If they’re Selkies, shapeshifters, or simply seals, they’re not telling.

Julia Lethbridge” a.k.a. “Wambli Sunpagewin” (Crossed Eagle Quills). “She was the mother of Pete Lethbridge, my grandpa, and my dad is Leonard Lethbridge Sr. (Wood Mountain Lakota)” - Henry Spotted Elk Lethbridge. Julia was a young girl, under the age of 10, when her camp was attacked by Custer’s

‘“Are you OLD?" "No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time.”’

transphobia is a luxury belief, which is why it’s so prevalent among beltway types who don’t have real problems

1. Dakota artist Oscar Howe with his wife, Heidi Howe and daughter Inge Dawn, at home, 1968. 2. Oscar Howe’s 1958 letter in response to his art being rejected as not being ‘Indian enough.’ 3. Sioux women grooming. Family photo © Oscar Howe Family | Art - Private Collections

Budapest is having fun tonight

Orcas off Vancouver | Salish Sea

Amber Sandy’s (Chippewas of Nawash First Nation) The Jane Birkin Bag, inspired by the Hermès Birkin Bag. | (birch bark, home-tanned deer hide, dyed porcupine quills, seed beads, cotton lining and artificial sinew.)

Tania Willard (Secwépemc) ‘Photolithics’ @polygongallery in North Vancouver. 1. Votive (laser etching, sandpaper, copper nails, archival image. 2. Digging (archival image Salish woman digging roots , latex ink, wood, copper). 3 Tax Exempt Income (archival inkjet, dyed deer bucktail, satin ribbon).

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

Never tire of flying over The Rockies on a clear day.

legitimately I was very drawn to the romantic aspects of books from the point I started getting interested in girls and it took me years to just flat out admit “yeah actually this stuff rocks and I want to read it openly” and I was much happier when I did I want more guys to figure that out

One of those lives, kissed by fate: "I was booked on a plane that crashed in the jungle only days before I started shooting Aguirre, the Wrath of God. The film I made about Juliane and her story of survival is called Wings of Hope." www.instagram.com/reel/DScifLM...

Fawzia (with Her Mother’s Pink Scarf) |Rianna (with Mirror) | From "Where Do I Go,' Lebanese-American photographer Rania Matar’s solo exhibition and newly published photobook, “Where Do I Go?” takes the pulse of young Lebanese women as they negotiate their lives in a devastated country. At The Leica

After 3 years of building, my app is finally live for paying customers (we did a 6-month free beta). You can see it at www.knowledgekeepr.ca Basically, if you need authoritative information about any First Nation in Canada, finances, bylaws, lands, contact info, governance info... that's us.

Ajaccio rooftops | Leica

Charlotte Edith Anderson Monture. 1890-1996 (Kanien’kehá:ka): Denied nurse training in Canada because of the Indian Act and that she was a Status Indian, Monture determinedly went to the United States and trained as a nurse in Philadelphia. After graduation, she served 18 months

The Glenbow, in Calgary, Alberta, reopens as the JR Centre for Arts & Culture next year. Its updates extend far past physical renovations. As one of the few major renovations of an arts museum in recent years in Canada, its success, or lack of, well be monitored.

And you can now hear part one of that extended climate change discussion on our podcast! Featuring Paul👇, tanyatalaga.bsky.social, marktrahant.bsky.social + Judi Kochon! Kick-off to BFF: Beyond Fires & Floods, co-convened by rickharp.bsky.social and candiscall.bsky.social 📻 LISTEN: pod.fo/e/3e3a56

‘The Isaac family patriarch and matriarch consists of Chief Isaac and Eliza Harper (daughter of Chief Gäh St’ät). Chief Isaac is from the Wolf Clan and Eliza Harper is from the Crow Clan.’ - Chief Isaac’s People of the River. When the Klondike

Gordon Parks: The South In Color, curated by Dawood Bey, opens at Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta, Georgia tomorrow, April 2. Opening reception 6-8pm. | photo 1: Department Store, Mobile, Alabama 1956. photo 2: Outside Looking In, Mobile, Alabama., 1956. © Gordon Parks Foundation

Mary Shelley got tired of drinking laudunum & getting double-teamed by Percy and Lord Byron and just hauled off and wrote a literature classic.

