#native life

American Bison or Buffalo at the former Rocky Mountain Arsenal 

JUSTICE FOR REGIS KORCHINSKI-PAQUET!

An Afro-indigenous woman who died after police entered her apartment.

She was having a mental health crisis, and her mom called the police to take her to CAMH (Canadian center for addiction and mental health) and she ended up dead. How the fuck did this happen? Regis went into the apartment to go to the bathroom and a few police officers followed her inside. The family wasn’t there, but they heard her cry out “mom help,” three times before being found outside of her 24th story apartment, having allegedly committed suicide.

BLACK LIVE MATTER NO ASTERISK- this includes natives✊🏾

For the International Day of the Worlds’ Indigenous Peoples, I’m interrupting our regularly scheduled content to spam y’all with my favorite indigenous music all day today.

I hope you were looking for some Inuit throat singing today ‘cause our girl Tanya is BRINGING IT.

[seen @ MOSTRA ITAÚ CULTURAL 30 ANOS DE CINEMA BRASILEIRO, Curitiba - PR, Brasil]

Sometimes I catch myself thinking that all this is just a cover. Not a mask, this sense of hiding, but like a gray, furry, heavy cover. A warm and cozy blanket, but as cruel as can be. Technology, modern life, rush. I don't believe it is bad, as I love being surrounded with aid, and thank God that I was born in an age where I can carry an encyclopedia in a tiny memory card and I won't die if I get a cold. But sometimes... oh sometimes it all seems so unconnected, so unliked to the eternal. I believe we are not able to say humankind is in harmony with Nature, for quite a long time actually. And so to watch a brazilian native be removed froom the root, from the very bosom of ignorance, and be put as a funny souvenir in the "civilized white world (and I thoroughly despize this pejorative sense in "civilized" and "white") is actually painful. He seemed to the curious like a child, and then bored like the rest of us. Was it the right thing to do? And then, to bring him back to his tribe, was it the right thing to do? I don't know. I don't think any of us should have the answer. And maybe that's ok, for now.

Serras da Desordem

Dir.: Andrea Tonacci

Brazil, 2016