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Makeshift beercan pinhole camera accidentally captures 'longest known exposure' While a student at the University of Hertfordshire in 2012, Regina Valkenborgh constructed a pinhole camera using duct tape and a beer can. She set the camera up and forgot about it. It was finally di...

Reminded me of something from a few years ago: m.dpreview.com/news/6214113...

It is finally here! Eighty years ago, Felix Cohen crafted the first "bible" of Federal Indian Law. I long dreamed of contributing to a rare revision. Today that dream is realized: 100 pages marrying constitutional law with Indian law (mostly structural, also rights), clarifying both.

On Native Land, a New Push to Expand Voting Meets the Long Tail of State Violence Ongoing negotiations between tribal leaders and Colorado officials may chart a new path for automatically registering Native voters and growing voter rolls nationwide. But first the state is having to...

Tribal leaders and Colorado officials are discussing a new path that would automatically register Native residents to vote.

But to get there, the state is having to confront its long trail of violence, Bolts reports.

First up among the new relists this week is Apache Stronghold v. United States. For centuries, Western Apaches have focused their worship on a small site of federally owned land in Arizona called Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, or Oak Flat. The Apaches consider Oak Flat sacred land, their “corridor to the Creator” and the only locus of certain sacred ceremonies. Oak Flat is also the site of a campground owned by the Forest Service and cordoned off from private development by Congress in the 1950s. After the third-largest reserve of copper in the world was discovered beneath Oak Flat, the government decided to transfer the site to a private mining corporation, Resolution Copper, to establish a mine. In 2014, Congress attached a rider to a major spending bill authorizing a land exchange between the U.S. Forest Service and the mining company. Apache Stronghold, an advocacy group created by members of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, went to federal court in an effort to stop the transfer. The group argued that the land exchange would result in the destruction of the sacred site and thereby infringe upon the tribe’s First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion.

Very important relist. We’ll see if the Court’s solicitude for religious liberty extends to Native nations and their sacred sites. www.scotusblog.com/2024/12/sacr...

No no, there’s at least 6 of us here.

"It would be respectful of the tribal perspective to acknowledge here, the significance of the Indian land loss that occurred through the allotment process. Indian held land went from 138 million acres in 1887 to 48 million acres in 1934."
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Black and white photographs of a glove worn on a Thursday during the COVID lockdown, shown front and back.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #9,706!

New York Dolls, Too Much Too Soon

Any thoughts on Idris Elba as a possible future Bond?

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Known as the Snyder Act, it did what the 14th Amendment failed to do - guarantee US citizenship to members of Tribal Nations.

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