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“Untitled” 8”x10” Acrylic on stretched canvas For sale, DM me #twospirit #mohawktribe #akwesasne #indigenous #wolf #lgbtq #2slgbtqia #acrylicpainting #sunflower #paintingforsale (at Akwesasne Mohawk Territory) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpm2-rSuJL1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

📆👉🏽 📸 Save the date! Last year I took 2nd place in my decision with “Lucky Corn” and sold it that day! Truly blessed. Lesson I learned that day, stick with your authentic style. I didn’t think I would win honestly because of my style but the feedback was everyone loved how I incorporated bingo cards into the painting. It gave them a nostalgic vibe. Memories of playing with grandparents, aunties and uncles interlaced in the collage and paint. 😊 #twospirit #mohawktribe #akwesasne #akwesasneartist #akwesasneartshow #kaniekehaka #haudenosaunee #indigenousartists #juriedartshow (at St. Regis Mohawk Reservation) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpckoukOxaN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

🐺 ✨ 🌙 #saturdayselfie #twospirit #indigiqueer #indigenous #mohawktribe #lgbtqia #lgbtq #queer #leabian #tomboy #androgynous #dragking #drag #indigenousartist #oxnardlgbtq nativeartists (at Oxnard, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTsf-DAPMNX/?utm_medium=tumblr

#nativepride #mohawktribe #cherokee #ojibwe #myhairtellsastory This is my journey. I'm on my way to me, either join or gtfo of my way.

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@Regrann from @candicemuhammad - The Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the George Washington Bridge, the World Trade Center. For more than 120 years, six generations of Mohawk Indian #ironworkers, known for their ability to work high steel, have helped shape New York City's skyline. Each week, hundreds of Mohawks have commuted to #Manhattan from their reservation in Canada, framing the city's skyscrapers and bridges. In September 2001, after the fall of the Trade Center Towers, the sons and nephews of these men returned to the site to dismantle what their elders had helped to build. The story is part of the series Lost and Found Sound and the Sonic Memorial Project. The Mohawks of the sleepy little Caughnawaga (or Kahnawake) Reservation on the St. Lawrence River, just upstream from Montreal. In 1886, the Dominion Bridge Company arrived to build a railroad span across the river. In exchange for using some of their land, Dominion promised to hire Mohawks whenever it could. The Indians were given jobs as common laborers, which didn't interest them. What they liked to do was to climb out on the bridge. "It was quite impossible to keep them off," a bridge executive wrote years later. They walked the narrow beams high above the river as calmly as they walked the streets of their village. At the time, most bridge workers were veterans of great sailing ships, comfortable with working aloft. But the Mohawks pestered the bridge foreman until they were given some training in riveting and put to work. They immediately proved themselves to be what a company executive called "natural born bridgemen." Soon, the Mohawks were working on high bridges and buildings across Canada, and then in the United States. Even the collapse of the massive Quebec Bridge in 1907 that killed some three dozen of the Indians didn't dissuade them. To the contrary, the thrill of the danger of the work drew more Mohawks than before. By the 1930s, they were working 80 stories in the sky, assembling the steel skeletons of Rockefeller Center and The Empire State Building. Many took up residence in #Brooklyn, but they were famous for traveling thousands of miles for work.... #MohawkTribe#Ori

“I hold close the memories and stories my grandmother, who was full-blooded Indian, told me. She always told us, ‘Be proud of who you are. Never let anyone change it.’ She came from the Mohawk reservation in Hogansburg, New York. I would die today to let people know I’m Native American Indian. When I went in the military back in 1978 as a young kid I let everybody know I was a Native American Indian. But I also let them know I came from the United States and I was proud to be an American. Now, I don’t feel proud to be an American like I used to. It started when I left the military. I had the VA tell me the medicine I need to stop my blackouts cost too much. So I can give my life for them, but they can’t give me a medicine that will save mine. And so, I’m disappointed in our nation.” Ricky Gates served in the US military from 1978 - 1989. He has lived in upstate NY all his life, and is now retired. #homefrontfortdrum #FindingAmerica #militaryportraits #army #humansofthearmy #nativeamerican #nativeamericanveterans #veterans #veteranstories #military #mohawktribe #american (at Watertown, New York)