# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
In this poem and conversation, Jake Skeets considers ethical engagement with land: an engagement that sees land as itself, not just for its uses.

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.native-art-in-canada.com/indiangroupofseven.html

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
The Indian Group of Seven was the moniker Winnipeg Free Press reporter, Gary Scherbain, gave to a group of seven native artists who, in 1973, gave birth to the Professional National Indian Artists Incorporation.

Ten years previously Norval Morrisseau had introduced Ojibwa art to the world. His success inspired other artists to look to their native origins for inspiration to paint memories and imagery that represented their own culture.

Three of those artists were Jackson Beardy, Alex Janvier, and Daphne Odjig. In 1973 they had a group show at the Winnipeg Art Gallery called Treaty Numbers 23, 287, 1171. The numerals were a reference to the numbers given to their respective bands when treaties had been signed with the Canadian government.

The exhibition was ground breaking. For the first time those in the mainstream art world recognized that indigenous modern art was just that...art...not simple scribblings by a simple people.

To follow up their success, the idea came to formalize a group of native artists that would spread the word about native art and assist up and coming younger native artists. Daphne and Jackson Beardy were the main instigators.

But Jackson Beardy, Eddy Cobiness, Alex Janvier, Norval Morrisseau, Carl Ray and Joe Sanchez met in Daphne Odjig's Winnipeg home and discussed common concerns and possibilities for the future. The Professional National Indian Artists Inc, funded by Indian Affairs, grew out of the meeting. Bill Reid of the Haida nation didn't officially sign on at the time, but participated in some group shows later.

Joe Sanchez, a native American, who was in Canada to escape the draft, was included because Daphne and her husband Chester Beavon had taken him under their wing.

Eddy Cobiness was an avid member and it was he who had introduced John Denighy (organizer of the Winnipeg Art Gallery show) to the others.

After the success in Winnipeg, John Denighy and someone from Indian Affairs helped organize three more shows. Daphne recalls the first was at the Wallach Gallery in Ottawa and was followed by a show in Vancouver. The last show featuring the group as a whole was at the Dominion Gallery in Montreal in 1975.

The Indian Group of Seven Influenced a New Generation

I haven't been able to find information that confirms that the group, under the banner of the PNIA, organized any activities that directly benefited young native artists but as individuals some of the group members did so.

Jackson Beardy opened a school for First Nations artists and Daphne and Carl Ray taught at the Manitou Arts Foundation on Shrieber Island during the 1970's and some of those students became the second generation of Woodland artists and are continuing to impact the Canadian native art world.

Although it had a short life and never expanded to include other native artists like Arthur Schilling or even Goyce or Josh Kakegamic in Red Lake, that the Indian Group of Seven existed at all was a critical first step in the development of the concept of Indian art as a part of the Canadian art cultural scene.

Even throughout the 1980's curators and artists were still arguing about whether contemporary native art was a function of the prehistoric/early historic works in museums or whether it had a place in mainstream galleries. For example, in 1989 when the Vancouver Art Gallery produced an exhibition entitled " Beyond History" it specifically named the art of the Canadian Woodland School as 'tribal'.

The Professional National Indian Artists Inc. eventually ceased to exist as an organization as the individual members concentrated on developing their own careers. But they had cleared the way for another generation of Anishnaabe artists.

The Indian Group of Seven Influence

The influence that the Indian Group of Seven made on the development of native art in Canada showed up first on Manitoulin Island, home to Daphne Odjig.

Although the training, lifestyles and creative motivation of contemporary native artists differ profoundly from their ancient counterparts, today's Woodland Art is sourced by traditional artistic representations used by prehistoric Eastern Woodland Indians.

Woodland Art and Cultural Revitalization

To understand the influence of the contemporary Woodlands School it's worthwhile taking a look at how art revitalized Eastern Woodlands Indian culture in prehistoric times

Why the Ojibwa feature so prominently in this discussion of First Nations' art.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
The Indian Group of Seven and the birth of the Woodlands School of Art

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
The Indian Group of Seven was the moniker Winnipeg Free Press reporter, Gary Scherbain, gave to a group of seven native artists who, in 1973, gave birth to the Professional National Indian Artists Incorporation. Ten years previously Norval Morrisseau had introduced Ojibwa art to the world.

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.youtube.com/user/nwejinan

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
N'we Jinan, whose name means "We Live Here" in James Bay (Eastern) Cree, is a non-profit organization founded in 2014 and registered nationally in 2016. It began as a platform for participating youth to learn about and acquire skills in sound recording, music production, songwriting, and performance.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
This land runs through Katherine Paul's blood. And it called to her. In dreams she saw the river, her ancestors, and her home. When the land calls, you listen. And KP found herself far from her ancestral lands during a time of collective trauma, when the world was wounded and in need of healing. In 2020 she made the journey from Portland back to the Skagit River, back to the cedar trees that stand tall and shrouded in fog, back to the tide flats and the mountains, back to Swinomish.

It is a powerful thing to return to our ancestral lands and often times the journey is not easy. Like the salmon through the currents, like the tide as it crawls to shore this is a story of return. It is the call and response. It is the outstretched arms of the people who came before, welcoming her home. The Land, The Water, The Sky is a celebration of lineage and strength. Even in its deepest moments of loneliness and grief, of frustration over a world wrought with colonial violence and pain, the songs remind us that if we slow down, if we listen to the waves and the wind through the trees, we will remember to breathe.

There is a throughline of story in every song, a remembrance of knowledge and teachings, a gratitude of wisdom passed down and carried. There is a reimagining of Sedna who was offered to the sea, and a beautiful rumination on sacrifice and humanity, and what it means to hold the stories that work to teach us something.

Chord progressions born out of moments of sadness and solitude transform into the islands that sit blue along the horizon. The Salish Sea curves along her homelands, and when the singer is close to this water she is reminded of her grandmother, how she looked out at these same islands, and she's held by spirit and memory.

The Land, The Water, The Sk y rises and falls, in darkness and in light, but even in its most melancholy moments it is never despairing. That is the beauty of returning home. When you stand on ancestral lands it is impossible to be alone. You feel the arms and hands that hold you up, unwilling to let you fall into sorrow or abandonment. In her songs Katherine Paul has channeled that feeling of being held. In every note she has written a love letter to indigenous strength and healing.

There is a joy present here, a fierce blissfulness that comes with walking the trails along the river, feeling the sand and the stones beneath her feet. It is the pride and the certainty that comes with knowing her ancestors walked along the same land, dipped their hands into the water, and ran their fingertips along the same bark of cedar trees.

This is a story of hope, as it details the joy of returning. Katherine Paul's journey home wasn'tmade alone, and the songs are crowded with loved ones and relatives, like a really good party.And as the songs walk us through the land it is important we hover over the images and thebeauty, the moments that mark this album as site specific. The power of this land is woventhroughout, telling the story of narrow waterways, brushstrokes, salmon stinta, and above allhealing.Let it take you. Move through the story and see the land through her eyes, because it is a gift, awelcomedsʔabadəb.

**The word "gift" in Lushootseed, the language of the Coast Salish people"

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
This land runs through Katherine Paul's blood. And it called to her. In dreams she saw the river, her ancestors, and her home. When the land calls, you listen. And KP found herself far from her ancestral lands during a time of collective trauma, when the world was wounded and in need of healing.

# data[].attributes.body
Abstract artist

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Across the PNW, Indigenous land & water protectors are fighting back against the threat of oil & gas exports through their lands. From Wet'suwet'en territory to the Klamath River, these battles to protect communities from the harm of the fossil fuel industry are connected. Speakers include Ka'ila Farrell-Smith (Klamath-Modoc Artist), Kanahus Manuel (Secwepemc and Ktunaxa), Brook Thompson (Yurok and Karuk), Dakota Case (Puyallup Water Warriors), and Thomas Joseph (Hoopa).

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Across the PNW, Indigenous land & water protectors are fighting back against the threat of oil & gas exports through their lands. From Wet'suwet'en territory to the Klamath River, these battles to protect communities from the harm of the fossil fuel industry are connected.

# data[].attributes.body
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Aglukark

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Susan Aglukark, ( Inuktitut syllabics: ᓲᓴᓐ ᐊᒡᓘᒃᑲᖅ suusan agluukkaq), (born 27 January 1967) is a Canadian singer whose blend of Inuit folk music traditions with country and pop songwriting has made her a major recording star in Canada. Her most successful song/single is " O Siem", which reached No. 1 on the Canadian country and adult contemporary charts in 1995. Overall, she has released seven studio albums and has won three Juno Awards.

Aglukark was born in Churchill, Manitoba and raised in Arviat, Northwest Territories (now in Nunavut). She endured sexual abuse as a child and has been vocal about this issue in some of the first nations in Northern Ontario. After graduating from high school, she worked in Ottawa, Ontario as a linguist with the Department of Indian & Northern Affairs, and then returned to the Northwest Territories to work as an executive assistant with the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada.

