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Kolaswv
Esetv koleppa
Ofc fune
Fenke
Hvyayvketv ofv
Sutv
Yvmvsectve tokv
Vnokectv

Large stars,
Fireflies to catch
To have flame
Inside bone,
To shine like
The fire
In the sky.

#poetry #Mvskoke

Rent is due in a few days and I’m short! I need some sales before the month is up 🥹

Remember it’s about to be pride month; show your support for queer people in your life (even yourself!) with handmade gifts that also support a Two-Spirit artist <3

Shop: https://cvkvlv.com

Goal for May/June: $1764/$6000

Mvto! (Thank you!!)

#Pride #Mvskoke #TwoSpirit #Queer #Indigenous #Art #Beadwork

November is #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth and today is Native American Heritage Day! It's a great day to support Native artists, get some beautiful gifts that aren't mass produced, and contribute to preserving Native culture and language <3

Shop my NAHM Collection:

→ https://cvkvlv.com

#Beadwork #Art #Artist #Mvskoke #Indigenous

Working on gift orders this week! The most popular gift options seem to be the Rainmist and Raindrop earrings, so I'm making a lot of those recently, especially the Medicine Rainmists. It's getting colder, gonna be perfect stay-inside-and-bead weather soon, so keep those gift orders coming!!

Online store → https://cvkvlv.com

Goal for November: $2030/$4000

#Beadwork #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #Mvskoke #Art #Jewelry

“Weapons of Health Destruction...” How Colonialism Created the Modern Native American Diet

The Impact of Systematic Oppression on Indigenous Cuisine in the United States

#Frybread, sometimes called “#DieBread” or a “weapon of health destruction,” has multiple origin stories, and they all involve oppression and perseverance.

by Andrea Freeman, July 24, 2024

Excerpt: "On the hit television show #ReservationDogs, the only series ever to feature all #Indigenous writers, directors, and main cast members, the Indian Health Center invites rapper Punkin’ Lusty, played by real-life #Mvskoke rapper #StenJoddi, to perform his hit song '#GreasyFrybread.' [A song Dr. Lowry played during today's broadcast.] The occasion is #Diabetes Awareness Month. Lusty raps,

Baby girl looking deadly (Yeah!)
Why she acting all Rezzy (Yeah!)
Hotter than a pan of frybread grease!
Have a Native hittin’ Powwow Beats!
Gotcha Auntie in the kitchen
Like no he didn’t
Got her Gramama’s skillet
Like she ’bout to kill it!

The song solidly locates frybread within Indigenous culture.

Sofkee [a corn drink or soup] on the burner
Hokte Hokte [woman] head turner
Water baking powder
Choppin’ up that white stuff
All purpose flour
Gotta mix it right up
Hit the Rez with the Shits
They eats it right up! Watch the grease pop
Watch her waist drop
She got that blue bird bag [Blue Bird flour comes in a twenty-pound cloth bag and claims to be “The Native American Frybread Secret”]
In her tank top
he got that white powder
All over everything
She gettin’ to bussin’ man
But we ain’t cousins man!
We from the same tribe
But a different clan
She my Rez Bunny
And I’m her Red Man
She love my Tattoos
And my two braids
Frybread money at the Creek Fest get paid! On that!”

Foregrounding this song in the Health Center’s battle against diabetes underscores the other side of frybread’s legacy, also emblazoned on a T-shirt that announces 'Frybread: Creating #Obesity Since 1860.' #Cheyenne and #HudulgeeMuscogee #IndigenousRights activist #SuzanShownHarjo, who vowed to give up frybread as a New Year’s resolution, explains, 'Frybread is emblematic of the #LongTrails from home and freedom to confinement and #rations. It’s the connecting dot between healthy children and obesity, #hypertension, diabetes, #dialysis, #blindness, #amputations and #SlowDeath.' Reflecting on stereotypes that dehumanized Indigenous people to justify #colonization, such as the worn-out trope of Indians drinking 'firewater,' Harjo asserts that frybread love is another way to portray them as 'simple-minded people who salute the little grease bread and get misty-eyed about it.'

