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What Year Does the Map Represent?

By Victor Temprano

Wednesday, December 20th, 2017

Does time really matter on maps? Of course it does. But how you map time depends on the purpose of your map.

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While we witness that this day is derived from set

While we witness that this day is derived from settler routines, we are choosing to honour the opportunity and celebrate the land-based understanding of the matriarch's role in Indigenous culture.

Traditional global teaching excludes much of Indigenous history - this is a well-known fact - but even the context that IS taught or shared still excludes the powerful position and perspective of Indigenous women+.

Indigenous societies and nations were/are often matrilineal lead (which is a framework rejected by global white supremacy which has spent its entire existence permitting the rise of white men over all other alternatives.)

This is where we encourage independent learning:

What do you know about matriarch leadership in Indigenous culture?

Do a little looking around - a google search - see what you can connect with to gain new perspectives that honour the matriarch through a deeper Indigenous understanding.

This is a topic we'll loop back to in our content & soon-to-launch IGTV series Amplifying Indigenous Voices

Share with us what you know or learn! We welcome DM's and kind comments.

If you are an Indigenous woman+ and would like to chat with us on the IGTV show about matriarchal roles in your culture - DM us and let's chat! 🍃

It’s never the wrong time to push back against t

It’s never the wrong time to push back against the oppressive systems that shadow ban and erase Indigenous voices. For the last year, all social media platforms have been deleting posts, erasing stories and shadow banning content related to Black Lives Matter - this recent attack on #mmiw #mmiwg #mmiwgs2s #mmiwg2st is part of that same toxic ecosystem.

Where does it end?

Who holds these platforms accountable, if not for us?

RePosted with much gratitude to @illuminative for leading this initiative...

Join us in turning @instagram red to disrupt the #MMIWGActionNow erasure.

#mmiw #mmiwgactionnow #mmiwawareness #mmiwg #mmiwg2s #nativeamerican #nativewomenrising #nativewomen #representationmatters

Today is Red Dress Day - a reminder that THOUSANDS

Today is Red Dress Day - a reminder that THOUSANDS of Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit individuals have gone missing and been murdered and every year the list grows longer.

Stolen lives without consequence or in many cases even the respect of a proper investigation.

Today, communities across North America hang a red dress to represent this ongoing devastation.

Today we remember with them.

#mmiwg #mmiwg2s #reddressday #indigenous

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