While working with the Inuit Tapirisat, she began to perform as a singer, and quickly became a popular performer in Inuit communities. She soon attracted the attention of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, who included her in a compilation of Arctic performers. In 1992, she released an independent album, Arctic Rose. The following year, she signed to a major record label, releasing an album of Christmas music that year.

Aglukark has also acted as spokesperson for several non-profit groups working with aboriginal and Inuit youth, notably through her writing workshops for Attawapiskat First Nation youth and her involvement in Northern Canada's food crisis. However, she has said that while she is proud to be a role model for aboriginal people in Canada, she ultimately sees herself as an artist with a universal message of self-respect and strength to which she hopes that people of all cultural backgrounds can relate.

, released in 1995, became her breakthrough album. The first single from that album, " O Siem", went to number one on the Canadian adult contemporary and country charts that year, making Aglukark the first Inuk performer to have a Top 40 hit. "Hina Na Ho (Celebration)" and "Breakin' Down" became hit singles as well. The album was eventually certified triple platinum (300,000 copies sold) in Canada.

In 2000, Aglukark released Unsung Heroes, which spawned another pop hit with "One Turn Deserves Another." This album also included "Turn of the Century," a song about the creation of Nunavut. In 2004, she released Big Feeling.

She sometimes deals with painful subjects in her songs. "Kathy" is about her niece who died by suicide, and "Still Running" is about the trauma of sexual abuse. Aglukark has also recorded a version of " Amazing Grace" in Inuktitut.

Her song "Never Be the Same" was featured on Dawson's Creek in Episode No. 3-14 ("Valentine's Day Massacre"), as well as her song "One Turn Deserves Another" in Episode No. 3-15 ("Crime And Punishment").

Aglukark's second holiday album, Dreaming of Home, was released on 5 November 2013.

She currently resides in Oakville, Ontario.

In 2004, Aglukark was awarded an honorary DFA from the University of Lethbridge. She was named an officer of the Order of Canada in 2005, and in the same year received an honorary LL.D. degree from the University of Alberta. In the summer of 2006, she performed nightly in the evening grandstand show at the Calgary Stampede.

1995: winner, Juno Awards for Best New Solo Artist and Best Music of Aboriginal Canada Recording, Arctic Rose

1996: nominee, Juno Awards for Best Female Vocalist, Best Album (This Child), Single of the Year ("O Siem"), Best Music of Aboriginal Canada Recording (This Child), Best Video ("O Siem")

2001: nominee, Juno Award for Best Music of Aboriginal Canada Recording, Unsung Heroes

2004: appointed Officer of the Order of Canada

2007: nominee, Juno Award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year, Blood Red Earth

2008: appointed as Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the University of Alberta

2016: Governor General's Performing Arts Awards - Lifetime Artistic Achievement

The book Aboriginal Carol (2007, Red Deer Press), by David Bouchard, illustrated by Moses Beaver, bilingual (English & Inuktitut), translation and music by Susan Aglukark, was awarded a White Raven by the International Youth Library

Citations

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Susan Aglukark, ( Inuktitut syllabics: ᓲᓴᓐ ᐊᒡᓘᒃᑲᖅ suusan agluukkaq), (born 27 January 1967) is a Canadian singer whose blend of Inuit folk music traditions with country and pop songwriting has made her a major recording star in Canada. Her most successful song/single is " O Siem", which reached No.

# data[].attributes.body
https://youtu.be/tCfKRYaI0aU

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
The Cree Sunrise Song with lyrics and English translation

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Coloring Pages By Hawlii Pichette

These FREE coloring pages are available to download and use as coloring pages only
They are not for resale, commercial use or to be altered in any way.

Happy Holidays!!!

Here are some Holiday themed coloring page! Free to download!

BOBA FETT'S SNOWMAN

GNOMES ~ LET IS SNOW!

Happy Halloween!!!

Here are some Halloween themed coloring pages! Feel free to download!

GOOMBA'S HALLOWEEN

*NEW FREE COLORING BOOK PDF DOWNLOAD!

This coloring book is based on my illustration the 'Garden of Relatives'.

This design is also an exclusive carpet that can be purchased at Wintergreen Learning Materials.
Product Search (wintergreen.ca)

Features 20 coloring pages of animals and the plants inspired by the tracks created as they move across the land. Bonus activity page 'create your own' plant included!

Orange Shirt Day and what is now called 'The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is coming up on September 30. Here is a free resource for educators and parents of children learning and participating in Orange Shirt Day. A coloring page can be a simple tool to engage children and gives them an additional way to show their support as they learn about why orange shirt day is so important.

Coloring has been proven to have the ability to help relieve stress, generate mindfulness, engage active listening and help with the processing of emotions. And don't forget, coloring isn't just for kids!

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Coloring Pages By Hawlii Pichette These FREE coloring pages are available to download and use as coloring pages only They are not for resale, commercial use or to be altered in any way. Happy Holidays!!! Here are some Holiday themed coloring page! Free to download! BOBA FETT'S SNOWMAN GNOMES ~ LET IS SNOW!

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Visual artist, Jason Carter, is a stone carver and sculptor who specializes in soapstone, alabaster, wonderstone, and chlorite. Jason Carter is also a painter/illustrator specializing in Acrylic on Canvas.

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-vQbLG5OIc

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Samantha Crain - Holding to the Edge of Night

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.instagram.com/nomoremoments/?hl=en

# data[].attributes.body
- Topics Discussed: 60s Scoop (abduction of Indigenous children), Intergeneration Trauma

Trigger Warning: This song discusses the damaging legacy of the 60s scoop.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Moe Clark // 21 juin 2020 // Journée nationale des Peuples autochtones

# data[].attributes.headline
Kyle Kaientoton Williams (@ Kyle William's Art on Facebook)

# data[].attributes.subject
Kyle Kaientoton Williams (@ Kyle William's Art on Facebook)

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Pause slideshow Play slideshow

All Kokom Scrunchies are hand made with love ❤️
Shop Now

Kwey Kakina! Meet Mya!

The creator behind Kokom Scrunchies. Mya Beaudry is a talented 11 year old Algonquin from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation. Since starting Kokom Scrunchies in the fall of 2019, Mya has always ensured that all Kokom Scrunchies are handmade with love in Canada.

Mya named each of the original Kokom Scrunchies after Indigenous role models in her life. She hopes to also inspire others in her journey. What started off as an idea, has taken Mya on path of bringing Kokom Scrunchies to everyone, young and old.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Pause slideshow Play slideshow Shop Now The creator behind Kokom Scrunchies. Mya Beaudry is a talented 11 year old Algonquin from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation. Since starting Kokom Scrunchies in the fall of 2019, Mya has always ensured that all Kokom Scrunchies are handmade with love in Canada.

# data[].attributes.body
This book of poetry has some amazing pieces in it. CW: some pieces discuss colonization and violence towards Indigenous peoples and the land

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz's brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages-bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers-be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness: "Let me call my anxiety, desire, then. / Let me call it, a garden." In this new lyrical landscape, the bodies of indigenous, Latinx, black, and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic. In claiming this autonomy of desire, language is pushed to its dark edges, the astonishing dunefields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy, violence and sensuality.

Diaz defies the conditions from which she writes, a nation whose creation predicated the diminishment and ultimate erasure of bodies like hers and the people she loves: "I am doing my best to not become a museum / of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out. // I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible." Postcolonial Love Poem unravels notions of American goodness and creates something more powerful than hope-a future is built, future being a matrix of the choices we make now, and in these poems, Diaz chooses love.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz's brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages-bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers-be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness: "Let me call my anxiety, desire, then.

# data[].attributes.body
https://indiangiverhxc.bandcamp.com/

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Turtle Island HXC Ojibway
Chippewa Mohawk linktr.ee/indiangivertihc

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZtEXz_2ZAU

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Drives the Common Man - Night Vision (Official Music Video)

# data[].attributes.body
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Dunn

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
William Lawrence Dunn (August 14, 1941 - August 5, 2013) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, film director and politician. Born in Montreal, he was of mixed Mi'kmaq and Scottish/Irish background. Dunn often highlighted indigenous issues in his work.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Dunn was a singer and acoustic guitarist. He released several full-length albums of recorded music including Willie Dunn (1971), The Pacific (1980) and Metallic (1999). Metallic reprises material from both earlier releases. Dunn's most famous song, "I Pity the Country", was a criticism of colonialism and anti-indigenous racism; he was also known for the song "Son of the Sun", which Kashtin covered on their second album . In 2004 Dunn released the album Son of the Sun with sixteen songs (including three live recordings).

His songs "I Pity the Country", "Son of the Sun" and "Peruvian Dream" are featured on the 2014 compilation album Native North America, Vol. 1.

Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies, a compilation of songs from throughout his career, was released in 2021 on Light in the Attic Records.

