Eagle Rider

Baby chipmunk

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Baby prairie dog #NaturePhotography #PrairieDog #animals

Bless you

One of my favorite swans #NaturePhotography #BlackandWhite #birds #Swans

Eagle Beauty #NaturePhotography #Eagle #Bird

Mild albinism, an albino daughter next to her father (who honestly himself was significantly paler than his siblings)

Baby Prairie Dog

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Lionfish

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Lioness paw

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My father and me, I miss him so much.

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Rose of the day

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My "Ornery" kitty

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It actually makes me want to scream violently out-loud, YOU CANNOT strip my minority experience and race from me because I have a mild form of albinism that makes me look extremely white.

The worst feeling in the world for me is constantly having to defend my race, constantly being told I am not what I am.
Being Albino comes with a lot of trauma/abuse/hate it comes with people constantly telling you you are something you are not...

I carry a 125x zoom lens, but if I tried to lift one bigger my nerve and muscle issues would give out

Amazing chamophage #Naturephotography

Hubby is what got me out, it's such a long complicated story

It also was controlled nationally by the federal governments and not the tribes till the 2000s era. so the experiences were pretty across the board worse then than today. I am glad some are getting better, but I have some recent traumas with some in a few states as well.

They aren't what they were in the 80s and 90s either. a lot of the tribes have gotten more control over them then they had in that era. But that is a LONG discussion, and a very traumatic one.

There are better clinics now then my experience, and there are genuine doctors trying.

Native American culture isn't Eastern Mysticism. Stop calling Medicine Men "Shaman" while some natives have quit caring about the phrase it's inaccurate & is part of how our culture is misrepresented & erased.
Out of respect please stop using phrases that are erasing the complexity of our cultures.

not sure if it is still there, but that hospital holds a lot of trauma for me... I hate IHS

Welcome and thank you

I know chadron well

Mojave desert in spring

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Even during the trail of tears multiple tribes were running rescues to get women and children off it and aiding runaway slaves and abuse settler women. We never quit trying to help others in our dark times

Happy go lucky robin

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Since we lost dad mom has become insperable with his sister, and me and her spend a lot of time making teas, muscle rubs, food and more for the people i the family who have less.

I love the unity of a good native family, it's very unique.

My mom is a mixed up European woman who is mostly Celtic, despite her own trauma from living on multiple reservations growing up (including standing rock during the AIM riots in the 70s). She always loved native people and our cultures, her and dad were fierce in teaching me to love my roots.

Sounds like you truly loved him, and that makes life worthwhile. My mom and dad were together for over 42 years when he passed away, dad was a pistol he was very mixed overall, a lakota man with multiple lakota tribes, cherokee, and a bland of southern tribes and some hispanic roots.

If the day ends in Y, someone will try to call me white and tell me I have no culture (all races and communities do) and tell me I can't speak on minority issues.

Another day in the life of being albino and constantly having people try to strip me of my heritage and race.