One of the most interesting things I’ve noticed about non-natives appropriating our stuff is they never want anything but sage, smudging, and feathers.

Native people will share: our food, our music, our dancing, our art.

But no one is interested in those. They don’t CARE about our food and music. We never see those things in popular culture. Non-natives just want to take our religious items, because they feel entitled to the things people don’t want to share.

A Tribe Called Red (techno Native beats):

Taboo #noDAPL protest music (Native Hip Hop):

Supaman (Prayer loop song, Rap)

Check em out. Add on. Support Native Artists. Spread the love y'all

Good musical options. 🙌🏼

I FRICKIN LOVE A TRIBE CALLED RED!!! Seriously, listen to their stuff it’s so good!!!

Adding to this:

Music!

Snotty Nosed Rez Kids (”I Remember My Name” Native hip-hop)

Frank Waln (”Wokiksuye” Rap)

JB the First Lady (”The Most Unprotected Girl” R&B)

Clothes! There’s also a lot of Native designers doing amazing work blending old and new styles. These are two of my favorites

OXDX Clothing - Diné

John Isaiah Pepion - Blackfeet

Food! There’s a been a major resurgence of interest in indigenous foods lead by Native chefs, many of whom are on youtube!

The Alaska Native Health Consortium runs a great channel

Sean Sherman - maybe one of the most famous Native chefs. There’s a great little video on him here and his website is here!

Dance! This one is a little trickier because no, you, non-Native person absolutely should not dance at the powwows unless it’s an open dance AND you’ve been invited to do so. (And if you have, please don’t do the white hippie dance. Please.) However, you can and absolute come out and support the circuit & the dancers. Some of my favorite dancers/competitions:

O.B. (Ohh Bizz) who mostly does grass dancing. (Yeah, I know he hasn’t updated in forever. the #NoDAPL protests derailed a lot of people’s lives.) He’s a lot of fun to watch and a complete sweetheart.

Rocky Boy 2018

FNUC Powwow 2019 (also, yes, the announcer is pretty much typical for a powwow. You want a person who can roast literally everyone in a 10 mile radius? A powwow announcer can do that.)

And here’s the 2019 Grass Dance Finals at Little Creek

Reblogging again for most excellent additions!

CBC (Canadian broadcasting corporation) has native music show called reclaimed. You can stream it online anywhere from their website. And I think you can even make playlists.

Slightly off topic, but if you’re interested in Native American cooking, go and get yourself a copy of The Sioux Chef. It’s a really good book with some fantastic recipes in there

Lynda Carter going off for Pride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Month and I'm here for it!

this is crazy this is the only time i've seen an online boycott actually work. and the entire fucking reddit website is broken rn

here is where you can see the status of the boycott btw

it might be broken bc reddit is broken rn

it's also the fact that so many different communities with wildly differing userbases have come together for this that's wild to me. like you have r/gaming fighting side by side with r/legaladvice and r/furry 😭

me when i meet the person who created webp files

It was google by the way, they thought it would be such a good file type it would replace the need for all other image files, that's why anything they own or partner with tries to force it on us though no art programs can even work with it.

There had been small rumors floating around. 

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Johann Hari,

Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction?

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whenever ppl without money are in the news for behaving badly, i think: “rat park”.

by @spavel.bsky.social

quacking in my boobs over this

QUAKING

BOOTS. FUCKER

One of the things that’s important in a long-running RPG is making a memorable plot that attains definitive closure. You don’t want players feeling like they have unfinished business and want to go Do More Things.

So, for instance, say you start dropping hints early on of some sort of epic Magical Badass, like a lich queen or something. Early on, the players don’t find out much; just that there’s someone called Zola who is behind a whole lot of strange shit, and a lot of it is not good. And they are never quite sure what she is. Wizard? Dragon? Lich? But eventually they find out: She has many forms, but her true form is one of the Medusas. Not the modern watered-down species that fall for the mirror crap and you have to meet their gaze, but a true abomination from beyond the veil, whose stare can turn whole armies to stone.

The reason this works as a plot is that the players will never speak to you again once they realize you spent six months building up to the reveal that the big cheese is the legendary gorgon Zola.

you’re grounded.

wake up bb it’s June.

im oddly grateful for the clarification when a cartoon dog or other animal is yelling words in an animated movie and then abruptly they flip to a human POV and all you hear is barking. it's done for comedic effect but like thank you. i did actually wonder for a moment there.

ok who voted american. own up

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you are not Corn

You can only wish you could be so succulent and delicious as a ripe ear of corn. You wish you had the depth of flavor, that you had so many glistening, perfect kernels of yourself. You want to be shucked. No. You need to be shucked. Say it. Yet you have no delicate, silky husk to shed, no vegetal armor to be ripped vigorously from your body, and were I to humor you and taste your insipid flesh, it would go down smooth, like green beans boiled to bland mush. Oh, but you fancy yourself a force of nature, a quarrelsome sparring partner, a thorny stalk standing high in the blistering sun. You imagine you would stick between my teeth, pierce my flesh, linger in my memory and at my gumline for days after the fact. Ha! You have no backbone, no conviction, no cob. I would not need even to chew, let alone cut. A brace-toothed juvenile could swallow you whole, for you present nothing to brace for. You are unfit to be boiled down for syrup. You are not corn. You will never be corn. You will never know half of what it takes to be even baby corn. If you must call yourself corn, then let it be known you are the soft shell in the bottom of a days old microwavable paper bag, too timid and vacuous to to make a sound. You have nothing to express, and no amount of salt or butter can hide it. Motherfucker

I get how the whole "listening to music as a dick-measuring contest for who can listen to the most obscure band" thing can get grating sometimes but I don't think people realize just how vital that phenomenon is for new up and coming bands to get a foot in the door. it's understandable to be annoyed by hipsterism but unless you want all music to be industry plants and former child stars you're just going to have to accept it as part of the social ecosystem.

most of your friends probably won't go around hyping up your amateurish self-released bandcamp project, but you know who will? the most insufferable hipster jackass you'll ever meet.

[your best friend playing your music in front of someone else]: yeah haha this is my friend's band... i know it's kinda weird and rough around the edges but i'm kinda into it... if you're not tho i'll turn it off.

[pretentious music guy you've never met before playing your music in front of someone else]: yeah so i found this on bandcamp and it completely blew me away, no one is making music like this today, it's so raw and experimental and interesting, i can't believe they only have 3 listeners on spotify, they're brilliant, frankly if you don't like this music you should kill yourself,

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