He wrote a song entitled " The Ballad of Crowfoot" and directed a ten-minute National Film Board of Canada (NFB) film of the same name in 1968. Both the song and video are about inhumane and unjust colonial treatment of indigenous Canadians, as well as their taking charge of their destiny and becoming politically active. The first NFB film directed by an indigenous filmmaker, the film received several awards including a Gold Hugo for best short film at the 1969 Chicago International Film Festival. His other films include The Eagle Project, The Voice of the Land and Self-Government, and his music was used for the films Incident at Restigouche, about a 1981 police raid on the Listuguj Mi'gmaq First Nation, and Okanada, about the 1990 standoff in Oka, Quebec between police and native protesters.

The Ballad of Crowfoot has sometimes been credited as the first known Canadian music video. In 2020 the Prism Prize, Canada's annual award for innovations in music video, introduced a lifetime achievement award named in Dunn's memory, with choreographer and video director Laurieann Gibson named as the first winner of the award.

A longtime member of the New Democratic Party, Dunn defeated Mohamed Bassuny to win the party's federal nomination for Ottawa-Vanier in the 1993 federal election. He received 3,155 votes (6.50%), finishing fourth against Liberal incumbent Jean-Robert Gauthier. He participated in the Culturally Diverse First Peoples Arts Showcase tour in 1998, and the Nations in a Circle spotlight of 2002. He was inducted into the Aboriginal Walk of Honour in 2005. Dunn died in Ottawa on August 5, 2013, aged 71.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
William Lawrence Dunn (August 14, 1941 - August 5, 2013) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, film director and politician. Born in Montreal, he was of mixed Mi'kmaq and Scottish/Irish background. Dunn often highlighted indigenous issues in his work. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Dunn was a singer and acoustic guitarist.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
© 2023 by Name of Site. Proudly created with Wix.com

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5vw4ajnWGA

# data[].attributes.headline
All We Need - Rollah & Laina *Trigger Warning*

# data[].attributes.subject
All We Need - Rollah & Laina *Trigger Warning*

# data[].attributes.body
a song created in honour of all the children that didn't make it home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypG2_vSowYw

# data[].attributes.headline
The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy

# data[].attributes.subject
The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy

# data[].attributes.body
TW: talks about ongoing violence towards Indigenous peoples, genocide, land theft, ETC...

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
In this book, leading Indigenous rights activist Arthur Manuel offers a radical challenge to Canada and Canadians. He questions virtually everything non-Indigenous Canadians believe about their relationship with Indigenous peoples.

The Reconciliation Manifesto documents how governments are attempting to reconcile with Indigenous peoples without touching the basic colonial structures that dominate and distort the relationship. Manuel reviews the current state of land claims, tackles the persistence of racism among non-Indigenous people and institutions, decries the role of government-funded organizations like the Assembly of First Nations, and highlights the federal government''s disregard for the substance of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples while claiming to implement it. Together, these circumstances amount to a false reconciliation between Indigenous people and Canada.

Manuel sets out the steps that are needed to place this relationship on a healthy and honourable setting. As he explains, recovering the land and rebuilding the economy are key.

Completed just months before Manuel''s death in January 2017, this book offers an illuminating vision of what is needed for true reconciliation. Expressed with quiet but firm resolve, humour, and piercing intellect, The Reconciliation Manifesto is for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people who are willing to look at the real problems and find real solutions.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.keywords[]
the reconciliation manifesto: recovering the land

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
In this book, leading Indigenous rights activist Arthur Manuel offers a radical challenge to Canada and Canadians. He questions virtually everything non-Indigenous Canadians believe about their relationship with Indigenous peoples. The Reconciliation Manifesto documents how governments are attempting to reconcile with Indigenous peoples without touching the basic colonial structures that dominate and distort the relationship.

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezI1uya213I

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Red Rising is a nonprofit Indigenous collective from Winnipeg, Manitoba. We produce an annual magazine that is unfiltered, uncensored, and is able to tell a story about what is happening right now, and what is about to happen next in our communities.

​

The work that we will continue to do will be relentless, and will hopefully inspire a new generation of Indigenous artists, thinkers, writers, and leaders in the community.

Welcome to Red Rising.

The time for our stories to be told is now!

​

​

© 2020 Red Rising Magazine

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Red Rising Magazine | An Unfiltered Space

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Red Rising is a nonprofit Indigenous collective from Winnipeg, Manitoba. We produce an annual magazine that is unfiltered, uncensored, and is able to tell a story about what is happening right now, and what is about to happen next in our communities.

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-vHLFZl3i0

# data[].attributes.body
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Haze

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Raykeea Raeen-Roes Wilson (born July 10, 1991) known professionally as Angel Haze, is an American rapper and singer. In 2012, Wilson released the EP Reservation and later signed a record deal with Universal Republic Records before moving to Republic Records. On December 31, 2013, Wilson released their debut album , which featured the singles "Echelon (It's My Way)" and " Battle Cry." Wilson has released a number of mixtapes, including Reservation, which was ranked the sixth-best mixtape of 2012 by Mike Diver of the BBC, the most recent one Back to the Woods appeared in 2015.

Wilson was born in Detroit, Michigan to a military family. Their father, who died from a gunshot wound before their birth, was African American and their mother is Native American Cherokee. When Wilson was a young child, their mother met a preacher in the Greater Apostolic Faith and the two moved into his home with his wife and children, into what Wilson describes as a cult. Growing up in the church, Wilson witnessed domestic violence and manipulation at a very young age. As a child, they were sexually abused by a man close to the family. Wilson also recalls being told that they would die spontaneously if they did not behave correctly. In an interview with The Guardian, Wilson stated: "We all lived in the same community, within 10 minutes of each other. You weren't allowed to talk to anyone outside of that, you weren't allowed to wear jewelry, listen to music, to eat certain things, to date people ... you weren't allowed to do pretty much anything."

Wilson's family moved around frequently, mainly due to their mother running away from the church. At one point the family was living in a shelter and Wilson was teased at school for it. They were also mocked for their clothes and had difficulties making friends and connections due to moving around. They switched between homeschool and public school for many years and finished high school a year early.

After a pastor threatened Wilson's mother, the family left the church, moving to Brooklyn, New York, when they were 15 years old. The pastor told Haze's family that God was going to kill them, and they lived in fear for years afterward.

Wilson began writing as a form of therapy and expressed an interest in creative writing, poetry and journalism. Their first poem was published at the age of 13 after winning a school competition. As a child, Wilson took creative writing lessons and wanted to be a songwriter or gospel artist. Eventually, they began making YouTube videos and freestyle rapping at the age of 18. Wilson began distributing music on the Internet through sites such as Tumblr, where a fan base began to form.

From 2009 to 2012, Wilson put out a number of mixtapes for free download on the Internet: New Moon, Altered Ego, King, and Voice. In July 2012, she released the free mixtape Reservation to critical acclaim, receiving an 88/100 score from Metacritic. The title Reservation is an homage to their Native American heritage. Wilson was nominated for BBC the Sound of 2013 poll.

In 2012, Wilson recounted their experience of being sexually assaulted as a child in "Cleaning Out My Closet," a song from the mixtape Classick that uses segments from Eminem's song of the same name.

On August 28, 2013, Wilson released "Echelon (It's My Way)" as the lead single from the debut album Dirty Gold. The entire album was leaked on December 18, 2013, prior to scheduled March 2014 release. The album release date was advanced, and it appeared through Island Records and Republic Records on December 30, 2013, to positive reviews. It had low first-week sales of just over 500 copies. On September 14, 2015, Wilson released the mixtape Back to the Woods announcing that the project was just "something to share before a sophomore". In March 2017 Wilson released "Resurrection".

Influences

After Wilson moved to New York and began listening to secular music, they became inspired by artists such as Eminem, Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, Drake and Lil Wayne. "The artists that I identify [with] mostly are the ones who are so uncompromisingly themselves," Wilson said in a 2014 Rolling Stone interview. "Like, 'Fuck you. I don't care what you think about it. This is who I am. And I can either force-feed you this shit, or you can take it as you will.'"

Public image

Wilson raps about themes such as homophobia, rape culture and racism. They use their personal experiences to condemn a culture that breeds the self-harm of queer youth. Wilson has also been open about their experience with mental illnesses such as addiction, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and anorexia in their music and in interviews and social media.

Wilson sees their goal as an artist to reach out to people who are similar to them or going through difficult experiences. They said, "It's not about the Bible. It's not about going to church. It's not about anything other than that we are all energies connected with a force that's greater than us. It's an energy that's omniscient, it covers the whole world, and everybody here is created for a reason. Mine happens to be to make the music and inspire the people who are stuck in dark places."

In a 2014 column, Wilson discussed cultural appropriation and white artists making hip hop, saying "There seems to be this hypocrisy because people want to appropriate black culture but only when it's cool or beneficial to them ... And that's the reason that people don't have a right, to some extent, to use black music to their own gains."

Wilson is pansexual and agender. They have said: "People talking about me, like, 'I'm glad there's an actual woman of color representing queerness and pansexuality, someone who is like me in the spotlight.'" In 2015, Wilson noted that in an interview with that they identify as neither male nor female and explained, "I feel like my agenderness and my gender identity have evolved". In 2016, they told the Evening Standard that they preferred he/him or she/her pronouns, expressing their feeling that, when reading articles about themself, "I sound like four people when I get written about as 'they.' It drives me crazy [...] If you call me 'him' or 'her,' it doesn't matter to me. I don't consider myself of any sex. I consider myself an experience." Wilson has since begun using they/them pronouns.

