#riseindigenous

We ask you today to honor Indigenous people and the Lands we hold sacred. We ask you to help us amplify our voices over the white noise of Settler Colonial manipulation programming. We ask that in your amplification you dig deeper and become familiar with Indigenous 2Spirit, Trans, Queer, Gender Nonconforming, Non-Binary, and Feminist/Matriarchal voices FIRST AND FOREMOST. We ask that in your prioritization of these communities you understand this is a direct request to dismantle heteropatriachal and hetero cis gendered supremacist complacency. We ask that you respect Indigenous uprising, fight for #IndigenousSovereignty and Land Stewardship reclamation, Afro-Indigenous Solidarity, Black Liberation, and also continue amplify Black voices and #BlackLivesMatter every hour or every day!

SUPPORT INDIGENOUS PEOPLES LIVING WITH HIV AND AIDS! CREATE PROGRAMS AND OUTREACH THAT CATERS TO EACH OF OUR TRIBES. THERE IS NO FIGHTING BACK IF YOU ARE COMPLACENT IN THE LARGER HIV/AIDS COMMUNITY THAT LEAVES OUT INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES! - + #worldaidsday2019 #WorldAIDSday #AwarenessIsResistance #hivaids - + cdc.gov/hiv/group/racialethnic/aian/index.html -

NDN RELATIVES, STAY HOME + SAVE LIVES! We love you. We need you. Please, protect yourselves and support one another from a safe distance. XO!

The image above is a map from 1933 that shows the Navajo and Hopi tribals lands.

Art by RISE: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment. The following text is taken from a post by Klee Benally and Indigenous Action and features Diné and English translations (by Alfredo Yazzie) on how to protect yourselves throughout and beyond this pandemic:

Níla’ txáánígis! T’áadoo nízaa ni’hoolzhíshi txáliwosh bił níla’ txánínánígis díí tsį́įłgo yikęsígíí naadiin dahalzhin bíighahgo. Txálíwosh ádingo éí ála’ bik’édzidí łibéi bił ałtxahígíí choidííł’įįł.

Wash your hands! Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. If soap and water are not available, use an alcohol- based hand sanitizer.

Niniijį’ bik’í’síníłtxi’! Haniijį’ bik’é’éstxigo éí díí ch’osh dooyit’íinii ni’kwíyósin.

Keep your face covered! When you cover your face it will keep the germs at bay.

T’áánahdi na’ázhdiilt’ego bee asdáhóót’i’! T’áá lą’í áłah nída’adleehgóó t’áadoo nanináhí dóó hastxą́ą́ ké silá bíighahgo nahdi nahiná díí naałniih bits’ąą.

If people keep their distance from others they will survive! Avoid large gatherings and stay 6 ft away to avoid the virus 👉🏽www.navajohopisolidarity.org

Translations: Alfredo Yazzie

FREE POSTER honoring the life of Layleen Polanco Xtravaganza who was an Afro-Latinx Trans Womxn found dead in her cell on RIKERS ISLAND on June 7, 2019. Layleen Xtravaganza was a member of the house-ballroom community House of Xtravaganza and was known for walking the category of realness at balls. She is the 10th reported Black Trans womxn to be killed this year. We ask you to honor all Trans womxn, incarcerated womxn, Black livelihood, and call for prison abolition. REST IN POWER, LAYLEEN! As with all our posters, please feel free to print, wheatpaste, & disseminate at will (burymyart.tumblr.com). R.I.S.E.: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment

Trans rights is an Indigenous issue. Innumerable gender identities and systems were thriving in Indigenous communities prior to colonization, genocidal, and erasure of our spiritual connection to this genderless body we call the earth. Fight for trans peoples rights. Make space in your organizations, institutions, communities, and families. Give your money and resources!