First Soap Felting Class

Lol, I was so incredibly nervous but it went well!  I had brought a bunch of stuff and enough kits for the people. I brought some samples of my work as well. 

It was a fantastic group of 5 ladies, I am the one in the face mask...

 The kit was a basic one of a stocking, soap, zip lock and wool.  I had also brought colors to decorate it with too.  I had basic white merino and some lovely grey Navajo Churro as the base of the kits.  One of the finished soaps is pictured.

I was so nervous and my daughter said I did ramble a tiny bit but was good so...  lol, I am glad I am home and can relax.  Phew! 

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Attu and Beyond

I was thinking about the one article that got sent about a possible free boat service to Attu and about our tribe in general. (in my last blog post)

They scattered us to the winds for a reason and we need to come together as a tribe again.  Unless you listen to the tribe and try to come together as a tribe then you do not speak for the tribe and can not decide for us!  This is common sense!

Yes, I am speaking about the 2 young woman who posted the article where they are willing to speak for us...   There is a reason they (u.s. govt) chose young ones who were not raped as children, who were not forced to forget their language and culture, who were (not) brutally stolen from their lands.  To them, it is the distant past and should be forgotten in this new modern era of "togetherness".  I say it was a war crime and it is still happening to us. 

I was called a racist because I call this a war crime and them war criminals.  A war criminal is someone who commits war crimes.  It is not a race, color or culture so is not "racist"...  It is a significant part of their "game" to twist truths around like this.  We know 100% racism is wrong but then they try to say we are the ones being racist when they are in no way related, one is a crime and one is hate...  What they are doing is called genocide.  Genocide is a war crime, hence they are war criminals.  They want us to believe they are not because the world if full of resources they want to exploit. 

It is happening, right now as we speak, to indigenous all over the world.   This is reality and Truth.  They want to pretend they are helping or whatever, but it is war crimes no matter what they call it or how they try to twist it around.

They want us to believe we can not have "modern" without them.  This is a huge lie.  there is a difference between western and modern.  Modern is a computer where "western" is polluted landfills of e-waste because they want us to buy a new one every few years!  We know if the indigenous were in charge, then the computers would upgrade easily and cheaply with little wasted.  that is truth as that is a main feature of our cultures!

We all know they tried to use us to build the logging road awhile back.  Pretending to care about us when in fact all they wanted was easy access to the resources.  I think it was called the "road to nowhere" or something like that.  It is them pretending to care about us to get things for themselves.  This is what they did,  of their own free will, yet point it out and be called all sorts of names!  We need to break free of their poisonous influence! 

I am guessing this free boat trip is more of the same.  I am guessing those who are stealing the fresh water/other resources from us also want to get it for free shipping as well so they make more profit.  We can not turn a blind eye to things like this.  What better way then to use the blight of the Attu tribe!!  No one would deny they have wronged us severely and this way they limit what they have to give us...  but it is not for them to choose, those lands belong 100% to us and us only! 

Together we can fight them.  As I told those 2 woman from the article, the world is with us!!!!  Everyone knows the prophecies about north and south uniting and the war criminal regime ends finally.  This is how we start, by uniting ourselves together!

I know it is terrifying to think of coming between them and our billions in resources, but we have no choice!  Those in Standing Rock should inspire us, coming together for a common goal.  We saw the phony ones there too, but the point is they were there, if forced to be fake, we are One.  Our main and first goal should be to become "Attu tribe" once again!!   They know 100% they wronged us and the world will be on our side so they try to keep us apart. 

Teaching our children it is racism to call them war criminals, that is it "negativity" to want to become a tribe and stop the harm against us, and that it is "hate" that drives us instead of love for our people!  ~this needs to end.

I rarely go to things sponsored by the war criminals so many think I do not even try.  I believe 100% in the indigenous so feel we need to first become a tribe again.  Know each other by sight, help each other and so on like a normal life would be for us...  I have tried a few times to gather us together for some project or other and never hear much. (at least until I say a white guy is using us then suddenly 30 woman wrote me to tell me off for suggesting such a thing...) but I will always be here.  I am ready and willing to help us become a tribe again. 

I believe we need to show our beauty to the world.  They are with us.  I know so many of us already feel the call Home.  To the rest that do not yet feel it, listen to your spirit and you will hear it.   Trust it!!

hugs,

Maria, daughter of Attu

#Attu #unangan #Alaska #decolonize #warcrimes

Attu Alaska

It is amazing sometimes when you see unexpected things like this article about Attu and the descendants!  

Descendants And Feds Explore Possibility Of Continuing Trips To Attu Island

It starts off with

Descendants of Alaska's westernmost island want permanent access to their ancestral home.

"Access", are they kidding?  I do not want "access" but the whole area back!






And this part where they forget to mention leaving us to die at someone elses hands!

In the 1700s, the Russians colonized the community during the fur trade. Two hundred years later, the Japanese military arrived and took the Attuans as prisoners of war to Japan, where half of them died in captivity. After that, it was the U.S. government that sealed off the island and forbade survivors from returning home.

They did not "seal" it off as some war criminal forces were there the entire time until a decade ago or so...

Man, the fish and wildlife service "own" it, in their dreams!!!  they are just war criminals and nothing else!  They can pretend all they want but they are illegally here!

This whole time they have done nothing for the people and now pretend as if they "might" throw us a treat!

I wrote the 2 ladies saying we need to be bold and demand the whole refuge back as our own~ since it is!!  Lets hope they find some courage and write back to me!!



While the amerikkkans (europeans) are brutal and psychotic, they are in the wrong in every sense of the word: legally, morally, ethically,  intellectually and even spiritually!!  Justice is on our side and we will win!!!

#Attu  #unity #indigenous #decolonize #unangan#amerikkka