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Tongva / KIZH LAnd • TATAVIAM VALLEY
tawantinsuyu reppin all thru turtle island
. 𝐍𝐎 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 .

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HISTORIC! @camanoenterprises presentan…

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Chi miigwech 🙏 to @inksbyivory for this beautiful tribute to my name “Ojibwe J“ 💜 this piece is amazing!!!

📍 @g6tattoos_ studio 📍

#ojibwe #matachewanfirstnation #anishinaabe #anish #firstnations

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Today I’m sharing some reposts I love that honor our people and the land.

It is always our people. It is always the land. It is always Pachamama.

We all belong to her. We are all part of the earth.

Share with your loved ones so we can be vision keepers of the new earth we are building together. This is how the prayer travels. 🌱

Follow @xochitlashe and join my mailing list at the link in my bio so we stay connected, no matter what the algorithm decides. 💌

Sources are tagged in the lower left of each slide.

With love,
Xóchitl Ashe

#IndigenousPeoplesDay

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#indigenouspeoplesday not #columbusday #neveragainisnow #wwjd #freeallpeoplefromcolonialviolence
Words: @doctora.zunzun
Music: Aura Surey - Taino Prayer Song
Edited by: Huzifa, survivor of G.za G.nocide

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In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, I’m excited to share that my work from “INDIGENOUS FACES OF WILMINGTON” is now on display at the @historic_odessa as part of Award Winners XXVI, celebrating the 2026 Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellows. 🪶🪶🪶

This project is deeply personal. Through photography, I set out to tell the stories of Indigenous people living in Delaware, honoring their presence, identity, heritage, and lived experiences. These portraits are more than photographs. They are a visual record of a community that continues to thrive, carrying its traditions, culture, and identity forward.

Too often, Indigenous people are spoken about in the past tense, as if our stories belong only in history books. Indigenous Faces of Wilmington challenges that narrative by making space for the people who are here today. It is about visibility, representation, and ensuring that future generations can see themselves reflected in the history we are creating right now.

As a photographer and visual storyteller, I believe our images have the power to preserve memory, build connections, and give voice to stories that deserve to be seen and remembered. Having this work exhibited in another historic space is a meaningful reminder that our stories belong in the places where history is preserved and shared.

I’m grateful to the Historic Odessa Foundation, @biggsmuseum , @artsdelaware , and @delartmuseum for supporting this work and helping bring these stories to a wider audience. Each opportunity to share INDIGENOUS FACES OF WILMINGTON allows these stories to reach new people, deepen understanding, and affirm the continued presence and contributions of Indigenous people in Delaware.

We are still here. Our stories are still being written. And our presence matters.

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day. 🪶🪶🪶

📍INDIGENOUS FACES OF WILMINGTON EXHIBIT
@historic_odessa September 1 - October 25 2026.

Photographer : Andre’ Wright Jr. / @coloroflifebranding
Event Photographer: Jim Coarse @moonloopphoto
Location: @historic_odessa
My tribe: @nanticokeindiantribe

#indigenouspeoplesday #musemphotography #legacyphotography #andrewrightjr #delaware

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We stole the Land. Why is giving it back outrageous?

How do we keep talking ourselves into this flawed logic?

“Land Back” means returning land and the power to decide what happens on it.

Indigenous nations are rightfully demanding that US honor treaties it signed, and then broke.

When people assume that they would be kicked off their land or killed - that Indigenous nations would do exactly what was done to them - it’s easy to see how deeply ingrained that colonial thinking actually is.

This Indigenous Peoples’ Day, share this and support the Indigenous organizers working to make land return happen.

Find Indigenous-led efforts to follow, amplify, and support in the comments.

Today and every day, challenge the idea that you can steal another people’s land, take control of their lives, and that if enough time passes, society will call that normal and acceptable.

We cannot undo the genocide committed on this land, or the lives destroyed by slavery. But we owe Indigenous peoples and the descendants of enslaved people the fullest repair we can make.

Returning the Land, honoring rights, and restoring governing power are real things that we can do. If you’re an American, ask yourself, why does even that still seem like too much to ask?

Does time passing make keeping stolen land okay?

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Chief Joseph Wind River has been an incredible ambassador for Israeli people and Jews everywhere.

I feel so comforted when I hear him speak or watch his videos.

With so much hate in the world today, how fantastic to find this loving connection with indigenous people. We all need to cleave to each other in solidarity!

I thank you sir, from the bottom of my heart!

