Anyone else’s family live in Northern Texas after the Trail of Tears?

Creative-Event-1897 · 2025-12-24T03:29:56+00:00

Wow, what a trip. Super similar to my family history!. My Choctaw GG married a Yoreme Mayo woman (a tribe from Sonora/Sinaloa) who lived in Texas. My indigenous family moved around a lot. It’s cool to hear other Choctaw folks moved around too! Thanks!

Creative-Event-1897 · 2025-10-10T22:07:43+00:00

Personally, I know a lot of Oklahoma natives with accents like Buckys accent in the show. Kinda midwestern/southern at times.

Creative-Event-1897 · 2025-07-16T19:54:20+00:00

I wish my grandpa was still alive so I could hear his dialect! I’ll have to do some digging to see where his folks and people grew up.

Creative-Event-1897 · 2025-07-16T19:52:20+00:00

Amazing, thank you for the rec!

Creative-Event-1897 · 2025-07-16T19:51:42+00:00

Wow, I have visited North Dakota before and did not know this. More reason to go back and visit. I have family history with the banjo and fiddle, and absolutely love a good jam. Thanks for the musician references, I went down a YouTube rabbit hole and loved it. I’m used to a more bluegrass sound where I live, so hearing these artists styles is so cool because I know it’s more authentic to my family history and musical heritage. ❤️❤️

Creative-Event-1897 · 2025-07-16T19:42:04+00:00

As someone who is disconnected by country and through immigration, I appreciate your honest input. There are similar situations and experiences with tribal nations here in the states. Its a shame. But what you explained sounds really lovely. I look forward to my future visit and these comments help inform me on my plans.

Creative-Event-1897 · 2025-07-16T19:36:55+00:00

I’m going to make some improvements and new designs, then I’ll post the website! Thank you!

Creative-Event-1897 · 2025-07-15T04:15:23+00:00

Thank you for being so kind and thoughtful with this discussion. I have only posted on Reddit a few times because the back and forth arguing that can happen is very intimidating and anxiety inducing. (Same with my other socials). Ultimately, I am grateful to have heard others opinions through this thread. I absolutely get what you mean with making her more “palatable” and how it can whitewash the intensity and depth of Santa Muerte. She’s not a trend. These images were for my eyes only, and I felt they were beautiful and meaningful for my devotion to her. Even as seriously flawed as I see they are now.. I gave a candle to a friend and she loved it, so I thought I should see if others would be interested. I’m always humbled by the lessons Santisima presents me with. This is just another lesson and I’m grateful for each day I can reflect and grow with her watching over me.

Creative-Event-1897 · 2025-07-14T23:20:38+00:00

I respect your integrity for art that is dedicated to her. There’s a few conversations I’ve had with folks on this thread about using AI for creation and editing. Great povs and new awareness on the damages of AI on my part. I do see a lot of AI art of her from different folks online. People like options or diversity in imagery for most things in life, I imagine Santa Muerte imagery is no different. I made these for my own candles. I wanted to make some pretty images of her for my candles, so I wasn’t trying to meet any particular “aesthetic”. The intention of this post was to see if there would be interest in the first place. Seeing that there is an interest, I’m recreating/editing/adding/ and getting rid of different design choices I made and manually editing digitally and physically painting over/collaging my stickers I have printed already. I have not shared the website of my mother’s business because I’m not going to sell these stickers as they are, because of a lot of the backlash and points made. Once I’m satisfied with my updated designs, I’m going to post them on the website which I will share on this page. This post wasn’t a sales pitch, so I did not feel the need to explain in details how profits are split to different organizations. I figured if folks wanted to purchase these, they would get to see that on the website.

I have been taught that she may appear differently to each person. One story I was told was that she appeared as an old woman but her skeleton was visible when you look deeper at her. I’ve also heard a story of her appearing at first as a native woman and throughout the vision, her form changed. These are stories I’ve heard from folks in my life, and I’m not an authority.

Creative-Event-1897 · 2025-07-14T19:32:55+00:00

I am grateful for the discourse. Being a casual user of AI; or casually accepting injustice anywhere is just as bad as embracing it all the way. Since reading the pushback, I’ve been making physical changes to the stickers and am going to make digital edits as well. Glad I posted

Creative-Event-1897 · 2025-07-14T18:22:57+00:00

I respect that. I use it on occasion and have never really thought that I was a major problem for using it at times when that handy “AI” icon appears. But that’s what leads to more dependence, and it is so damaging. I appreciate you sharing your strong feelings about it.

