@mmiwhoismissing

class="content__text" Ahéhéé @kukhusxkwe 🚨Missing Elder🚨 Lena Ann Tsosie, Age 80, Female, 4’0” tall, 100 lbs, Brown eyes, White hair. Last seen wearing Black of white pants, unknown shirt color, black shoes Lena left her residence Tuesday Feb. 7, 2023, in Del Muerto, AZ. Her husband went to an appointment and when he returned, she was not home. He has not seen or hear from her since. Lena Ann Tsosie has been entered into NCIC. If you have seen Lena Ann Tsosie or if you have any information on her whereabouts, please call the Navajo Police Department Chinle District at (928) 674-2111/2112 #missingperson #missingwoman #missingnative #missingelderly #silveralert #navajo #diné #native #ndn #indigenous #mmiw #mmip #mmir #mmiwg2s #lenaanntsosie #activism #2ndgenpagan #nanticokeandproud #ndnornithologist #injuredindian #gotneskurkennari #proudlyalgonquian #psquaiukukhus #kukhusxkwe

February 15, 2023

class="content__text" 🌹Please Share! Help us lessen the impact... Support MMIR families and survivors. 🌹GIVE 🌹SUPPORT 🌹AMPLIFY 🌹HEAL MMIR MUTUAL AID paypal.me/supportmmip cashapp $MMIWhoismissing We currently are seeking to meet fundraising goals for MMIR families. *visit link in bio to support MMIR families MMIWhoismissing is a sovereign Indigenous femme led mutual aid organization. With your kinship, we maintain direct relations with MMIR families by providing immediate and anti-bureaucratic support with bills, search efforts, community gatherings, food, transportation, and ceremony in the aftermath of MMIR violence. ‼️Mutual aid is never stagnant and donations are in constant need. VISIT mmiwhoismissing.org #mmir #mmip #mmiw #mmiwg #mmiwg2s #mmiwgt2s #mmiwgactionnow #mmiwawareness #mmiwhoismissing #mmirmutualaid #supportsurvivors

February 15, 2023

class="content__text"@kukhusxkwe (C: Please share to help bring Amaya home! If you have any information regarding her whereabouts please call the number listed on the bottom of the post.) • • #missingperson #missingteen #missingkids #missinggirl #missingnative #mmiw #mmiwg2s #mmip #mmir #native #ndn #indigenous #amayaghost #activism #2ndgenpagan #nanticokeandproud #ndnornithologist #injuredindian #gotneskurkennari #proudlyalgonquian #psquaiukukhus #kukhusxkwe

February 15, 2023

class="content__text" Ahéhee’ / Mahalo @indigenousintentions Happy Valentines Day from us to you. Remembering February 14th, 1779💗 graphic: @keyra_juliana #indigenous #hawaii #lovestory #valentinesday #kanakamaoli

February 15, 2023

class="content__text" Some QT medicine for today! Ahéhee’ @wingbeat88 💜💖A 2SLGBTQ + Valentine 💖💜 Ayóó anííníshní I love you ✨We all know that Valentine’s Day is a day when we collectively gaze and gush in the direction of our love(s), we turn our attention and affections outward (and hopefully just as equally inward), and in return they reflect that love and affection right back. But the ripples don’t start until someone throws the stone into the pond. And please don’t forget to shout your own damn name, too! It is truly stunning to see you wrapped up in your own self-love and I’m here for it. So much so that I wrote a poem of sorts (including footnotes, because footnotes are their own kind of love language) for all the third and fourth-gendered Diné bbs out there in Dinétah, all you urban darlings, too, those of us surviving in Bordertowns, to the gender expansive honeys who refuse(d) the gendercide from wherever you may put your feet. Resistance is love and so many other things, but love is at the core of why you survived and how we’ll survive into the future. To reflect that love back, here’s a semi-interactive poem. ✨Enjoy my loves! TSOS "A 2SLGBTQ + Valentine" brought to you by Shepherd TSOSie (they/them), is Diné and from Lök'aah Niteel. They are an independent researcher and writer, focusing on Diné gender and sexuality. They live and work in North Carolina with their wife and cats. #ValentinesDayPoem #Valentines #IndigenousLove #2slgbtq #IndigenousWriters #IndigenousLiterature #QueerDreams #IndigenousJoy #TransJoy #Dilbaa #Nadleehi #DinéLove #MyDilbaaDreams

