Kandia Crazy Horse from The Native & The Refugee
Black&White images from The Native & The Refugee’s album of #DecolonizeThisMuseum, Decolonize This Place’s Anti-Columbus Day Tour of American Museum of Natural History on Monday 10/10/2016 – Photographs by Vane Terán
Kandia Crazy Horse x #DecolonizeThisMuseum in Frieze
Yet more coverage of the Indigenous Peoples Day action @ American Museum of Natural History — the attempt to #DecolonizeThisMuseum & the Anti-Columbus Day Tour of the galleries seems to have really struck a nerve in art & activist circles. Read more here (including photograph of me): FRIEZE: Election Special – Body Languages
(From Frieze.com – Photograph: Andrés Rodriguez)
More Indigenous Day of Remembrance 2016 in NYC
(Kandia Crazy Horse dancing women’s traditional @ Indigenous Day of Remembrance NYC in Central Park, by Kerrie Sansky)
This photo collection & blog by Kerrie Sansky just in, from the Indigenous Day of Remembrance in Manhattan this past Sunday. Features several photos of me & my friends from the Movement:
Blue Eyes Smiling blog on IDOR 2016
Throwback Thursday: Kandia Crazy Horse @ Indigenous Day of Remembrance NYC 10/9/16
Once again, we had a great day out at this event sponsored by the Eagle & Condor Community Center of Astoria, Queens, NY — despite the rains, which seemed to clear when the little Quechua girls of Ñukanchik Llakta Wawakuna started dancing. This year’s theme was focused on women & we Native women warriors; I sang one of my songs, about being a Virginia Native American sacred wild woman, “Bury My Heart In Rock Creek Park,” danced in the circle, and participated in ceremonies including the burning of the “Doctrine of the Discovery” as pictured below. Photos of me by my sisters-in-struggle Melissa Terra Makuriwa Ulto (Taina) & Alexis Stern.
(Sisters-in-Struggle @ Indigenous Day of Remembrance in Central Park / Columbus Circle NYC, by Melissa Terra Makuriwa Ulto)
(Prayers up! Kandia Crazy Horse @ Indigenous Day of Remembrance in Central Park NYC, by Melissa Terra Makuriwa Ulto)
(Listening to Brother Lance First Eagle, Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge Reservation & nephew of Russell Means, speak while our Filipino #NoDAPL chronicler, Dan Vea, films)
(Group photo by Josefina Dilonez)
(My Brother Bejike Luis Sanakori Ramos of Eagle & Condor Community Center + Naguake Borinken & I by the altar)
(Performing the ceremonial burning, with Heather Henson looking on)
Kandia Crazy Horse x Decolonize This Museum NYC
Decolonize This Place’s Monday action @ American Museum of Natural History in NYC – #DecolonizeThisMuseum – was a resounding success & has been getting coverage in outlets as diverse as the Guardian (UK) & Bitch. I have already linked the press which included interviews with me on the subjects of Indigenous Peoples Day, why I am standing in solidarity with the Oceti Sakowin of Standing Rock / #NoDAPL, & ongoing issues with museum and archival collections established in the 19th century and earlier and how they resonate with us today in the 21st century. Here are some more images from the action, by myself or ones featuring me by Betty Yu. Looking forward to organizing more with #DecolonizeThisPlace – A’ho*
Kandia Crazy Horse reading the Indigenous Peoples Day 2016 declaration @ American Museum of Natural History – on the Theodore Roosevelt statue @ Central Park West & 79th Street (Credit: Betty Yu)
(by Betty Yu)
(by Betty Yu)
(Inside the galleries of American Museum of Natural History, by our #NoDAPL chronicler, Dan Vea)
(Andrew of #DecolonizeThisPlace @ the Hall of African Mammals, American Museum of Natural History, by Kandia Crazy Horse)
(#DecolonizeThisMuseum in the Rotunda, by Kandia Crazy Horse)
(Brother Amin Husain of #DecolonizeThisPlace & my Virginia homegal, artist Marz Saffore (in #BlackLivesMatter hoodie), of NYU in the galleries @ American Museum of Natural History, by Kandia Crazy Horse)
(1 of 2 original #DecolonizeThisPlace posters for the #DecolonizeThisMuseum action, by Kandia Crazy Horse)
(Artivists covering the statue of Theodore Roosevelt outside American Museum of Natural History in echo of the 1971 Lakota action, by Kandia Crazy Horse)
Indigenous Peoples Day 2016
Howdy y’all of Indian Country & beyond! Although my trip to Standing Rock (departing yesterday) was postponed, I am coming off a whirlwind of three days’ activity about the Dakota Access Pipeline resistance & working to establish Indigenous Peoples Day in NYC and throughout Turtle Island. My benefit for our Standing Rock water protectors, the Sacred Water Medicine Show (AKA Water Is Life – Solidarity Concert), went very well Saturday night in TriBeCa & there are some possible future shows in store – stay tuned! Will be posting photographs & live footage soon.
Sunday, despite the rains, we were at Central Park across from Columbus Circle, commemorating our Ancestors & holding forth on the experiences and leadership of Native women @ the Indigenous Day of Remembrance; I sang one of my original songs, and participated in some ceremonies besides dancing. Photos to come…
Yesterday, I did another action with Decolonize This Place: the Anti-Columbus Day Tour of the American Museum of Natural History for their #DecolonizeThisMuseum event. Here below is the press thus far that contains parts of interviews I gave on the topics of Indigenous Peoples Day, the benefit, and why I am #StandingWithStandingRock as an indigenous revolutionary to the Guardian (UK), The Nation, & the paper that I used to write for/help edit, the Village Voice. Yes, we (mostly) covered the infamous statue of Theodore Roosevelt that fronts the entrance to the Museum, but we also spread some very important messages. This is a heady Indigenous Week of a lot of related events here in NYC, and you will see me out — after I finally get a disco nap! A’ho*
(Kandia Crazy Horse reading the Indigenous Peoples Day 2016 declaration, on the covered statue of Theodore Roosevelt with African & Native American men @ American Museum of Natural History NYC – Credit: Betty Yu)
READ:
Kandia Crazy Horse on Indigenous Peoples Day for Guardian UK
Kandia Crazy Horse on Decolonize This Museum & Indigenous Peoples Day in the Village Voice
Indigenous Day of Remembrance 2016 in NYC
Annually, I represent for my Pamunkey Ancestors, my dear mother who has walked on & kin @ the Indigenous Day of Remembrance, which is held in Central Park across from Columbus Circle (which contains the statue of the Italian explorer). I am part of the movement to have the Indigenous Day ratified nationally, as part of my activism in Indian Country & beyond. Join us in ceremonies next Sunday the 9th — after my Sacred Water Medicine Show benefit for Standing Rock on Saturday night, 10/8 — @ noon by the 59th Street entrance to the Park (across from Time Warner Center). I will be there, along with my good friends Behike Luis Ramos & Brooke Keiahani Rodriguez, Taino leaders of Eagle & Condor Community Center in Queens who sponsor the event & have been active with me in the Dakota Access Pipeline resistance – A’ho*
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