In an interview with The Guardian, Wilson stated that, "Love is boundary-less. If you can make me feel, if you can make me laugh-and that's hard to do-then I can be with you." In 2014, Haze was in a relationship with model Ireland Baldwin. The two broke up a year later.

Wilson recorded a cover of Macklemore's " Same Love," which chronicled their own personal experiences. They opened up about their struggles with family over sexuality and growing up LGBTQ. In a 2017 Billboard interview they stated, "When I was young ... I didn't understand what was going on. I didn't understand that I could be attracted to men and women at the same time."

In 2015, Wilson began working on a body image project titled "The Naked Eye" incorporating nude photographs and interviews of people with body dysmorphia. The project aims to create a conversation about conventional and mainstream beauty standards.

Wilson is self-taught in the Cherokee language and celebrates their multiracial heritage.

Television

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Raykeea Raeen-Roes Wilson (born July 10, 1991) known professionally as Angel Haze, is an American rapper and singer. In 2012, Wilson released the EP Reservation and later signed a record deal with Universal Republic Records before moving to Republic Records.

# data[].attributes.body
Speaks of Resilience in many areas

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Climbing PoeTree~ WE SURVIVED [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]

# data[].attributes.body
http://frankwaln.com/home/

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Copyright © 2016 Frank Waln. All Rights Reserved.

# data[].attributes.headline
She Holds The Sky Designs/Karonienhawe Diabo (Facebook)

# data[].attributes.subject
She Holds The Sky Designs/Karonienhawe Diabo (Facebook)

# data[].attributes.body
(@raunchykwe on instagram) Really thoughtful artwork on conversations around pregnancy, sexuality, spirits, and ancestral knowledge

# data[].attributes.body
In Layli Longsoldier's book WHEREAS the poet "confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations."

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, lon…

# data[].attributes.body
Content Warning , MMIW, TW SA

# data[].attributes.body
the impacts of Residential Schools

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Skip to Content

Ready to compete for awesome prizes while learning new skills and inspiring action towards social justice? Time to get creative, code, and put your entrepreneurial spirit to the test.
Spring 2022 Winners

What YVIP is

Your Voice is Power is a national competition for middle and high school students designed to teach the fundamentals of computer science, entrepreneurship, and social justice. Using the EarSketch platform, students get creative to remix songs from Indigenous artists and use what they have learned from the provided course outline.

The Artists

Four nationally recognized Indigenous artists are taking part in the competition. Students will remix songs from Dakota Bear, Jayli Wolf, Samian, and Twin Flames while taking inspiration from the social justice themes demonstrated in the work of these artists.

Check out our exclusive Amazon Music Playlist, with recurring themes of perseverance, the power of will, and steadfast determination toward a better future when faced with obstacles from a bleak past. It also showcases foundational moments in music across North America spanning 30+ years of music making.

How It Works

Learn & Code

The Your Voice Is Power competition is an opportunity to remix beats while learning to code. Yes, code! Your students will use EarSketch, a free online code editor, to compose a unique song while learning computer science. No experience is necessary to participate. Students can also participate in the curriculum experience to develop an understanding of social justice themes to include in their song.

Compete & Submit

The Competition is open to receive your entries! Students develop and submit a unique song that a panel of industry experts will judge. Songs should be between 30 seconds and 3 minutes, including five unique music tracks and one or more sound clips from the highlighted artists above. Entries will be judged based on the quality of music, code, and inclusion of social justice themes.

2023 contest entries closed May 31, 2023 and winners will be announced this Summer. Missed this year's deadline? Not to worry! We've already opened up submissions for the 2023-24 contest.

See Competition Entry Requirements and Official Rules for more details.

Win Prizes

First Place

Two students will win $5,000 to go towards college or to start a business.

Runners up

Runners up will win $200 Amazon gift cards and $25 for honourable mentions!

Teachers

One excellent teacher will receive $1,000 for their remarkable instruction.

Course Outline
Start Course
The curriculum is split into eight modules where students learn how music, computer science, and entrepreneurship can be tools to fight for social justice. Each module's learning experience includes a lesson plan, slides, student notes, and exit ticket. These modules are integrated into respective web pages for you to follow along with your students.

(See the contents 'At a Glance' here.)

Module 1: Introduction

Module 2: Layers of Injustice & Creating a Script with Comments

Module 3: Layers of Music (Activism & Equity)

Module 4: Creating Your Soundbank, Variables, & Tracks

Module 5: Song Structure-Every Song (and Person) Plays a Part!

Module 6: Messages, Chorus, & Custom Functions

Module 7: Spirit Bear Guide & Calls to Action

Module 8: Code Your Voice

Introduction

In Module 1, students learn about the connections between coding and music, create an EarSketch account, learn about the Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), and have a little fun with tempo!

Keep up to date newsletter

Subscribe to our newsletter! Never miss an update about competition news, training and winner announcements.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Your Voice is Power - Ta Voix Est Puissante

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Ready to compete for awesome prizes while learning new skills and inspiring action towards social justice? Time to get creative, code, and put your entrepreneurial spirit to the test.

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj0drevGOgA

# data[].attributes.attachment_caption
A really great artist from treaty 1, mixing his identity with a really distinct graphic style.  

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Theytus Books is a leading North American publisher of Indigenous voices.

# data[].attributes.body
TW: police brutality, genocide, violence against BIPOC

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
LG (Team Genius) - YBM [Official Music Video]

# data[].attributes.body
TW Police Brutality and honouring people lost to police violence.
*Get Involved*

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Stitching Stolen Lives

Remembering those we've lost, and empowering those of the future

ORDER our book, Stitching Stolen Lives.
Stitching Stolen Lives is an in-depth look at the mission and work of the Social Justice Sewing Academy Remembrance Project. Together, we remember the lives lost due to social injustices, with an in-depth sharing of their story.
The SJSA compiled extraordinary portrait art quilts that memorialize the individuals and say their names, over and over. SJSA also works with young adults and teens to help find their voice through the art of fabric and quilting, shown through student gallery photography. By working with SJSA, students learn how to cut fabric and make quilt blocks, and along the way, find the strength to express the systemic problems that plague their everyday life through their artwork. This book shares stories and insight into the lives lost and the long-overlooked, heartrending truths shared by teens and young adults.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Remembering those we've lost, and empowering those of the future ORDER our book, Stitching Stolen Lives. Stitching Stolen Lives is an in-depth look at the mission and work of the Social Justice Sewing Academy Remembrance Project. Together, we remember the lives lost due to social injustices, with an in-depth sharing of their story.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Self Help Graphics & Art, Inc. is located in Los Angeles, California.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Self-Help Graphics & Art, Inc. is a community arts center in East Los Angeles, California, USA. Self Help Graphics & Art is dedicated to the production, interpretation, and distribution of prints and other art media by Chicana/o and Latina/o artists.

# data[].attributes.body
Leanne's work is my #1 <3

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Admid the overlapping crises of a pandemic, ecological disaster, and global capitalism, two leading Black and Indigenous feminist theorists ask one another: what do liberated lands, minds, and bodies look like? These letters are part debate, part dialogue, and part lively and detailed familial correspondence between two razor-sharp thinkers, sending notes to each other during a stormy present. Featuring a foreword by Ruth Wilson Gilmore and an afterword by Robin D.G. Kelley.

"This book must be read for its future vocabularies, its political intimacies, its careful assemblage of the materials of our activisms, and its generous and fulsome thinking."
-Dionne Brand, poet, novelist, and essayist

"Using the age-old practice of letter writing and the land itself as a palimpsest, Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson find common ground to challenge the moral legitimacy of the settler nation state, and reinscribe new ways of what it means to be beings who are human in the forensic landscapes of Canada. In Rehearsals for Living, two women, one Indigenous, the other Black and African-descended confront their shared yet different experiences of colonialism, provide new and subversive meanings to the colonial trope of being landed, the mechanism by which the land was (un)settled. Unflinchingly, and in long-overdue and profoundly-needed "reasonings" that reverberate with shared breath, Simpson and Maynard weave their ideas, thoughts and reflections and their deep caring for community and society through the network of issues that impact us today-the pandemic and the differentials in treatment for Black and Indigenous people, the role of BLM, abolition, the necessity of Nibi and homespace for the Nishnaabeg, the joys of living on the land, and parenting in the face of ecological and racial disasters are but a few of the challenges they grapple with. Rehearsals for Living is fundamental to understanding the interlocking, founding crimes of the Americas; necessary for remembering the many erased histories of the on-going struggle for justice, and altogether indispensable to those wanting to create possible solutions."
-M. NourbeSe Philip, author of Zong!

"Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson embody and express how practice makes different. This necessary book is a model-through the shared process of two brilliant thinkers it gifts us clarity to see rehearsals otherwise and elsewhere."
-Ruth Wilson Gilmore, from the foreword

"We have been, and will continue to be, flooded with big books and little books and reports and documentary films all showing us how capitalism, racism, prisons, patriarchy, walls, and war are killing the planet. But this book is different. How Maynard and Simpson came to understand the world we must abolish and the world we need to build is through communing-with each other, comrades, friends and family, and the movements to which they make themselves accountable. They dance together, sing together, meditate, worship, and study together through letters, by sharing, by making themselves vulnerable to one another and to all of us reading these pages. Rehearsals for Living is a work of profound humility that honors the ancestors, the land, the children, and the struggles that enabled every generation to survive. They braid the histories and collective memories of Black and Indigenous struggles to establish a basis for solidarity, to find answers, and to reveal and share valuable lessons for our movements."
-Robin D. G. Kelley, from the afterword

"Across the pandemic-imposed distance, Leanne and Robyn begin a new iteration of the practices they've enacted in their labors and loves for years-this origin rises in letters, in which they take account of (and consequently bear the physical, emotional, and intellectual burdens of that accounting) the intimate and public violences committed by our governments upon our peoples, lands, waters and non-human relatives. In these letters, Leanne and Robyn constellate our brightest wounds and scars, but refuse to waste their energies of love and imagination on fixing or salvaging the Nation/State. Instead, they reorganize the trajectories and shapes of those constellations-retelling stories again and anew, of who we have been and might yet be again."
-Natalie Diaz, author of Postcolonial Love Poem

"As we collectively and unevenly live through sedimented colonialities, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Robyn Maynard draw out a political vision that emerges from epistolary connections-letters, animated by stories, that seek out, engage, imagine, and narrate different kinds and types of liberation. Accentuated by entangled black-indigenous histories and geographies, Rehearsals for Living actualizes friendship as correspondence, modeling a mode of togetherness that we can practice, learn from, and revise."
-Katherine McKittrick, author of Demonic Grounds and Dear Science and Other Stories

"The beautifully named Rehearsals for Living is a gift conjured by a pair of brilliant scholars during the dark days and months of the pandemic, lit by a powerful resistance movement, fueled and rendered magical by a profound and challenging dialogue that offers ways to collectively think and be and act in a chaotic world."
-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

"In their inspired act of 'writing together, walking together, witnessing these times together,' Robyn Maynard and Leanne Simpson illuminate in essential ways the entwined lives of Black and Indigenous peoples. Rehearsals for Living honours legacies of courageous revolt against the ongoing histories of dispossession, incarceration, and violence. It is a book of relation, radical generosity, and care - a book, too, of running children, and the colour of the sky, and of 'holding within [ourselves] that nascent shimmering of possibility.' Above all, it is a book that poses and answers these most urgent questions: 'how are we going to live and how are we going to live together?'"
-David Chariandy, author of Brother

"Lyrical, visionary, and transcendent, Rehearsals for Living creates a literary maroon space deeply rooted in unique and overlapping histories and presents in which to dream abolition, home, love, land, liberatory forms of governance, life itself. While chronicling the continuing unfolding calamities of settler colonialism and racial capitalism with care and razor sharp clarity, Simpson and Maynard point readers to portals to different futures through the infinite possibilities of Black-Indigenous resistance. Give yourself the gift of allowing your heart and mind to overflow with the beauty and promise of Rehearsals' visions."
-Andrea J. Ritchie, author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color and co-author of No More Police: A Case for Abolition

"Rehearsals for Living is a profound and sublime work of memory, witnessing, refusal, dreaming. In the trenchant tradition of Black and Indigenous feminisms, this brilliant book moves us away from the language of crisis or victimhood to the precise and intimate encounters of kinship and liberation. The letters between Maynard and Simpson magnificently shapeshift and engage on multiple levels, and in doing so, rigorously demand an accounting for horrific violences while illuminating lives and worlds anew. A masterclass in literary form, ethical orientations, and collective futures."
-Harsha Walia, author of Border and Rule, Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

"What a pleasure and honor it is to read two such probing and principled minds in conversation and collaboration. Maynard and Simpson dare to confront the most wrenching challenges of our omnicidal times, while finding joy and love along the way. A beacon of a book."
-Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough

"Not all apocalypses are unwelcome. The profound anticipation for a world otherwise bubbled to the surface the summer of 2020. Collective rage and love shattered the sense of inviolability surrounding white supremacy putting forward an alternative vision, one already existing and always in the making. Rehearsals for Living is an epistolary that captures that urgent project of what it means to be human and imagine freedom in times of terrible danger. Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson tap into Black and Indigenous ways of knowing and world-making that require a fundamental disordering of the forces of destruction and the re-ordering of life and the beautiful struggle to get free."
-Nick Estes, author of Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

"Rehearsals for Living is an intellectually fierce dialogue about our colonial present by two of the most renowned scholar-activists working today. In a time of incredible uncertainty, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Robyn Maynard show that the shared and divergent histories of Black and Indigenous communities are foundational to the building of a better world for all."
-Glen Coulthard, author of Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

"The end of the world, or the end of capitalism, colonialism, heteropatriarchy, white supremacy? This astonishing work of literature and theory enables us to imagine the end of them all, and to call into being, to rehearse, a world anew. If pandemics opened portals, Rehearsals for Living reveals the places of Indigenous and Black freedom to which they might lead. At a time when we need it most, Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's letters generously invite us all to a future in which relations of liberation, not exploitation and oppression, constitute living on this planet together."
-John Munro, author of The Anticolonial Front: The African American Freedom Movement and Global Decolonization, 1945-1960

Solidification is a video collaboration blending an immersive reading by Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson from her recently released novel, "Noopiming:The Cure for White Ladies" (House of Anansi Press) over a wintery soundscape of drone and vocal composed by her sister Ansley Simpson, brought to life with visuals from Sammy Chien of Chimerik似不像, an interdisciplinary collective of performance, art & technology. Check out the EP Noopiming Sessions, on Bandcamp.

Available in February 2021 in the United States from the University of Minnesota Press. Short Listed for the Governor' General's literary award for fiction.

"Noopiming is a novel that is as philosophically generative as it is stylistically original. It begins with someone who is frozen in a lake, waiting, and from whom we learn that: 'being frozen in the lake is another kind of life.' Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's expansive work explores the indivisibility of beings - old woman, old man, tree, caribou, stone, ice, spirit, geese, the brain and more, all watching, grieving, thinking, acting, and listening amidst the ongoing and quotidian urgencies of capital. They are sleepless, ceaseless, trying to alter and to recode the world of consumerism, and their survival means that they must daily and collectively reconstruct existence in the city and its coterminous forests. Noopiming is far ahead of us in so many registers of story, language, and worldview; its cumulative effect is a new cosmography."

- Dionne Brand, award-winning author of Theory

"Noopiming is a rare parcel of beauty and power, at once a creator and destroyer of forms. All of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's myriad literary gifts shine here - her scalpel-sharp humor, her eye for the smallest human details, the prodigious scope of her imaginative and poetic generosity. The result is a book at once fierce, uproarious, heartbreaking, and, throughout and above all else, rooted in love."

- Omar El Akkad, bestselling author of American War

"Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's Noopiming once again confirms her position as a brilliant, daring experimentalist and a beautiful, radical portraitist of contemporary NDN life. The prose hums with a lovingness that moved me to tears, and with a humour that felt plucked right out of my rez adolescence. The chorus of thinkers, dreamers, revolutionaries, poets, and misfits that Simpson conjures here feels like a miracle. My heart ached and swelled for all of them. What I adored most about this book is that it has so little to do with the white gaze. Simpson writes for us, for NDNs, those made to make other kinds of beauty, to build other kinds of beautiful lives, where no one is looking. Noopiming is a book from the future! Simpson is our much-needed historian of the future!"

- Billy-Ray Belcourt, award-winning author of NDN Coping Mechanisms

In A Short History of the Blockade, award-winning writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson uses Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg stories, storytelling aesthetics, and practices to explore the generative nature of Indigenous blockades through our relative, the beaver-or in Nishnaabemowin, Amik. Moving through genres, shifting through time, amikwag stories become a lens for the life-giving possibilities of dams and the world-building possibilities of blockades, deepening our understanding of Indigenous resistance, as both a negation and an affirmation. A Short History of the Blockade reveals how the practice of telling stories is also a culture of listening, "a thinking through together," and ultimately, like the dam or the blockade, an affirmation of life.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Admid the overlapping crises of a pandemic, ecological disaster, and global capitalism, two leading Black and Indigenous feminist theorists ask one another: what do liberated lands, minds, and bodies look like? These letters are part debate, part dialogue, and part lively and detailed familial correspondence between two razor-sharp thinkers, sending notes to each other during a stormy present.

# data[].attributes.body
https://m.facebook.com/kaiatanorond?d=m

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
It looks like you were misusing this feature by going too fast. You've been temporarily blocked from using it. If you think this doesn't go against our Community Standards let us know.

# data[].attributes.body
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Allan_Barker

# data[].attributes.body
Fawn Wood

# data[].attributes.body
Crushing the literary world rn. Works in many genres of writing with an emphasis on her own journey of identity and belonging. Hi Fran!

