Is it time for a Native Bechdel Test?

Is it time for a Native Bechdel Test?

  Three weeks ago*, the MacArthur foundation announced this year’s crop of “genius grant” award winners, which honored the incredible Native feminist and activist Sarah Deer, as well as 20 other amazing (and amazingly diverse) folks. Among that group was Alison Bechdel, a comic artist and author, but more commonly known for her creation of what we now call the “Bechdel Test.” The Bechdel test

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White tears and aggressive Indians: Native activists on the Daily Show

White tears and aggressive Indians Native activists on the Daily Show

A couple weeks ago, a stellar, amazing group of my Native activist friends, colleagues, internet-friends, and people-I-wish-were-my-friends gathered in DC for a taping of the Daily Show (see photo … Source: nativeappropriations.com See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations

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Last speaker of Native Californian Wukchumni Language

‘Who Speaks Wukchumni?’

    Wukchumni is both a Native Californian language and people. They are of the Yokuts tribe residing on the Tule River Reservation. The Tule River Reservation was established in 1873 by a US Executive Order in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. It is south of Fresno and north of Bakersfield. It occupies 55,356 acres. -Wikipedia “This short documentary profiles the last fluent speaker of Wukchumni, a

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