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The Yáadihla’! Girls

Dear Yáadihla’ Girls’ Reader, This tumblr presence has its origins in a zine called The Yáadihla’ Girls!. A zine for those of us who have ever, or still feel alienated by society. By giving a contemporary voice to Indigenous Peoples, we are acknowledging the voices that are too often treated as peripheral headdresses of a bygone era. In this zine, Indigenous Peoples are allowed their voice for the sake of hearing their own story, rather than an offered explanation to a world that already refuses them (a rejection that is often felt upon reading your everyday American history high school textbook). In this respect, Indigenous women as prime indicators of the social organism’s well-being, felt obligated to restore a sense of identity and presence in the face of violence and oppression (we are often fore-bearers of future generations: often sexually assaulted: often angry and forced into western paradigms’ of what “woman” means). In that regard, the word “Yáadihla’!” expresses the constant frustration that Indigenous Peoples experience as they straddle two very different worlds. And if you still aren’t quite sure what we mean, here is an exhaustive list of the things that make us say, “Yáadihla’!”: - Cops, Rangers, and BIA agents policing Indigenous peoples and their lands. - Council delegate embezzlers and misogynistic taboos that are invented for political convenience’s sake ::cough:: Ben Shelly running against Linda Lovejoy, in which Ben Shelly claimed women are not supposed to lead, and Linda Lovejoy made homophobic comments and lauded the desecration of the peaks, believing we could somehow profit from Snowbowl’s revenue. -Deliberate corruptions of our culture,, history, and reality to fit political agendas. - Sexual and domestic violence within and upon our communities. - Natives who hate on other natives (Łeh), also known as lateral oppression or lateral violence. - Various forms of lateral oppression/violence, including but not limited to the impact of intergenerational trauma, patriarchy, the boarding school experience, american economic and social indoctrination, the disruption of k’é, and all other variants that are a result of american colonization, etcetera: all of which contributes to the cannibalization of our people. - Structural oppression/violence within border towns and reservations. - The Pocahontas perplex’s implications within a narrative that continues to pigeon-hole Indigenous women. - Elderly and intergenerational abuse, as it creates the disruption of k'é. - Environmental racism perpetuated by energy corporations, including but not limited to: Peabody Energy, SRP (Salt River Project), CAP (Central Arizona Project), Navajo Generation Station, Pinion Pipeline, BHP Billiton, Four Corners Power Plant, PL93-531 a.k.a. “The Relocation Act”, and Uranium mining -Contamination of the environment that is violence upon land, identity, spirit, culture, and body. - The desecration of sacred sites. Protect Dook’o’oosłííd, Dibé Nitsaa, Dził Naa’odiłii, Ch’ooł’íí’i, Dinétah, Dził yíjiin, Ch’ooshgai, Tsé’naa Na’ní’áhí, Bidaa. - Educated and over-privileged individuals that believe natives are nothing but rich (from casino profits) drunks who free load off the system; who don’t have to pay taxes while existing as members of some fictitious pan-indian culture. - The bureaucracy of ONNSFA’s cut-throat approach to completing paperwork for student’s continued funding– of which allows students a higher education. - “Native inspired” fashion/ art/ music/ any subtext of design that has been stolen from real* Indigenous Peoples (also, cultural appropriation is not appreciation, but dehumanization as it designates the denigration of cultural identity). - Indian mascots, and Halloween costume’s that perpetuate racial stereotypes, and normalize covert racism— esp. at the expense of Indigenous children’s psychological health.- The American Pageant history book (or any “American History” high school textbook) that glosses over history to make white history its imperative focus. - Fast food conglomerates preying upon our communities— communities that are already combatting the diabetes epidemic, and other high fructose corn syrup foods (in food markets and gas station convenience stores). - The state instituted education curriculums within our supposedly “sovereign” nation that teach without mention that there are obverse realities that demonstrate how subjective “truths” work to destroy us. - Jan Brewer - Joe Airpaio - Apoliticals who are only political when defending being non-political (the refusal to acknowledge the systematic violence that occurs within our communities simply because it does not affect them, or they benefit from it). - The co-optation of our struggles by non-natives. -Being an outsider’s “learning experience” where we could be potentially tokenized, or even up for debate :where we are expected to teach, re-live, and re-awaken trauma induced situations– as if we have the capacity and resources! People will tell you what they want when they trust you and there is mutual respect. -The Navajo Nation Government (created with the sole intention of developing economic relations with the extractive energy industries that capitalize on our lands at the expense of Diné’s health and wellbeing). I know that was a lot to read, and thank you so much if you read through all of it! Overall we enjoy posting and reposting posts that celebrate our power, history, and also create healing among Indigenous people. We also post material, when necessary, calling out various forms of -isms and destruction upon land and people: and also posting the occasional fluff to give ourselves a break and feel happy. With that, enjoy the various posts that we have anthologized! Love for all my beautiful people, ♥ Lyncia *real- Those decedents of heartache, abuse, and forced assimilation who have maintained survival despite colonization through existence: acknowledging themselves as indigenous and their ancestor’s struggle, and how they are a collection of lived survival and cultural ways of life that have birthed that constant survival.

