#native peoples

@atlaculture wanna see a fish skin dress I snapped a photo of at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, Vancouver Canada?

If you zoom in you'll see it's from a people in what's Siberia, Russia today. It's salmon skin; light, durable, water repellent and the otherwise waste product of eating fish. But not warm enough for outdoor use so it's women's clothing. Apparently the vibrant primary color decorative trimming was added later or maybe it's the swirly bits, the blurb is not quite clear.

I own a fish skin coin pouch, one of the softest most supple things I've ever touched, so I can imagine what this outfit might have felt like brand new.

Needless to say it screamed Water Tribe at me.

Oh wow, these Inuit prints!!! Kenojuak Ashevak, Observant Owl; Kenojuak Ashevak, Throat Singers Gathering; Ningiukulu Teevee, Seasonal Migration; Sheelaky (artist) and Iyola Kingwatsiak (printer), Sea Spirit.

We also often face ridicule because for us, words are sacred. In our religion, words came before the universe. "The word is God for the Guarani. When we say something, God comes out through our mouths in small portions. People often insult someone when they don't speak, but the Guarani don't speak when they have nothing to say, because the word is sacred."

This is anti religion and indigemisia.

A partire dal 1894, il governo canadese costrinse i bambini indigeni a frequentare collegi segregati.

Le scuole furono progettate per "liberarsi del problema indiano"; la maggior parte erano gestite dalla chiesa cattolica.