From culture to culture, the month of November seems to be a universal time to remember who we really are and strengthen self. A time for fellowship and a time to share ideals and values.
Our Dame Cryptic uses her platform as this month's featured bunneh to acquaint us with an armored review of a time gone bye and the current reality for her people .
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First and foremost this post is dedicated to all indigenous people of turtle island.
This November I wanted to bring awareness and show that I stand with my indigenous brothers and sisters. Thanksgiving in my household is a day of remembrance and memorial for all the lives lost and destroyed on turtle island due to colonization. Being this month's featured bunny I saw the opportunity to spread awareness to the grid.
On February 28, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case challenging the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA).. Texas, Indiana and Louisiana joined several non-Native couples in a Sept. 3 petition asking the Supreme Court to overturn the law on constitutional grounds. ICWA was enacted in 1978 because of the disproportionately high rate of forced removal of Native children from their traditional homes and essentially from Native American cultures as a whole. Before enactment, as many as 75 percent of all Native children were being removed, usually forcibly, mostly from intact Native American families with extended family networks, and placed in predominantly non-Native homes, which had no relation to Native American cultures. In some cases, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) paid the states to remove Native children and to place them with non-Native families and religious groups.
MMIW stands for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. It’s a movement that advocates for the end of violence against Native women. It also seeks to draw attention to the high rates of disappearances and murders of Native people, particularly women and girls. The MMIW movement exists because a large number of Native women go missing and are murdered each year compared to women from other groups. I found this info but no dates and numbers that are to date in 2022.
Here is a snapshot of data for MMIW in 2018: About 4 out of 5 Native women have experienced violence Native women were about twice as likely than white women to experience violence Native women face murder rates 10 times the national average The murder rate for Native women is about 3 times more than that of white women
Links to help support the indigenous ppl of turtle island: https://mmiwusa.org/ https://www.culturalsurvival.org/about https://narf.org/about-us/ https://www.survivalinternational.org/
My picture is a representation of Taino insidious of the Caribbean in honor of my Puerto Rican ancestry. It was very difficult to find things to create this as there is virtually no representation of any indigenous cultures. What was even worse out of the small amount there was to pick from most were labeled under Indian …. I hope to see more representation on the grid in the future maybe someday..
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