I’m opening up commissions for a little while, and thought I’d post about it here even though I don’t have a huge following.
These are the main things I bead, and some examples of my work within each. I do, however, have the ability to bead other things. I’ve done shoes, made and beaded pouches and coin purses, hair barrettes, etc. So if you’ve got a specific request for something that’s not here, don’t be afraid to ask.
Just message me if you’re interested and I’d be happy to discuss things with you!
En Nahualitas encontrarás a las muñecas artesanales más folk de México Su nacimiento está inspirado por la magia de los pueblos originarios y la belleza de sus mujeres.
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!
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:
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.
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 -
APPLY NOW + Share! Deadline July 1st, 2019. We are honored to announce the launch of our 2nd annual Artist & Poetry Fellowship benefiting Indigenous Queer, Gender Gradient/Non-Conforming, Trans, and Two-Spirit Artists & Poets. Please, share this with yr community, but more importantly, APPLY TODAY!
For link to application, email: [email protected] (we will send you application instructions)
Eligibility: I will be 18 years or older on March 9th, 2018. I am affiliated with an Indigenous tribe and dedicated to an Indigenous community.
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Deadline ↔️: July 1st, 2019 at 11:59 pm PST.
Let this be an example to all Native art organizations, this is how you fund Indigenous Queer, Gender Gradient/Non-Conforming, Trans, and Two-Spirit artists/poets, by restructuring your orgs to make radical changes! You have had these opportunities! We will not do your labor for free! By making our communities a necessity, you will inherently enact revolutionary changes that should not have to be revolutionary within Indigenous communities!
Please, share this far and wide with your Indigenous Queer, Gender Gradient/Non-Conforming, Trans, and Two-Spirit art babes, poetic warriors, and stand-against-heteropatriarchal-bullshit rebels! On the Rez, beyond the Rez, beyond the border of male or female or homo/heterosexual! Let’s evolve and reclaim our Indigenous sexualities and gender systems! Let’s infiltrate our Native communities with Queer lust, passion, love, art, poetry, and ceremony!
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).
High resolution 18″ X 24″ poster of an Apsáalooke badé, Osh-Tisch (1854-1929, on the left), and their wife photographed in 1877. “Decolonize Your Luvvv” honors Indigenous Queer & Trans cultures that were respected and honored prior to European-led Genocide, Heteropatriarchy, Religion, & Colonization.
The photograph shows Osh-Tisch (Apsáalooke translation: “Finds Them and Kills Them”), and their wife in 1877. During the time period the photograph was taken, Osh-Tisch was one of the last remaining Apsáalooke badés (which would be the Western equivalent on a Trans person), and was respected and accepted within traditional Apsáalooke culture. In spite of being married to a woman, as a means to maintain balance in Apsáalooke society, Osh-Tisch was not prevented from living their life out romantically with other men.
In background of the photograph is an inserted tile image of Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera taken at the Christopher Street Liberation Day, Gay Pride Parade, NYC. June 24, 1973. Johnson & Rivera were veterans of the Stonewall Rebellion, founders of S.T.A.R. (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries), and are honored as role models for contemporary Queer/Trans rights movements.
As with all our posters, feel liberated to print out, wheatpaste, repost/regram, and disseminate at will!
Join Demian DinéYazhi´+ Cannupa Hanska Luger at Recess in Brooklyn, NY, as they debut a new performance piece that is a commentary on Indigenous masculine identity, residential boarding schools, enacting agency as radical trust and mutual care, the sacredness of Indigenous bodies, and a million other things that create cosmic savages.
Lou Cornum @spaceface2.0 will also present and read from the #COLLECTIVEFURY Critical Writing Fellowship piece.
Bring yr community out and SUPPORT LIVING INDIGENOUS POETS + ARTISTS!
@recessart | 07 FEB 2019 - 7PM 46 Washington Ave., Brooklyn, NY
Dr. King spoke out against the genocide of Native Americans by: Albert Bender
Despite the yearly celebrations of Martin Luther King Day and African American History Month, it is probably little known what the great freedom fighter had to say about the horrific mistreatment of Native Americans by the U.S. In his 1963 book, “Why We Can’t Wait,” writing about the origins of racism in this country, King strongly condemned the historic injustices inflicted on Native people. He wrote the following:
“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shores, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles of racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its Indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it.”
Woefully, Dr. King’s words still ring true to this very day in so many respects. But King’s poignant words on the tragic history of Native Americans are largely unknown in mainstream society.