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Dear Yáadihla’ Girls’ Reader, This tumblr presence has its origins in a zine called The Yáadihla’ Girls!. A zine for those of us who have ever, or still feel alienated by society. By giving a contemporary voice to Indigenous Peoples, we are acknowledging the voices that are too often treated as peripheral headdresses of a bygone era. In this zine, Indigenous Peoples are allowed their voice for the sake of hearing their own story, rather than an offered explanation to a world that already refuses them (a rejection that is often felt upon reading your everyday American history high school textbook). In this respect, Indigenous women as prime indicators of the social organism’s well-being, felt obligated to restore a sense of identity and presence in the face of violence and oppression (we are often fore-bearers of future generations: often sexually assaulted: often angry and forced into western paradigms’ of what “woman” means). In that regard, the word “Yáadihla’!” expresses the constant frustration that Indigenous Peoples experience as they straddle two very different worlds. And if you still aren’t quite sure what we mean, here is an exhaustive list of the things that make us say, “Yáadihla’!”: - Cops, Rangers, and BIA agents policing Indigenous peoples and their lands. - Council delegate embezzlers and misogynistic taboos that are invented for political convenience’s sake ::cough:: Ben Shelly running against Linda Lovejoy, in which Ben Shelly claimed women are not supposed to lead, and Linda Lovejoy made homophobic comments and lauded the desecration of the peaks, believing we could somehow profit from Snowbowl’s revenue. -Deliberate corruptions of our culture,, history, and reality to fit political agendas. - Sexual and domestic violence within and upon our communities. - Natives who hate on other natives (Łeh), also known as lateral oppression or lateral violence. - Various forms of lateral oppression/violence, including but not limited to the impact of intergenerational trauma, patriarchy, the boarding school experience, american economic and social indoctrination, the disruption of k’é, and all other variants that are a result of american colonization, etcetera: all of which contributes to the cannibalization of our people. - Structural oppression/violence within border towns and reservations. - The Pocahontas perplex’s implications within a narrative that continues to pigeon-hole Indigenous women. - Elderly and intergenerational abuse, as it creates the disruption of k'é. - Environmental racism perpetuated by energy corporations, including but not limited to: Peabody Energy, SRP (Salt River Project), CAP (Central Arizona Project), Navajo Generation Station, Pinion Pipeline, BHP Billiton, Four Corners Power Plant, PL93-531 a.k.a. “The Relocation Act”, and Uranium mining -Contamination of the environment that is violence upon land, identity, spirit, culture, and body. - The desecration of sacred sites. Protect Dook’o’oosłííd, Dibé Nitsaa, Dził Naa’odiłii, Ch’ooł’íí’i, Dinétah, Dził yíjiin, Ch’ooshgai, Tsé’naa Na’ní’áhí, Bidaa. - Educated and over-privileged individuals that believe natives are nothing but rich (from casino profits) drunks who free load off the system; who don’t have to pay taxes while existing as members of some fictitious pan-indian culture. - The bureaucracy of ONNSFA’s cut-throat approach to completing paperwork for student’s continued funding– of which allows students a higher education. - “Native inspired” fashion/ art/ music/ any subtext of design that has been stolen from real* Indigenous Peoples (also, cultural appropriation is not appreciation, but dehumanization as it designates the denigration of cultural identity). - Indian mascots, and Halloween costume’s that perpetuate racial stereotypes, and normalize covert racism— esp. at the expense of Indigenous children’s psychological health.- The American Pageant history book (or any “American History” high school textbook) that glosses over history to make white history its imperative focus. - Fast food conglomerates preying upon our communities— communities that are already combatting the diabetes epidemic, and other high fructose corn syrup foods (in food markets and gas station convenience stores). - The state instituted education curriculums within our supposedly “sovereign” nation that teach without mention that there are obverse realities that demonstrate how subjective “truths” work to destroy us. - Jan Brewer - Joe Airpaio - Apoliticals who are only political when defending being non-political (the refusal to acknowledge the systematic violence that occurs within our communities simply because it does not affect them, or they benefit from it). - The co-optation of our struggles by non-natives. -Being an outsider’s “learning experience” where we could be potentially tokenized, or even up for debate :where we are expected to teach, re-live, and re-awaken trauma induced situations– as if we have the capacity and resources! People will tell you what they want when they trust you and there is mutual respect. -The Navajo Nation Government (created with the sole intention of developing economic relations with the extractive energy industries that capitalize on our lands at the expense of Diné’s health and wellbeing). I know that was a lot to read, and thank you so much if you read through all of it! Overall we enjoy posting and reposting posts that celebrate our power, history, and also create healing among Indigenous people. We also post material, when necessary, calling out various forms of -isms and destruction upon land and people: and also posting the occasional fluff to give ourselves a break and feel happy. With that, enjoy the various posts that we have anthologized! Love for all my beautiful people, ♥ Lyncia *real- Those decedents of heartache, abuse, and forced assimilation who have maintained survival despite colonization through existence: acknowledging themselves as indigenous and their ancestor’s struggle, and how they are a collection of lived survival and cultural ways of life that have birthed that constant survival.

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