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A quick note
We would like to acknowledge that Acid Rain Mag operates on the traditional land of the First People of Seattle, the Duwamish People past and present, and honor with gratitude the land itself, as well as the Duwamish Tribe.
Stop Line 3
If you haven’t heard, there’s a huge Anishinaabe-led movement to stop the construction of Line 3, a tar sands oil pipeline through northern Minnesota. We’re not really in the position to be a source on this one, but it’s significant enough to share. Check out this Intercepted interview with some of the leaders of this Water Protection movement
Local Musician
at the party with my brown friends is a beautiful and relaxed indie rock album by Katherine Paul, who is from the Swinomish Indian Tribal community on the Puget Sound. i’m solidly a fan of this chill rolling-waves-on-the-cloudy-beacy type music. the album will honestly force you to lean back and confront some buried feelings
KAIGAN HAIDA
by Kimberly Saladin
Kimberly, a Coast Salish Native, has breathed life into this historical photograph, as she has done with many others.
in 1901, The Haida of Klinkwan, Alaska held one last formal ceremony before it was abandoned. After posing with carved figures and masks in front of House Standing Up, the home of their former chief, the tribe left the ceremonial attire, which included shaman’s hats, carved helmets, blankets, and painted capes; they moved to the town of Hydaburg.
this potlatch marked a shift in the cultural paradigm, as proud lineage heads, each with their own links to the supernatural, became colonized wage earners and sold their treasures.
Crossing borders
and transcending boundries
- there is a very real system to pay rent to the Duwamish People, if you are in a position to
- I will never get over the first time I saw the breakfast series by Sonny Assu, but the Broken Treaties Arcade Cabinet has crushed my soul even harder.
- the first nations territory map above was pulled from page 7 of the 2012 book Indians of the Pacific Northwest by Vine Deloria
- If you’re looking for a book though, check out the Chinuk Wawa, a book about the defacto language of the PNW until the year 1920. Again, to clarify, that is only 101 years ago. Three Trees down in Burien carries it, last I checked.
- Two-spirits advocate Jeremy Dutcher is a member of the Tobique First Nation. His album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa is truly gorgeous and transcends all boundries.
From the editor
Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa will crack your mind open.
The artist describes his perspective as “Indigenous Futurism”, and it’s sung in the “severely endangered” Wolastoq language, a language with a whole worldview: it has no gendered pronouns and the word for a group of trees is translated as “tree people, our relatives.”