Category: Native American

Behind the Scenes of “Forget Winnetou!” Hindsight on Collaboration

The stories of indigenous peoples and other people of color have been misrepresented and usurped by white people since the invention of moving pictures. Yet no one is better equipped to tell their own stories than the peoples themselves. In my opinion, it is one of the most egregiously “passive” yet harmful ways indigenous peoples […]

Help Spread the Art & Raise Awareness on #NoDAPL #StopLine3 #WaterIsSacred

I have a request from Isaac Murdoch through Amy Ruckes to help spread Isaac and Christi Belcourt‘s wonderful art to Berlin, Germany and Europe in general. You may have seen their art before on many banners or Native news pages but may not have known the name of the artists. I’ve attached the link page where their #Divest #NoDAPL #NoPipelines etc. art […]

View our #documentary “Forget Winnetou!” project page at #FilmFreeway

(Link) From our page at Film Freeway: which includes news and reviews, project links and small press kit. “This film project was a particularly difficult one both for myself and many of the participants to film and complete, as it was both a personal and professional endeavor. Every day we live with the effects of […]

#Poem: “Threatened by #Beads” by Red Haircrow

This is one of two of my poems first published in Red Ink International Journal, Dec. 2016, and 2018 in (link) “Writing History” (tr. “Geschichte schreiben”), translated and part of an anthology in German, on decolonizing history and how history is told.  Edited by Sharon Dodua Otoo and Manuela Bauche, published by S Fischer Verlage.  […]

Decolonization and Indigenization is the New Reconciliation

Originally posted on indigenous motherhood:
Decolonization and indigenization is the new reconciliation. And many of our people are blindly holding, and even kissing, colonialism’s hand in the process. So many of our people are willingly playing the lead role in the now colonial-skewed process of “decolonization” and “indigenization.” They are becoming the pets to the…