Nahanee Creative

On our best days, we are holding on to medicine shared across millennia to help us contribute to a better world for the next generations.

We hold on through daily televised colonial violence, normalized Indigenous-specific inequity, and a myriad of internalized “disorders” because of the strength of our Ancestors. The circle we share with them will always be stronger than the circles we share with colonialism.

Our Ancestors held on while living through a cultural genocide including the outlawing of sacred ways and the theft of their children. I wonder what they would think of National Indigenous Peoples Day, to know we are celebrated today.

To know that today, we celebrate all they did to hold on to us. I’m so grateful for them every I see regalia or hear our language.

Sending love, care & celebration for all our Indigenous Relations! I see you holding on to your sacredness, and healing across generations to carry forward all you can,

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day, in the hugest sense of the term!

Salmon skin armwear by my gifted cuz Sesemiya
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Support Indigenous Q***r artists this Indigenous Peoples/Pride Month and every month!! And may we suggest you start by buying your tickets for this months Hotlatch: Indigenous Dance Party and/or buying a pay it forward ticket that will go towards an Indigenous person attending the amazing event free of charge ❤️ link in our bio

We’ve been working with the Centre for Indigenous Health at and in this morning’s session, while discussing Colonial Myths, the old stand-by “no one was living there” came up.

The legacy of Terra Nulius lives on through statements like those. The sentiment also erases Indigenous ways of sharing territory. It’s still ownership even if there’s no deed. And, just because there was never a subdivision, doesn’t mean it’s not Indigenous Territory.

So many colonial myths to dispel!

US bookings welcome, there are no borders on zoom, and we’re all impacted by colonial conditioning & systems.

Nahanee Creative is run by Sḵwx̱wú7mesh women, daughters and granddaughters of Residential School Survivors who live with the realities of international trauma every day, who are tired, burnt out and struggling with rental housing in our homelands.

Reposted from last year with an updated ask, inspired by Paisley’s closing words yesterday.

We work many hours each week to activate change, including these teaching graphics. We pay a huge emotional price for doing this work. We are not supported by any “Indigenous business” programs because we aren’t in the right cliques, we are busy struggling with the difficulties of actual Indigenous-life like high rent, complex health issues, generational trauma and lived inter-connection which means we are deeply connected through hard times - no tough love colonial bs.

Consider helping us pay our rents, this includes support for my dad, a residential school survivor who was homeless last summer and has never received support from the Indian Residential School Survivors Society or their 1-800 number that seems to help everyone feel better but us.

Want to practice reciprocity with Host Nations? Give directly to Host Nations members as your complicity math for the equity gained from owning unceded land? Help pay our rents, call it redress!

Start with us, https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=68P7XLP63HPX6 \o/