I almost forgot to wish all a happy first annual National Loon Day!
March 13, 2026, is the 65th anniversary of Minnesota's decision to make the common loon its state bird.
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Open the border with Mexico but just for cattle not people and despite a real risk of introducing the really nasty screwworm. www.beefmagazine.com/market-news/...
Kayla Toves, who is Kanaka‘ Oiwi and Acoma Pueblo, needed a language credit to graduate from Cornell. She fought to have her Indigenous language of Ōlelo Hawaiʻi count and won!
Native kids face the highest rate of suicide of any demographic in the U.S. To combat teen suicide in their communities, five tribes in Washington are letting young people lead the way.
For sure. Our Master Apprentice program is supposed to be 4.5 hours per week contact but we spend a lot of time in English. You can at most get folks started on doing more. Still some language is better than none.
Rest in peace and power. I sang along to this in college. Still singing. youtu.be/eRl6-bHlz-4
Plenty of dumbass Cherokees around. No insult to Cherokees just there are a lot of them and they are people.
A new book of trans speculative short stories by Luna Merbruja has just been released! Get the ebook here (or a paper copy via the amazon link)
I think it is mainly one Eastern Cherokee woman but definately like Keeler some Natives like them. Not only anti-Lumbee generally anti-state recognized Tribes.
Check out this talk with Marilyn Vann at Harvard on March 4: Advocating for Afro- Indigenous Freedmen in the Twenty-First Century.
Congratulations!
Rest in peace beloved Gilda, Snorkmaiden, mama G, lumpy lady, Gina Pina darling. You are with Chiquita now, and you can run with her again just like we did in Carbondale. I will see you both on the other side. I hear there's lots of cat poop there and no humans to stop you from eating it.
UPDATE: $678/1,100! 🥺🙌❤️ close to our next stretch goal, the stickers.
This is really interesting history and so worth the read.
"Time and all the world was lost. Everything he could feel and look at had blown away, only a bewitched whirl of damp and dancing darkness was left.
Any sensible person could have told him that this was the very moment when the long spring was born."
I missed that it was the day but did work on Shawnee possessed nouns so maybe that counts.
The second pair I bought from them was seriously missized after waiting 5 months. 1.5 inches smaller waist than the previous pair of the same size
My Shawnee child was really inspired by visiting Ihumatao. Pulled more weeds there than in my plot. Indigenous internationalism. #LandBack #MeHokiWhenuaMai #PetekiHasiski
Maria Martinez (1887-1980) from the San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, became world-renowned for her black-on-black pottery and is regarded as one of the most important Native American ceramic artists of the twentieth century #WomensArt
'I’m proudly Afro-Indigenous’
‘Sweetgrass and Soul Food’ author reflects on reclaiming and celebrating the narratives of her multi-layered life. ictnews.org/news/im-prou...
I remember this. We went to Washington to ask for help and Jessie Jackson was the only one to respond. Rest in Peace.
MY NEW #KICKSTARTER IS LIVE! Help me raise $525 to print physical copies of my newest comics! You can get 1 or the other or bith! More details here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kay... campaign is 35 days long. Help support an Indigenous comic artist (who cannot safely work due to current events).
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Such an important story: ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the U.S. and the fear of what comes next.
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