Archiving. From the "Other ways to support" tab on the Bvlbancha Collective site. Support Beverly Little Thunder’s family in their time of loss: Unci’s wife, spiritual partner, and steward of KKT land, needs your support. Lushanya, Unci’s youngest daughter, Sundance keeper and Executive Director of the KKT vision, needs your support. Kunsi Keya, as an organization, is growing steadily and strong with progressive organizational structures and leadership. Please continue to sup

Archiving. From the "Community" page on the Bvlbancha Collective site. Houma Language Project https://www.houmalanguageproject.com/home Land Back Gardens https://ko-fi.com/landbackgardens   Ida (artist, event production, farm owner) Raccoon Oak Farm - https://raccoonoakfarm.carrd.co   Elap Ufe Productions - https://elapufe.carrd.co/    https://rynufe.carrd.co/   Bvlbancha Radio https://www.bvlbancharadio.net/ https://www.instagram.com/bvlbanchaliberationradio   Bulbancha is S

Archiving. From the " Support BIPOC and LGBTQ " page on the Bvlbancha Collective site. Two-Spirit resource page : https://www.bvlbanchapublicaccess.com/about/resources-for-two-spirit-people   Imagine Water Works  is place-based with a global vision. Since 2012 we’ve helped lead the changes we’ve seen locally in how we think about living with water, working in an intersection of reducing risk from flooding, pollution, and natural hazards. We knew that the best solutions were m

Archiving. From the Resources tab on the Bvlbancha Collective site. Plant Relative Resources Links    Native American Ethnobotany Database: http://naeb.brit.org/    Eat The Weeds and other things, too: http://www.eattheweeds.com/    Okla Hina Ikhish Holo, the People of the Sacred Medicine Trail, emerges from the Gulf Coast as a collective force of women, femme, and two-spirit Indigenous and frontline gardeners dedicated to urgent action and generational adaptations amid the e

Archiving. Original post on Bvlbancha Collective site, December 24, 2023. Raccoon Oak Farm  is a new Indigenous farm effort in the Atchafalaya Basin outside of Lafayette, LA. Raccoon Oak Farm, est. 2023. Ida's previous farm creation and management experience comes from the successful creation and expansion of Yakani Ekelanna Community Garden and Food Forest  from 2020-2022, in Grey, LA outside of Houma, for the Houma Nation of Louisiana. The Yakani Ekelanna flag. Some article

Archiving. Originally posted on Bvlbancha Collective site, November 27, 2023. A link to a document of resources that the Bvlbancha community chat network came up with: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QByr4WlzMHI2Sm3Vkb5qUpdpG_vSU8QD9mKA6YBWU2w/edit?usp=sharing   National Day of Mourning 2023 (November 23, 2023, 12PM ET) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR4wLyUYFss Truthsgiving: Why we Must Abolish Colonial Holidays that Perpetuate Dangerous Stereotypes and Whitewashed Hist

Archiving. Original blog post on Bvlbancha Collective site, July 7, 2023. Nestled by the train tracks in the Upper 9th Ward of Bvlbancha, Land Back Gardens has been growing food and medicines for Jenna Mae’s family and extensive community mutual aid efforts since 2020. More info and updates at: https://ko-fi.com/landbackgardens   Tilled field ready for planting. Land Back Gardens all filled in for the spring growing season, 2023. One of many DIY bucket irrigation methods that

Archiving. Original blog post on Bvlbancha Collective site, February 25, 2023. As another spring bursts into life around us, we wanted to uplift this project that the entire Bvlbancha Collective has helped to start and anchor, the Okla Hina Ikhish Holo network of Indigenous Gulf South gardeners. We are part of the ‘People of the Sacred Medicine Trail’. While some scope of the original breadth of garden sites has scaled down due to a variety of reasons, the sites that are in p

Archiving. Original blog post on Bvlbancha Collective site, January 1, 2023. An over the shoulder view of a member of Bvlbancha Collective member handwriting their speech on the grass in a spiral notebook. Transcript of the full speech that was to be given at the National Day of Mourning, Nov. 24, 2022. (Was interrupted and truncated at the event.) … Aletu! Seyultcefuyat Ida, saktce-umah seyah. Ouma a mentele. Hello, I’m Ida, of the Red Crawfish Houma nation. I live around Ho

Archiving. Original post on Bvlbancha Collective site, November 7, 2022. https://www.instagram.com/p/Ckhp29-OaYH/ The intertribal community of Bvlbancha, including Bvlbancha Collective, immediately and completely denounces, and hereby cuts all ties with, Jordan Menard/Jordan Patrick-Eddy Menard. We are taking this step after taking our concerns directly to Jordan to engage in restorative and transformative justice processes. These attempts failed due to his deflection and lac