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A really rough sketch of an attempt at making an Australian Miku design 😅🇦🇺🖤💛❤️ 

I saw this trend going around on Twitter where people made Miku designs based of their countries and I wanted to participate in it 🥰

While I am Australian I am not Aboriginal/Indigenous ((Well, on my Mum’s side according to her family she has ancestors who are but I’m pretty sure that doesn’t count concerning me)) however I still wanted to include this aspect into my Australian Miku’s design as Aboriginal/Indigenous people were the first people of Australia, they are part of Australia’s history and because of that I felt that they should be included/represented too. 

Also, if horror is your thing, The Only Good Indians is excellent but not necessarily YA. There, There by Tommy Orange is also VERY good!!! Don’t forget to buy from Indigenous bookstores or borrow from your local library!!!

TRIGGER WARNING

But as an Indigenous person, Sherman Alexei is a known AND admitted sexual predator. I don’t support him anymore, because I find it far too triggering. At least three women have come forward, and he admitted to it and apologized. But just so everyone is aware, there are far more Indigenous authors you can support.

25 YA Books for Indigenous Peoples Day

With only 2 exceptions, the books below are written by indigenous authors. (Tree Girl is written by a white American born in Bolivia, but takes place during the Mayan genocide of the 1980s; Golden Kamuy is written by a non-Ainu Japanese, but is one of the few books about this culture) 

For brevity and diversity, I did not include all the North American Native books I found - feel free to post your favorites in the comments! If anyone can suggest more Latin American indigenous stories (which were difficult to find from Latine authors) or especially Hawai’ian native stories (which I couldn’t find any of), please let me know.

Australia

The Things She’s Seen by Amebelin & Ezekiel Kwaymullina The Boy from the Mish by Gary Lonesborough Becoming Kirrali Lewis by Jane Harrison Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch

Canada

The Missing by Melanie Florence Sorrow’s Knot by Erin Bow Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline A Girl Called Echo by Katherena Vermette Surviving the City by Tasha Spillett

Japan - Ainu

Golden Kamuy by Satoru Noda

Latin America

Saints of the Household by Ari Tison Tree Girl by Ben Mikaelsen The Huaca by Marcia Argueta Mickelson Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Lost Dreamer by Lizz Huerta

New Zealand - Maori

The Whale Rider, Witi Ihimaera Falling into Rarohenga by Steph Matuku

United States

Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley Trail of Lighting by Rebecca Roanhorse Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith Rain is Not My Indian Name by Cynthia Leitich Smith

a reminder that your advocacy for ending the occupation of Palestine should also extend to advocating for Indigenous and First Nations peoples' liberation in your own country. The anti-colonial struggle is a global one. Show up for Indigenous people everywhere you can because we are under occupation almost everywhere. Not to mention the Zionist occupation is supported almost exclusively by the colonial world powers. Your advocacy for the liberation for Palestine must go hand in hand with advocacy for First Nations liberation and Land Back.

Well his bio has been translated on the fgo wiki

His blended Heroic or Divine Spirits are Gregori Rasputin, Azi Dahaka, and Bahloo

This means we FINALLY have an Australian heroic spirit!! And not just Australian but Aboriginal!!

Bahloo is from Gamilaraay folklore. Their nation spans from Singleton NSW to Nindigully QLD, making them one of the fourth largest first people's nations in Australia.

Like a lot of people I thought that Fgo first Australian servant would be Ned Kelly or another figure from our colonial days. I'm so pleased that instead they took inspiration from the rich history of Australia going back over 50,000 years and I hope soon to have a full, summonable, Aboriginal servant

A Few Native Taiwanese (Formosan) Chronicles

Here are some bits about them & possible polities around in pre-Qing times. https://insight.ipcf.org.tw/en-US/article/61 

https://insight.ipcf.org.tw/en-US/article/62 

https://insight.ipcf.org.tw/en-US/article/63

AUSTRALIA ABORIGINAL PICTOGRAPHS WORLD HERITAGE ROCK ART WANDJINA ART found throughout the Kimberley. Strange are these heads with short, narrow nose, so different from aboriginal faces, a sort of helmet on the head, a sort of glasses. They haven't lips, because according to the Mowanjum tribe, the Wandjinas didn't speak. It reminds me of "Memories of the Future. Unsolved Mysteries of the Past" by Ernest von Daniken. The book suggests that some ancient artworks throughout the world could be interpreted as depicting astronauts. Harald Reini made a documentary movie of 1h30 based on the theory developed in the book of Daniken. This documentary film was presented for the Oscars en 1970. #landscape #indigenous Australians #aborigines #dreamtime #australia #harald Reini #ernest von Daniken #kimberley #aboriginal pictographs #rock art #pictographs #national parks #world heritage list #dreamtimel #myths #beliefs #wandjina #art #history of civilizations #gods #mowanjum tribe https://www.instagram.com/p/BuRvkIrgE0zfQd1_GJjHIbIyARbeF8c7fSPjdo0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7omw1uf9itf9

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that report on Zionists abducting blonde Palestinian children to be "adopted" by Zionists makes me physically shake. I'm an Aboriginal person with extended family who were abducted by the "Australian" government decades ago and put up for "adoption" by whites as part of what is now known as the Stolen Generations. All Aboriginal children, but especially those who were lighter in features, were the target of this genocidal assimilation policy. The colonial legacy of Aboriginal child abduction on my peoples is an intergenerational abyss of cultural loss, the destruction of bloodlines, despair and grief that is still felt by every First Nations person in the country today. To be alive and witness another Indigenous people experience the same destruction by practically the same hand drowns me in anguish. Fuck settler colonial projects. Death to all of them. They're all the fucking same. Land Back for every First Nations peoples living under occupation, from Palestine to so-called Australia.

(Tears of her people)

I made this after hearing from my friend the stories of native women that have gone missing

My OC Maliyan

My fav design rn

'It was a treasure - now it looks like a disaster': Vandalism to Indigenous pictographs raises concern

Pictographs, ancient images etched or painted onto stones across the country, are in danger of being wiped out by vandals, a Canadian researcher says.

[Vandals are] scratching up the images, spray painting over the images with names, dates," she said. "There has even been attempts at removing rock, trying to chisel off rock surface, and shooting at the sites