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Couzyn van Heuvelen | IAQ Profiles | Inuit Art Foundation

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Couzyn van Heuvelen is a sculptor and installation artist with a interest in investigating Inuit tools, methods and innovations in his work. Hailing from Iqaluit, NU, and currently based in Bowmanvill

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
A new and expanded version of Gord Hill's seminal illustrated history of Indigenous struggles in the Americas.

When it was first published in 2010, The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book was heralded as a groundbreaking illustrated history of Indigenous activism and resistance in the Americas over the previous 500 years, from contact to present day. Eleven years later, author and artist Gord Hill has revised and expanded the book, which is now available in colour for the first time.

The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book powerfully portrays flashpoints in history when Indigenous peoples have risen up and fought back against colonizers and other oppressors. Events depicted include the the Spanish conquest of the Aztec, Mayan and Inca empires; the 1680 Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico; the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890; the resistance of the Great Plains peoples in the 19th century; and more recently, the Idle No More protests supporting Indigenous sovereignty and rights in 2012 and 2013, and the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016. Canadian events depicted include the Oka crisis in 1990, the Grand River land dispute between Six Nations and the Government of Canada in 2006, and the Wet'suwet'en anti-pipeline protests in 2020.

With strong, plain language and evocative illustrations, this revised and expanded edition of The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book reveals the tenacity and perseverance of Indigenous peoples as they endured 500-plus years of genocide, massacre, torture, rape, displacement, and assimilation: a necessary antidote to conventional histories of the Americas.

The book includes a foreword by Pamela Palmater, a Mi'kmaq lawyer, professor, and political commentator.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book: Revised and Expanded

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
A new and expanded version of Gord Hill's seminal illustrated history of Indigenous struggles in the Americas. When it was first published in 2010, The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book was heralded as a groundbreaking illustrated history of Indigenous activism and resistance in the Americas over the previous 500 years, from contact to present day.

# data[].attributes.body
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Hunter

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Ruby Charlotte Margaret Hunter (31 October 1955 - 17 February 2010) was an Aboriginal Australian singer, songwriter and guitarist. She was a Ngarrindjeri woman, who often performed with her partner, Archie Roach AM, whom she met at the age of 16, while both were homeless teenagers. Born near the mouth of the Murray River in the Coorong region of South Australia, Hunter was forcibly taken from her family at the age of eight as part of the Stolen Generation.

Hunter first performed in public in 1988 during a festival at Bondi Pavilion in Sydney, where she performed "Proud, Proud Woman," the first song she had written. In 1990, she wrote the autobiographical " Down City Streets", which was performed by Roach on his debut solo album Charcoal Lane. In 1994, Hunter became the first Indigenous Australian woman to record a solo "rock" album, and the first Aboriginal woman signed to a major record label, when she released her debut album Thoughts Within.

She made her acting debut in One Night the Moon. With Roach and Paul Grabowsky, she wrote and performed the concert "Ruby's Story", which tells her life story through song and spoken word.

At the 2020 National Indigenous Music Awards, Hunter was inducted into its Hall of Fame.

Hunter was the author of Butcher paper, texta, black board and chalk, a children's song-book which features Aboriginal songs about land, health and life. Many of the songs were written through song writing and music workshops held by Hunter and Roach with children across Cape York in Queensland.[citation needed ]

In 2005, Hunter was invited by Deborah Conway to take part in the Broad Festival project, with three other Australian female artists, where they performed their own and each other's songs. With Hunter and Conway were Sara Storer, Katie Noonan and Clare Bowditch.

As a child, Hunter lived with her brothers, Wally, Jeffrey and Robert, and sister Iris, with their grandmother and grandfather at the Aboriginal reserve at Point McLeay (later called Raukkan) on Lake Alexandrina in the Coorong region of South Australia. One day, Wally was taken off the street by government officials, and then the men took the rest of the children from their home, under the pretext that they were being taken to the circus. Thereafter Ruby lived in institutions and foster care, as one of the Stolen Generations, before drifting to Adelaide, staying for a spell at the Salvation Army's " People's Palace", where she met Roach. They later had two sons and fostered three children.

Hunter died of a heart attack on 17 February 2010, aged 54. Her partner Archie Roach established "Ruby's Foundation" to help continue her legacy. The foundation is dedicated to creating opportunities for Aboriginal people through the promotion, celebration and support of Aboriginal arts and culture.

The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music.

The Deadly Awards, commonly known simply as The Deadlys, was an annual celebration of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievement in music, sport, entertainment and community. The ran from 1995 to 2013.

The National Indigenous Music Awards recognise excellence, innovation and leadership among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musicians from throughout Australia. They commenced in 2004.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Ruby Charlotte Margaret Hunter (31 October 1955 - 17 February 2010) was an Aboriginal Australian singer, songwriter and guitarist. She was a Ngarrindjeri woman, who often performed with her partner, Archie Roach AM, whom she met at the age of 16, while both were homeless teenagers.

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ9Y5QIlLKh/  photographer who uses his craft to help protect/photograph native communities and document real stories

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.embed_code
View this post on Instagram

A post shared by @ryanvizzions

# data[].attributes.body
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayers_(duo)

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Prayers is an electronic rock duo founded in 2013 by Rafael Reyes and Dave Parley. Prayers are the first musicians/artists to use the term Cholo goth to define their genre of music which lyrically explores the harsh realities of gang and street life over throbbing beats and swirling synthesizers.

While Dave Parley performs under his birth name, Reyes utilizes his alter-ego Leafar Seyer for Prayers.

Prayers is influenced by Christian Death, Depeche Mode, Bauhaus, Pet Shop Boys, Xmal Deutschland and other Gothic rock and dark 80s music, as well as by Reyes' life as gang member in the Sherman Grant Hill Park 27 gang, one of San Diego's oldest gangs, also known as Sherman 27. He was jumped into the gang as a teenager. Prayers' music, lyrics and image breaks down stereotypes within the Goth and Cholo subcultures.

Prior to forming Prayers, Reyes, who was born in Cotija, Michoacán and came to San Diego as a young child, had created two other bands, Baptism of Thieves and Vampire, and performed in a solo project, Nite Ritual. Reyes and Parley, a Tijuana native, began recording immediately upon meeting. In three days they had recorded their first CD, SD KILLWAVE which they released independently on first as a CD and download and then on vinyl.

Reyes conceived two videos, "From Dog to God" and "Ready to Bleed" for SD KILLWAVE. The first was shot by Charles Parker, while the second, a narrative, was filmed by Gavin Filipiak, who continues to work with the band.

Prayers' video "Dog to God" caught the eye of the Cult frontman Ian Astbury who requested the band open for them on their 2014 spring tour of California and Nevada. Later that summer, Prayers released their second CD, GOTHIC SUMMER and Filipiak directed the video for the title track, which subsequently won the 2015 San Diego Film Festival Award for Best Music Video and Best Music Video Editing.

On May 26, 2015, Prayers premiered the title track of the Travis Barker-produced third CD, "Young Gods" as a video single, through Noisey/Vice Magazine. The video features a real brawl, with no punches pulled, between members of Sherman 27 who volunteered to be in the video. The album Young Gods was released June 23.

The follow up single, "West End Girls," released July 30, was a cover of the Pet Shop Boys' song, and the video, featuring members of Sherman 27 and women from the San Diego Goth scene, was again conceived by Seyer, directed by Filipiak, and featured on Noisey. The cover and video would lead to Seyer conceiving of and co-directing with Filipiak the Pet Shop Boys' video for the song "Twenty-Something," which the Pet Shop Boys personally commissioned.

In October 2015, Prayers scored five nominations in the San Diego Music Awards, "the most in recent memory by a new group for the SDMA" and won for Best Alternative Band. Seyer, flanked by Parley and a semi-nude female escort, thanked his family and management, then derided awards for overlooking "Young Gods" in the video category, pointing out that Prayers' video had gotten 4x the YouTube views as the winner. The following year, 2016, the San Diego Academy of Music suspended their awards show, and resumed in 2017, having eliminated the video and several other categories, and revised the voting procedures, so that some categories are voted on by the public (and with only one vote per email address, vs earlier the one vote per person per day). Best album and song categories are still decided upon by the members of the San Diego Music Academy. Prayers received a nomination for Best Indie/Alternative Band.

The third single and video from Young Gods, "Drugs," featuring Travis Barker and DJ Klever, departed from the black and white style; it was animated and directed by Dani Moreno Cordero. The video was released in January 2016, in advance of the band's sold-out show at the El Rey in Los Angeles.

In anticipation of their 2016 Coachella show, Prayers released the single "Black Leather" featuring Kat von D. The video was shot in both Los Angeles and San Diego, with Sherman gang members and Prayers' friends from the Southland goth scene, as well as Kat von D. The single charted in Europe, knocking off Radiohead for the number one spot on Ausfahrt Indie Chart. Reyes and Kat von D. married in 2018.

