Before Anyone Here Loses Their Minds Regarding The Seals, Please Read This To Know The Perspective, And

Eating Seal Meat Is a Vital Part of Life in My Community

Many people opposed to seal hunting don't understand that kids in indigenous communities are hungry, and it's painful to see that. It's ridiculous that other cultures are welcome to survive off of our natural resources, but we're not.

Before anyone here loses their minds regarding the seals, please read this to know the perspective, and check out the video inside. This touches on important issues facing many of my editor’s kinds among his Native ethnicities. Especially for the Inuits & the high costs of groceries combined with inflation, I can’t help but see parallels to food importation costs in my own homelands.  The video of the caribou toward the end looks sonno keraan (truly tasty).

Help this guy if you can, please. I hope it isn’’t troublesome to us, I wish I could pay him to do the pay part. As a fellow fanfiction writer, I give my support even if I couldn’t monetarily do so.

CALL FOR HELP

I’m trying to raise $200

I am a Bechloe fanfiction writer; mostly writing GP Beca.

My entry into Patrreon was bittersweet and was borne out of a bad experience. I never knew of Patreon until one of my readers suggested it.

I entered a GP Beca fanfiction contest and in the end got practically ghosted.

I joined the contest on January 12, 2018 - a few weeks after the creator posted about it along with the guidelines (December 27, 2017). The deadline was March 12, 2018 and I started posting my chapters. I was working on two (2) entries -minimum of 2k words per chapter, minimum of 15 chapters. I was done with 10 chapters for both stories - but posted only eight since I was editing the newer chapters – when a reader messaged me advising that I check with the creator because she doesn’t see any other stories being posted. I checked and the creator responded that there were other entries.

So I kept writing and posted the remaining two chapters I had. So all in all, I got 10 chapters posted of each stories.(20 chapters in total).

Once more I received messages telling me that the creator had stolen their stories before and that I should confront them.

As I did, the creator denied the accusations and informed me that the other contestants dropped out and I only need to deliver the remaining 5 chapters for each story and she’ll forward me the $300 prize. I did not believe her and after some back and forth she fronted $50 on February 19, 2018 with the promise to send the $250 by March 12,2018..

I’d like to note that she originally set the initial $50.payment on February 12 but it was delayed for a week. She went MIA and stopped answering messages. Days later she messaged me that she lost someone hence the non-responses.

I completed both my entries and posted them by March 11, 2018.

She once again went MIA but messaged me on March 20 2018 that she got hospitalized and has no idea when she can give the rest of the money. I kept an open line of communication with her but it’s April 21 2018 now and she won’t respond anymore.

I joined the contest for the money. I will be honest about that.

I need the money because I can’t go back to my old regular job as an industrial engineer for manufacturing company in my country after I suffered a stationary cardiac arrest in mid 2015. The arrest resulted in Hypoxic anoxic brain injury that basically left ne in a vegetative state

I was in coma for 10 days and was bed-ridden for almost two months, along with other issues such as short term memory loss, quadriparalesis, cortical blindness in which the area of my brain responsible for vision becomes disconnected from the brain. Because the brain could not tell that this part is damaged, it appeared as though I can see though I displayed no ability to recognize letters or objects or people.

I’m not from the US but if we’re talking about costs, my family and I I shelled out about t $30k from our own pockets (I converted that from my currency to US) on the first year alone. We’re not rush so that money cane mostly from the sale of one of our land properties (rice farm)..

I was deemed “legally blind” .per my social security doctor who tested me before I cam get my disability benefits. My social security disability benefits could only cover so much.

On top of that were the therapy costs and another surgery to reconstruct my tongue that had substantial tear after I bit it during one of my seizures. Therapy lasted over two years and that’s the lucky rate because as per my OT and PT, I was young. I can walk on my own now but I can’t run nor get out of the house without a companion since I sometimes just fall without warning from time to time.

My eyesight is better; though it’s never the same. I can’t read handwritten notes. I can’t see faces clearly unless they’re super up close.

For now, I tutor grade school kids at our house mainly because the books’ texts are huge and I can teach then even without reading much.

I had to turn down HS and college students since the numbers get jumbled and frankly I have been slowed down and the texts are smaller. And yeah, I do tutoring and ghostwrite simple essays and projects for kids.

I joined because I could use some relief.

I worked hard typing on my phone (since my laptop makes it hard for me to type and see despite zooming.)

In advance, my apologies for the typos. I mostly rely on Spellcheck and sometimes even editing or proofreading more than thrice still results in errors.

I have posted screenshots of my conversation with the creator for reference.

If you are willing and able to lend a hand, here’s my

PAYPAL ACCOUNT - nellelopez25@gmail.com

PATREON ACCOUNT -patreon.com/oygbycgb

PLEASE REBLOG THIS POST.

Haskap berries: the superfruit you don’t know about

Haskaps are higher in antioxidants than blueberries and make great wine, and now growers want to bring them to more Canadians

Here are some berries worth looking into. You should try using these in your next simipe (breakfast) with rice, especially should you want to cool off, these are very tasty after all. One suggestion for serving with these is millet pancakes as a syrup or jam/jelly, or even cooked in the batter. I hope you can take the time to look around for the food around you in the outdoors. Iyayraykere.

Haida Gwaii: Mist enshrouded isles & vibrant Haida resurgence - Canadian Roadstories

The Haida First Nation comes from the wild coast of northern British Columbia south of Alaska in an archipelago of more than 200 islands called Haida Gwaii.

If I were go to Canada or Alaska, I'll be sure to check these places out soon after arrival.

Tunakkay topayta-kur nanu pirka ne.

(Reindeer [herding] people look good.) As can be found, yes these are another Siberian group, but are also found in my own homelands & southern neighbour. Believe it or not, they at one point used writing based off my bone ancestral script.

Reindeer Faun WIP - she is loosely based on the Evenks, indigenous people in Northern Asia and Russia who raise, herd and ride reindeer. I’m going to transfer and paint her :)

To clarify, the posts I put up here involving the culture and/or the language usage never come without a purpose or translations below (especially in the latter case). I may use the tongue in occasional posts & even in the hashtags combined with other elements, but it remains in conscious efforts to help others learn about the culture & history as well hopefully to reach out to the titular people & others regardless to better understand the cultures through time & space. Any hashtags you see here in the language will of course include a translation in similar hopes of reaching out. Iyayraykere.

Outsiders are not not saving a language by learning it.

While I’m personally grateful services like Tribalingual exist, creating some academic access to Indigenous languages, particularly for Indigenous diaspora (if they can afford it), I’m extremely dubious of the notion that a outsiders learning an Indigenous language is somehow “saving” it. There was a testimonial from some white American girl learning Ainu itak, and she spoke of it as if she were collecting some rare Pokemon card before it went out of print or something, framing it in typical dying Native rhetoric. What is she going to do with Ainu itak, except as some obscure lingual trophy?

If you want to save a language, save the people.

Language means nothing without history and culture breathing life into it, and in turn we are disconnected from our history and ancestors without it. Support Indigenous quality of life, ACCESS to quality education, quality health services (mental and physical), land and subsistence rights, CLEAN DRINKING WATER, advocate against police brutality and state violence, DEMAND ACTION FOR MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN.

Damn, if you really want to “save the language” pay for an Indigenous person’s classes for them to reconnect to their mother tongues. I’m not saying outsiders shouldn’t learn languages they’re invited to learn, but don’t pretend like you learning conversational Ainu itak is saving it from extinction.