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Horkewnochiw Ayoro tapne an pe ku=ne wa. Kani anakne Repunkuru Ainu ku=ne ruwe ne. Pon Ayoro un sanke Huchi. dᶻidᶻəlal̕ič or wano k=ek.

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Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · Jan 19

I designed this symbol using the morew and shiki motifs to represent the movements of the Ainu diaspora, the Repunkuru. Waves moving across the ocean in every direction, but our hearts still return to the center with our ancestors in Ainu Moshiri 🌊🌊🌊🌊

An Ainu motif made of four turquoise waves around a red four-point star in the center, on a dark blue field

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3h

For Indigenous People's Day, I'd like to encourage fellow #Trekkies (and everyone else!) to read Black and Choctaw commentator @law-writes.bsky.social on one example of Native representation in #StarTrek.

www.startrek.com/news/star-tr...

How Star Trek: The Next Generation Took On Indigenous American Representation

A member of the Choctaw Nation parses through TNG's 'Journey's End.'

www.startrek.com

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Jay 🌲➡️ Howloween 2025 @telekitnetic.bsky.social · 5h

Finished up a wolf pawprint tapestry!! Still shaking the dust off my sewing skills after not using them for a while, so there’s definitely some flaws on this tapestry, but I’m still happy with how it turned out!!

#formline #telekitneticart 🐺🐾

A picture of a square cotton formline tapestry, depicting a black and red wolf pawprint.

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سيف | 🇵🇸 @chanafehs.bsky.social · 2h

Happy indigenous peoples day everyone🇵🇸🫶

سيف | 🇵🇸 @chanafehs.bsky.social · Jun 30

palestinian lesbians once again ✨
{ #art #pride }

Digital art Illustration of two women in a tender embrace in front of a arched window. Both women are Palestinian and wearing elaborately decorated traditional thobes. The woman to the left has a deeper skin tone and a tender smile. Her braided black hair is decorated with silver ornaments towards the bottom.

The woman to the right is wearing a heavy coin headdress that has chains leading down to her waist. Her face has subtle tattoos that match those on her hand.

In the arched window behind them there are palm trees in the distance and foliage that coveres the bottom of the window.

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B A R S U K @barssuk.bsky.social · Jul 5

The battlefield 🗡

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Beren's Reverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · 12h

Chital, star-deer.

#berensart2025

stylized drawing of a chital deer floating in space with stars around it. the spotted pattern and the stars are gold. the deer have a big star between his antlers

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 9h

indigenous peoples day.

an image of north american vulture carrying the heads of columbus and cartier. the text reads "initsisa" ; kill him.

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 1d

(8) "According to Matsuura Takeshiro's "Saru Journal," there were a total of 116 villagers who made up 26 households in Nibutani, Pipaus, and Kankan in 1858. Of these, 43 men and women had been drafted for forced labor. My grandfather, Totkaram, at age 11, was the youngest of them."

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 1d

(7) "...it was decided that 3 would go, the samurai announced they would leave that day. They knew if they delayed a day or 2, the Ainu would flee in into the mountains. This is apparently why on "Ainu-hunting" trips the shamo showed up without warning, as if to assault villagers in their sleep."

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 1d

(6) "Inisetet appealed to the samurai to leave the boy, only 11 years old and small for his age, saying that he would only be in their way if they took him along. The Japanese rejected Inisetet's supplication, stating that even a child was capable of carrying 1 salmon on his back."

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 1d

(7) "...it was decided that 3 would go, the samurai announced they would leave that day. They knew if they delayed a day or 2, the Ainu would flee in into the mountains. This is apparently why on "Ainu-hunting" trips the shamo showed up without warning, as if to assault villagers in their sleep."

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 1d

(6) "Inisetet appealed to the samurai to leave the boy, only 11 years old and small for his age, saying that he would only be in their way if they took him along. The Japanese rejected Inisetet's supplication, stating that even a child was capable of carrying 1 salmon on his back."

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 1d

(5) "...appearing ready to unsheath them at any moment, and threatened to kill all the villagers, unless the chief handed some over. A tearful Inisetet accepted their terms and decided to send his oldest son, Awetok, and Awetok's wife. The samurai, still unsatisfied, demanded the young Totkaram..."

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 1d

(6) "Inisetet appealed to the samurai to leave the boy, only 11 years old and small for his age, saying that he would only be in their way if they took him along. The Japanese rejected Inisetet's supplication, stating that even a child was capable of carrying 1 salmon on his back."

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 1d

(5) "...appearing ready to unsheath them at any moment, and threatened to kill all the villagers, unless the chief handed some over. A tearful Inisetet accepted their terms and decided to send his oldest son, Awetok, and Awetok's wife. The samurai, still unsatisfied, demanded the young Totkaram..."

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 1d

(4) "...to propose taking villagers and their sons" to Atsukeshi. Some people have already been taken to Atsukeshi and never returned, having died of cruel treatment there... Inisetet therefore declined the unjust offer. In response, the Japanese samurai put their hands on the hilts of their swords"

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 1d

(5) "...appearing ready to unsheath them at any moment, and threatened to kill all the villagers, unless the chief handed some over. A tearful Inisetet accepted their terms and decided to send his oldest son, Awetok, and Awetok's wife. The samurai, still unsatisfied, demanded the young Totkaram..."