Although King played the leading role on the cutting edge of the African American liberation struggle for social justice and equality, he was a fighter for all of the oppressed of this land. His birthday holiday this year brought to mind a story I was told years ago of how he assisted Native people in south Alabama in the late 1950s.
At that time the Poarch Band of Creek Indians were trying to completely desegregate schools in their area. The South has so many seemingly outlandish racial problems: In this case, light-complected Native children were allowed to ride school buses to previously all white schools, while dark-skinned Indian children from the same band were barred from riding the same buses.
Tribal leaders, upon hearing of King’s desegregation campaign in Birmingham, Ala., contacted him for assistance. He promptly responded and through his intervention the problem was quickly resolved.
Also, little known is that in the 1963 March on Washington there was a sizable Native American contingent, including many from South Dakota. Moreover, the civil rights movement inspired the Native American rights movement of the 1960s and many of its leaders. In fact, the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) was patterned after the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Education Fund.
Re-reading Dr. King’s words I had to harken back in history to the fact that according to U.S. Census Bureau figures, by 1900 there were only 237,196 Native Americans left in the entire country - this from an original population that numbered in the tens of millions. In the words of one historian the outright massacres had ceased by then, simply “because there were just not that many Indians left to kill.” King rightly concluded that the genocide of American Indians was “national policy.” Indeed, on many reservations the story still circulates that as late as the 1890s a debate was held by the U.S. Congress to consider the outright military extermination of all remaining Native Americans. According to these accounts the only reason this nefarious plan was not carried out was because it would be too expensive.
But fast forwarding to the 21st century it must be seen that both the civil rights movement and the Native American rights movement have had a major impact on the U.S. and the world at large. Dr. King played an immeasurable role in these movements that roiled the status quo and marked a new stage of struggles that are ongoing to this day.
FREE high resolution 12” x 18” poster honoring Sharice Davids, Nathan Phillips, and Deb Haaland. RESPECT INDIGENOUS UPRISING ✊ The future called and asked us to commemorate this moment. We have always been here resisting white fuckery in a heteropatriarchal settler colonial nation state that violently forced some of us to convert to western religious mythology. As with all our posters, feel liberated to share, print, repost, disseminate & wheatpaste at will!
⚡️NEW T-Shirt ⚡️We love the joy and beauty Indigenous womxn bring to the community. @tishxrico (lead singer of the hardcore band@withxwar) was kind enough to model our newest re-release t-shirt from our subversive #DecolonizeFeminism series, which is a refusal to credit White Feminism as the basis of the Feminist movement in the colonized United States.
Indigenous Matriarchs/Feminists have resisted heterpatriarchal settler colonialism since 1492. Indigenous scholars posit that the first First Wavers and Suffragettes were actually influenced by Indigenous Matriarchs who were respected in their tribes at the time of colonial contact. Let’s not forget that the Queens of Europe were just as vicious and motivated by patriarchy as the Kings who tyrannized entire countries for centuries. It is no coincidence that contact with Indigenous Matriarchs would inspire this type of rebellion and crusade for equality. . Indigenous Diné Matriarch Juanita Manuelito, wife of Diné Chief Manuelito, is represented and honored on the image featured on the t-shirt. . T-Shirt: Next Level Premium Short Sleeve Crew 100% combed ringspun cotton Size chart in images. . ahéhéé R.I.S.E.
High resolution 18” x 24” poster of Indigenous Kawaik/Yoeme (Laguna/Yaqui) Indian Child Welfare Act advocate/warrior/feminist Evelyn Blanchard. As with all our posters, feel liberated to print out & wheatpaste at will!
About Evelyn Blanchard & Indigenous Child Removal Policies:
“I was able to find all of these women in their own tribal communities who were working to create really innovative programs to promote child welfare within their communities. They were trying to find foster families within the community. They were creating these kinds of preventative programs for families to prevent children from being taken in the first place and to strengthen families or rehabilitate families. These women were quite incredible. Some were also getting involved in a national level to try to organize to stop this practice.
One of these women was Evelyn Blanchard, Laguna/Yaqui, who became an advocate for children and families after losing a court case in which Navajo grandparents were not allowed to take custody of their grandchild, who had been placed outside the community. She worked with the Association on American Indian Affairs to help get the Indian Child Welfare Act passed in 1978. “After the law was passed,” Blanchard told ICTMN, “I worked with many tribes to help them develop their own children’s codes regarding care of children in their communities and to help them figure out how they would respond to the law, which was written for state courts, not Indian tribes.”