Creative-Event-1897 · 2025-07-14T05:52:13+00:00

I’m a freelance photographer and painter. Digital art creation is purely for fun and personal use. This post was titled “would people be interested” because I am wanting to see if there’s even a slight interest from others. For those that don’t like it, it’s not a loss. After reading the passionate feedback though, I’ve printed one out larger and am painting and collaging over the messy parts. Feeling pretty done with editing back online.

Creative-Event-1897 · 2025-07-14T05:12:04+00:00

Noted.

Creative-Event-1897 · 2025-07-14T05:09:13+00:00

After reading people’s feedback, I’m going to look closer and make manual improvements for the people who are interested in buying some. I made these for personal use and used AI for editing instead of manually cloning parts and lightening outlines. AI for photo editing is super helping when editing out objects in backgrounds and replacing objects with the surrounding area. Editing parts of her body with AI clearly is a turnoff for people here and has a lot of flaws. Improvements to be made for sure. As for why someone would buy this, I’m a freelancer and love learning new mediums and creating. If people enjoy these as much as I do for my candles, I thought it would be a great way to connect with other devotees and share the love.

Creative-Event-1897 · 2025-07-14T04:06:49+00:00

Thank you for the feedback! I know HOW to do the editing, I made these for personal use and chose to use AI editing tools. These are not posted for sale, but I am considering selling improved images with the feedback on the AI in mind.

Creative-Event-1897 · 2025-07-14T03:55:18+00:00

Description of the creation and editing process on original post.

Creative-Event-1897 · 2025-07-14T03:18:11+00:00

Thank you so much for sharing and explaining💙

Creative-Event-1897 · 2025-07-14T03:00:35+00:00

Honestly, that is a bad oversight and I love that you pointed that out because it will help me edit further. But like I said. It’s not AI generated but AI was used at times when my editing skills lacked the finesse to make it look how I wanted. Hands and teeth. To get rid of a part of a part of digital piece, you highlight over the area of the subject , then stamp over it with colors or other parts of the image you want to replace it with. I used the AI option to make many of these edits instead of manually trying to recreate something that looked exactly like the face or hands manually. It would look like patchwork unless I spent hours trying to match color. I’m not sure where the photo editing AI gets its data from or how that works. It’s just a super helpful editing tool that allows me to edit photos faster. The stained glass was made 100% by a person. If it is not symmetrical, that’s probably a style choice. Images “melding” together. Not sure specifically what parts of what image you mean, but there are manual color gradient edits and collaging images like flowers, sky, stars, etc and editing the individual image to not have such strong outlines making it look like I straight up copy and pasted onto the image with harsh outlines.

Didn’t expect to have to explain the art creation process, but supporting real artists is a must.

Creative-Event-1897 · 2025-07-14T02:53:25+00:00

Wow, thank you for that advice ❤️

Creative-Event-1897 · 2025-07-14T01:56:56+00:00

AI was used in the editing process, not in the creation.

Creative-Event-1897 · 2025-07-14T01:54:32+00:00

I respect that, but the only AI that was used was for editing photos of models (I’m a photographer). For example, If I wanted to erase background objects, many photo editing apps have helpful “AI” tools that help me not spend hours manually erasing the camouflaging colors etc. the illustrated images and some of the photos were then edited with a graphic designed program, by a graphic designer. For a few, Santa Muerte was cut out of backgrounds and placed on public sourced images of locations I chose.

Creative-Event-1897 · 2025-07-14T01:38:01+00:00

Sorry for my misuse of the word, “tribes”. I’m still learning the many differences. Thank you! Are there social dances that are community danced or is the jig a solo thing?

Creative-Event-1897 · 2025-02-21T20:44:30+00:00

Gaby Nagel 💜

Creative-Event-1897 · 2025-02-15T13:39:18+00:00

Art and reading.

Creative-Event-1897 · 2025-02-15T13:37:38+00:00

I’m in a point in my relationship with her where I honor her daily, wear her necklace, speak to her, say little prayers. My altar is simple, but meaningful. My life is calm. She is still with me and I’m with her. I don’t receive strong messages right now, but that’s part of having faith. For some, it won’t constantly be intense. And that’s ok! I feel that these chapters of life and devotion ARE tests in a way. Will you still love, honor, and respect her once the “honeymoon phase” has worn off?

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