Life and Times of a Modern Day NDN Princess

Yeyer thats right!! #NativeAmericanNextTopModel Mariah Monique...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:10:32 -0500

Yeyer thats right!! #NativeAmericanNextTopModel

Mariah Monique Watchman

Watch her on Cycle 18 of ANTM

Keepin it Riel! I own this shirt.

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:46:36 -0500

Keepin it Riel!

I own this shirt.

Mariah Monique Watchman is up for America’s Next Top Model...

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:34:52 -0500

Mariah Monique Watchman is up for America’s Next Top Model season cycle 18!!

She is from The Umatilla Indian Reservation.

She is the second Native American contestant on the show.. Evita Myers was the first but got eliminated in the first round… Where is she by the way?? No more modeling?

Anyways here’s to hoping a Native wins this season!!!!

Wait wait wait… Theoren Fleury is Native??? Holy Moly...

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:02:22 -0500

Wait wait wait…

Theoren Fleury is Native???

Holy Moly awesomeness!

(He is hosting the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards and I guess now I will read his book)

"As the original languages of this land, indigenous languages require significant investment and it should be comparable to that provided for the two 'official' languages in Canada."

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:33:20 -0500

"As the original languages of this land, indigenous languages require significant investment and it should be comparable to that provided for the two 'official' languages in Canada."

"In a little while it will be over. We may fail. But the rights for which we contend will not die." Louis Riel.. Mussi Cho Louis Riel.. Your quotes always inspire me...

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:27:34 -0500

"In a little while it will be over. We may fail. But the rights for which we contend will not die." Louis Riel.. Mussi Cho Louis Riel.. Your quotes always inspire me...

RIP Wheels… (5 years ago) Degrassi, the GOOD generation...

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:39:12 -0500

RIP Wheels… (5 years ago)

Degrassi, the GOOD generation (haha)

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1132464—degrassi-star-wheels-reported-dead-five-years-after-he-died

I love me some Degrassi, have all seasons of Junior High and High…

Review: #8thfirecbc

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:25:54 -0500

So anyone in Canada knows about 8th Fire on CBC, and if you don’t where have you been in the last couple of weeks?

Us Canadians were honored every week for the last 4 weeks to get an in depth look at First Nations in this country..

The last episode was on tonight, and it made me sad that this show and others like it are not on every week..

Dets:

“8TH Fire draws from an Anishinaabe prophecy that declares now is the time for Aboriginal peoples and the settler community to come together and build the ‘8TH Fire’ of justice and harmony.

A 500 year old relationship … coming out of conflict, colonialism and denial.

A team of Aboriginal storytellers from across the country”

The host: Wab Kinew (journalist, host, hip hop artist) did a FANTASTIC job. The right about of brains and humor.

Meet the rich kaleidoscope of Aboriginal people who are fast joining the country’s urban middle class and bringing their culture with them.

WATCH

Memorable people and stories from across the country illustrate why there’s an economic, demographic and moral imperative to fix Canada’s troubled 500-year relationship with Aboriginals

WATCH!

An evocative look at the role that land plays in the conflicted relationship with Aboriginal peoples and the rest of Canada.

WATCH!

How the Aboriginal community’s feisty and self-confident youth; the “Seventh Generation” who are taking new pride in their heritage and pointing the way forward to a new relationship.

WATCH!

So watch the show. Very very important for every Canadian to do so. Learn, Live, Laugh!

SuperWab!

http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/8thfire/

This has some Michael Jackson vibes…

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:27:56 -0500

This has some Michael Jackson vibes…

Oh my. Oh my. Oh my. #SpaceNerd shoes!!!

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:07:42 -0500

Oh my. Oh my. Oh my.

#SpaceNerd shoes!!!

S%!t People Say to Natives

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:25:20 -0500

S%!t People Say to Natives

Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson talk about filming in...

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:36:52 -0500

Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson talk about filming in the Yukon.

And yes, we do get lots of daylight in the summers. And no, it’s not dark all day in the winters.

Wab Kinew on Strombo last night

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:48:22 -0500

Wab Kinew on Strombo last night

(via BEYOND BUCKSKIN: Artist Profile | Kent Monkman) Monkman...

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:27:05 -0500

(via BEYOND BUCKSKIN: Artist Profile | Kent Monkman)

Monkman uses ‘fashion’ triggers like headdresses and platform shoes to discuss identity, gender, and sexuality, as well as issues pertaining to racism and colonization.

In his multifaceted work, Toronto based painter, photographer, performance and video installation artist Kent Monkman deals a table-turning hand on the one-sided histories of Euro-American descent.

Using parody and his flamboyant alter-ego ‘Miss Chief Eagle Testickle’, he subtly turns pioneering myths of the American West into orgiastic revisions of nineteenth-century pastoral scenes. By appropriating the imagery and technique of ‘New World’ landscape painters, and by reversing the usual roles of cowboys and Indians, Monkman questions not only history, but also notions of authenticity and identity. He goes back in time to ‘queer the frontier’.

Click on the link to read the entire article and see his art!