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Lucy Liu for Modern Luxury (November 24, 2025)

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Framed here are samples created by Sequoyah weavers. These samples reflect some of the colors and patterns that weavers could create through loom weaving. Some of the looms used in the past continue to be used by weavers and their descendants today.

Taking a bit of a leap here and assuming you're referring to this post? Not sure why the oddly misplaced aggression but hey, I have a bit of time, so let me do a bit of tongue flapping here. It doesn't change anything if Indigenous people work at museums. That is the British museum and it is owned by the British, so those so called "artifacts" are more than likely actually family owned art from the Indigenous people who are still alive today. If an Indigenous person works at the museum, that does not mean that the baskets, masks, woven hats, weapons, tools, and textiles depicted in this map are there on display in the museum with permission. All of the items in that map are items that are known for being contested: which means that the tribes and people who have identified those things and said they wanted them back are currently trying to convince the museum to actually return them. The British Museum has several contested items that they generally refuse to return to the very people who made them. This is nothing new. Nicholas Galanin's hide painting in that post is specifically contesting this very thing. "In many Native cultures, hide paintings relay histories across generations and objects embody lineages; in referencing both, Galanin is proposing a getaway plan for his ancestors." Indigenous people are also not a Monolith. Any single Indigenous person working at any Museum could very well support the colonist idea that their ancestors (aunties, uncles, parents, grandparents, great grandparents) priceless belongings should be on display instead of in the hands of their loved ones- but that doesn't make it okay. Growing up in a society that caters and instills colonist values harms everyone; especially the very communities and peoples they tried to erase. This is a specific case where the people who had direct ties to those items wanted them back and the British Museum had the gall to say 'but it's for research!' As if the very people they're claiming to 'study' and 'learn about' today don't still exist! Assumption hurts a lot of people in a lot of ways. Even if your response to that post was genuine concern for Indigenous people, it came across very ham fisted and a bit ignorant of the very theme of the art in the original post in the first place.

And personally I don't think it's any non-native persons place to try to lecture any of us regardless.

Hickory nuts are gathered in the fall. After drying for a few weeks, the Kanuchi making begins. Shelled hickory nuts are placed in a hollowed out log bowl. Using a thick weighted stick, the nuts are pounded to a consistency that will form into a ball, holding its shape. Kanuchi balls can be frozen until used."

kw'diim üüla - hungry seal 🦭 (my sticker design for the rest of march!)

I have two more purses to make after these are done and then I think I am done making strawberries for a bit. Greencorn will be around that time anyway so it will be time for a break and a personal project.

photograph by Isabel Silva

anyway i'm thinking of brown, cream, and orange for this one

a tiny little basket that @snegel and me made together from dandelion stems, it's rather wonky but i love it so much. here is the tutorial. brb going to try and make another one immediately