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NatiVisions is extending the Late Deadline to
Monday, July 6th!
The NatiVisions Film Festival offers Indigenous actors, filmmakers, writers, directors an opportunity to present their current work.
Screenings are free and open to the public! Bluewater Cinemas located in the Bluewater Resort & Casino in Parker, Az
Along the Colorado River on the Colorado River Indian Reservation. www.bluewaterfun.com

https://filmfreeway.com/NatiVisionsFilmFestival-915947

Standing at Mt. Rushmore, of all places, Trump has just said in his America250 speech that people that say America is on stolen land, are Communists, evil, and many other things. This just happened just moments ago or I would include more details. This isn't the only thing that has been said that litally points to natives or can be taken as pointed, but again... I had to come and get this started because the irony and full audacity. It's not surprising, really. But even still.

ETA: Speech is now available

The Video Starting Just Before Part Where It Is Referenced

ETA2: For those that don't wish to watch:

“As for those who peddle Marxist lies about our heritage, tell our children that we live on stolen land, or that our heroes were oppressors, they're doing something much worse than slandering our past," Trump said. "They are slandering and attacking our future."

Hello! If a post like this isn't allowed, please let me know and I'll delete. I tried browsing this and other indigenous related subs for an answer and couldn't really find a general consensus, so I thought I should ask.

I'm white and live in the mid-east US. My grandmother's sister and her husband lived in New Mexico and ran a shop sometime between the 50s-90s where they would trade with a local tribe and also sell their jewelry in their store (or so the family legend goes), and she would gift my grandmother and dad jewelry. My grandparents passed when I was young, and my father was on medication which altered his memory for many years before taking his own life a few years back, so I unfortunately don't have much other information than that. My grandmother also was addicted to QVC shopping, and passed that shopping addiction to my dad, though he instead frequented flea markets, so there most likely is a mix from other locations, as well as inauthentic pieces.

I inherited a large amount of it (as shown), much of which I can tell are real materials and handmade. It's beautiful and I can appreciate it for the art that it is, but I dress more on the goth/alternative side of fashion, so it doesn't get worn. I hate the thought that so much handmade art created with time, care, and love is just sitting in a jewelry box, going unseen and unappreciated. But I also don't want to do something like list these on eBay or take them to a pawn shop, as that feels wrong and disrespectful to the artist and native communities at large.

I don't expect anyone here to be able to identify singular artists on sight or by initial, give price estimates, or anything like that, but I'm kind of at a loss on how to move forward. I want these to go somewhere they'll be appreciated, but I don't know how to get them there. I browsed around on the native jewelry sub, and while that currently seems like my best option, nearly every post I saw on there with skin showing was also a white person, and it feels strange for me to ask other white people for advice on this first.

Any help is appreciated, and, again, I'll delete this post if it's in any way offensive or not wanted in this sub. Thank you for your time if you read this far!

Also, please excuse the fur in the pics, I have 6 cats and my lint roller ran out :')

Edit: Just to note, the bottom left ring wouldn't stand on its own, so it's being balanced on a hairtie. When I looked back at the pic, it looked a little misleading, but it does have a fully silver band and the plastic is not attached

The fourth pic shows a penciled in "Yakima" which may be an indication of the tribal origin of this bag. Google lens suggested it was produced by a member of one of the tribes of the Columbia Plateau, of which THE CONFEDERATED TRIBES AND BANDS OF THE YAKAMA NATION belong. The piece feels old, the leather is soft and the stitching is mostly intact. The beadwork is very tight with only one spot that looks to have been injured. Any insight into the age and the tribal affiliation of the artist would be greatly appreciated.

Pow wow season will be the death of me

"Juan Castro served as a leading spokesman for the [natives] on the Brazos Indian Reservation in the 1850s. Rather than accept removal to [native] Territory in 1859, the Lipans fled to Mexico and joined the Kickapoos." His grandmother (honestly I forgot, my father and cousin shared the account and I found documents but can't find them now) was also one of the 3 survivors of the Night Of The Screams, an event when the Texas Rangers massacred the entire Lipan Apache Rancheria- She survived with a relative (who I have no clue how they got away) and her little brother Miguel who my grandfather was named after, but Miguel was shortly killed when a ranger heard Miguel crying in a bush that covered a hole where they both hid, and he was stabbed in the heart with a bayonet, while she kept quiet holding her brothers corpse until eventually fleeing to Mexico joining the Lipai N'de with the Mescalero Apaches. We also discovered that my grandpa bought property close by where she is buried before knowing who she really was... Another funny thing about this all is that the Lipan Apache (my father's side) also helped keep African Americans enslaved by helping the Texas Rangers and enlisting with them (my mother's side, who descends from African slaves of course and French colonists who eventually mixed in a taboo way bringing shame to the euro side who abandoned our branch to our own endeavors).

Hello everyone,

I recently was on my property deep in the mountains and came across about 90 intentionally created rock formations. Now we excavated the areas around it and did not dig anything up, only cleared the areas around them to ensure preservation. I am curious as to if they are Native American related. They are obviously human made but are on a steep slope in a grid and vary in size. Do any archaeologists or people familiar with the topic have any ideas on what this could be?

The last graphic was designed by a Native American, Orlando Baca Jr. however the first two are not.