The full interactive Digital Drum website will be here soon. ---- If you have an event, show, or media you would like to share, click on "your beats" and share it with Digital Drum. ---- Although we do like to focus on traditional cultural content, Aboriginal people are comprised of modern cultures identified by our art, language and lifestyle, both historical and current. We are using the Digital Drum blog for now, but in the near future we will be releasing a full interactive website in which content can be shared. It will be an online Aboriginal Community to share with all. You will be able to use your Google+ or Facebook accounts to connect. We aren’t creating another social networking site, but rather a tool to become an online Aboriginal Community with the tools we are already using online. A place for live, interactive Cultural Evolution.
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Here’s some great jewelry to share with everyone. Do you have any music, artwork, new products, or other content that you would like to share with Digital Drum? Click on “your beats” and get sharing!
fleece boots that I beaded. www.brownbeaded.net to order a pair.
So I wrote a little fashion blog for CBC on cultural appropriation earlier this week … check it out.
Maria Hupfield (Ojibway/Canadian), Jingle Dress, fabric, c. 2010.
Ah yah! Maria representing the Nish Nation!
My beadwork
Charles Edenshaw (Haida/Canadian), Bear Bracelet, silver, c. 1880.
(via ipodawatomi)
As 2011 comes to a close, we will all reflect on the year that was, but also reflect on all that has been.
Aboriginal, First Nations, Inuit, Metis, Native American, Indigenous, and so on and so forth are the names original peoples have been given to describe us as a whole. But, we are each unique and individual nations, defined by our heritage and primarily our lands. The land has shaped our language, many languages flow like the rivers and streams they are born to, many languages are strong and rigid cutting the air like the mountains they came from, and all our languages have carried prayer and laughter since time immemorial.
Although our people change with the modern age and new technologies, we are still unique. We may lose aspects of our cultures in this age, but that doesn’t make us any less of the people we are born. It is like the earth, it is ever changing, lands erode away and new earth is uplifted through the waters, but it is still the earth. The earth is also what binds us. It is the thing that defines us, but it is also the source that provides for us. So as stewards of the lands, we are one. Remember this, as unique as we all are individually, we are bound by our mother the earth. Do not critique each other without love, do not do business with each other without respect of the other, and do not deny your identities or potentials.
Ahma Yaa, Egosi, Hi hi, Meegwitch, and many other thank yous of many other languages.
We hope you honor the change in seasons, have a happy holiday season, and bring in the new year with more hope, more pride, and more respect.
Many thanks.
Brett Huson,
Digital Drum.
authentic appropriations: street style
(sage paul/dene/toronto)Business 401
Rose Painted Birch Earrings: @ErinKonsmo ($25)
Lace up Shoe Boots: Top Shop ($80/sale)
Short Sateen Blazer: H&M ($35)
Blue Grey Sweater: Club Monaco ($40/sale) w/ basic white tee under
Black Cotton Skinny Pants: H&M ($30)Photography: Michael Ruszczycki
Wolf ring for the Twihard.
Confession: I totally fell for one of those PR emails “OMG did you hear, SJP wore a pair of boots?” Alert the press for real but I actually really like these boots.
I think that they are the perfect solution for yucky slushy days while mucking around Toronto streets and the TTC. My new wedge black boots seem a tad over the top for those type of days … enter the Baggy Leather Palladium boots. Now if I can only find them in Toronto …
