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Kichwa Mindalae
Managing Director of @pacha_arts
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This past week I had the honour to attend @iwi_indigenouswomeninindustry for the first time. Wow… it was something I truly needed. For real.
I was in a room filled with Indigenous women all doing, thinking, living creatively, leaders, setting an example and path for our future generations.

Ever since changing my career towards business I had been missing community so much. And I found it again 🥲

One of the biggest things I take away is that when Indigenous women lead, aaalllll of us come with them. We don’t lead thinking about just ourselves, we’re thinking about our family, our community, our culture, our traditions. Everythingggg comes with us. It’s wild.

Capitalism was built for personal gain. But this… this is not that. It’s taking care of each other. It’s seeing and wishing for each other to rise. Because when we do, we all elevate together.

The people I met I’ll forever hold in my heart. And you can read the different captions to know more.

Here with some key lessons those who’ve been in this industry for a long time want us younger gens to know:

We all need to heal and work on ourselves. We also need to know that not everyone can come with us. Lateral violence will be there but it is not for you to carry.

Community is everything. So open the doors for your people. Bring them with you. The knowledge, resources, and space is needed amongst your community.

Find out what your strengths are and own it. Love what you do. Everything gets easier when you do.

Be ambitious. During these times of increasing crises, the world needs us as indigenous women so much right now.

Don’t be afraid to step up there and make a difference. Believe. Don’t let your fears stop you.

This first pic feels so much like a family photo. Yupaychani to Jennifer, Paula, June, Crystal, and my family for all impacting me so wonderfully ❤️

Paula Amos from BC Tourism. She actually met my family in Ecuador and I was finally able to meet her too! Such a beautiful soul!

Doreen Manuel, who my family has known since I was teeny weeny. So grateful for your friendship with us 💐

Amazing to meet Dawn Madahbee Leach who also went to Ecuador this past January and met my family and communi by @samay.c

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Trying to recap the last 6 months in 20 fotos and I got to just the second half of it and not even caught everyone 😭 often I’m just focused on the moment and not on documenting it 😅

One thing that stood out to me is how grateful I am to have wonderful people in my life that I’ve been connected to for a long time OR are very new ✨ I’ve been going through lots of changes and they’re still rolling through, so this is literally just an itty bitty snippet of what I’ve been up to. And an itty bitty snippet of what’s to come.

As a mental side note: it’s my second year having an entire month in the middle of the gregorian calendar dedicated to spirit, cultural strengthening, community connection and ceremony for both myself and my beautiful wonderful partner Razelle. So I really have to figure out how to balance that with the requirements of modern living within capitalism 😮‍💨 deadlines and all that. I am sooo sorry if I’ve blanked on getting back to you and please remind me to do so if possible! 😅 the western world has this all baked into holidays at the end of the year and we don’t have those privileges if we want to keep our cultures alive and participate in them 😭

Anyways, thank you to everyone who remains in my life ❤️ thank you to everyone who is “new”. Thank you for growing with me and I’m so excited to get to grow with you too.

Con mucho cariño,
Sacha Samay by @samay.c

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Today is a special day. Today, years ago, the old ones, the spirits, the clouds, and your ancestors met, collided, bringing into the world a special soul like no other. Her name is Razelle.
She’s beautiful, wonderfully unique, powerful, intelligent, big hearted and so much more.

I wish I had enough words to express the vastness of your spirit, the depth of your love, and so much more.

This time, words fall short. And instead, I focus on the little and big acts that show them.
Like when you brought me tea in a thermos when you picked me up at the station.
Like when you shot 3 incredible short vids for the store in 20 minutes.
Like you coming to my homelands to know who I am.
A thousand acts, day by day.

Gratitude just seems too small of a word. So, Yupaychani, Pilamayaye for all that you are. I can only continue to show you that gratitude for the rest of my life and beyond.

