Toastie

Toastie, 8 months ago to random

Life is great here on the World Wide Web

Toastie, 2 months ago to random

Facts about car culture:

Car weight has risen by 34% since 1980.

Bigger cars safer for their occupants endanger anything smaller, a phenomenon known as “crash incompatibility.”

For every life saved by a driver switching from car to SUV or pickup, 4.3 other drivers, pedestrians and cyclists are killed.

An SUV is 28% more likely than a regular car to kill another car’s occupants.

An SUV going 24 mph would have twice the impact as a sedan on a pedestrian’s brain.

https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-3/the-wests-hazardous-highways/

Toastie, 5 months ago to random

EVERYONE: We gotta save salmon

US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS: Ok we'll build a giant fish vacuum

TRIBES: Why not just open up the dams

ARMY CORPS: We have to save the power companies!

POWER COMPANIES: No, you really don't

ARMY CORPS: FISH VACUUM

CONGRESS: Maybe u should look into shutting down the dams

ARMY CORPS: Our FISH VACUUM only costs $1.9 BILLION AND DOESN'T WORK LET'S GOOOOO

TRIBES: “Killing salmon to lose money deserves a deeper analysis.” (actual quote)

https://www.propublica.org/article/willamette-river-salmon-dams-usace?utm_source=comms&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=comms

Toastie, 9 months ago to random

Apropos of non-Native Masto users making fun of an #Indigenous user (not me) for being light-skinned, let's talk about the colonial thought structure called BLOOD QUANTUM.

You might have wondered things like: Why do some Natives look so white? Are they reeeeally Native? Aren’t they just white people with one distant Native ancestor? Etc. Etc.

Here are some things to keep in mind.

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Toastie, 10 months ago to Arizona

Beneath all the complicated #ColoradoRiver issues is a big, simple question that media hasn't adequately covered or even really approached: why don't #Indigenous communities have water? Literally just WHY. Without crazy loopy wonky theatrics. Ag has water. #Arizona Suburbs have water. Why don't tribes?

Finally, @ProPublica and HCN are addressing that question. It's a major investigative series. They've published the first of their findings:

https://www.hcn.org/issues/55.7/indigenous-affairs-colorado-river-how-arizona-stands-between-tribes-and-their-water-squeezed

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, 4 months ago to Montana

In #Montana, #Indigenous people are 6.7% of the population but 26% of missing persons cases.

Grieving families are often left to search on their own, let down by law enforcement and the legal system.

When Haley Omeasoo's relative disappeared on the Blackfeet rez in 2017, she decided to pursue forensics to help stop the #MMIP crisis.

Now as she earns her Ph.D, she's also founding her own forensics lab to help Indigenous families. A first, as far as she knows.

https://missoulian.com/news/state-regional/ohkomi-forensics-mmip-haley-omeasoo/article_6442cdfa-a5aa-11ee-bfde-e3e4ea09d206.html

Toastie, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to journalism

Here’s an example of why #Indigenous #journalism matters.

This article, a very good AP piece about #Klamath dam removal, does many things right: they quoted someone from an impacted tribe (this is a low bar, but you’d be astonished at how many articles don’t even bother to do this); they provided robust context for past and future challenges surrounding dam removal; they even gave Indigenous people the last word.

Still, a couple opportunities for improvement.

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https://apnews.com/article/klamath-dams-removal-tribes-restoration-seeds-1bffbd1c351992f0f164d81d92a81b47

Toastie, 5 months ago to washington

America built its first "concentration camp school," or Indian boarding school, on the Yakama reservation in 1860.

Now, the state of #Washington has appointed five #Indigenous leaders to a Truth and Reconciliation Tribal Advisory Committee, which will investigate the state’s history of Native boarding schools.

#PNW

https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-washington-works-to-reconcile-its-history-of-indigenous-boarding-schools

Toastie, 5 months ago to Seattle

Indigenous people in the United States experience one of the highest maternal mortality rates of any ethnic group.

Now there's a guaranteed basic income program in #Seattle for pregnant #Indigenous people.

#Washington #PNW

https://www.hcn.org/articles/social-justice-first-direct-cash-assistance-program-exclusively-for-indigenous-parents-launched

Toastie, 5 months ago to random

“Climate change is a manifestation of the colonial project," said Graeme Reed (Anishinaabe).

"And that colonial project is built on the removal of Indigenous peoples from their lands, waters and territories, and the blatant disrespect of their rights, their knowledge systems and their governance.”

