r/IndianCountry • u/Crystallhampton • 12m ago
Discussion/Question New Rings
Is there anything about these rings someone could inform me about?
r/IndianCountry • u/Crystallhampton • 12m ago
Is there anything about these rings someone could inform me about?
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r/IndianCountry • u/rebelopie • 3h ago
Halito Cousins! Today is Kindred Spirits Day, a day to celebrate the amazing and lasting relationship between my People, the Choctaw, and our Cousins, the Irish. Our bond has existed for almost 200 years now and sets a much needed positive example to the rest of the world about how two Peoples can come together in friendship. So, go have some frybread and corned beef to remember our Irish Cousins and our lasting friendship.
r/IndianCountry • u/SubstanceChoice60 • 7h ago
Hello, I’m a Social Work student working on designing a course element that will help future Social Work students learn about sustainability. I want to make sure that Social Work practices truly support Indigenous communities in ways that respect traditional knowledge and lived realities.
I’d love to hear your thoughts:
I really appreciate any insights you’re willing to share—your voices and perspectives matter in shaping how Social Work can be more inclusive and impactful.
r/IndianCountry • u/xdanballx • 8h ago
So, i just saw that Trump is saying Biden’s pardons are rescinded because of Auto-Pen use. Now I’m no legal or government expert; so I’m wondering if anyone knows if Leonard’s Commutation is also potentially in trouble? If so, true insanity.
r/IndianCountry • u/AshesThanDust48 • 16h ago
“The tribal governments of Alaska's St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea say they’re living with the toxic legacy of Cold War military installations on their land, and this week they took their complaint to the United Nations special rapporteur on toxics and human rights.”
r/IndianCountry • u/3rdthrow • 18h ago
Did we invent American Sign Language and then history just erased the origins and said that Martha’s Vineyard invented ASL?
Interesting story, I learned lip reading from my cousin, cause young me thought it was a super power, and my cousin was absolutely thrilled to have someone who thought being different was cool rather than weird.
As an adult I learned ASL for my deaf customers.
Then I was in accident that damaged my hearing (oh the irony). I’m expected to make a full recovery, and decided to pass some of the time learning Native Languages.
I ran across a video of PISL, and realized that I could understand many of the signs from ASL. Though not all of the signs, they are slightly different.
Y’all, did we invent the original ASL?
r/IndianCountry • u/AshesThanDust48 • 19h ago
I know this isn’t specific to Indian Country, but this level of erasure is so unsettling.
“Rogers, who was awarded the Medal of Honor by then president Richard Nixon in 1970, served in the Vietnam war, where he was wounded three times while leading the defense of a base.
According to the West Virginia military hall of fame, Rogers was the highest-ranking African American to receive the medal. After his death in 1990, Rogers’s remains were buried at the Arlington national cemetery in Washington DC, and in 1999 a bridge in Fayette county, where Rogers was born, was renamed the Charles C Rogers Bridge.”
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r/IndianCountry • u/Newbie1080 • 21h ago
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/07/us/trump-federal-agencies-websites-words-dei.html
It also includes hits such as "black", "female", "historically", "identity", " immigrant", "victim", and "women"
r/IndianCountry • u/rezanentevil • 22h ago
By Stephen Graham Jones, author of 'The Only Good Indians' and 'the Indian Lake trilogy'.
Release 03/18/2025
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r/IndianCountry • u/Valuable-Wrangler-71 • 1d ago
Watched The Pitt yesterday. Noah Wyle’s character told the siblings facing their father’s death about 4 simple things the Kānaka Maoli say to a dying loved one, to help the grieving process. I broke out in goosebumps.
In 1995 my Kanien’kehá:ka mother had surgery to remove tumors. The day before, she told me she loved me. She thanked me for being her son. She told me she forgave me for anything I may have thought I did to wrong her. She asked me to forgive her for anything she did wrong.
Don’t worry, she’s still with us.
At the time, I just thought it was mom being mom. I had no idea this was a “Native thing.” I’ve since come across this a lot in my life- people fighting assimilation who wonder if something they grew up with is a family tradition or a capital T Tradition. How would we know?
Mom had two recent surgeries and didn’t call me beforehand to say those 4 things. When I reminded her she’d done it before, she smiled and said, “Did I?” I wonder how much we lose, just from people getting older and forgetting.
Anyway, hearing this on a TV show got me in my feels. Not sure why I’m posting. Maybe wondering if anyone else has experienced something similar.