Razelle, Happy Birthday 🎂😘 by @samay.c

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Hi World! We went on @etalkctv 😆🎉 Speaking about our work is such a wonderful thing because we get to dive into the stories of our textiles, our culture, and our community collaborations.
@soniamangattv was SO amazing at helping us feel at ease, so incredibly culturally aware and just super sweet person 😭✨

This was very meaningful to us because Toronto is where we started. Being seen in the place that you’ve put your blood, sweat, and tears makes it all feel worth it. We put our manifestations out there and belief in our dreams coming true 😌

Loved the entire team at @etalkctv and cannot wait for the segment to air!

#indigenousfashion #fashion #yanamanta #pachaarts by @samay.c

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Esta foto me hace sentir feliz. Sobre todo: orgullo. Habíamos acabado una jornada larga de trabajo y decidimos tratarnos bien con un rico desayuno.
De poquito a poquito voy aprendiendo que no hay nada de malo celebrar nuestros logros, especialmente si te esfuerzas día tras día hacer lo mejor posible por alcanzar tus sueños.

De wawa Mindalae me acuerdo que me sentía culpable comer si no hacíamos suficientes ventas. Se que es una manera de sobrevivencia. Y siempre estaré agradecida por haber crecido así porque me enseñó el valor de apreciar todo lo que tengo en la vida. Tenga o no tenga.

Bueno… en estos días trato de enfocarme en eso. Agradecimiento, tranquilidad, apreciación, amor propio, confianza en mi misma, y en mi amorcito @razellebenally que tengo a mi lado ☺️
Para mí, día de visibilidad lesbiana es todos los días :p

Yupaychani por acompañarme en esta locura de vida. Que sigue y sigue y sigue ❤️ by @samay.c

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5 months ago

❤️‍🔥Día de la Visibilidad Lésbica| El 26 de abril fue un día de visibilidad para las lesbianas del mundo, excepto para las indígenas lesbianas, en Ecuador, en la práctica.

Somos muchas, pero pocas las que ejercemos este derecho de la visibilidad ¿Porqué? Colonialidad y racismo amigx.

Kaypimi kanchik Chawpi Runakuna ✊🏾📢

✉️Escríbenos a @lgbtindigena_ec

De manera anónima, no importa, pero nuestro derecho también es que nuestra existencia se reconozca y visibilice, para vivir dignamente, en libertad y tranquilidad

#lesbianas #lesbianasindigenas #visibilidadlésbica #ecuador #mujeresindigenas by @samay.c

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This video was made from being struck by pure inspiration. And I love it so much ❤️

Many of you know I bead, but don’t really sell it often. I’ve always found it easier to trade or gift. I’ve been doing so since I was around 15 years old.
But I’ve recently made some career changes - stepping back from video design for a moment, to pursue something very meaningful which I’ll get into later ✨ it just means that I’m incredibly short on funds 😬

Making things with my hands has always been a form of sustaining myself and my family. This is what I was taught as Kichwa runa. As Mindalae (even before the creation of colonial borders) we’ve been doing it for generations and generations.

I was shooting some photos of these earrings I made and my love @razellebenally came to check out what I was up to.
I had found this lil desert bush and the sun was setting. She grabbed the camera and took some test shots and started playing around with them. She told me she could take some video of me wearing what I had made. I said I could do a voiceover talking about the design of the earrings. I wanted something slow and peaceful, to break the fastness of social media.

And so this little video was born from the spur of the moment. A visual poem made by both of us.

I think it’s super cute and sweet and powerful.
It’s so wonderful to feel free to play again. Thank you Razelle, for playing with me ❤️

And also, if you read this far down, seriously. I need to sell these pieces to pay the bills 🔥 so please support!! Info on these earrings in my next 3 posts. And I’ll have more pieces to come in the next few weeks so stay tuned as I drop more photos and info of available pairs.

Share, like, and repost 🥰 by @samay.c

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A result of patriarchy is that from a young age, women around the world are taught to be at the service of men first and foremost.
There is little space to feel empowered and often, when women and girls have that opportunity, that confidence gets shattered. “You’re not perfect enough”, is the message we receive.