Prayers signed with the international label, BMG, it was announced in September, 2017, with their full-length LP Baptism of Thieves to be released that November. They also announced the Friday, October 13 release of Cursed Be Thy Blessings, a collaborative EP with the surviving, original members of Christian Death, Rikk Agnew, James McGearty and Gitane Demone, which features a cover of the Christian Death song "Dogs" but re-configured as "Perros" (dogs in Spanish), with a Prayers song as the title track. A documentary about the making of the EP, Beyond and Back, written and directed by Kenny Ochoa and Bryan Ray Turcotte and shot by Estevan Oriol and Ramez Silyan, was released on the same day.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Prayers is an electronic rock duo founded in 2013 by Rafael Reyes and Dave Parley. Prayers are the first musicians/artists to use the term Cholo goth to define their genre of music which lyrically explores the harsh realities of gang and street life over throbbing beats and swirling synthesizers.

# data[].attributes.body
CW: police violence

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Anderson .Paak - Lockdown Remix feat. JID, Noname & Jay Rock

# data[].attributes.body
BLM, Australian history, Black/Aboriginal/Indigenous matriarchs, black pride, indigenous/aboriginal pride

TW: intersectional violence, genocide, addiction

# data[].attributes.body
Janice writes a lot of music about racism and the patriarchy as well as her relationship with water.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
These are survival songs. Affirmations of sadness, celebrations of love, songs to sing to get free.

released January 21, 2016

1. All the times you were silent (4:43)
2. Rising (4:07)
3. Oh I Owe (5:44)
4. Millenial Blues (1:57)
5. No Mr Patriarchy (4:16)
6. Resilience (1:04)
7. Come On Over (3:36)
8. 40 km to Pickle Lake (3:36)
9. In the Breeze (3:39)
10. Weathered (2:09)
11. To the Stars (3:00)
12. When you wore a tulip (1:55)

Produced by Janice Jo Lee. Copyright Janice Jo Lee SOCAN 2015. All Rights Reserved. JANICEJOLEE.CA

Janice Jo Lee: vocals, beatbox, trumpet, guitar
Adam F. Lewis: percussion on tracks 1, 7, 9
Brockenshire Lemiski: additional guitar on track 9, piano on track 12
Lydia Mainville: cello on tracks 6, 8
Becky Reesor: piano on track 3

All songs written by Janice Jo Lee, except track 10 written by Percy Wenrich and Jack Mahoney. Recorded and mixed on analogue by D.H. Thompson and Bill Howard at The Monolith Studio Kitchener. Mastered by Dave Houde. Photography by Hannah Marie. Album art and design by Zinta Avens Auzins.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Sing Hey by Janice Jo Lee, released 21 January 2016 1. All the times you were silent 2. Rising 3. Oh I Owe 4. Millenial Blues 5. No Mr Patriarchy 6. Resilience 7. Come On Over 8. 40 km to Pickle Lake 9. In the Breeze 10. Weathered 11.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
DJ Shub - Indomitable ft. Northern Cree Singers (Official Video)

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Multicultural and Social Justice Books - Social Justice Books

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Curated Booklists Carefully selected multicultural and social justice books for children, young adults, and educators on 90+ topics. Reviews of Children's Literature Critical reviews of children's and young adult books from a variety of vetted sources, consolidated here for easy access. Articles & News Articles about selecting children's literature and news about Kid Lit.

# data[].attributes.body
https://jeremydutcher.com/

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Jeremy Dutcher * Order Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Jeremy Dutcher is a classically trained operatic tenor and composer who takes every opportunity to blend his Wolastoq First Nation roots into the music he creates, blending distinct musical aesthetics that shape-shift between classical, traditional, and pop to form something entirely new.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
The 2018 Diversity in Children's Literature graphic (produced by Sarah Park Dahlen and David Huyck) is available to download as JPEGs/PDFs of the image at the blog of infographic co-producer Dr. Sarah Park Dahlen.

A version was available as a postcard. The back of the card can be viewed and downloaded here.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Diversity in Children's Books Graphic - Social Justice Books

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
The 2018 Diversity in Children's Literature graphic (produced by Sarah Park Dahlen and David Huyck) is available to download as JPEGs/PDFs of the image at the blog of infographic co-producer Dr. Sarah Park Dahlen. A version was available as a postcard. The back of the card can be viewed and downloaded here.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Billy-Ray Belcourt is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is an Assistant Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia. A 2018 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar, he earned his PhD in English at the University of Alberta. He was also a 2016 Rhodes Scholar and holds an M.St. in Women's Studies from the University of Oxford and Wadham College. In the First Nations Youth category, Belcourt was awarded a 2019 Indspire Award, which is the highest honor the Indigenous community bestows on its own leaders.

Billy-Ray's debut book of poems, This Wound is a World (Frontenac House 2017), won the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize (making him the youngest ever winner) and the 2018 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize. It was also named the Most Significant Book of Poetry in English by an Emerging Indigenous Writer at the 2018 Indigenous Voices Awards. This Wound is a World was a finalist for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, the 2018 Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry, the 2018 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and the 2018 Raymond Souster Award, both of the latter via the Canadian League of Poets. It was also named by CBC Books as the best "Canadian poetry" collection of 2017. U.S. (University of Minnesota Press) and French (Groupe Nota Bene) editions of the book are now available.

His sophomore book, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field, a national bestseller, is out now. According to Open Book, the book "cements [Belcourt] as one of the most imaginative and creative writers in the country." Of the poems, the Toronto Star says "both intellectual and visceral, [they] dazzle with metaphoric richness and striking lyricism." It was longlisted for Canada Reads 2020 and shortlisted for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, the 2020 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize, and the 2020 Raymond Souster Award. It won the 2020 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry.

His third book, A History of my Brief Body, essays and vignettes on grief, colonial violence, joy, love, and queerness, published in Canada in August 2020 with Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Canada, and in the US with Two Dollar Radio. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews called it "elegantly crafted" and "an urgently needed, unyielding book of theoretical and intimate strength."

His creative writing is represented by Stephanie Sinclair at CookeMcDermid (ssinclair [at] cookemcdermid.com).

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Billy-Ray Belcourt is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is an Assistant Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia. A 2018 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar, he earned his PhD in English at the University of Alberta.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022 and is winner of Yale's 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry.

The author of ten books of poetry, including the highly acclaimed, Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years, several plays and children's books, and two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior, her many honors include the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the Ruth Lily Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Harjo delivered the 2021 Windham-Campbell Lecture at Yale, part of the virtual Windham-Campbell Prize Festival that year. That lecture was the basis for Catching the Light, published in 2022 by Yale University Press in the Why I Write series.

As a musician and performer, Harjo has produced seven award-winning music albums including her newest, I Pray for My Enemies. She served as Executive Editor of the anthology When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through - A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry and the editor of Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry, the companion anthology to her signature Poet Laureate project.

She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Board of Directors Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, and is the first Artist-in-Residence for Tulsa's Bob Dylan Center. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

In REMEMBER, acclaimed Indigenous creators Joy Harjo and Michaela Goade invite young readers to pause and reflect on family, nature, their heritage, and the world around them.

This timeless poem paired with magnificent paintings makes for a picture book that is a true celebration of life and our human role within it.

Praise for REMEMBER

"With Caldecott Medalist Goade as illustrator, recent U.S. Poet Laureate Harjo's acclaimed poem becomes a beauty to behold...A rich and reverential tribute to life, family, and poetry."

- Booklist, starred review

"Evoking the cyclical feeling of a slow breath in and out, it's a smartly constructed, reflective picture book based in connection and noticing."

- Publishers Weekly, starred review

"The teeming images thrillingly catch young viewers up as they swirl, circles emphasizing the cyclical nature of life. 'Remember,' closes the text, and children will."

- The Horn Book, starred review

"A contemplative, visually dazzling masterpiece that will resonate even more deeply each time it is read."

- Kirkus Reviews, starred review

With Caldecott Medalist Goade as illustrator, recent U.S. Poet Laureate Harjo's acclaimed poem becomes a beauty to behold.
-Booklist

Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo's fifty years as a poet.

In this gemlike volume, Harjo selects her best poems from across fifty years, beginning with her early discoveries of her own voice and ending with moving reflections on our contemporary moment. Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light traces every occasion of a lifetime; it offers poems on birth, death, love, and resistance; on motherhood and on losing a parent; on fresh beginnings amidst legacies of displacement. Generous notes on each poem offer insight into Harjo's inimitable poetics as she takes inspiration from sunrise and horse songs and jazz, reckons with home and loss, and listens to the natural messengers of the earth.

Praise for Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light

"Joy Harjo's work is both very old and very new. She tells stories in verse, sometimes highly compressed, sometimes long and winding, which ritually invoke and link her to roots and sources. She seeks continuity between what she calls her 'past and future ancestors,' and views each poem as a ceremonial object with the potential to make change. She has found a singing language for grief and meaningfully transforms the American story. Her work is a long-lasting contribution to our literature."

-Edward Hirsch

"Joy's poetry voice is indeed ancient. She has always been a visionary. A healer. A guide. . . . The poems in this collection are a song cycle, a woman warrior's journey in this era, reaching backward and forward and waking in the present moment. A chant for survival."