"In The #HeartbeatOfWoundedKnee, scholar #DavidTreuer introduces health educator #ChelseyLuger, who is #Ojibwe and #Lakota. Chelsey talks to Indigenous communities about the perils of frybread as part of her efforts to steer their diets in new directions, even in the face of limited food options. 'Sometimes people get defensive, but we are able to make the conversation positive. We say we grew up with it and like it and we say frybread is not power. We say frybread kills our people. It’s that serious. It causes diabetes and heart disease. We have to look at those colonial foods as a kind of enemy.' "

Read more:
https://lithub.com/weapons-of-health-destruction-how-colonialism-created-the-modern-native-american-diet/

#colonization #Colonialism #Decolonize #NativeAmericans #TraditionalFoods #FoodInsecurity #FoodSovereignty #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #Comods #CommodityBoxes #CulturalErasure

Learn Trick Letters in Mvskoke

"Trick letters" are letters that don't sound the same in Mvskoke as they do in English. Here are some examples of trick letters:

C - Sounds more like an english "J"

K - Sometimes sounds like an english "K" but often more like a "G"

V - Short "U" sound: "Uh"

Learn the Mvskoke alphabet & trick letters here:

https://www.mvskokeopunvkv.com/1-1-sounds-letters

#Language #Mvskoke #Native #Indigenous #MCN

Ele-hvpo (il-lee - hub-oh) is the Mvskoke word for footprint 🐾

#Language #Mvskoke #Native #Indigenous #MCN #WordOfTheDay

Kvstemkv (Kuh-stim-guh) is the Mvskoke word for cold weather ❄️ ❄️ ❄️

#Language #Mvskoke #Native #Indigenous #MCN #WordOfTheDay

#Mvskoke Ponvttv (Animal) Chart + "Guess The Ponvttv?" Matching Game

More Mvskoke language learning activies:

https://www.mvskokeopunvkv.com/novice-learning-materials

#Language #Animals #Native #Indigenous #MCN

Beaded #Pride loop earrings!

❤️ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜

Gay Pride Beaded Loop Earrings--
https://cvkvlv.com/products/gay-pride-beaded-loop-earrings

Pansexual Pride Beaded Loop Earrings--
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Rainbow Pride Beaded Loop Earrings--
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#LGBTQ #Queer #Gay #Trans #TwoSpirit #2S #Beadwork #Indigenous #Native #Mvskoke #IndigenousArt #Jewelry #Earrings #Cvkvlv #CvkvlvBeadwork

Bringing the Ancestors Home

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews
Sept. 9, 2024

OKEMAH, #Oklahoma --"Les Williston, #Choctaw, spoke on living life with honor, during the Convening of the Four Winds gathering at the Phillip Deere Round House on Sunday, hosted by the
#Mvskoke family of the international rights leader Phillip Deere.

"'Your ancestors are always around,' Williston said, speaking of the #SacredPlaces along the rivers. Williston is entrusted with bringing the Chahta ancestors home."

[...]

"Williston said that all along the rivers, like the #KiamachiRiver in southeastern Oklahoma, there are sacred places, places that are the heart of the people, places where the council was built.

"Speaking on bringing the ancestors home at the Phillip Deer Roundhouse on Muscogee Creek land, Williston was joined by Native people from throughout the nation during the two-day weekend gathering. They shared the history of the struggle for #NativeAmericanRights, the hard-won victories of the 1970s, and the ongoing struggles to protect the water and rivers -- as the #racism, threats of #EminentDomain seizures, the violence of #ManCamps of the #OilAndGas industry, the desecration of #LithiumMining in burial places, and the manipulations of the United States government continue.
With gratitude to the Native women gathered here, Williston said he appreciates the strength of the women speaking and their leadership, for it is a #matriarchal culture.

"'It is important that the women take the lead,' he said. 'I hear the wisdom come from these ladies.' 'We should always listen to the women, our clan mothers and clan sisters.'"

Full article:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/bringing-ancestors-home.html

#Chahta #FourWinds #WaterIsLife #ConveningOfTheFourWinds #DefendTheSacred #HonorTheAncestors