@DamnDRoseTweets
I'm sure we're all really surprised that you were sentenced last month for a DWI. You'll put people at risk on the roads in your personal life and people at risk in your care professionally. Charming.
A bunch of years ago some non-Natives decided to build fake cliff dwellings and claim them as Native built to make tourist money. Me and my Ojib homie are on a recon mission today to see just how offensive this place is.
Last night on the way to dinner, I popped in a gallery and came upon this Indigenized Darth Vader by the Wixátari community of the Sierra Querelaro. The beadwork is fucking incredible and these pictures don’t do it justice. $3k if you’re interested in buying.
Bison in the US 1800: 30-75 MILLION
Bison in 1884: 325
Today, mere miles from the grave of famed killer of bison, Buffalo Bill, as part of conservation efforts with Denver Parks & Rec and orgs like Tall Bull Memorial Council, 35 bison were repatriated back to Native Nations.
To see the level of Indigenous people in all facets of media from shows to the red carpet to the damn met gala this past year…little me never knew I’d see it. Paulina Alexis on the red carpet tonight is just… 😭🔥 representation does fucking matter.
Oh good, now the ⚪️ people on FB are sharing Lakotaman's loud and wrong tweet that abortion clinics can be set up on reservations because *sovereignty.* JFC I'm going to explode with rage today.
Today I choose to channel the energy of my relative who set fire to the Mount Pleasant Indian Boarding School three times. The third time was the charm as she burned down the main building like a boss.
Sadly, it’s not just tourists that come here, local schools also bus in their students for educational field trips. This continues to perpetuate the myth that we were primitive savages of the past, not a robust and sophistiticated living culture.
I can’t think of a more beautiful family legacy than learning that my relative set an Indian Boarding School on fire, not once, not twice, nay - three times.
These fluffy butts are headed to their new home on the Wind River Reservation. This is part of Denver’s continued commitment to repatriate bison back to Tribal Nations and Native organizations.
It is mesmerizing how many⚪️people post in genealogy forums that they can't believe their DNA results came back with zero Indigenous markers. Exactly how many Cherokee princesses do they think there were for all these family stories?
Serial Killer Robert Pickton died a couple days ago after being assaulted by another inmate. Good.
The remains of 22 women were found on his farm and linked DNA to 33
MORE THAN HALF OF HIS VICTIMS WERE INDIGENOUS WOMEN
As a kid, there was never a Barbie that was representative of me. Now knowing that the new movie drops a line about smallpox, in addition to ignorance surrounding Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe, I’m once again reminded that this storyline was not created for me and never will be.
For starters, anything “authentic” is stolen. The entire structure itself was removed from the Four Corners area in 1907 and then reconstructed and covered with concrete mortar. Even worse are the stolen pottery shards stuck haphazardly throughout.
Think for one moment. In every single war that America has fought, we have never asked for land afterward—except for enough to bury the Americans who gave the ultimate sacrifice for freedom.
I somehow managed to leave out one of the most egregious displays: burial items. One of which was a reed burial wrapping for a baby. Where the fuck is the baby?!
Big news! Senate Bill 23-202 Wearing of Native American Regalia has been officially introduced! This bill authorizes wearing our regalia at high school and college graduations in Colorado. Interested in testifying in support? Sign up! ✊🏽✨
I stood w/my sisters in honor of Nex Benedict today to acknowledge the loss of this young Chahta relative and reaffirm our commitment to restore the original traditions of this continent. The cost of Euro-Christian concepts of gender and sexuality is paid in human suffering.
🚨🚨So I’m excited I can let the rez cat out of the bag now: we’re introducing legislation to establish a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives task force for Colorado on Monday. We’re gonna need y’all’s support because it has been a battle to get it this far. More to come!
@brownandbella
Actions speak louder than words and there have been countless men who definitely did not know where the clit is or what to do with it.
- Sir, it is not a turn table.
- Sir, it is not gum. You don’t chew it.
- Sir, I poop from there.
Every effort to stereotype Natives as primitive, dirty, and diseased was taken. Added insult was continual outdated references to “Indians” and Anasazi.
Numerous skulls, which I will refrain from posting pictures of, were displayed throughout with emphasis on deformities and disease. One sign claimed they were replicas in accordance with NAGPRA however, I sincerely think one of them was real.
At dinner last night, some ⚪️ lady complimented my dentalium earrings and followed up with, “I went to Washington and there are real Indian reservations there!” I left her looking confused with a “well this is all Indian land, we are everywhere.”
One part of the museum is close to the bathrooms so the smell of humid shit is a constant. This stolen petroglyph is casually displayed outside the restrooms because surely that’s respectful /sarcasm
It's officially official! Today, at 7:07 am MST, the US Board on Geographic Names voted YES to rename Sq**w Mountain in Evergreen, Colorado to Mestaa’ėhehe (Mess-taw-hay) Mountain. Lelelelelelele!
This dude I work with literally made the comment “you’re really passionate about Native things,” like human rights and my existence are a fucking hobby. K.
TW: Police Brutality
Destinee Thompson, an Indigenous woman and mother of three who was 7-months pregnant, was fatally shot by Arvada police officers after being mistaken for a shoplifter at a nearby Target on 8/17/2021
We stand in solidarity w/this family
#justicefordestinee
Demonstrators toppled statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth in Winnipeg this afternoon during rallies honouring the children discovered in unmarked graves on the sites of former residential schools over the past month.
I have deleted the missing Indigenous person alerts for Nikki Burch-Woodhull. Devastatingly, her remains were recovered earlier today. A perpetrator has been arrested for her murder. Please keep her family and children in your thoughts. 💔
#nomorestolensisters
ATTENTION! Geo Soctomah Neptune (they/them) has become the first openly two-spirit, transgender, and non-binary person to be elected to office in Maine. Geo Neptune is a member of the Passamaquoddy Tribe and is a Master Basketmaker, a Drag Queen, an Activist, and an Educator 🖤✊🏾
🎉 ERRYBODY 🎉
SB23-202 Native American Regalia
and
SB23-211 Indian Welfare Act
Have both passed the House today! This means they are off to the governors desk to be signed into law!
Lilililililili! ✊🏽
Good morning. It is high time Chrissy Teigen answer for her crimes. Which include publicly tweeting about wanting a then 16-year-old Courtney Stodden to kill themselves and then PRIVATELY DMing them about wanting them to die.
It is everything to the little Native girl I once was to see
@lily_gladstone
make history by winning a Golden Globe for her performance in Killers of the Flower Moon. Historic. Inspiring. Beautiful. A Native woman! Lilililililili!
After six days since filing a missing person report with CO Springs PD, the Missing Indigenous Person Alert was finally issued for my friends son. By law, it’s supposed to be within eight hours.
Failure at every level.
Shitty country songs aside, the assumption that small towns are close-knit communities is a fucking myth. I grew up in one; it was and is a place to enable toxic and abusive behavior across the board which is why I left as soon as I was able.
A visual representation of the communities in which Native children were stolen and then sent to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School for assimilation. This is merely one school out of 523. The mantra of Carlisle's founder was: “Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.”
Today, Governor Polis signed two pieces of Native specific legislation into law today and it was an honor to be there with community to see it. These two bills are now officially state law. Lilililili!
SB23-202 Native American Regalia
SB23-211 Indian Child Welfare Act