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Reminder: Everyday is #indigenouspeoplesday #Moccatsin

pc: @ maritagrowingthunder taken in Amerikkka by @firstcharginghorse

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Rez boy engaging with too many #freegaza #fuckice #waterislife #unitedstatesofisrael posts

now the likes and reshares are down 90% good thing the algorithm isn’t real life and these rez kids make moves no matter how a colony and these systems is designed. Great weekend going to Montana reservations with the Congress woman @repdavids meeting the tribes appointed leaders (councils) natives represent tribal nations we don’t have the luxury of being just a republican or a democrat as members of nations we have to engage with the US nation from a nation to nation position so the children and elderly have health care and basic infrastructural necessities. We have to see the macro and micro at the same time from multiple different lenses & vantage points as we assert and see a way through. If you’re on the rez and you’re trying to understand #rezlife google: “protracted war” and realize your smack dab in the middle of one. Whether it’s getting shadowbanned for being vocal on an app or the ingredients of commodities rationed to your community, to the design of your IRA Government (Indian reorganization act) if you zoom out and in, a narrow way through will appear. I enjoy finding people on this path in to, the way to being free taken in Blackfeet Nation by @firstcharginghorse

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Back to the beginning,

Before the advent of social media and before the phones, me and my brothers had the Blackfeet Nation Boxing Club. Growing up only a few blocks away we would lean into the perpetual fall, winter and spring winds to get to the club. Back when winters were full of blizzards when snow turned into shards of tiny glass piercing your skin, we had no choice but to lean into it and run to boxing against the wind to get out of the pain of getting there. The club molded us, it bound me and friends that til this day are closer to me than most of my brothers. Through literal blood shed, we gained and earned each other’s respect after sparring. These brotherhoods shaped and defined much of my life preventing a bad turning point of my life from becoming a spiral that kept going down. Instead the friends turned into beams that lifted me up turning a bro into a brother. As I look at these boys being back in this gym as a conditioning coach, I think back on when I first met @pikuni_jess and when we first sparred and how much we were oblivious to the life ahead of us. Looking back at our journey as brothers and at these boys just barely meeting one another, I can see all the journey they’re oblivious to. And where they are weak and undeveloped as boys, my hope is to instill the responsible response to pain and opposition. Turning boys into brothers, into comrades for the Blackfeet Nation 🥊 it was the little lessons in this club that had big implications and impacts on me to be one of them ones that goes the distance #rezlife #boxing #native #nativesports #blackfeetnationboxingclub taken in Blackfeet Nation by @firstcharginghorse

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11 days ago

Peak number whatever this summer, I’ll let the eagles keep count, I’m here to see my peoples land and know it and see through clear eyes. You see who you and your brothers are at 7,500ft elevation in 120mph winds. Still made the zoom call with ncai1944

What’s a man without the land? . . . A boy.

#native #nativeland #rezlife #nativeamerican #outdoors taken in Blackfeet Nation by @firstcharginghorse

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$2k sold, lemme know if you want one

Brain tan hide wrap
Elk hide lace
Brass antique bells
American Buffalo Teeth
Early 1900’s Venetian Skunk Beads
Ermine Tail
Sinew

#nativeamerican #nativemade #nativepride #americanindian #nativeamericanjewelry taken in Blackfeet Nation by @firstcharginghorse

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Searching . . . Within every point on the intersecting lines of energy of the earth, like chakras across your own body, there is power, a key, unlocking a part of yourself 🔑

Why else is there major military bases on the main intersecting energy points across the planet? 🛰️ 💭 something to think about.

Food for thought, keep searching 🖤 taken in Planet Earth by @firstcharginghorse

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2 months ago

I’m unfollowing everybody to reset my feed over the next week (literally nothing personal) and if you’re in my life I’ll follow you back and then to the ends of the earth

Photo: picking sweet grass and mint with Nitaka (my brother) @ethan_runningcrane every braid a thousand wishes and a thousand answered prayers 🌌 taken in Blackfeet Nation by @firstcharginghorse

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Everybody want the fruit of a solid foundation til you got to dig deep to build the solid foundation
and the fairytale is replaced with
the reality that’s felt of what it really takes them
Stability is the basis, the prerequisite to greatness
but do you know how much that costs?
how much they paying for the curvature of them quads
How much loss it took to get all them gains my dogs
How far into the bottom a native had to go to be on top of the bottom so go and kick rocks
After native pays dues we ain’t got no penny for your thoughts
With a pocket full of receipts
We ain’t buying shit
if it ain’t on god
Yea, when you know the price
Ain’t no use in throwing diamonds at a pin full of hogs taken in Blackfeet Nation by @firstcharginghorse

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After a month of Akokatsin, nonstop day in and day out, I’ve sat in the lodge I close my eyes and am in. The one with everything but requires you to choose between your heart of hearts or a diluted and possibly skewed or warped version of what you want. It forces you to choose who you are.

