#nativelivesmatter

Regram from lovely lady @voyageofbran who writes:

“Newest Wildthorne strand “Mni Wiconi” has arrived in my grateful hands and I couldn’t be more pleased with it. Thank you again Kim! It’s absolutely stunning and layers perfectly with my other strands! It’s such an honor to be able to wear well crafted work filled fill so much love and meaning! ”

I am so grateful to kind friends and spirits like Brandie who have made the choice to choose ethical and conscious adornment. I created the Mni Wiconi “Water is sacred” jewel to help aid the Standing Rock Sioux nation in their preservation of ancestral land and clean water for all people, plants and animals living in the Dakota regions. The big oil industry has since destroyed ceremonial and burial sites of the Sioux over this past weekend, and also used attack dogs and mace against the peaceful protectors including women and children.

Injustice I am saddened to say happens daily in this world and to many people. Change happens when understanding, an open heart, integrity and compassion leads our choices and decisions instead of greed and selfishness. All too often in this world people are motivated to take thoughtlessly from others, without considering the repercussions of their actions. If we would all take a moment to pause and consider not only the words that we speak, (but also type and share) and our inner motivations. I truly believe this planet would be a kinder place.

I give thanks to my wonderful friends here who have helped to donate to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, as we wait for a deliberation on the 9th, I am preparing and have more jeweled creations to offer to help aid the people. Blessings to you friends, and thank you Brandie for your beautiful and generous heart. #nodapl #mniwiconi #wildthorne #heartcentered #integrity #nativelivesmatter

Yesterday a group of Indigenous folks righteously tore down the statue of Christopher Columbus at the Minnesota State Capitol. Unsurprisingly, shortly after, state police arrived in riot gear to protect the fallen statue from further damage. Much has been said about the “failings” of police being able to keep people safe, but this idea of failure assumes that the function of the police is to keep all people safe. Images such as this should remind us of the dangers of reform, and that the true function of police is to protect whiteness and white supremacy. They are proxy for colonial militia, upholding both the material and ideological conditions of white supremacy. In the American mythos, police are positioned as heroes and so of course to many, and to white civil society especially, their brutality and violence is confusingly. Though, the brutality is the point. To position black, brown and indigenous people as wild, as uncivilized and violent police create only the illusion of safety, that all that stands between order and societal collapse is immobility and constraint of black, brown and indigenous people. Images such as this offer an easy and perfect lens into the function of the police, you cannot reform a colonial militia away from violence and patrol. If it is safety we want, if it is equity and liberation we want, we have to admit, collectively, that police are antithetical to this goal. They are an ideological death cult, they are willing to brutalize indigenous people to protect the stone bust of one of the architects of white supremacy. Symbols matter, statues alert a society to its values, and so does the defense of these statues. Tear them all down. Abolish police now! #blacklivesmatter #nativelivesmatter #justiceforgeorgefloyd #justiceforbreonnataylor #freeleonardpeltier #abolishpolice @unicorn.riot
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