February 15, 2023

class="content__text" ✨💚@ndncollective Today we commemorate the defeat of colonizer Captain Cook, who was killed by Native Hawaiians, our Kānaka Maoli relatives, on this day in 1779 after his third intrusive visit to the Ka Pae ʻĀina o Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian Islands). Captain Cook's visits introduced debilitating western diseases and triggered British and American Colonization throughout the Pacific and thus began the destruction of ways of living, food systems, and more. Yet Indigenous Hawaiian culture,  Kānaka Maoli People & other Polynesian Islanders remain to this day and into the future. We stand in deep solidarity and kinship with our Kānaka relatives in their ongoing fight for decolonization, #LANDBACK, and liberation.  Today, we lift up the following regenerative Native Hawaiian-owned farms & language resources, as both language and land reconnect us to our ancestors and to one another. Follow, Support & Consider a Donation to: MA’O Organic Farms
@maoorganicfarms Hawaii Farmers Union United            
@hfuuofficial Maoli Farms              
@maolifarms          Ho’oulu ‘Āina                         
@hoouluaina Kumano I Ke Ala
@kumanoikeala February is also Hawaiian Language month. As language is the heart of any culture, we also share the following Hawaiian Language resource that has many events and resources available all month long and is updated daily, made by and for Kānaka Maoli. Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi @actionsofaloha or go to https://www.mahinaolelohawaii.org/ If you know of more, please tag them in the comments below. Quote by terisasiagatonu #KanakaMaoli #DefeatOfCaptainCook #ValentinesDay

February 15, 2023

class="content__text"@ndncollective February 14th marks the National Day of Action and Memorial for our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives across Turtle Island and beyond. This global crisis has taken our Women, Girls, Two-Spirit, Queer and Non-Binary Relatives relentlessly, leaving families in despair and survivors in search of safe places to feel heard and protected. We must commit to listening and acknowledging the lived experiences of survivors as a means of centering the most vulnerable in our communities. The destructive influence of colonization, capitalism and misogyny have all served as catalysts for how our sacred relatives are continuously harmed and threatened into silence and shame. As these are our healers, caregivers, mothers, sisters, siblings, changemakers, lifegivers, culture-bearers and Matriarchs - our communities would not exist without them. We must continue to shed light on this global crisis, calling it out in our communities and demanding change. Today, we lift up @mmiwhoismissing , an organization that is 100% Indigenous-led and an educational voice that advocates for grassroots efforts, working directly with #MMIR families, survivors, & Tribal coalitions, laying the groundwork, socially and politically to protect our Indigenous populations from further colonial violence. Please go to the link in our bio and see the toolkits @mmiwhoismissing has complied about the complexities of #MMIR. Everyone should be aware of this information and the support that currently exists! #MMIR #MMIP #MMIW #MMIWG2S

February 15, 2023

class="content__text" Holoi Ā Nalo Wāhine ‘Õiwi Missing & Murdered Women & Girls (A brief on the 2022 Missing and Murdered Native Hawaiian Women and Girls (MMNHWG) Task Force Report) 🔻Colonization is the piko (center) of violence against Kānaka Maoli Women & Girls. It originates from the history of Kānaka relationships with colonial powers, such as the United States, and is upheld through various colonial mechanisms. 🔻It wasn’t until 2022 that the federal government recognized Kānaka Maoli as Indigenous people impacted by the MMIWG crisis. The first report by the newly formed MMNHWG Task Force found that Kānaka women and girls face highest rates of violence than all other ethnic and racial groups in Hawai’i. 🔻We know that prior to colonization Kānaka practiced gender fluid beliefs, names were passed down matrilineally, and our gender and sexuality was non-monogamous and non-heteronormative. Traditionally, Kānaka honored wāhine, followed mō’ī wāhine (queens), and ali’i wāhine (women chiefs). Kānaka resistance is also rooted in the reviving of ‘ōlelo Hawai’i (speaking our language), aloha ‘āina (loving our land), and continuing to make an ideological shift back to honoring matrilineality from one that is congruent with western patriarchy. 🔻Ho’āla ke ea wāhine maoli. Ho’āla ke ea Hawai’I. (Restore sovereignty to Native Hawaiian women. Restore sovereignty to Hawai’i) ✨Mahalo ✨ MMNHWG Task Force, @nikcristobal , @decolonizefeminism , @kamawaelualani for your work. All images by Jonathan Canlas @jonathancanlas for MMIWhoismissing 🌿Mālama/Support🌿 Hawai'i orgs working with survivors: Susannah Wesley Community Center susannahwesley.org, @kamawaelualani , @hoolanapua 🌹MMIR mutual aid: PayPal: paypal.me/supportmmip Cashapp: $MMIWhoismissing #mmiwg #mmiwg2s #mmip #missingandmurderedindigenouswomen #mmiwghawaii #hawaii #mmir #humantraffickingawareness #mmiwgt2s #militaryterrorism #hawaiiantourism #tourism #toxictourism

