Toastie

Toastie, 10 days ago to Montana

"This July, I will turn 100 years old. I was born in 1924 in one of the last encampments and raised in Blacktail. When we were young girls, my sister, who was 10 at the time, and I, just 8 years old, attended a mission school for a year and a half."

---Molly Bullshoe, Blackfeet Nation matriarch, teacher, elder

Heart Butte, #Montana

https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-5/i-attended-a-mission-school-for-a-year-and-a-half/

#IAmTheWest #Indigenous

Toastie, 11 days ago to portland

After the protests and the library occupation at #Portland State, the university wanted police to monitor the 51st annual Naimuma Powwow, which was scheduled on campus for May 04. Organizers didn’t love that idea of having police there, so they rescheduled the powwow for May 25th.

Then something special happened: students and #Indigenous community members showed up on May 04 anyway, in the park blocks by the university, and held a spontaneous Powwow for #Palestine.

https://www.underscore.news/reporting/a-powwow-for-palestine

Toastie, 11 days ago to ghana

"If #Biden 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 #Indigenous #Ghana! ✊

#climate #GreenColonialism #RenewableEnergy #GreenEnergy #JustTransition #USPOL

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

Toastie, 12 days ago to random

Lofi hip hop beats to survive capitalism / heal ancestral trauma to

Toastie, 16 days ago (edited 14 days ago) to random

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, 17 days ago to california

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, 17 days ago to random

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

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

Toastie, 23 days ago to climate

The largest #GreenEnergy 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.

#Indigenous #GreenColonialism #Climate #Washington

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

Toastie, 26 days ago to Arizona

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.

#Indigenous #GreenColonialism #Arizona

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

Toastie, 1 month ago to climate

Last week, a group of Wenatchi-P’squosa people gathered on Badger Mountain to demonstrate against the solar development that’s under proposal there.

It threatens Indigenous foodways and other cultural resources. Families have gathered heirloom organic root vegetables on the mountain for countless generations. “It’s a mother. It’s a grandmother. It’s part of our family,” one of the organizers said.

https://www.hcn.org/articles/wenatchi-psquosa-people-demonstrate-against-proposed-solar-project/

#Indigenous #climate #RenewableEnergy #GreenColonialism #Washington

Toastie, 1 month ago to california

Good news, everyone! The Yurok Tribe will now co-manage 125 acres of Redwood forest, a gateway to the state/national park, along with the National Park Service.

The tribal nation signed a memorandum of understanding Tuesday with Redwood national and state parks and the non-profit Save the Redwoods League.

#Indigenous #California #Conservation

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/20/yurok-tribe-land-gold-rush-redwoods-national-park-service

Toastie, 1 month ago to random

ME: [is late for meeting]

ZOOM: Hi. Would you like to log in to go to this meeting? You have to log in.

ZOOM: I don’t have your password. Don’t YOU have your password?

ZOOM: I’ll be honest, I forget how to log you in.

GOOGLE: Hi.

ME: Oh jesus.

GOOGLE: I can help log you in. C’mon over here.

GOOGLE: Oops, looks like you’re logged out here too.

ME: But I was just using Gdocs in another tab—

GOOGLE: I said you’re logged out now.

🧵 1/3

Toastie, 1 month ago to random

The federal bureau that used to steal, beat, torture, assimilate and kill Native children is called the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

It still exists. If you're a tribal citizen, you have a probably have a BIA card. The bureau used to be part of the Dept. of War. It's now part of the Dept. of the Interior.

Does a bureau like this have a future?

Some #Indigenous leaders want to see it change and adapt. Some want a full reset.

https://ictnews.org/news/the-future-of-the-bureau-of-indian-affairs

Toastie, 1 month ago to random

I'm shocked --- shocked --- that western science is financially in bed with settler-colonial ag industry.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/03/08/livestock-industry-cows-climate-impact/

Toastie, 2 months ago to Arizona

The world's 3rd largest copper deposit is in #Arizona. It's essential to #RenewableEnergy projects. Resolution Copper wants to extract it. But the copper is beneath Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, AKA Oak Flat.