-Sandra Cisneros

"Harjo, though very much a poet of America, extracts from her own personal and cultural touchstones a more galactal understanding of the world, and her poems become richer for it. Here, she says, is a living, breathing earth to which we're all connected. Here is unbridled potential for the poetic-in everything, even in ourselves."

-Maya Phillips, The New Yorker

"These poems taken from half a century of Harjo's work show the powerful words and moving themes that have made her an unforgettable voice in the world of poetry."

- Book Riot

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is a member of the Mvskoke Nation. She is a Poet, Musician, and Playwright. She has 14 books of poetry and five award-winning CDs.

# data[].attributes.body
The Halluci Nation (Formerly known as "A Tribe Called Red")

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
The Halluci Nation Ft. Black Bear - Stadium Pow Wow (Official Video)

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Doors   Diverse Texts

# data[].attributes.body
https://www.charlotteallingham.com/

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Mirrors, Windows, Sliding Glass Doors, and Curtains, from: Writing Native American Characters

# data[].attributes.body
Nahko is mixed Indigenous and writes well-worded pieces

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Medicine For The People - Warrior People

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Snotty Nose Rez Kids - Real Deadly [Official Video]

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Quilla - Bow to the Rebel Queen (Music Video)

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Nicola I. Campbell | Portage & Main Press/HighWater Press

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Publishing practical K–12 educational materials and Indigenous literature

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, graduated from the Emily Carr School of Art and Design in 1983 with an honours degree in painting. Yuxweluptun's strategy is to document and promote change in contemporary Indigenous history in large-scale paintings (from 54.2 x 34.7cm to 233.7 x 200.7cm), using Coast Salish cosmology, Northwest Coast formal design elements, and the Western landscape tradition. His painted works explore political, environmental, and cultural issues. His personal and socio-political experiences enhance this practice of documentation. Yuxweluptun's work has been included in numerous international group and solo exhibitions, such as INDIGENA: Contemporary Native Perspectives in 1992. He was the recipient of the Vancouver Institute for the Visual Arts (VIVA) award in 1998.

Introductory video

The introductory video narrated by artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun is a brief artist statement on the political discourse of his work. Duration: 59 seconds.

This video requires the free Flash Player, which may be downloaded from this link.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, graduated from the Emily Carr School of Art and Design in 1983 with an honours degree in painting. Yuxweluptun's strategy is to document and promote change in contemporary Indigenous history in large-scale paintings (from 54.2 x 34.7cm to 233.7 x 200.7cm), using Coast Salish cosmology, Northwest Coast formal design elements, and the Western landscape tradition.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Till the Bars Break: Various Artists: Amazon.ca: Music

# data[].attributes.body
"Shot on The Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Montana, USA. Many thanks to the whole Blackfeet Nation and The Crazy Dogs Society for making us feel at home there."

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Chase & Status - Alive (Official Video) ft. Jacob Banks

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
John Trudell was a poet, recording artist, actor and speaker whose international following reflects the universal language of his words, work and message.

A 12 minute video history about John Trudell

John Trudell Archives & Inside Recordings Re-release The Critically Acclaimed John Trudell - AKA Grafitti Man On 180-gram Vinyl And Cd, Available Worldwide On June 2

Learn More >>

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
John Trudell Archives & Inside Recordings Re-release The Critically Acclaimed John Trudell - AKA Grafitti Man On 180-gram Vinyl And Cd, Available Worldwide On June 2 Learn More >>

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.readable_text
The Indigenous People's Power Project (IP3) is a non-profit 501c3, nonviolent direct action training and support network advancing Indigenous communities ability to exercise their inherent right to environmental justice, cultural livelihood, and self determination. Formed in 2004 as a project of the Ruckus Society, IP3 graduated from NDN Collective's fiscal sponsorship cohort and became a non-profit in June 2020. We continue to work across Turtle Island with communities that are most vulnerable to threats of ecological devastation and resource exploitation, and most poised to lead solution-oriented action.

Our mission is to provide nonviolent direct action training, campaign support, and community organizing tools to support Indigenous communities taking action in defense of their homelands.

Wednesday July 21, 2021 the Texas Senate passed a bill that will remove the requirement to teach Ku Klux Klan as 'morally wrong.' The House bill "require teaching about the accomplishments of United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez, Susan B. Anthony's writings...

Line 3 is a proposed pipeline expansion to bring approximately a million barrels of tar sands oil per day, from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin. This pipeline was proposed in 2013 by Enbridge, a Canadian pipeline company responsible for the largest inland oil...

IP3 is a Community Resource. We want to be part of strengthening your community. That is what we do. If your community is facing trials, we just want to remind you we are here. Indigenous People's Power Project, IP3 is a nonviolent direct-action training and...

Actions have been happening and rising up. Protect Thacker Pass, Line 3, Old Growth Forests, and many more. If you feel called to be in these spaces, or if you are responding to a call for help to join a movement to support Indigenous folx, here are:- 7 key things...

And Mother Earth Is What Guides Us Forward

Our Top Priorities

We value the knowledge and experience that exists in Indigenous communities since time immemorial. As such, we don't believe in parachute activism (when an individual or organization pops into a community). Parachute activisim can be harmful and dismissive of the knowledge and leadership that exists within that community. While it can be well intentioned , it often is a band aid that can be helpful in the short term, but in the long term may not build the capacity needed to address underlying issues. IP3 only goes where we are invited or our support is requested, and we work with local leadership to collectively determine how we can add value to, strengthen, and build capacity within their current work.

IP3 works to uplift our relatives protecting and defending our land, air, water, culture and sovereignty. These are a handful of ongoing actions taking place on Turtle Island.

"SKODEN Talks with the Homies" - 5:00pm PST

"SKODEN Talks with the Homies" is an informal way for us to create and further connections with Indigenous leaders across turtle island. In this installment, we talk Running for Change, Empowering Community, and Birthwork with Jasha Lyons Echo-Hawk. Click HERE to launch meeting.

Wednesday July 21, 2021 the Texas Senate passed a bill that will remove the requirement to teach Ku Klux Klan as 'morally wrong.' The House bill "require teaching about the accomplishments of United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez, Susan B. Anthony's writings...

Line 3 is a proposed pipeline expansion to bring approximately a million barrels of tar sands oil per day, from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin. This pipeline was proposed in 2013 by Enbridge, a Canadian pipeline company responsible for the largest inland oil...

IP3 is a Community Resource. We want to be part of strengthening your community. That is what we do. If your community is facing trials, we just want to remind you we are here. Indigenous People's Power Project, IP3 is a nonviolent direct-action training and...

Actions have been happening and rising up. Protect Thacker Pass, Line 3, Old Growth Forests, and many more. If you feel called to be in these spaces, or if you are responding to a call for help to join a movement to support Indigenous folx, here are:- 7 key things...

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
The Indigenous People's Power Project (IP3) is a non-profit 501c3, nonviolent direct action training and support network advancing Indigenous communities ability to exercise their inherent right to environmental justice, cultural livelihood, and self determination. Formed in 2004 as a project of the Ruckus Society, IP3 graduated from NDN Collective's fiscal sponsorship cohort and became a non-profit in June 2020.

# data[].attributes.body
Visual language, TATTOO ARTIST, Cultural Practioner

# data[].attributes.body
Helen Knott Poet/Writer

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Poet Calls Out Justin Trudeau on Indigenous Rights

# data[].attributes.body
Standing Rock

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
One does not sell the Earth the people walk upon  Crazy Horse  Poem by the

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.keywords[]
"pow wow" "aboriginal talent" "hoop dance" workout canadian metis "alexander first nation" wellness workshop fitness teaching "dallas arcand" "electronic dan...

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Dallas Arcand is a 3x World Champion Hoop Dancer, a musician, singer/songwriter, producer, flutist, storyteller, and all around entertainer. For info on bookings for hoop dancing, musical performances, keynote speaking, or workshops visit: http://www.bookmyact.com/ or http://www.dallasarcand.ca/

# data[].attributes.body
(TW Cussing in title) Sadie Red Wing Graphic Design

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Sadie Red Wing // F* The Stereotype: Revitalizing Indigenous Perspective in Design // #DplusDcon

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Wordless: The Performance Art of Rebecca Belmore Facing the Monumental Rebecca Belmore: March 5, 1819 Rebecca Belmore: Rising to the Occasion Fountain The Named and the Unnamed Indian Princess and Cowgirls: Stereotypes from the Frontier

# data[].attributes.body
Empowering products

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Authentic Indigenous Artwork shipping across Canada and the USA!

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Kim Senklip Harvey - Director, Playwright, Actor

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Kim Senklip Harvey Indigenous Director, Playwright and Actor. Kim's work focuses on having the voices of the historically oppressed and disenfranchised heard.

# data[].attributes.body
Stop Motion and Animation

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Spotted Fawn Productions (SFP) specializes in innovative, multi-layered projects with compelling visuals, characters and stories that challenge historical narratives of Indigenous peoples.