Tfw you're watering your garden in the front yard and hear the community drum echoing through the neighborhood, the voices rising from the backyard in song...

This has been a really intense but important and healing weekend with my departed brother's chosen family.

Stories, songs, art, medicine, ceremonies, food, and company shared with each other.

More ceremony to do, then the release begins...

I miss you so much, anakfi... #IndigenousGulf

I really want to encourage people to watch my friend Monique speak at the National Endowment for the Arts public meeting last month. She does an amazing job of talking about what its like being an #environmentalism #artist here in South #Louisiana, and what it means to be an #Indigenous person on the frontlines of climate change and oil and gas industry. I'm in it in a slide reference to @bvlbanchacollective lol I was watching it like oh hey that me ;D #IndigenousGulf

https://youtu.be/D95oVUOWj88?t=1958

Excited to share the interview I did a couple days ago with my friends!

Houma & Homies Podcast, hosted by @MirrorSeeing <3

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/houmahomies/episodes/Pride-e26egru

#IndigenousGulf #Indigenous #Pride #2Spirit #podcast

I am so thankful for the support that I have gotten around securing funding for my stable housing, and yakuke tcetu, a huge heartfelt thank you for that. My next funding ask is more somber.

My dear ceremony brothers year end funerary ceremony dates are approaching. We need to finish securing funding for everyone to be able to attend and travel to do what needs doing. Please share!
#IndigenousGulf #Indigenous #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest @IndigenousMutualAid

https://www.gofundme.com/f/ceremony-for-nashoba

Happy new year, Southeastern fam! (We're doing our new year ceremony a little earlier these days bc of climate change and dangerous heat conditions 🙃 but it's still good to be doing the ceremony and keeping the traditions going) #IndigenousGulf

I got to lead out my first stomp dance at the grounds with my close friend's youngest kid (also a close friend) doing his first stomp song call out and my heart is still full from that <3 dancing for all my friend's firsts this ceremony was so powerful aaa #IndigenousGulf

This Earth Day, check out what a group of fellow Gulf South #Indigenous gardeners have been up to for the last 3 years! Okla Hina Ikhish Holo, the People of the Sacred Medicine Trail #IndigenousGulf

From our Feb. 2023 blog post about it: "As another spring bursts into life around us, we wanted to uplift this project that the entire Bvlbancha Collective has helped to start and anchor, the Okla Hina Ikhish Holo network of Indigenous Gulf South gardeners. We are part of the ‘People of the Sacred Medicine Trail’."

https://www.wecaninternational.org/food-sovereignty-ohih

Had an amazing time helping produce and hold our little corner of the 2023 Power Shift Convergence #PowerShift2023 this past weekend 💖

Shout out to our member Sasha who was the Convergence coordinator and heavily helped shoulder the con happening here in Bvlbancha, as well as to the more public facing member Ida, who helped with both public speaking during panels and plenaries, as well as being on the Convergence steering committee and helping with recruitment efforts.

#IndigenousGulf #NOLA #Indigenous #MutualAid

It is happening again. Bvlbancha Liberation Radio 87.9fm. Bvlbancharadio.net. centering Native voices. Reclaiming our headspace. Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, traditional, Powwow, Powwow Step, news, views, thoughts... Full-blooded, Meztizo, Melungeon, Creole, Chicano, Black Indians. Native voices for reclaiming Turtle Island.

#IndigenousGulf #Indigenous #Bulbancha #NOLA #Bvlbancha

The answers to the question boards that were posted earlier.

A beautiful day out on the Greenway today 🌻🎉💕

#IndigenousGulf #Indigenous #louisiana #Bvlbancha

Greenway Fest is happening now! 1791 St Louis St, New Orleans. 1-5pm!

With @BvlbanchaLiberationRadio, @BvlbanchaPublicAccess, @Ryntastic , Native Steeped Tea, and more!

#IndigenousGulf #Indigenous #NOLA @noladon

We will be at the Lafitte Greenway Fest in Bvlbancha (#NOLA) tomorrow, April 1st from 1-5pm as part of the 'Intertribal Collective' area! Come say hi and check out us, Bvlbancha Trade Table, @BvlbanchaLiberationRadio , and learn about stickball, Indigenous monumental earthwork architecture, and Bvlbancha!

#IndigenousGulf #Indigenous @noladon

Live now! Every Tuesday 4-8pm
Bvlbancha Liberation Radio
BvlbanchaRadio.net

Archive is up on Spotify

#IndigenousGulf #Indigenous #radio #podcast

Bvlbancha Trade Table!

11+ organizations, artisans, and community endeavors showcased on one table! Come learn about our Gulf coast Indigenous presence!

#IndigipopX #IndigenousGulf #Indigenous

What a wonderful con <3 Having a great time connecting with new and old friends, and having some really great networking and conversations happening!

Out here at the Los Isleños Museum this weekend for their annual Fiesta! Out back with the rest of the rowdy natives ;)

Giving some information about the language project~ #IndigenousGulf #Indigenous #LanguageRevitalization

We will be a vendor in collective with our other Bvlbancha groups that make up the wares of the Bvlbancha Trade Table, next weekend March 10-12 at #IndigipopX Indigenous Pop Expo, at the First Americans Museum in OKC. Come say hi and check us out! Excited to showcase what we've been up to here in the Bvlbancha region of the Gulf and beyond! #Indigenous #IndigenousGulf

https://www.indigipopx.com/

This Valentine's Day, we are launching an Uma' Language online learning platform 💖 The free online learning lessons are a culmination of TEN years of work by a team of volunteers.

💌 We are sharing this platform as a love letter to our elders, our families, the Indigenous community, and the social media community who have stanned our little group of big ideas since 2013 💌

How to Use the free Uma' Online Learning Platform
1. Click the link below
2. Create an account
3. Select the "Uma"
4.Start learning
5. Reach out to us on one of our channels with any feedback or questions

https://sites.google.com/view/houmalangaugeproject/uma-online-learning

Special thanks to Ben Wood, @MunheleUma , and @MirrorSeeing who worked to directly to get this platform up, and to 7000 Languages who made this platform available and free! #IndigenousGulf #LanguageRevitalization #UmaSeyah #Indigenous

#KreweofChoctaw rolled this past Saturday for Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The city needs to do better. Here is an open letter from a group of #Indigenous thinkers from Bvlbancha on HOW we can do better:

https://medium.com/@bvlbanchapublicaccess/we-noticed-that-you-have-themed-after-an-existing-indigenous-community-320ae93b4a3a

@noladon #IndigenousGulf

All set up here at the 2023 Strengthening Sovereign Responses to Sex Trafficking in Indian Country and Alaska conference resource center down on the first floor. Just a portion of what the Bvlbancha Trade Table usually offers, but here nonetheless!

@noladon #IndigenousGulf #Indigenous #nola

What a wonderful event! Yakuke, yakoki, mvto to all those who came out! Bvlbancha Collective was proud to be a sponsor, and was one of the rare events where we all came out in person! Homemade dish after handmade dish came out all day, sausages, boudin, soup, gumbo, jambalaya, greens, pork chops, etc etc etc. People came together to help out, dance, drink, and be in community together while supporting fundraising for the Amazonian land protectors. Excited to hear what the final tally ends up being!

#IndigenousGulf #Indigenous