“Oak Flat is like Mount Sinai to us,” says Wendsler Nosie (San Carlos Apache) of Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit fighting to protect the area.

✍️ @siisiikostagner

#Indigenous #climate #JustTransition #GreenColonialism

https://grist.org/indigenous/the-massive-copper-mine-that-could-test-the-limits-of-religious-freedom/

Toastie, 1 month ago to random

💡🤔 "To solve the housing crisis,

👷 🏗️ most experts agree that

🏘️ 😄 we’ll need more houses."

https://www.hcn.org/articles/could-building-on-public-land-address-the-housing-crisis/

Toastie, 2 months ago to ireland

IRISH: [is starving]

CHOCTAW: Aye. Bro, heard u have a colonizer problem.

IRISH: So hungry. No potatoes.

CHOCTAW: Yeh, those are Incan foods actually, but hey. Here's a couple hundred bucks we scraped together. Hope it helps bro.

IRISH: Didn't you just walk the trail of tears?

CHOCTAW: Aye, bro, so that's all we could afford. Sorry it's not much. Fuckin colonizers, right?

IRISH: Fuckin colonizers, man. Besties?

CHOCTAW: Besties.

#StPatricks #Indigenous #ireland

https://www.choctawnation.com/about/history/irish-connection/

Toastie, 2 months ago to oregon

"A woman living under the crawl space of an Airbnb that she cleaned... At what point can we say the American dream has become a nightmare?"

"It’s mathematically impossible to pull yourself out of homelessness without help... It’s not the moral failing of the people who are unhoused; it’s the moral failing of this country."

Julie Akins, senior housing director at AllCare Health, journalist, and former mayor of Ashland, #Oregon

https://www.hcn.org/articles/what-rural-homelessness-looks-like/

Toastie, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to journalism

Journalists and news junkies, it has come to my attention that HCN may be considered "the hippies" of the news world. Can you confirm/deny? Asking for a friend etc. etc.

#journalism

Toastie, 2 months ago to random

Historian Noel Ignatiev argues that whiteness is a set of economic and political choices.

“Ultimately, to be white was a moral choice,” writes James Baldwin.

Just over a year after moving to Uganda, writes Raksha Vasudevan, she’d made her choice.

Read this moving, insightful essay Vasudevan wrote about being an India-born, Canada-raised woman of color being treated as white in Uganda.

https://www.offassignment.com/wids/raksha-vasudevan

Toastie, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

"All are welcome in this safe space" is a self-contradiction.

If all are welcome, it is definitely not a safe space.

Toastie, 2 months ago to random

Just in case any y'all are thinkin bout organizing your workplaces, here are some resources to get started:

https://www.organizeyour.org/resources

Toastie, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Does anyone actually read the fucking pop up boxes, or do we all just click "Got It" as fast as possible like shooing away flies?

#enshittification

Toastie, 2 months ago to washington

Vancouver, #Washington:

CITY: Dearest residents, there are PFAS ('forever chemicals') in your drinking water. But only low levels of them.

CITY: Well, they're over state limits, but "very low" levels, really.

JOURNO: Wait why aren't you accurately informing residents that no amount of PFAS in water is safe and they cause birth defects?

CITY: “We don’t want a negative headline.”

This concludes THINGS YOU WON'T BELIEVE CITY OFFICIALS ACTUALLY SAID TO A JOURNALIST.

https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-3/the-dangers-of-pfas-and-of-downplaying-their-ubiquity/

Toastie, 2 months ago to california

"When you look at other places with higher incomes and fewer people of color, kids don’t have those issues growing up. That’s what got me into environmental justice: the fact that my family was being hit so hard by pollution, and there was something that I could do about it."

--MONTSERRAT HIDALGO
Activist, Gold Award Girl Scout, co-founder of Youth Action Club

https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-2/i-am-the-west-my-advice-to-others-is-to-start-small/

#California #IAmTheWest #EnvironmentalJustice #pollution #community