And that’s changing bit by bit. For some, that confidence gets nurtured from an early age, for others, that confidence is earned back at a later stage in life. But hey, it’s better now than never.

And that’s what this video celebrates. Sure it’s to showcase these pretty new earrings on our website! But more than anything, this is the first shoot I’ve ever done where I’m not afraid to look pretty and to be proud of it. That it’s not scary. That being beautiful can look so many ways. And the way that I am is already wonderfully perfect ❤️

You are your own wonderfully perfect, and I am SO proud of you for seeing that, even when it’s hard 🌸 by @samay.c

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Hi everyone!!! I’ve been putting together a tiny collection bit by bit, knowing there’s some expenses I have that are going to be hard to cover. This year I’m sort of making a career pivot, so it’s going to be rough going for a bit 😅 I hope you like the direction my style has been going in! :) this time around I used my best materials 😌 with sterling silver in each pair!

I made my classic floral design, inspired by the top I wear that is part of my traditional clothing 🌸 AND I’m super excited about these double sided beaded round drops that are super cute.

I wanted something dainty and dangly. And because they dangle I didn’t want the backs to be seen so I made them double sided! With beads on front and back featuring two colours (except one).

DESCRIPTION
Pink Floral Studs: Vintage beads, 24k gold plaited beads size 15, sterling silver beads size 15, pink opal beads size 11, pink charlotte cut beads size 15, deer hide, surgical steel posts

GREEN AND BROWN - 2 Sided Beaded Hoops: Size 18 vintage beads, antique silver beads, sterling silver hoops and wire guardian

YELLOW AND BLUE - 2 Sided Beaded Hoops: Size 15 and 13 vintage beads, sterling silver hoops and wire guardian

GREEN AND BLUE - 2 Sided Beaded Drops: Size Size 15 and 13 vintage beads, 24k gold plaited beads, sterling silver beads, 925 silver threaders and wire guardian.

BLACK AND LAVENDER - 2 Sided Beaded Drops: Size 15 Lavender venetian vintage beads, size 16 charlotte cut black beads, size 13 white opal vintage beads, 925 silver threaders and wire guardian. >>SOLD<<

$90 CAD | $65 USD EACH
(the conversion is nuts rn)
CANADA and USA Shipping available.
DM me to order!

Yupaychani everyone and appreciate your support 🫶🏽 by @samay.c

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Okay everyone, I fully Virgoed so hard on this one and I love it so much 😎

Throughout the years, I was finding that in the non stop activity that is life, I had no idea where all my energy was going. I knew I was doing one thing after the other, burnout after burnout after burnout. Capitalism has us in the wheel running, running, running with no end.

I was also finding that I was forgetting that things like doing taxes, running bank errands, school paperwork, getting my new OHIP cause I lost it for the 4th time; all of that is WORK. So when I had a break from my paid job, and I’d finally do all those things, my rest time wasn’t actually rest. It was just me catching up with life. No wonder all of us are burnout central ✨

Putting where my energy actually goes on paper helps me IMMENSELY to figure out where I am at AND where I want to change. But honestly… more than anything this chart REMINDS me throughout the whole year, where my priorities are, and therefore… where my values are.

When I get lost and confused, I look at it as a place of grounding. If I feel like I’m useless and haven’t done anything, I look at it and say “hey, Im doing this xyz thing that’s monumental because of xyz!”. Or if I feel like my spirit isn’t being nurtured I’m reminded: “hey, I’ve been forgetting to pray everyday”. Or if I feel like my body isn’t active I remember I can activate it through music.

This chart is super personal to you. So music for example, can be in your spirit quadrant, but at the same time, connected to all the other ones! Why? Cause nothing exists in a vacuum 😌

Anyways, hope you enjoyed my little series!! Should I do more?!

From me to you 💛 by @samay.c

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