Buffalo Oasis: Full Circle Coaching

11/23/2024

My great great grandfather was in a regiment that fought against Louis Riel. He was honoured for his service to “Canada”.

It’s taken a few generations, but I’m here to witness that he was wrong, my illustrious ancestor.

11/02/2024

Think, people, THINK!

September 24, 2023.

08/26/2024

Warriors fight not only for themselves but for the preservation of their people's way of life, their culture, and their values. The willingness to lay down one's life in defense of these intangible yet invaluable aspects speaks volumes about strength of character and depth of conviction.

The notion of sacrifice transcends physical death; it encompasses the willingness to endure hardship, challenge injustice, and confront adversity with unwavering determination. It’s a testament to the indomitable spirit that refuses to be swayed by compromise or corruption. As Russell Means aptly noted, "Compromise invites corruption." It is a call to retain one's integrity and stand firm in the pursuit and preservation of all that is sacred.

John Gonzalez
Standing Bear Network

08/17/2024

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06/23/2024

Happy indigenous day! 🤍💛❤️🩶

She's not for sale or reprints will not be made as I made this for a lady in my reserve, she inspired me in 2021 to create another beautiful pregnant lady, but with twins.
Unfortunately she miscarriaged, it took me awhile to keep painting this one piece, as I paint with my soul & full emotions🥺🤍 I love you & I hope you heal with grace.

06/23/2024

Working on a special project so I can do a collab with a very talented dress maker to raise funds for the family.

Indigenous people never had written languages. We record our history and lineages through our art.

I don’t always know if I am doing or saying things incorrectly. I apologize if I have ever said anything to hurt anyone. All I do know is we need to do something, we need to say something. We need to use the resources we have available to raise awareness. My resources are my social media platform and my time and art.

Please if you can, donate to the link in my bio or visit their IG. My only wish right now is to get them to their goal so I can start posting about another family.

This quote from The Hallucination-Nation stuck with me. I know there are so many other movements. I will try to get to them too. 🥺

06/21/2024

The first time I encountered the term “post-colonial lens“ was in a peace studies course at Selkirk College in the early 2000s. We students were encouraged to analyze selected writings based on different lenses, or points of view.

At the time, the assumption being presented to me was that North America was now in a post-colonial era. In the past 20 years, I have belatedly come to realize that is simply not true.

Colonization continues to infect the planet. Some countries are experiencing chronic symptoms, other populations are in acute crisis. As a nurse, I think in terms of health, or illness. Sustainability through balance, or dis-ease due to greed. Our Global community is still fighting this deadly virus.

And ground zero is each of us.

The antidote is education, self-reflection, humility, more education, honesty, generosity, and probably more education. (This is not a complete list.)

Every moment we choose to perpetuate or eradicate this illness. And that choice is directly linked to your heart.❤️

06/08/2024

The only binary I can get behind is animate v. inanimate–a worldview held by many Indigenous People.

This worldview invites us to understand the relationship between all conscious beings. And it’s not that inanimate objects are inferior either; their consciousness just manifests differently.

The gender binary is meant to deny human expansiveness. The animate v. inanimate binary is meant to connect everything’s expansiveness.

To me, that is “God”, “Creator”, or Spirit.

Lately I’ve preferred using the term the All. That feels more like what that Connection feels like to me.

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I felt the All when I took this photo.

This moment was beautiful, with my fiancé, my little pooch, the rocks, the water, the sunset—all Connected ❤️

03/24/2024

What we’re witnessing now, globally, is colonization. The violent, dehumanizing process of seizing Land. Those who support it often use religion to justify murder, theft, destruction, abuse at every level.

Tell me, who, exactly, does your god hate?

01/14/2024

Moment by moment lately 💜

Grateful for the kindness offered on this page recently—it’s been helping 🌿

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From on IG

12/17/2023

Are we ready to meet the Indian in the living room?

INDIAN IN THE LIVING ROOM

I would like to introduce someone you have grown up with, refuse to acknowledge, who has made the life you now have possible.

Hello my relatives. I am the Indian in your living room. I am the First Nations, the original inhabitants of Turtle Island.

I am the corn, the beans, the squash, the sweet potatoes, and tomatoes on your dinner table. I am the gratitude you express every fourth Thursday in November.

I am the Corn Maiden, the Two Hills, the Sacred Mountains, Spider Woman, Shiprock. I am the Kachinas, the Thunderbird, the Black Hills, and the Buffalo.

I am the Pipe Carrier, the Keeper of the Sacred Bundles, the White Buffalo Calf, Kokopelli. I am Heyoka, Coyote, Raven, Crow, White Old Man, and Salmon Boy. I am the Sun Dance, the Ghost Dance, the inipi wakan, the hanblechya.

I am the Indian in your living room.

I am the Great Law of Peace. I am the plan for the U.S. Constitution given you by the clan mothers of the Haudenosaunee Federation. I am political freedom, free speech, equality, and freedom of assembly which you claim as part of being an American. I am the Delaware who allowed Washington's troops to survive the winter at Valley Forge.

I am the caretaker of Mother Earth. I am the Grandfathers who tell the stories that teach us how to be human. I am the Ancestors who watch from the heavens. I am Powhatan, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea who helped the white man survive in a strange land. I am the Brotherhood of the Shield that used to care for and protect the people before the white men came.

I am the Indian in your living room.

I am the residue of Manifest Destiny. I am an inconvenience to progress. I am America's Final Solution. I am the ghost of Osceola, Pontiac, and Seattle. I am the Trail of Tears, Sand Creek, and Wounded Knee I and II. I am Baker's Massacre, Ghost Ridge, and all the atrocities carried out in your name. I am the guilt you carry for these crimes.

I am the Indian in your living room.

I am blankets infected with smallpox. I am trade whiskey, forced conversions, and Indian schools. I am slavery, spoiled beef rations, and crooked Indian agents. I am Cornstalk, Chief Joseph, Geronimo, and Crazy Horse, I am Sitting Bull, Jim Thorpe, Tecumseh, and Ira Hayes. I am Squanto, Red Cloud, White Calf, and SuAnne Big Crow. I am the Navajo Code Talkers who helped you win the war in the Pacific.

I am a long history of unpaid debts and broken promises. I am the spirit of the buffalo shot from train windows and left to rot on the plains. I am every treaty ever made and broken.

I am the Indian in your living room.

I am the reservation where the Constitution and Bill of Rights do not apply. I am the loss of freedom and way of life. I am poverty and unemployment, alcoholism and diabetes. I am hopelessness and su***de and I am here to tell you the reservation now includes your living room and it just swallowed New Orleans.

Now we all live here together. Welcome to the reservation. What they have done to me is being done to you and you let them away with it.

I am the Indian in your living room and I will not go away.

I am your past, your future, your heritage, and your destiny. I am that small drop of Indian blood every Canadian & American family now carries. I am your parent, your grandparent, and great-grandparent and we are all related.

I am the Indian in your living room and I don't seek vengeance.

I'm done asking for just compensation. Your government is not capable of dealing honestly. I am declaring independence and you had better respect it.

I ask that the people open their hearts and listen and when you weep for the loss of my children as you would weep for your own then, I will know you have heard.
By: Ed Hanson

Painting by: James Jacko
Artist Link: https://nativecanadianarts.com/gallery/spirit-honouring-ancestors/

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