#pasifika

i'd say to pay for a tohunga tā moko (moko artist) for a design if you literally cannot keep your hands off of it but in reality? please don't. you still have to draw the moko every single time and you are gonna mess it up. ESPECIALLY FACE MOKO. THOSE ARE SO SACRED STOP DRAWING THEM

i have a set design for my character's moko that i essentially take hours setting up to trace every time i draw ia and even my character having tā moko is iffy culturally as a tohunga tā moko didn't create it! it's one thing to simply create kōwhaiwhai, it's another altogether to depict tā moko. i plan to pay a moko artist to design moko for my oc eventually as well.

just, don't please? it's contentious and you are going to mess it up and look stupid at best.

With a bloody mouth and broken hands

I can’t speak your language

I don’t know my own peoples dances food songs art etc

I don’t know my culture traditions and customs

My mind and my mouth can’t understand

Even if my heart and soul does

They made sure of that

With those haole sanctioned schools,”

No’eau Hoata/Heiani Hoata

Excerpt from my spoken word poetry anthology books about bipoc qtipoc and disabled native issues. It’s about being a disabled native, a displaced disconnected state side diaspora, being an Asian Native, a child of a transracial adoptee, & about being a QTIPOC queer and trans third gender Indigenous person of color.

More of the art of the spoken word poetry anthology books about bipoc qtipoc and disabled native issues is linked into the bio and pinned on my native intros for social media The rest of the cut and uncut versions can be found there

"If we held a moment of silence For every child who died in a residential school. We would be silent for 134 years." "No matter what the numbers are." "There arent supposed to be graveyards at schools." Ever."

Klanada always talks about truth and reconciliation for some fucking reason.

“There are at least 973 American Indian, Alaska Arctic Native, and Native Hawaiian and Indigenous other Pasifika children died while attending schools in the system. The Department acknowledges that the actual number of children who died while attending Indian boarding schools is likely greater.” “The investigation also confirms that there are at least 74 marked or unmarked burial sites at 65 of the schools. One initiative proposed in the report is to identify and repatriate the remains of children who never returned home from the schools.”

Remember that there is what we call haole sanctioned schools in Pasifika Oceania Where they beat you for speaking your Indigenous te reo, praying to your gods goddesses and demigods, or practicing any facet of your Indigenous Pasifika culture It was a facet of cultural genocide in our island homes

There is a reason why many of our ancestors elders and kin cant speak our te reo Indigenous lingua franca Or spoke in in hush quiet behind close doors out of fear of being beaten again Or in shame The fucking settler state engineered it this way

Does Oceania Pasifika Have a separate day for our Haole sanctioned schools they built in Moana? Or is it also included in September 30th?

Since their first arrival in the new world a number of religious entities began the project of converting Indigenous Peoples to Christianity. This undertaking grew in structure and purpose, especially between 1831 and 1969.When the governing officials of Canada joined with monotheistic churches to create and operate the residential school system.

"In the 40s and 50s the Canadian Department of Pensions and National Health performed nutritional experiments on already malnourished Indigenous children in residential schools. The information was later used to create Canada’s food guide." Everything in Klanada begins with settler violence

On September 30th many people across Klanata Turtle Island wear bright orange t-shirts to honour and raise awareness of the thousands of Indigenous children who were sent to residential and boarding schools.

Children were forced from their homes, endured horrific torture, subjected to deliberate suppression of their cultures and languages. Many never returned to their families.

On Orange Shirt Day, we also remember the Survivors of these institutions and the long-standing effects on generations of First Nations, Métis, Native Hawaiian and other Indigenous Pasifika, and Inuit and other Arctic Native Peoples.

Why orange

“When Phyllis Webstad was a little girl, she was forced to attend a residential school in Williams Lake, British Columbia. On the first day of school, she proudly wore an orange shirt her grandmother had given her. The residential school staff stripped her of her belongings, cut her hair, and took away her clothes, including her orange shirt.” Phyllis is one of the thousands of children between the ages of four to 16 who attended residential schools in Canada between the 1830s and 1996.

The schools were operated by the Canadian government and church organizations with an aim to eliminate Indigenous languages, cultures, and practices. A deliberate act of colonialism and assimilation.

Fuck Amerikkka Fuck Kkklanada and Fuck yt Australia also Death to ALL settler states

“We were children.” “Roman Catholic church in downtown Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The graffiti was done on the same day Cowesses First Nation, announced the discovery of 751 unmarked graves from schools funded by the federal government and operated by the Roman Catholic Church.”

Haere Rā

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Happy May 4th!!! To celebrate I decided to revamp this beloved piece, I think it doubles for Star Wars and AAPI month hehe ;)

Revisiting this has been a fun challenge and redraws really help me get back into art— aimed to make their expressions and posing more natural. Also tweaked their outfits a bit.

Types of lei:

Omega: Lei Kui

Wrecker: Lei Haku

Crosshair: Lei Wili

Hunter: Ula Fala

Tech: Lei Hilo

Echo: Lei Wili