Latest posts tagged with #FNMI on Bluesky
Windspeaker was honoured to spend time speaking with the authors and editors, academics and Elders, poets, illustrators and activists whose #books were making news in 2025.
#Indigenous #FNMI #GoodreadsYearinBooks
#Settlers can sometimes access and even bill these PSA #Indigenous Wellness services through insurance, which misappropriates #FNMI knowledge, medicines, and culture. It’s concerning that these culturally sacred resources are being treated as something “buyable and billable."
This is the link to the details of the #Indigenous #FNMI Personal Saving Account coverage. #Sunlife providing "traditional wellness services" through workplaces. Keep in mind these services should not be bought and paid for generally.
SunLife’s #Indigenous Wellness coverage, allows anyone deemed “eligible” to access #Indigenous services, including non-Indigenous (Settler) people. I unfortunately came across this when a old friend (Settler) suggested using it through their employer. #FNMI
Workplaces offering their Settler employees #FNMI #Indigenous wellness packages (traditional healing, medicines, etc.) via #Insurance is absolutely wild.
Calling out “ #Pretendian behavior” as a #mentalhealth issue isn’t neutral, it’s pseudo-scientific #eugenics. Just because many Pretendians are white doesn’t make it okay to pathologize them. People with no mental health expertise diagnosing others is replicating white supremacist logic. #FNMI
Biological essentialism (“blood = truth”)
Purity logic
Collective punishment (entire categories of people dismissed)
Moral hierarchy of who is more or less “real”
Weaponization of identity to police others rather than dismantle power are methods #Pretendian Hunters are using. #FNMI
The current call out culture in community being aimed currently at #lilygladstone is exactly the reason I think " #descendian " is #lateralviolence. #FNMI
Reconnect to what can be? A more forward-looking approach sees reconnection as creating something new a blend of #ancestral knowledge and contemporary life that strengthens identity, resilience, and community in the present. It’s less about purity and more about self-determination. #FNMI
Reconnection to what was risks romanticizing the past as “pure” and disconnected from the reality that generations of #FNMI #Indigenous people have been living in #colonial systems.
#FNMI #Indigenous Reconnecting to what was? Others frame reconnection as reviving practices that were suppressed or lost due to colonization pre-contact ways of living, thinking, and being.
The tension isn’t a failure on the part of #FNMI #Indigenous people it’s a reflection of the impossibility of fully separating from #colonial influence while honoring your identity. Reconnection can exist with contemporary Settler methods the key is that they’re tools, not defining frameworks.
Reconnecting as #FNMI can be framed more practically as reclaiming, revitalizing, or centering Indigenous ways within your life. It’s about choosing which practices serve your community, well-being, and identity.
I am saying:
#Assimilation does not nullify ancestry
Disconnection does not automatically equal bad faith
#Colonial disruption must be centered before moral judgment
Identity discussions that ignore capitalism, power, and state violence are incomplete
#Indigenous #FNMI
With respect to #FNMI identity I am not saying:
Everyone gets citizenship
Self-ID equals belonging
Nations don’t have the right to define membership
Fraud shouldn’t be challenged
Resources should be accessed without accountability
#Indigenous
#Indigenous legal orders were never static. They were:
adaptive
relational
situational
responsive to crisis
#Colonialism is the largest crisis #FNMI #Haudenosaunee societies have ever faced.
#Colonialism ethnicized #FNMI identity
Replaced kinship with racial classification
Turned nations into ethnic populations
Converted relational identity into registries, cards, and fractions
Introduced the idea that #Indigenous identity is something you possess, not something you live
Bloodline fixation in #FNMI community benefits the #settler state & #ethnonationalism
When identity becomes:
“Who counts?”
The state benefits because:
Fewer people qualify for obligations
Communities police themselves
#Colonial violence gets reframed as “internal disagreement”
Modern “bloodline absolutism” often:
Mirrors #European #nationalist logic
Ignores #FNMI practices of relational belonging
Collapses political governance and identity.
This creates a common #FNMI #Indigenous contradiction:
You can’t claim #survival through adaptation and deny responsibility to those removed by forced adaptation.
Many contemporary arguments treat #FNMI protocols as frozen in time, and #Assimilation as a personal failure, rather than a state-engineered process.
In other words, #colonialism imposed arbitrary hierarchies on #ancestry itself, not just on #Indigenous #FNMI identity. It turned #lineage into a tool for control whether through #assimilation policies, slavery, or #immigration rules.
#Colonial systems of assimilation, racial categorization, and identity policing didn’t just target #FNMI First Nations, Métis, or Inuit peoples they affected anyone whose #ancestry was caught in a hierarchy or migration system imposed by colonial powers.
There is no clean moment where identity debates reset. #FNMI
are still operating inside the #colonial project, not after it.
If you believe that #colonialism deliberately dismantled #FNMI nations, that #assimilation existed and continue to exist, and that this largely worked as intended, then you cannot treat #Indigenous identity regulation as neutral, ahistorical, or comparable to voluntary social gatekeeping.
#Colonialism + #FNMI #Haudenosaunee protocol:
disrupted matrilines
removed children
imposed #patrilineal law
enforced the #IndianAct
rewrote adoption, marriage, and belonging
You cannot then turn around and say:
If #colonialism severed your line, you simply no longer exist as #Indigenous.
A person can:
lack #Haudenosaunee #FNMI citizenship
lack a clan
still be #Indigenous
still be harmed by #colonial systems
still have ancestry, kinship rupture, adoption, or displacement
At the same time, public shaming is being framed as “accountability,” even though it has no legal or #FNMI based #authority and often collapses trauma, grief, and rage into identity policing.
Pretendian hunting treats #FNMI recognition, band membership, or “traditional protocol” as fixed, neutral standards when all of these have been deeply shaped by colonialism, the #IndianAct, displacement, adoption, urbanization, and imposed #governance.
#sarain When someone financially benefits from telling stories as a representative of all #FNMI #Indigenous people, scrutiny is inevitable.
None of this means she’s “not Indigenous.” It means she took on a representational role without enough nuance.