Blanchard explains, “The ICWA regulates the acts of state courts or public and private agencies. That’s what it’s supposed to do and its intent is to prevent the breakup of the Indian families because records show that before the passage one out of every four children had been removed from his or her family and 85 percent of those kids were not in Indian homes. The tribes were tired of it. They wanted it stopped and the pattern reversed.”
High resolution 12” x 18” poster of HIV/AIDS-related issues that affect Indigenous communities. This poster coincides with #WORLDAIDSDAY&#DAYWITHOUTART. As with all our posters, feel liberated to, share, print out, wheatpaste, and disseminate at will!
HIV/AIDS Among American Indians & Alaska Natives (CDC wedsite).
Fast Facts:
HIV affects AIs/ANs in ways that are not always obvious because of their small population sizes.
Over the last decade, annual diagnoses increased 63% among AI/AN gay and bisexual men.
AIs/ANs face HIV prevention challenges, including poverty, high rates of STIs, and stigma.
HIV is a public health issue among American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIs/ANs), who represent about 1.2%a of the U.S. population. Overall, diagnosed HIV infections among AIs/ANs are proportional to their population size. Compared with other racial/ethnic groups, AIs/ANs ranked fifth in rates of HIV diagnoses in 2015, with a lower rate than blacks/African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos,b Native Hawaiians/Other Pacific Islanders, and people reporting multiple races, but a higher rate than Asians and whites.
The Numbers: HIV and AIDS DiagnosescOf the 39,513 HIV diagnoses in the United States in 2015, 1% (209) were among AIs/ANs. Of those, 73% (152) were men and 26% (55) were women.Of the 152 HIV diagnoses among AI/AN men in 2015, most (79%; 120) were among gay and bisexual men.dMost of the 55 HIV diagnoses among AI/AN women in 2015 were attributed to heterosexual contact (73%; 40).From 2005 to 2014, the annual number of HIV diagnoses increased 19% (from 172 to 205) among AIs/ANs overall and 63% among AI/AN gay and bisexual men (from 81 to 132).In 2015, 96 AIs/ANs were diagnosed with AIDS. Of them, 59% (57) were men and 41% (39) were women.
Living With HIV and Deaths
Of the 3,600 AIs/ANs estimated to be living with HIV in 2013, 18% (630) were undiagnosed. By comparison, 13% of everyone living with HIV were undiagnosed.
Of AIs/ANs diagnosed with HIV in 2014, 78% were linked to medical care within 1 month.e
At the end of 2013, 53% of AIs/ANs who had been living with diagnosed HIV for at least a year were retained in care (receiving continuous HIV medical care), and 52% had achieved viral suppression.
During 2014, 51 AIs/ANs died from HIV or AIDS.
Prevention Challenges
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). From 2011 to 2015, AIs/ANs had the second highest rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea among all racial/ethnic groups. Having another STD increases a person’s risk for getting or transmitting HIV.
Lack of awareness of HIV status. Almost 1 in 5 AIs/ANs who were living with HIV at the end of 2013 were unaware of their status. People who do not know they have HIV cannot take advantage of HIV care and treatment and may unknowingly pass HIV to others.
Stigma. AI/AN gay and bisexual men may face culturally based stigma and confidentiality concerns that could limit opportunities for education and HIV testing, especially among those who live in rural communities or on reservations.
Cultural diversity. There are over 560 federally recognized AI/AN tribes, whose members speak over 170 languages. Because each tribe has its own culture, beliefs, and practices, creating culturally appropriate prevention programs for each group can be challenging.
Socioeconomic issues. Poverty, including limited access to high-quality housing, directly and indirectly increases the risk for HIV infection and affects the health of people living with and at risk for HIV infection. Compared with other racial/ethnic groups, AIs/ANs have higher poverty rates, have completed fewer years of education, are younger, are less likely to be employed, and have lower rates of health insurance coverage.
Alcohol and illicit drug use. Alcohol and substance use can impair judgment and lead to behaviors that increase the risk of HIV. Injection drug use can directly increase the risk of HIV through sharing contaminated needles, syringes, and other equipment. Compared with other racial/ethnic groups, AIs/ANs tend to use alcohol and drugs at a younger age and use them more often and in higher quantities.
Data limitations. Racial misidentification of AIs/ANs may lead to the undercounting of this population in HIV surveillance systems and may contribute to the underfunding of targeted services for AI/AN.
