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08/30/2023

Johnny Cash receives a Haudenosaunee headdress from Chief Joseph Logan of the Six Nations Confederacy on Aug. 25, 1970
Cash was given the name Da-Gyn-Da-Geah, meaning He Is Coming With The Song
June Cash was given the name Ga-Ge-Che-Weeh, meaning Carrying Flowers

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07/15/2023

06/04/2023

For Indigenous peoples, corn was not only grown for food, but its seeds were a very key ingredient in medicine pouches and for offerings in ceremonies and rituals. A materialist would skeptically judge such an act as meaningless since these seeds are never consumed. What is not seen with physical eyes, but can be felt with the heart if we attend to it, is the powerful radiation of potential life within the corn seed.
The original name of corn is Maize and it can be traced back to the Mayas who first established an intimate communion with this plant. Starting with a wild grass, likely the species known as teosinte, the Mayas (also later in collaboration with other indigenous tribes of the Americas), worked with a supreme devotion and care over a long span of approximately 8,000 years to co-create what we know today as the corn plant.
Endowed with ancient gifts of clairvoyance, the Mayas perceived in the wild teosinte, a spiritual Mothering force that could become a nurturing physical food, when it is brought into a further manifestation - a cultivation by human hearts and hands. Corn is a crop that depends entirely on human cultivation for its production, creating a very special relationship with human beings due to their dependence on each other. It can't grow wild, on its own.
Indigenous peoples often say “Maize is our blood.” The word “maiz", in fact, means "Universal Mother", or "She Who Sustains Life".
Dr. Michael Kotutwa Johnson, a Native traditional Hopi farmer who founded the Native American Agriculture Fund, teaches that “Corn is the Mother in the truest sense that people take in the corn and the corn becomes their flesh, as mother milk becomes the flesh of the child.”

The Mayas believed the gods created mankind from mixing corn flour with the blood of the gods, making them literally "Children of The Corn".
- S.M.M.
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05/31/2023

“A Bundle of Seven Arrows” 📲🏹

This ᎤᏬᏚᎯ (beautiful) sculpture by Cherokee National Treasure Demos Glass sits at the Cherokee Nation Anna Mitchell Cultural & Welcome Center in Vinita and represents the unity of Cherokee Nation’s seven matrilineal clans.

05/17/2023

¡Xiyolpaki, nonatsin! Felicidades mamá en náhuatl 🤱🏽💙👉🏼https://bit.ly/MamaEnLenguasIndigenas

05/16/2023

05/05/2023

05/04/2023

We’re proud to be working with N LITE on the production of MFINDA, the very first afro-anime film! ✨

MFINDA blends teams from Black and Indigenous backgrounds with veterans of Japanese anime, and will be unveiled with an in-depth first look at this year’s Annecy Festival!

MFINDA is a co-production between N LITE and Studio M2. The film is produced by Masao Maruyama and co-directed by Gisaburō Sugii and Arthell Isom. Donald H. Hewitt (SPIRITED AWAY) and Mika Abe (FOREST OF PIANO) join creators Christiano Terry and Patience Lekien as screenwriters.

In MFINDA, a 12-year-old Congolese girl is transported to the eponymous forest of spirits, gods, and ancestors. There she joins another young girl from a different time, and embarks on a journey to find the magical Nkisi in hopes of finding her way back home.

05/03/2023

El metate es uno de los utensilios más tradicionales de la cocina mexicana.

El metate (del náhuatl metlatl) es un utensilio de cocina utilizado en diversas culturas de Mesoamérica desde tiempos prehispánicos.
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