#indigenousroots #indigenoussovereignty #amazingfriendship #maywehavepeace #peaceandblessings

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address me as Cimarron, Maroon, Seminole, Moreno or primº. All real no promo 👽👾🌴🥑 Shoutout to all the great ppls I got to vibe out wit at khemfest🤖

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Here is a project I had the honor of directing for Jones Elementary’s Multicultural Night. @joneswoodchucks

I love creating films that do more than document a moment. I want every frame to carry purpose. Every interview, every reaction, and every quiet moment is an opportunity to preserve something that matters.

Being able to tell stories connected to my @nanticokeindiantribe Nanticoke and Lenape heritage in a school filled with students, families, and educators made this project especially meaningful. It wasn’t just about capturing an event. It was about creating something that reflects identity, community, and the importance of seeing ourselves represented on screen.

I’m grateful to Jones Elementary for trusting me with their story. Collaborating with people who genuinely care about culture and community is the kind of work that reminds me why I picked up a camera in the first place.

Enjoy the frames. There’s a whole story living between them. 🪶🪶🪶

Production Company: @coloroflifebranding
Dir: Andre’ Wright Jr.
Client: @joneswoodchucks + @christina.k12
Curator: @rebjacknative

Shot on @canonusa 1DX MARK II
Lens: @sigmacine 18-35mm 1.8

#delaware #coloroflifephoto #multiculturalnight #filmmaking #nanticokeindiantribe

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Brutality upon #NativeAmerica’s enemies
domestic and abroad 🌎🌵🤝🏽🌲📜
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You can’t glorify isreali and united-statesian terrorist #intelligence seeking out their enemies AT ALL COSTS without inspiring #ethnicNatives #fromGreenlandToAlaskaAndChile to do the SAME✊🏽🌵🤝🏽🌲🌎 #onePeopleOneHemisphere
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Be the indigenous intelligence we need; inspire the youth and educate them to be more dangerous than us✊🏽🔥⚡🧠💀

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No matter how much firearms #settlerDogs hoard.....a single person and a fire can flush them all out.....and make the occupier filth easy targets as they try to move their expensive tools of liberation🍓⚡🔥📜
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Imagine if every Indigenous, spanish, french, portuguese, dutch, and english speaking #ethnicNative military, gang, cartel, warrior society, and rights group joined together to expel our occupiers #fromGreenlandToAlaskaAndChile 🌎
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🌎 #forNativeAmerica #onePeopleOneHemisphere 🌎 and we make up 10% of the GLOBAL population now⚡
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Modern natives will be bangin big bass music to lasers, droids, and drone swarms⚡️⚡️⚡️👹⚡️⚡️⚡️
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You just don’t genocide a people......traffick and abuse their family for three generations......and make them watch enslaved LIVING 50%-90+% ethnic-native kids WHO STILL speak their indigenous language as their first language packing cereal and auto parts in Grand Rapids Michigan, cutting lumber in the Dakotas, processing meats throughout the country, and working as roofers in Florida....
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...without generational anger, vengeance, and consequences.....
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I’m tame for some of the natives out there. We’re THOUSANDS of different warrior society tribes✊🏽⚡🔥
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What is N.I.I.N.?
Native Intelligence Initiative Network 🍓
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Do I need to remember N.I.I.N.?
no.....
niin = I
ᓃᓐ = me (you)
ᓃᓐ = self
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Who is N.I.I.N.?
EVERY native person:
- known & unknown
- seen & unseen
- complicit & unknownParticipant
- noLeaders
- noMasters
- noExploits
- protectOurWays
- protectOurPeople
- protectTheSacred
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UniteNativeAmerica
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UniteTheTribes 🌵🤝🏽🌲
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UnitedFirstNations keepNativeAmericaNative ⚡️🔥
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fromGreenlandToAlaskaAndChile onePeopleOneHemisphere 🌎
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saveNativeAmerica ✅
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freeNativeAmerica ⚠️
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indigena indigenous indígenas indigena FirstNations
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Don't get it twisted ✊🏽
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Our collective is sending lots of love, strength, and luck to all our relatives in the Red Nation on this World Indigenous Peoples' Day. Across Turtle Island, Abya Yala, and all directions. We continue walking down the Red Road, the path paved by the first peoples, to resist colonization and steward our Earth Mother for the next 7 generations. 500 years of attempted erasure but guess what, we are still here. The Ancestors sent their best.
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The Inland Empire is unceded land taken from its original stewards and peoples: the Tongva (Kizh/Gabrieleño), Taaqtam (Maarrênga'yam/Yuhaaviatam/Serrano), Ivilyuqaletem (Cahuilla), and Payómkawichum (Luiseño).
📸:📍Kumeyaay Nation

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