Sure, we want power, but to what end? Status, for what, just to be looked at in the high chair, sounds like a man who wasn’t loved as a baby to me. Strength? Yes, but to what end? Strength, status, power, etc. to have and obtain this and that. To get and have. But to what end?

I’ve sat in the eye of a hurricane, calm silent, serene. Surround by cycling circling force, and the chaos of shedding and undoing, the violence of raw stripping down and change. War is the meeting of forces, unrelenting forces, we sit within ourselves and the lives we’ve created on accident and the consequences of our own actions. And we go against the ugliness we’ve created and we undo the part of ourselves that perpetuate that process. For what? To what end?

Interconnected autonomy, beings of force in synchronicity and symbiosis, a micro and macrocosm aligned and primed for turning this into that.

Like the brute force and claws that protect the cubs. Like all the horns connected to 2 tons of force pointed outwards with the baby yearling calf’s in the center. Like perpetual work ethic damming up the force of a river shaping the land forever just to shelter the baby and the beavers nipitaam (wife).

The strength of the wolf is the pack, the strength of the pack is the wolf.

Strip the wolf down to its core element and you’ll see the pack. A vision of the den and the silent calm of a night, the PEACE of being surrounded by other beings of force and power. For the den.

There’s the Ookowa (lodge) but what’s held within, is what makes it, Mooyis (home).

I want us to have the peace of interconnection autonomy, the peace of knowing and being surrounded by beings of force synchronized for what’s held within and by our lodges.

What’s the true spirit of the thing you envision? To what end will it take you and take us. taken in Blackfeet Nation by @firstcharginghorse

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Coming in on a month at Akokatsin and after you finishing praying for yourself and what’s in your heart of hearts, for your family and yourself. What’s left to pray for? You could go home and most do but what’s left is the people. The land. The little baby buffalos, the baby beavers. Everything is what’s left to pray for 🌌

To look at them from across the camp and the prayer lodges and find what’s in your heart of hearts for them.

Just because that’s your people, your tribe. Your planet 🌎

Those movies about Indigenous Blue Beings in outer space living in harmony, and then all of a sudden having to defend their planet from aliens through kinship and knowing the land. Isn’t sci-fi, you’re in that movie right now, lights camera action my friends, iikaakiimaat (persevere) taken in Kainai Nation by @firstcharginghorse

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You never know where one day might take you. An elder we highly esteem handed me his wife’s conch belt on the last day of our Akokatsin in Amskapipikani and said here I heard you do craft work. Then said, “call me when you get to Kainai (Akokatsin),” and drove off. At the time I wasn’t 100% sure if I was going, logistically it’s a push and technically in another country. But without a pause or hesitation I said, “you bet.”

I’m here in Kainai at our northern bands Akokatsin fixing his wives belt, which took going to another elders home and visiting for hours to ask on my way out. “Do you know where I can find any rivets to fix a conch belt.” He said, “here go to this place in lethbridge,” a town an hour over. So, I just got back from lethbridge, a quaint town but to the nephews it was like a big city. Nephew said, “is this what LA is like.” I explained how it was a spec of what LA is like. But anyway . . .

I wasn’t going to say, no I can’t fix it, having never done any leather work. In our way, we don’t say, “we can’t do something.” We can and if we don’t know how, we find a way. And now the nephews know what a town bigger than the Rez is like. And what Indian food tastes like.

📸 pc: @ethan_runningcrane taken in Kainai Nation by @firstcharginghorse

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I don’t just mean what I say I do what I mean. And what I say is backed by the right to speak, by default. As a Mahnohkin (Newbreast) people have to ask what is a Newbreast? What does that mean. I say, I don’t ride on the coattails of my triple great grandfather where we get the name. I’m right here right now, he’s not here. I am, so I’ll show you what a Newbreast from Amskapipikani is, but if you’re not there. The rest is just speculation. I’ll tell what, since I have the right to say it, when it’s 100° F outside and it’s time to build an encampment to fight for the land or to uplift the people with prayer those doing the speculating aren’t there. There’s usually the solid 10 or so, those are my comrades. That’s who I defer to, I can show you who I am but as far as talking about me, ask them 🫶🏽 my true brothers and sisters taken in Blackfeet Nation by @firstcharginghorse

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