color de nuestra piel pertenecemos.Estamos escribiendo las historias que las generaciones futrue aprenderán de corazón, y estamos cambiando la narrativa sobre nuestra cultura, o gente y quiénes somos y nos convertiremos.

Con esto dicho por favor sepan que son fuertes, que pertenecen y que son un ejemplo vivo de la resiliencia y grandeza dentro de todos nosotros. Esté orgulloso de su historia, esté orgulloso de su cultura, esté orgulloso de su viaje y sobre todo esté orgulloso de lo que usted es.

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! I want to say the now more than ever I am incredibly happy to be Mexican (among other hispanic nationalities) and a person in the Latinx community. I am proud of our history, our resilience, unity and diversity. We are stronger together and I hope everyone in this community knows that they are not alone.

I am miles from home and a a painful distance away from my birth family, but reminders like this in my first language or in English help to remind me that I am Chicana, even after being adopted by people outside my culture and my race, that my identity and my roots have not changed. I am still my grandmothers daughter, though I was taken away. I am still my brothers’ baby sister and I am still the little girl who loved the ocean more than anything and who learned Spanish as the language of my family and I still view it as my mother tongue.

This message is for all of us. Because no matter how far we are from home, the languages we know or use daily, or the color of our skin, we belong. We are writing the stories that furture generation will learn by heart, and changing the narrative about our culture, who we are and who we will become.

I want everyone to watch this video by The Serfs titled “The HORRIFYING treatment of Indigenous Canadians (215 children found buried by Residential School)”

The problem Canada has is because the U.S and Canada are so tightly nit, the U.S media is a big distractor from it’s internal problems. It’s incredibly easy to see Canada as this great place full of “nice people”, and the conversation stops there, so we don’t learn about these kinds of things.

The reality is Canada has it’s fair share of horrors, particularly when it comes to its treatment of Indigenous people. This video heavily focuses on the residential school system, which didn’t completely end until 1996. The residential school system was the Canadian governments “solution” to the “Indian Problem”, where they would rip Indigenous kids away from their families and essentially torture them until they gave up their language, their culture, their names, etc, all to make them “more canadian” (i.e more white). The kids suffered psychological, sexual, and physical abuse. Thousands of kids died in these schools due to a number of reasons (suicide, killed by their teachers, malnutrition, etc), which were covered up and hidden from the families. 

Today, Indigenous people are in many ways second class citizens in Canada. The reserves 40% of Indigenous people live in are maintained as ghettos, and the psychological trauma caused by both the PTSD from the residential schools and by the fact that their many different cultures were largely wiped out, leaves the communities rife with poverty, substance abuse, disproportionate criminality (and unfair treatment by the criminal justice system), and an easy target for sex traffickers. 

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Hi! I can try my best!

As far as I know, just normal braids..!

These are the best examples me and my friend could gather, I’d say they’re pretty accurate but that’s just me..!

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PAN-AMERIKAN NATIVE FRONT

[Tecumseh’s War, Black Metal, United States, GoatowaRex, 2016]

So, I’ve been writing a fantasy YA type book for some time and what I want to do is incorporate a group of people or a race that is basically Native American/ Indigenous. I’m doing more research into cultural beliefs and traditions, but as a white person it’s not my place to decide what could be offensive to others. 

Basically, in this fantasy world, this race is called Mountain Natives, or Spiritual Native. In the world there are gods and goddesses, and they praise the goddess of nature and creation. They live away from the current civilization and govern themselves in different tribes. They are closely connected with both nature and the spiritual world. In this world there are also Fae, who have magic abilities, and I want to incorporate these elemental abilities into the race as in power to manipulate and control water, earth, and wind. 

I want to have this race mimic the culture of Indigenous people as closely as possible, but here is my problem. Basically in the book there’s a tyrant who is so focused on having unmatched power that she has enslaved and killed and burned many magic creatures such as the fae, witches, nymphs, sirens, etc. Since this race has magic abilities, they would be apart of it, and would eventually revolt against the Empire alongside others. But because of how powerful they are, they would be this tyrants main target and greatly impacted by enslavement and murder and taking of their lands. 

This is of course terrible and it will be painted as such in the story. But before writing about any of it, I wanted to make sure people who are actually apart of Native American or indigenous culture or descent do not find it offensive or degrading, because it is not my place to decide what is and what is not.