That's absolutely on the table. Watch events in #NewMexico & #Minnesota especially re native sovereignty & solidarity. Don't forget there's already a #Haudenosaunee passport, its treaties with Canada have been legally upheld as a sovereignty basis of the whole nation.
Mexico also won't be neutral.
We stuck with birthdays for this week’s #HiddenHistory of #SWONT, marking Pauline Johnson’s 165th. The #Haudenosaunee poet worked to make #Canadians more accepting of Indigenous Peoples & Women at a time where is was getting harder for both groups: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #cdnhist
Veteran #AlternateHistory #writer Dale Cozort considers a #WhatIf from #indigenous #history in #NorthAmerica - a #Huron ( #Wyandot ) victory in the war between that confederation and the #Iroquois ( #Haudenosaunee ) in 1648-1650. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/hurons-...
A cropped digital illustration of two masculine Native American characters kissing. One with arm tattoos leans over to kiss the nose of one sitting on the ground. The one sitting wears a purple arm band and a white bead necklace, and holds a basket of corn with the purple Haudenosaunee flag woven into the design.
A preview of my final piece for "We've Always Been Here", a queer historical zine that's now on Kickstarter! ⬇️
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tap...
So happy to bring some two-spirit representation to the project 💜
#2Spirit #TwoSpirit #Indigenous #IndigenousArt #Haudenosaunee #Indigiqueer #Art
From the report in which I had a number of image prompts created:
#Haudenosaunee ( #Iroquois ) & #Anishinaabe: The World on the #Turtle’s Back
In many Indigenous cultures of North America, the continent is referred to as "Turtle Island." The turtle is the foundation of existence, ...
@charring58.bsky.social The #Iroquois(/ˈɪrəkwɔɪ, -kwɑː/IRR-ə-kwoy, -kwah), also known as the #Haudenosaunee Confederacy[a](/ˌhoʊdɪnoʊˈʃoʊni/HOH-din-oh-SHOH-nee;[8] lit. 'people who are building the
En parlant d'appropriation culturelle, cher M. #Plamondon,
@pq.org , le sirop d’érable est une innovation #Anishinaabe, #Abénaki, #Haudenosaunee et #Mi’kmaq. Tout comme la CAQ, vous effacez les peuples autochtones de l'histoire du Québec.
www.tvanouvelles.ca/2026/01/23/c...
#Hiawatha (Haiëñ'wa'tha) was a pivotal precolonial Native American leader, a co-founder of the #Haudenosaunee (Iroquois
A digital illustration of a woman and her toddler daughter praying in a mosque. The mother wears mostly dark, muted colors, while the daughter wears a bright purple dress with yellow and orange stockings. At the top is a colorful banner that says "We've Always Been Here" and at the bottom is a small box that says "Page artist."
Felix ( @tapiocawizard.bsky.social ) is celebrating the long-standing history of queer identities in Native American nations, through an illustration of a precolonial Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) man and two-spirit person sharing a tender moment in a field of corn.
#Mohawk #Haudenosaunee #2Spirit
What can a coat, beads, or a ribbon tell us about power?
🧵 In Ep. 406, explore how Haudenosaunee women used fashion to shape diplomacy, identity, and resistance.
🎧 Listen: benfranklinsworld.com/406
#VastEarlyAmerica #History #Haudenosaunee #WomensHistory #NYHistory #USHistory
#Indigenous legal orders were never static. They were:
adaptive
relational
situational
responsive to crisis
#Colonialism is the largest crisis #FNMI #Haudenosaunee societies have ever faced.
The #Haudenosaunee system is still culturally and politically important within communities, but it is not equipped to mediate #colonial legal and social realities.
This is why debates over “bloodlines,” “authenticity,” and access to #governance feel so contentious today.
Today, the clan system cannot fully address questions raised by #colonial history:
Who is “ #Haudenosaunee” in a legal/benefit sense?
How do off-reserve or urban #Indigenous people participate?
How are mixed-ancestry individuals incorporated or excluded?
Intermarriage with settlers: Children of settler mothers were excluded from clan membership, which was never a problem pre-contact.
Land dispossession and mobility restrictions: Clan governance relies on community cohesion, which #colonial systems fractured. #Haudenosaunee
#Colonialism introduced legal, cultural, and demographic pressures that the system couldn’t absorb on its own:
Forced assimilation: Residential schools, Indian Act policies, and bans on ceremonies disrupted clan knowledge and participation. #Haudenosaunee
The clan system was self contained, designed to manage governance, social roles, ceremonial responsibilities, and continuity within Indigenous communities. All members were born into clans, knew their responsibilities, and lived within the social and political structures of #Haudenosaunee society.
The First Nation #Haudenosaunee clan system was designed for a pre-colonial, pre-contact social and political reality, not for the structures imposed by #colonialism.
You can’t simultaneously acknowledge that #colonialism systematically disrupted #Haudenosaunee kinship, governance, land-based life, and transmission of #identity and then pretend that today’s conditions are “pure" untouched, and fully intact and use those disrupted conditions to morally judge folk
#Colonialism + #FNMI #Haudenosaunee protocol:
disrupted matrilines
removed children
imposed #patrilineal law
enforced the #IndianAct
rewrote adoption, marriage, and belonging
You cannot then turn around and say:
If #colonialism severed your line, you simply no longer exist as #Indigenous.
Saying “if the #Haudenosaunee bloodline is absent, the #identity is absent” only works inside one nation’s #political framework. When applied broadly, it becomes exclusionary essentialism, not #sovereignty.
A person can:
lack #Haudenosaunee #FNMI citizenship
lack a clan
still be #Indigenous
still be harmed by #colonial systems
still have ancestry, kinship rupture, adoption, or displacement
Yes, #Haudenosaunee citizenship is not self-declared
DNA tests, vibes, or distant ancestry don’t confer political standing
Adoption was structured, accountable, and not casual
Outsiders do not gain political authority by proximity or learning traditions
Fraudulent claims do undermine sovereignty
I've been asked to make a public statement to a first nation. Does anyone have advice on how to approach this? Protocols, process, procedure, all of it.
#firstnations
#Haudenosaunee
#Canada
How #NativeAmericans Shaped U.S. #Democracy
In celebration of #IndigenousPeoples'Day, we take a look at the framers of the #Constitution - who may have taken inspiration from the age-old traditions of the #Haudenosaunee.
www.discovermagazine.com/did-native-a...
Talking about my #Welsh background doesn’t make me less than. Talking about my #Haudenosaunee ancestry doesn’t make me less legitimate. Talking openly is healthy and decolonial. Also ancestry doesn't = #FNMI identity or lived experience.
A loosely colored, cropped sketch of two Native Americans, with one leaning over the other from behind, and they're about to kiss. Both look fairly androgynous, leaning toward masculine, and the one in the back is placing an ear of corn in the basket that the other holds in his lap.
Veerryy vague color blocking done on my sketch for @taplingzines.bsky.social 's upcoming zine 🥰 Here's a tiny preview hehehe
I'm gonna have to draw soooo much corn very soon 🌽 🫠
#Haudenosaunee #Mohawk #2Spirit #TwoSpirit #Indigiqueer #Indigequeer
Sports reporting, including vintage photos, historical illustrations, vintage newsreels, and photojournalism
#authorinterview
#booksky 💙📚
#ballislife
#sports
#lacrosse
#Haudenosaunee
#medicinegame
m.youtube.com/watch?v=It-8...
