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Help bring Indigenous horses home!

Hi all!

My friend is Ojibwe and a dedicated Indigenous researcher and activist. She recently has discovered a number of Ojibwe ponies (also known as the Lac La Croix pony) for sale by a white-owned farm. 

This is really important because these ponies are very important to the Ojibwe – these ponies are also the only known Indigenous-developed breed of horse in Canada, and there are only 200 left in the world. 

[Image: A girl sitting on an Ojibwe pony and hugging its neck. Image credit to Broadview.]

The fact that there are 200 left at all is incredible at all, because in 1977, Canada took the last known four ponies away to be destroyed, and they were rescued by an Ojibwe man living in Minnesota. 

Read more about the history here.

My friend is arranging to have five of these horses brought back home to the Ojibwe, and her elders are already planning a welcome ceremony for these horses. If anyone has anything to spare, it would be a huge help to bring them home. 

Donate here!

Alternately, you can get the horses a gift from their wishlist! 

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I grew up lucky to be around my culture, to be around other natives and to live on the rez. A lot of my cousins didn't get that, and even some of them who did, we still don't know our culture like the generations before.

I was named in our language but I can't speak it. I haven't met anyone fluent in it, and hearing someone else whose named in it is a rarity.

I don't know a whole lot about my culture, I just know things my teachers taught. I know how to pay an offering, I know how to enter a sweat lodge, how to prepare one, how to cook for one, I know how to bless my house and family. I know how to dance for my people and the importance of practicing good medicine.

But there's a lot of knowledge I don't know. I don't know how to bead. How to weave a basket on my own. How to make a ribbon skirt. How to make my own regalia. How to live off the land. How to sing in my language.

It hurts knowing there's a lot I don't know. And I am one of the lucky ones. I was raised with my culture.

I am grateful for everything I have been taught, I try to not take it for granted. Seeing what they want to do with ICWA, words can't describe the pain it that.

I shouldn't be a lucky one, in the past this was knowledge all my people knew. The genocide to my people, to my culture still hasn't stopped.

However, I'm well aware that native issues tend to be ignored, ICWA is just one part of the puzzle though.

I'll let this video explain:

VIDEO LINK

The profile with the links:

I tried to do a direct link but had no luck, but you should still be able to find the information.

The resources page will look like this:

This is the one you need:

I do suggest looking at the other ones as well!

Please, it doesn't take long at all to do but it helps out a lot! It took longer to put this together than it does to fill this out. You're not only helping protecting our culture but the climates future!

so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what

hey can u please take a moment to stop scrolling and watch this

even if u cant do anything personally this info needs to be known so please boost this

link to the tiktok

link to their bio

link to the website they mention

link to their instagram

and here’s some article links to what’s talked about in the video x x x x x