#native americans

lobsterandskittles:

rookmove:

art-thropologist:

diaryofandnwoman:

This is pure art.

For those curious, this was taken at the Oceti Sakowin camp during the No DAPL protests in Cannon Ball, North Dakota. The photograph is titled “Defend the Sacred” by Ryan Vizzions. I did not find the name of the subject on horseback.

Mega Mae  sounds like a super hero in both name and action.

amazinghowyoulove:

fatehbaz:

Timeline.

Stage 1: A poisoning.

Stage 2: A poisoning.

Stage 3: A poisoning.

People die at every stage of the process: during the original extraction; during the use of the extracted material; and then during the eventual waste disposal.

1. Navajo, Pueblo, Ute, Hopi, Latine communities, and other local people get poisoned, during the initial extraction and mining of uranium, living in the site worst affected by radiation. (Majority of US uranium mines in Four Corners region; radioactive soil; hundreds of unrepaired mines; poisoned streams; largest single radioactive waste disaster in US in 1979 located on Navajo land.)

2. Navajo, Pueblo, Ute, Hopi, Latine communities, and other local people get poisoned during atomic bomb testing, living in the site worst affected by radiation after radioactive materials have been processed and manipulated. (Majority of nuclear weapons testing fallout and iodine-131 poisoning in Four Corners region.)

3. Navajo, Pueblo, Ute, Hopi, Latine communities, and other local people get poisoned,  during the disposal of radioactive waste, living in the site worst affect by radiation after the uranium has been processed and profited from and then returned to mills in the Four Corners region. (Majority of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive uranium waste stored in Four Corners region.)

Here are some incheresting and random unrelated maps just tossed together for no particular reason:

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Desert ecoregions get designated as empty “wastelands” and therefore available for domination and extraction. Then people die. People die at every stage of the process: during the original resource extraction; during the refining and use of the extracted material; and then during the eventual waste disposal.

Maybe just my impression, idk.

If the waste disposal happens. People here live in houses made of uranium tailings. They walk their dogs at abandoned sites. It leaches into the drinking water. We ignore it.

Something else we forgot: brown people were used to extract uranium cake with their bare hands to make weapons to kill brown and Asian people overseas.

worldstallestcabbagepatchkid:

fatehbaz:

march 2020

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april 2020

Isn’t banning protests a violation of the first amendment?

casitito:

just wanted to make a general donations post for native americans 

• NARF (native american rights fund)
• AISES(advancing indigenous people in stem)
• NIWRC (national indigenous women’s resource center)
• PWNA (partnership with native americans)
• COPE (community outreach and patient empowerment)
• the association on american indian affairs
• first nations development institute
• american indian college fund
• CARE (diné citizens against ruining our environment)
• hopa mountain
• indigenous values initiative
• native american disability law center
• people’s partner for community development 

and here’s a map of what indigenous land you are living on if you want to donate specific towards those people and nations