This song was written and recorded by Li Makana, for Melissa Goodblanket in tribute to her son Mah-Hi-Vist (Redbird)/Touching Cloud Goodblanket who lost his life to the Custer County Police Dep. In Dec, 2013. This song is to raise awareness of his death, the police brutality on native youth, native people in general, and people of color in general. This will shed light on the facts, and tribute the 18 year old Cheyenne native in his journey to the spirit world through the Medicine. 

The Medicine (Mah Hi Vist/Touching Cloud Goodblanket Tribute)

Hysteria

Canvas Of Decolonization

Our Land

Mexiko

Expect From Us

Alienated Dine- ET DNA

Anthony is of mixed indigenous Mexican , Puerto Rican, and Native American heritage. Born to a mixed Latin American indigenous mestiza mother, and a white father. His grandma (moms mom) is Mvskoke Creek indian of Oklahoma and Irish, his great grandma (moms, dads mom) is Mexican indigenous/mestiza, and his great grandpa (moms, dads father) is Puerto Rican mestizo. His father is European-American, although he disregards his fathers blood due to lack of interaction and due to neglect in his childhood.  Anthony  is of Apache and Yaqui Ancestry from Chihuahua, Mexico and Huastec or Chichimec from San Luis Potosi and Tamaulipas, Mexico. His family was taken into the census assimilation movement of Mexico in the 1800's. This system was called Mestizaje, were they baptized, sterilized, and assimilated indigenous women and children of Mexico into a hispanic identity, very similar to the boarding schools of United States and Canada, with a very similar motto of 'Kill the indian save the man'. His indigenous bloodlines come from Chihuahua, specifically from the wild and hostile Norteno Apaches, who would mix with the Mexicano populations also Yaqui native, and mestizo heritage from SLP and Tamaulipas that is guessed to either be Huastec Mayan or Chichimeca Nahua. He claims his Mexican indigenous identity or Xicano, learning what he can from various people among the Dine' (Navajo)  Nde' (Apache)  Pueblo, Yaqui, and even Lakota  peoples. Anthony began writing music and performing since age 8, and began taking it as a serious carer at age 12, but at age 18 decided to use it as a means of reaching people like himself who is of mestizo DNA and Xikano identity in coming to their traditional tribal peoples, and speaking on indigenous social issues. Anthony claims to reject all colonial and european invasive ideologies and labels. He refused to be called white, european, spanish, latino, hispanic, or mestizo. He wants no part of Christianity or Catholicism, is anti colonial and refuses nationality from Americans. Yet claims Xikano or Xicano, and Mexicano as an identity for the mestizos that want no part of Hispanicism.  "Our ancestors would take something from the enemy and claim in as theirs afterwards quite often, it was a part of the warrior honors one would bring home, like a flag for example from the calvary men killed by northern tribes. Well Mexicano, Xikano, and the Mexikano flag is now ours to claim, and we will see that more with the growth of Zapatistas, Revolucionarios, Native rebels, and indigenous uprising in Mexico and the United States. Mexiko will belong to the indigenas, therefore a nationality can finally exist where all tribes can live as their own people and identities but also claim a piece of that Mexikano or Xikano nation, that we were born and assimilated into, then now we will be free to be, Nde', Yoeme, Huasteca, Huichol, Cora, Mayo, Dine' Nahua, Otomi, or any kind of tribe or people, and say that Mekiano and Xikano is YOURS."   Anthony is also bisexual and made this statement. "Our peoples did not have homophobic ways. Two spirit peoples, trans people, gay people, bi people, all revered in our cultures. I am different. I know this. I am also ok with that. and I will love and sleep with who I want to. No Christian or colonizer can make me ashamed of it either."

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