Reading Werner Herzog with his voice in your head is doubly fantastic: ‘Los Angeles has it dark sides too. Once, while I was being interviewed by the BBC, I was shot at and slightly wounded in front of the camera. To me, it felt like a bit of local folklore. A few days later, I rescued…

As baseball regular season gets underway, a photo of athlete Jim Thorpe (Meskwaki (Fox & Sac)) at the plate for the New York Giants at Polo Grounds New York. Thorpe played two stints with the Giants, (1913-1915) (1917-1919). | Photographer not known.

I truly don't care that I had 57K or so followers on Twitter. The place became an unbearable toxic bot cesspool after the Musty took over, and it was hardly tolerable before that. Oh no, I'm not being subjected to violent racist and misogynist abuse 24/7? Boy I'm sure missing out.

“Naples is a paradise. Everyone lives in a kind of drunken absent-mindedness.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. | Leica

‘Library and Archives Canada told CBC Indigenous it would need nearly four years to consult on a request to see 50-year old secret records from an RCMP program that spied on so-called "Native extremism."’ The archive is highly politicized and certain aspects guarded by the state, including Canada.

I find airport hotel restaurants fascinating, ideal for people watching, the multitasking person on their phone and laptop for hours, the young couple kissing by the bar, another couple sitting, not looking at each other, the ridiculously overpriced food and drinks, the impermanence of it all.

Just landed in Montreal, but here’s a couple late night Paris lights photos during my Citroën drive around Paris. a couple nights ago. | Leica

Alas, I’ve maxed out the time I can stay, à bientôt Paris, and I’ll see you again in the fall, Ciao.

At The Paradis Latin Cabaret. I think my favourite cabaret in Paris.

It's a large wooden horse, painted gold...

Kahentinetha Horn, Kanienʼkehá꞉ka activist and model, speaks to the press during the constitutional Charter of Human Rights discussions underway in February, 1968 in Ottawa, in which the drafting of a Canadian Constitution was being discussed by the Liberal Government.

Thrilled to be part of this exhibition opening at the Cité internationale des arts on April 16. les voix se levent (Voices Rise). Now, more than ever, artists’s voices are needed. A stellar international line up of artists, and my installation is ‘Perhaps, I’m A Chosen Instrument,’ featuring a young

Late night drive in a Citroën CV2 down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris

Montmartre with this beauty | Citroën CV2

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Sunday Market in The Marais is the best. And the movie poster vendor has eyebrows to equal Gandalf’s.

As a solo traveller one of the nice things I noticed after 3 months in Paris is how accommodating they are to solo diners, I’ve had zero issues with where my table is or with the service, unlike some restaurants in Canada where you are treated almost as an embarrassment,…

Éze, France, it was here, long before the churches, high on this hill, that the Phoenicians came and built a temple to Isis, she being the goddess of all slaves and the oppressed.

John Berger, on a warm spring day in The Tuileries Garden, full of green chairs and people reading 📖

Birds of Paradise in flower | Nice, France | Leica

Met Jean Louis Paris today at a busy street corner in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, where he often ‘sets up shop,’ hangs his signed prints on the street to sell. A veteran photographer, he’s worked in film and fashion and I liked his stuff, including this one that comes home with me.

After three months in France, my first sobering realization is that I had vastly kidded myself on my French proficiency based on learning from apps. People talk must faster than any app, there’s slang, words run together, there’s regional accents, expressions, watching French TV, news, sports,

“Naples is very beautiful and big and full of pretty women whose skirts reach only to their knees,” ~ Don Antonio de Beatis, from his travel journal 1517-1518.

La Trahison des Images (Rêvasser) (Moi-même) | The photography of Justine Tjallinks’s VISION at Musée de la Photographie Charles Nègre in Nice, France until 24.05.26

Éze, the small village on the French Riviera, atop a high hill is gorgeous, the narrow cobbled streets, the views, the gardens, but as my guide Ysa pointed out, the time it was a real community is long gone, there’s a Michelin starred hotel and restaurant, every place that used to be a home is now a

The thing that always gets me about "Feminist" remakes of Frankenstein is it feels insulting to Mary Shelley. The book itself is the feminist act.

‘A sunny place for shady people,’ ~ Somerset Maugham.

Mediterranean Sea ambience