February 15, 2023

class="content__text" Holoi Ā Nalo Wāhine ‘Õiwi Missing & Murdered Women & Girls (A brief on the 2022 Missing and Murdered Native Hawaiian Women and Girls (MMNHWG) Task Force Report) 🔻Colonization is the piko (center) of violence against Kānaka Maoli Women & Girls. It originates from the history of Kānaka relationships with colonial powers, such as the United States, and is upheld through various colonial mechanisms. 🔻It wasn’t until 2022 that the federal government recognized Kānaka Maoli as Indigenous people impacted by the MMIWG crisis. The first report by the newly formed MMNHWG Task Force found that Kānaka women and girls face highest rates of violence than all other ethnic and racial groups in Hawai’i. 🔻We know that prior to colonization Kānaka practiced gender fluid beliefs, names were passed down matrilineally, and our gender and sexuality was non-monogamous and non-heteronormative. Traditionally, Kānaka honored wāhine, followed mō’ī wāhine (queens), and ali’i wāhine (women chiefs). Kānaka resistance is also rooted in the reviving of ‘ōlelo Hawai’i (speaking our language), aloha ‘āina (loving our land), and continuing to make an ideological shift back to honoring matrilineality from one that is congruent with western patriarchy. 🔻Ho’āla ke ea wāhine maoli. Ho’āla ke ea Hawai’I. (Restore sovereignty to Native Hawaiian women. Restore sovereignty to Hawai’i) ✨Mahalo ✨ MMNHWG Task Force, @nikcristobal , @decolonizefeminism , @kamawaelualani for your work. All images by Jonathan Canlas @jonathancanlas for MMIWhoismissing 🌿Mālama/Support🌿 Hawai'i orgs working with survivors: Susannah Wesley Community Center susannahwesley.org, @kamawaelualani , @hoolanapua 🌹MMIR mutual aid: PayPal: paypal.me/supportmmip Cashapp: $MMIWhoismissing #mmiwg #mmiwg2s #mmip #missingandmurderedindigenouswomen #mmiwghawaii #hawaii #mmir #humantraffickingawareness #mmiwgt2s #militaryterrorism #hawaiiantourism #tourism #toxictourism

February 15, 2023

class="content__text" We stand with @decolonizefeminism family, & supporters. “For the last couple of months, Laguna has been upset about having to rehearse the song “Lincoln is my hero” for his school’s annual Lincoln Day. He had seen a Youtube video once that separated the man from the legend of Abe Lincoln—a man who directly facilitated genocide against Natives like him and argued that Black people could and should never be equal to whites. Laguna told his teacher he did not want to participate and tried to sit out the practices even though it alienated him in the classroom. It wasn’t about him personally boycotting but him wanting to stop his school from celebrating a colonizer on Native land. He told us last night that he wanted to protest the event by holding a sign and chanting to teach others the truth. So Kaniela and I decided to stand with and protect our boy today. He was met with hundreds of people screaming fuck you, fuck off, and other obscenities at him, a grown man ripping his sign to shreds and attacking Kaniela while holding our baby, and armed escort out. Here is what Laguna chanted that was so enraging: NO LINCOLN DAY CELEBRATE HAWAIIANS CELEBRATE FILIPINOS CELEBRATE OURSELVES Maraming salamat @sonofoahu “

February 13, 2023

class="content__text"@illuminative Racism is on a global stage today with the @Chiefs in this year’s #SuperBowlLVII championship. Teams like the “Chiefs” encourage fans to mock Native peoples, defame Indigenous cultures, and perpetuate negative stereotypes that are harmful to Native peoples and our youth. The #TimeIsNow for the Kansas City Team to #ChangeTheName and for the @NFL to ban all racist and derogatory team names, mascots, and fan behavior. Repairing the decades of harm they’ve caused Native peoples must start NOW. Sign the petition in our bio, uplift Native organizers, and share these resources! #NotYourChief #NotYourMascot #ChangeTheName #StopTheChop #KansasCityChiefs

February 13, 2023

class="content__text" Support Indigenous Tongan Sāmoan Family Following School Violence Content Warning: systemic violence, bullying, anti-blackness, anti-indigeneity, white body supremacy Afā and her family have been in severe distress and need time to metabolize this trauma. We are calling for mutual aid to support this beautiful family. YOU CAN SUPPORT Afā & Family via gofundme.com/afa-ti CASHAPP $AfaAikona VENMO @Aikonastories Please do not contact the family at this time; know that they feel your love, support, and warmth. When we envision a safe and just learning environment, we envision safety and security for BIPOC children who can show up as they are, be celebrated in their distinctiveness, and protected from systemic violence. We envision responsive teachers and administrators who are trauma-informed, grounded in spiritually-just teachings, restorative justice, and conflict transformation methodologies. We envision a place where families are welcome to be a part of the educational environment as stewards of learning and community care. We envision space for learning all forms of knowledge and knowing, not only those deemed valuable by white supremacy culture. Ultimately, we envision a space where the potential and sacredness of children is uplifted and valued with deep care and love from a diverse and ever-expanding community of educators, families, and community members. Blessings, CTW VISIT carrythewater.earth CONTACT [email protected] Text continued in comments.

February 13, 2023