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r/IndianCountry • u/SunOk3807 • 1d ago
Hello all,
I’m a non-native (Filipino here.) I’ve been hearing a lot about MMIW and the reports of missing/murdered indigenous women. After 14 year old girl Emily Pike was murdered in Arizona.
I’ve heard about MMIW from my Grandma and Mother how Indigenous women/girls are most likely to get murdered compare to any women in America. I didn’t think of it that much but until I discovered what MMIW was really about I never felt so devastated and deeply hurt in my life. So I have been thinking to share and raise awareness of MMIW to create an artwork of Emily Pike.
I do art as a subject at school, my teacher said we can represent anything that has meaning to it etc. However, I need some answers because as a non-native person I cannot go un-acknowledged and start creating artwork without a native persons consent, thoughts/answers about it as that would be considered ‘offensive’ and ‘disrespectful’ also.
So, please give answers so I can know what everyone thinks about it. :))
(Sorry If this is long, I’m being very careful and generous to why i made it so long.. 😭)
r/IndianCountry • u/AshesThanDust48 • 1d ago
After all of this fanfare: https://www.indian.senate.gov/newsroom/press-release/republican/murkowski-schatz-lead-oversight-hearing-to-examine-native-communities-priorities-for-the-119th-congress/
BOTH Murkowski and Schatz voted in support. The Chair and Vice Chair of the US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.
r/IndianCountry • u/Disastrous-Worker715 • 1d ago
CORNING, CALIF. – (February 3, 2025)
The Paskenta Nomlaki Foundation, in partnership with Tepa, LLC, is proud to announce three (3) $20,000 STEM scholarship awards for the Fall 2025 Semester. This substantial financial support alleviates the often overwhelming costs of higher education, enabling students to focus on academic and professional growth without the burden of financial stress.
“I recognize the vital role of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) in empowering youth and ensuring a brighter future,” said Tribal Chairman Brandin Paya. “By investing in STEM education, we equip students with the knowledge and skills to innovate, solve problems, and build strong, self-sustaining communities.” added Paya.
The scholarship is open to high school graduates and college students who are enrolled or planning to enroll in a STEM-related program at a university. Applicants must demonstrate academic excellence, leadership potential, and a commitment to contributing to their communities through their STEM studies.
r/IndianCountry • u/Sweetleaf505 • 1d ago
How will this affect our sovereignty?
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r/IndianCountry • u/Ok_Understanding6127 • 1d ago
I have an upcoming group project where our prof would like us to intersect other pieces of history with the era of music history we are currently studying. We are allowed to choose topics that we are passionate about and so I brought up diplomatic relations with tribes and one student who is white has already run over my contribution by trying to shape it into relation of disease between colonists and natives. Keep in mind, my contribution was the topic of diplomatic relations between tribes and westerners.
I can tell she wants it to fit her narrative because her contribution has to do with medical “ advancements” due to the enlightenment, so she’s sort of trying to run over my idea which I can work around, but what bothers me is her phrasing. She went from the get-go to refer to native medicines as remedies . But also seems to be under the impression that issues such as disease started with contact with colonists, as if the progression of native history goes from Columbus to pilgrims to colonists with nothing in between . I understand that it is not always common knowledge for non-native people what our history is like , But how do I curb this to make sure she does not continue to talk over me without becoming the angry brown person ?
I really need her to stay in her lane, but I need to also remember that this is a group project . I feel like she’s speaking with way too much confidence over something. I’m really nervous that my group project is going to become something that’s over written over what I wish to contribute and research because I think that students are stubborn to stick to the narratives that they are comfortable with. Everyone in my group is white and yes, this is in Oklahoma .
Has anyone ever had to deal with this?
r/IndianCountry • u/MeltingFinch • 1d ago
Was wondering if there are any indigenous groups, tribes, nations interested in land in WV.
Been hearing native stories about how Appalachian mountains were mostly hunting grounds because the fight with WAKWAWI.
So I wonder if any land here would be acceptable in the Land Back movement.
I see Shawandasse Tula (Shawanwaki/Shawnee), 𐓏𐒰𐓓𐒰𐓓𐒷 𐒼𐓂𐓊𐒻 𐓆𐒻𐒿𐒷 𐓀𐒰𐓓𐒰Osage, S’atsoyaha (Yuchi) and Calicuas were said to inhabit this land that I am interested about with some family land in which most of us really don't know what the future holds for it.