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Toastie

@Toastie@journa.host

Indigenous affairs reporter, High Country News
They/them | Chahta Okla ⚫ ⚪ 🟡 🔴
Chinook lands, U.S. Pacific Northwest

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Toastie, to ghana
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"If continues his current course, extraction of the lithium, copper, cobalt, nickel, graphite, and manganese vital for a green-energy transition will come at the cost of Indigenous lands and trust... it could also cost Biden the election."

Love the solidarity from ! ✊

https://www.newsweek.com/bidens-letdown-native-americans-threatens-indigenous-people-everywhere-opinion-1897073

Toastie,
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@1dalm "Those people" eh?? Sounds like sacrifice-zone colonizer talk to me.

hovers hand over the block button

Toastie,
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@Misterhighwasted
I don't know who these Green New Deal people are that you're talking about.

But "Can't have it both ways" is a mantra I keep hearing from colonizers promoting a new manifest destiny.

Toastie,
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@Misterhighwasted

Well

Since you're asking

the solution is probably . And that's why people keep talking about colonization. 🤷‍♀️

Toastie,
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@ArrowbearMoore Haaland has not taken a clear public stance, to my knowledge, and I'd be interested to know what's going on behind the scenes, too.

From an AP story last year on Thacker Pass:

"Haaland, whose department oversees Thacker Pass, said that while she supports the right to peaceful protests, her agency is in favor of the mine because 'the need for our clean energy economy to move forward is definitely important.'”

https://apnews.com/article/lithium-mine-nevada-biden-tribes-electric-cars-fb6ae27060b4772f672dd94f160f4761

Toastie, to random
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Lofi hip hop beats to survive capitalism / heal ancestral trauma to

Toastie,
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@sarae I wish

Toastie,
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@Artemis201 We all need it

Toastie, (edited ) to random
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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ruxguidi_id-like-to-help-any-student-out-there-who-activity-7191882411079536642-tTaH?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Toastie, to california
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Iron Gate Dam is now under demolition on the Klamath River in Northern #California.

"We make this place all new again in service of all the spirit people that exist on this earth, both human and non-human ancestors and relations," said Karuk elder Leaf Hillman.

Just a reminder that dam removal efforts began two decades ago with #Indigenous people having bake sales and getting laughed at in the face of monumental economic and political forces.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2024/05/02/demolition-starts-on-iron-gate-dam-one-of-the-last-klamath-river-dams/73528152007/

Toastie,
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@kevinrns On a healthy Turtle Island, beaver dams address this issue.

Toastie, to random
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Of the documented cases of children in North America potentially remembering past lives, "an overwhelming majority are from communities."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2024/05/02/children-past-lives/

Toastie,
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@SarahSingsank Freaky in some cultures, I guess 🤷‍♀️

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Taking off my house hoodie and putting on my professional hoodie for a videoconference.

Toastie,
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@batkaren Not an exaggeration. 😓

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OMG just got a CAPTCHA with an honest to goodness Treachery of Images "is this a pipe" problem

Toastie,
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@mcc If you sit near a bus and select a random image, have you selected an image with a bus? 🤖

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    Toastie,
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    @ElleGray Future civilizations will study this Linkedin post to try to understand white culture.

    Toastie, to climate
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    The largest development in Washington was approved last week by state officials. It overlaps Yakama Nation ceremonial sites, the county's last habitat connectivity corridor, and the county's last intact sagebrush steppe.

    The state has required project modifications to protect a threatened species of hawk, but has required no modifications to protect other tribal cultural resources.

    https://www.hcn.org/articles/wildlife-habitat-and-tribal-cultures-threatened-by-washingtons-largest-wind-farm/

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    The state has required the developer to avoid two mile buffer zones around hawk nests. The developer responded with 60 pages of complaints, saying this could make the project non viable.

    Yakama Nation Chairman Gerald Lewis has urged the state to protect tribal cultural resources “with the same care and consideration that it is giving to other resources such as wildlife and recreational values.”

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    “Yakama Nation appreciates and supports the Project modifications made to address wildlife impacts but remains discouraged by [state permitting agency] EFSEC’s failure to apply those same principles to cultural resources,” said Chairman Lewis. “Yakama Nation was not involved in the Project’s siting and design decisions and was instead forced to respond through a permitting process that prejudiced our ability to engage in meaningful dialogue.”

    Toastie, to Arizona
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    The largest renewable energy development in US history cuts through Tohono O’odham, Hopi, Zuni and San Carlos Apache lands.

    “There is really no follow through when tribes express their concerns.”

    “It’s hard to convince governments and businesses to deny these big energy projects without outside intervention.”

    “They are doing the same thing as fossil fuel. It’s just more trendy.”

    @siisiikostagner reports from the UN.

    https://www.hcn.org/articles/tribes-turn-to-the-u-n-for-help-intervening-in-gigantic-arizona-wind-project/

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    More from the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues:

    leaders have called for a moratorium on carbon markets and other "false climate solutions."

    “The transition towards a green economy [keeps] starting from the same extractivist-based logic that prioritizes the private sector," said Darío José Mejía Montalvo, of the Zenú tribe in Colombia.

    https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-people-rush-to-stop-false-climate-solutions-ahead-of-cop29/

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    Fliplanthropy

    Toastie,
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    If you need a break from terrible news, check out this interview I did with Nizhonniya Austin, aka Cara from 'The Curse,' one of the most interesting characters in one of TV's most interesting shows, a contemporary Native artist who's morally complicated, and according to Austin, not particularly likeable.

    Austin is a real life contemporary Native artist, and she told me about how some artists use identity to advance their careers.

    https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-5/art-without-the-mask-of-native-identity/

    Toastie,
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    @ArrowbearMoore Thank you! This is actually the extended version. (The print version is slightly shorter bc of space constraints. 😓) Editing it down was not easy because she had so many thoughtful, interesting things to say.

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    One of my favorite moments (paraphrased):

    ME: White ppl can't write this. Did you write this character?

    NIZHONNIYA: No. [proceeds to describe her writing process with Nathan Fielder]

    ME: So... it sounds like you DID write that part?

    NIZHONNIYA: ...

    NIZHONNIYA: Yes.

    Toastie,
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    “There’s a lot that goes into being an artist as well — putting that mask on for wealthy people and mingling with them and pretending that you like them, just so that they could buy something and you can pay your bills.” ---Nizhonniya Austin (Dine & Tlingit)

    #Indigenous #Art

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