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 1d

(4) "...to propose taking villagers and their sons" to Atsukeshi. Some people have already been taken to Atsukeshi and never returned, having died of cruel treatment there... Inisetet therefore declined the unjust offer. In response, the Japanese samurai put their hands on the hilts of their swords"

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 1d

(3) "Village Chief Inisetet's fears finally came to pass. One day, 'tu tam ukaeotte sapaha ta pasikur roski roski, pekor oka sisam utar ek hine, apoho utar tura rusuy': 'Sisam came, wearing 2 swords at their waists and appearing to have crows resting on their heads (topknots)..."

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 1d

(4) "...to propose taking villagers and their sons" to Atsukeshi. Some people have already been taken to Atsukeshi and never returned, having died of cruel treatment there... Inisetet therefore declined the unjust offer. In response, the Japanese samurai put their hands on the hilts of their swords"

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 1d

(3) "Village Chief Inisetet's fears finally came to pass. One day, 'tu tam ukaeotte sapaha ta pasikur roski roski, pekor oka sisam utar ek hine, apoho utar tura rusuy': 'Sisam came, wearing 2 swords at their waists and appearing to have crows resting on their heads (topknots)..."

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 1d

(2) "...At that 'location,' then the focal point of eastern Hokkaido, labor was supplied exclusively by the Ainu. Since the Ainu population in Atsukeshi had been reduced by work-related deaths, shamo (Japanese) employed Ainu from Saru and Yufutsu areas..."

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 1d

(3) "Village Chief Inisetet's fears finally came to pass. One day, 'tu tam ukaeotte sapaha ta pasikur roski roski, pekor oka sisam utar ek hine, apoho utar tura rusuy': 'Sisam came, wearing 2 swords at their waists and appearing to have crows resting on their heads (topknots)..."

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 1d

(2) "...At that 'location,' then the focal point of eastern Hokkaido, labor was supplied exclusively by the Ainu. Since the Ainu population in Atsukeshi had been reduced by work-related deaths, shamo (Japanese) employed Ainu from Saru and Yufutsu areas..."

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 1d

Shigeru Kayano's memoir, Our Land Was A Forest, highlights why a game like Ghost of Yotei might be uncomfortable with the actual relationship between Ainu and samurai, where soldiers trafficked children into slavery.

"The 'location' where Nibutani Ainu were taken as slaves was Atsukeshi..." (1)

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 1d

(2) "...At that 'location,' then the focal point of eastern Hokkaido, labor was supplied exclusively by the Ainu. Since the Ainu population in Atsukeshi had been reduced by work-related deaths, shamo (Japanese) employed Ainu from Saru and Yufutsu areas..."

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 1d

Shigeru Kayano's memoir, Our Land Was A Forest, highlights why a game like Ghost of Yotei might be uncomfortable with the actual relationship between Ainu and samurai, where soldiers trafficked children into slavery.

"The 'location' where Nibutani Ainu were taken as slaves was Atsukeshi..." (1)

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 1d

Shigeru Kayano's memoir, Our Land Was A Forest, highlights why a game like Ghost of Yotei might be uncomfortable with the actual relationship between Ainu and samurai, where soldiers trafficked children into slavery.

"The 'location' where Nibutani Ainu were taken as slaves was Atsukeshi..." (1)

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 1d

ghost of yotei reminds me of this book I read about "making asian americans" or whatever, constantly framing "america" as a place that already existed for them to come to, as opposed to Indigenous Nations they had to invade and tear down to build their amerikkka on top of

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 1d

All games are political, they all have an agenda to sell, and it's usually settler colonialism.

Kaihatsu @kaihat.su · 1d

The thing is, in the REAL 1603 Ainu still had the upper hand on the island as Wajin only occupied a small part.

The way Hokkaido’s portrayed in the game makes it look more like more than a century later after Ainu power had waned with increased settlement.

Strange direction that feeds revisionism

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Kaihatsu @kaihat.su · 1d

Even without looking at gameplay it’s easy to tell what it’s going for.

Ginkgo leaves are everywhere. Not just on the cover but also in the logo and display props.

Ginkgo trees aren’t native to Hokkaido - colonists brought over much later than the game’s setting of 1603.

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 2d

A photo of a black cat sleeping in a pile of blankets

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Pepe Reyes @suscipepe.bsky.social · 2d

Two toned tiger #art #illustration

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 2d

I might watch too many movies, but even so there's not much I've directly related to until stuff like Everything Everywhere All At Once, and Turning Red wrt super intense Asian mom relationships

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 3d

I don't even want to know 💀

A photo of a dvd copy of Geisha Boy, starring Jerry Lewis.

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 3d

Hit it with a little hairspray

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Jes & Cin @jesncin.bsky.social · Dec 29

Noah Wong and SPICY NOODLES 🍜🔥🔥🔥

#Art #Illustration #Artsky #OCsky

Noah Wong from Lunar Boy eating spicy noodles. They're holding wooden chopsticks and bringing the noodles to their mouth, eyes sparkling in excitement. The noodles are in an Indonesian chicken + leaf bowl.

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 4d

Lunoki @repunseta.bsky.social · 4d

Kenas-Unarpe, witch of the woods 🎃

A pencil sketch of a grinning witch with wide eyes climbing over a log