What CDC Is Doing
CDC and its partners are pursuing a high-impact prevention approach to advance the goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, maximize the effectiveness of current HIV prevention methods, and improve HIV data collection among AI/AN. Activities include:
Working with the Indian Health Service (IHS) and tribal leaders of the CDC Tribal Consultation Advisory Committee to discuss methods for developing and implementing scalable, effective prevention approaches that reach those at greatest risk for HIV, including young gay and bisexual AI/AN men.
Providing support and technical assistance to health departments and community-based organizations to deliver effective prevention interventions.
Ensuring that capacity-building assistance providers incorporate cultural competency, linguistics, and educational appropriateness into all services delivered.
Providing capacity building assistance directly to the IHS so it can strengthen its support for HIV activities, including HIV testing capacity; We R Native, a comprehensive health resource for Native youth; and the Red Talon Project, which works to achieve a more coordinated national and Northwest tribal response to STDs/HIV.
Raising awareness through the Act Against AIDS campaigns, including
Doing It, a national HIV testing and prevention campaign that encourages all adults to get tested for HIV and know their status;
Let’s Stop HIV Together, which raises HIV awareness and fights stigma among all Americans and provides many stories about people living with HIV; and
HIV Treatment Works, which highlights how men and women who are living with HIV have overcome barriers. The campaign provides resources and encourages people living with HIV to Get In Care,Stay In Care, and Live Well.
In addition, the Office for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support (OSTLTS) serves as the primary link between CDC, the Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry, and tribal governments. OSTLTS’s tribal support activities are focused on fulfilling CDC’s supportive role in ensuring that AI/AN communities receive public health services that keep them safe and healthy.
a Percentage of AI/AN reporting only one race. b Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race. c HIV and AIDS diagnoses indicate when a person is diagnosed with HIV infection or AIDS, but do not indicate when the person was infected. d The term gay and bisexual men, referred to as men who have sex with men in CDC surveillance systems, indicates how individuals self-identify in terms of their sexuality, not a behavior that transmits HIV infection. eIn 32 states and the District of Columbia (the areas with complete lab reporting by December 2015).
World AIDS Day Observed on December 1st of every year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection, and mourning those who have died of the disease. Government and health officials, non-governmental organizations and individuals around the world observe the day, often with education on AIDS prevention and control.
As of 2013, AIDS has killed more than 36 million people worldwide (1981-2012), and an estimated 35.3 million people are living with HIV,[2] making it one of the most important global public health issues in recorded history. Despite recent improved access to antiretroviral treatment in many regions of the world, the AIDS epidemic claims an estimated 2 million lives each year, of which about 270,000 are children.
Day With(out) Art Day Without Art (DWA) began on December 1st 1989 as the national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis. To make the public aware that AIDS can touch everyone, and inspire positive action, some 800 U.S. art and AIDS groups participated in the first Day Without Art, shutting down museums, sending staff to volunteer at AIDS services, or sponsoring special exhibitions of work about AIDS. Since then, Day With(out) Art has grown into a collaborative project in which an estimated 8,000 national and international museums, galleries, art centers, AIDS Service Organizations, libraries, high schools and colleges take part.
In the past, Visual AIDS initiated public actions and programs, published an annual poster and copyright-free broadsides, and acted as press coordinator and clearing house for projects for Day Without Art/World AIDS Day. In 1997 we suggested Day Without Art become a Day WITH Art, to recognize and promote increased programming of cultural events that draw attention to the continuing pandemic. Though “the name was retained as a metaphor for the chilling possibility of a future day without art or artists”, we added parentheses to the program title, Day With(out) Art, to highlight the proactive programming of art projects by artists living with HIV/AIDS, and art about AIDS, that were taking place around the world. It had become clear that active interventions within the annual program were far more effective than actions to negate or reduce the programs of cultural centers.
As the President of Genocide and Settler Conquest plans to steal 321 acres of Indigenous land from the Mashpee-Wampanoag, let this be a brutal reminder that THIS IS NOT YOUR LAND. This is the very tribe that helped the colonizing Pilgrims survive. THIS WILL NEVER BE YOUR LAND! . High resolution 18″ x 12″ map of the Historic Territory of the Indigenous Wapanoag from 1620. As with all our posters, please, feel liberated to share, repost, print, disseminate & wheatpaste at will! . Artwork by: @riseindigenous . http://burymyart.tumblr.com https://facebook.com/RISEindigenous https://www.etsy.com/shop/DemianDineyazhi