#Indigenous people go to COP28 “because we have solutions,” he said. “But we also recognize that these spaces are also dominated by people who want to uphold the status quo.”

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02122023/cop28-indigenous-leaders-agenda/

Toastie, 4 months ago to pnw

In the 1960s and '70s, cops were brutalizing #Indigenous people in the #PNW ...for fishing.

But fishing is a treaty-protected right. People stood up for it. Elders call this era the Fish Wars.

In 1974 the issue went to the Supreme Court. After 3 years of discovery and pretrial, Judge George Boldt heard the case and ruled that the state of #Washington must respect the Indigenous right to fish.

The Boldt decision changed the landscape. It turns 50 next month.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/how-the-boldt-decision-50-years-ago-remade-pacific-northwest-fishing/

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, 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, 5 months ago to pnw

On Thursday, the Biden administration announced its support for preparing to breach the four Lower Snake River Dams.

The Nez Perce Tribe, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs, and Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, have been fighting for years to bring the dams down to restore #salmon runs.

Actually breaching the dams will require an act of Congress.

#Indigenous #PNW #Washington #USPOL

https://www.hcn.org/articles/dams-lower-snake-river-dams-closer-to-coming-down-with-new-agreement

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

86% of #Indigenous people in America live outside reservations, often in cities like #Denver, #Seattle and #Portland, where they resettled following the Relocation Act (hi 👋 ).

Indigenous people comprise 2.6% of America’s population, but in 2023, they accounted for 3.9% of those experiencing homelessness. And the #housing inequity is worse in Western cities.

But building affordable housing for Natives is tricky.

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Toastie, 7 months ago to random

Tlingit writer Kate Nelson went behind the scenes of Rez Dogs and, in a very Native move, interviewed not the stars but their mothers:

#Indigenous

https://www.romper.com/entertainment/reservation-dogs-willie-jack-cheese-moms

Toastie, 4 months ago to random

Ireland could become the first EU country to recognize the rights of nature in its constitution.

https://www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd1d959wkq0o.amp

Toastie, 9 months ago to random

If you want to know what #Indigenous ppl have to put up with on Mastodon, here's a glimpse.

https://journa.host/@Toastie/110788493974890513

White people being anti Indigenous on Mastodon
White people being anti Indigenous on Mastodon
White people being anti Indigenous on Mastodon

Toastie, 9 months ago to random

Leaf blowers are spreading the gay agenda

Pass it on

Let's get them banned

Toastie, 3 months ago to Archaeology

A solar developer sent a state lands archaeologist a string of urgent text messages, which we obtained through a public records request, insisting that she keep her findings private and not share them with tribes.

But when his texts reached the state lands archaeologist, she was already at Badger Mountain --- showing her findings to a tribal representative.

https://www.underscore.news/reporting/washingtons-solar-permitting-leaves-tribal-resources-vulnerable-to-corporations

#indigenous #archaeology #anthropology #climate #solar #Washington #pnw

Toastie, 9 months ago to california

Homeless folks are unionizing. They have lawyers.

In Sacremento, they filed a complaint about "sweeps" (shouldn't we just call them removals?) endangering their lives during a heat wave. A US district judge ruled in their favor.

#California #housing

https://www.hcn.org/articles/housing-q-a-sacramento-homeless-union-fights-to-end-encampment-sweeps-during-extreme-heat

Toastie, 3 months ago to random

State trust lands just might be one of the best-kept public secrets in America.

WSU runs on timber sales extracted from stolen Yakama lands.

Texas A&M runs on oil and gas extracted from 4.2 million acres of Kiowa, Comanche and Mescalero Apache lands.

UArizona runs on oil and gas extracted from the lands of at least 10 #Indigenous nations.

NMSU runs on oil and gas extracted from lands siezed from various Apache bands during the longest war in US history.

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Toastie, 3 months ago to random

The Ho-Chunk and Ponca Nations have resolutions recognizing nature's right to exist. The White Earth Ojibwe legally recognize the rights of wild rice to flourish. The Sauk Tribe sued Seattle with salmon as the plaintiff. The Nez Perce recognizes the rights of the Snake River, The Menominee Tribe the rights the Menominee River, and the Yurok Tribe the Klamath River.

Now, a new guidebook supports tribal nations in developing more rights-of-nature laws:
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/new-guidebook-supports-u-s-tribal-nations-in-adopting-rights-of-nature-laws/

#Indigenous