What do you mean? The clan is a kinship based organization around family relations, not a democracy. No single person owns a song or crest and all are impacted by giving permission for its use. Communal ownership means taking into account more than just individual desires. Generally elders make important…

I can tell you not to take something that belongs to me. That is a choice you are able to make, but it is reasonable for me to ask you not to harm me. That’s where I see the cultural appropriation argument. I’m not asking you to stop doing something because you want to, I’m asking you to stop because it harms me.

I am saying that the ability to hold ownership is a vital part of culture. Carrying out this cultural ideal requires making decisions about who can use it or not, but controlling the art/practice isn’t the point. Ownership is the point.

No, that is not quite what I mean. Ownership of songs/crests is a vital part of clan culture. Making decisions about who is a relation and can use/perform these things is about preserving cultural ideals regarding ownership/art/etc. I know it rankles people when indigenous communities have knowledge/art that is not…

Sure. In my tribe, clans own certain dances or songs. Many dance groups do perform publicly and generally ask for permission for other clans to perform songs not owned by them. The clan of ownership decides whether or not the songs can be performed; they are able to make that choice. If someone watches the dance…

It does hurt people. When I steal from you, it hurts. When a clan owns a crest or pattern and finds it plastered all over someone’s underwear or used as an “homage” by someone who thought it was cool, there is very literal harm. You stole something from people that have had so many things stolen from them. You…

So your argument is that you are one person and your personal work couldn’t possibly harm anyone? If you were literally the only person taking formline work and presenting it as your own, maybe, but enough individual artists together does cause harm. Whose to say the originator of those prints you are talking about…

A lot of the images and crests used in PNW art belong to a certain clan or group and any artist, even someone from the same PNW community, should ask permission to use it. Beyond that, as a PNW Alaska Native (Haida), I would ask if you were making money from your art. If so, you are harming the livelihood of PNW…

As an Alaska who has actually had to travel with family members for healthcare from a small town, fuck him.

I’m sure you know about this, but many airports hold special events where children with autism can do a practice run for future flights. I fly with Alaska Air normally, since it’s the only option in SE Alaska, but they do train their attendants to work with families in a variety of situations. Best of luck! https://b…

So it’s like Better Call Saul, but instead of Saul Goodman, it focuses on the nail salon that launders the drug money? Sounds interesting to me!

I hope they flood the office with things to review. So they have to read all the science all the time. Just every piece of anything, files and files and files.

As someone recovering from a fucked!evangelical education in my early years (we literally watched a video ‘disproving’ evolution by showing dinosaur and hominin footprints in the same general area during church), the overarching theme towards natural resources is that god created it for us to use.

Adrienne Keene of Native Appropriations has put up a good list of direct actions you can take. Money, as we head into a bitterly cold winter, would probably help winterize the camps.

Honestly considering it. I was applying for an academic position in Calgary anyway, but this is going to make my family look seriously into dual citizenship. We’re members of the Haida nation, which is separated by international borders. It’s been a few generations since someone in our family was in Canada, but the…

My only guess would be waterheads is a creative way to say crybabies?

Not an isolated incident. Here’s another, very similar case. Maddening.

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