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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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mcc, to random
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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? 🤖

ElleGray, to random
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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/

    Toastie,
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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.”

    Toastie,
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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/

    Toastie,
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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/

    Toastie, to climate
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    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/

    Toastie, (edited )
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    The demonstration was not officially sanctioned by the tribe, but tribal leaders showed up anyway. “This is still our land,” one tribal councilmember said. “We’re sharing it with those that currently occupy the land, but it’s our land.”

    Demonstrators called Badger Mountain a rare botanical garden, and said solar should be built instead on fallowed farmlands, corporate rooftops, over parking lots, etc.

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    Organizers were emphatic that they are not against green energy. But they say this isn't the right way to do it.

    HCN's and ProPublica's previous investigation into the Badger Mountain solar project revealed gaps in the state permitting process that benefit corporations and disadvantage tribes, as well as bullying behavior on the part of developers.

    https://www.hcn.org/issues/56.2/energy-industry-washingtons-solar-permitting-leaves-tribal-resources-vulnerable-to-corporations

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    Last week's demonstration was the first time people have organized against the solar development. It was a peaceful gathering of a few dozen people on a calm, foggy morning.

    The state was supposed to conduct technical work on the mountain that day, but rescheduled. “They’re afraid of us,” shouted someone in the crowd, to a ripple of applause and war whoops.

    Organizers said their next step is to take their presence to Olympia, to make it harder for the state to keep ignoring them.

    giantspecks, to movies
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    🏆 Kudos New Yorker for that optional hyphen, to preemptively correct the insane persons who want to rhyme "biopic" with "myopic"

    Toastie,
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    @giantspecks I am here to defend biopic rhyming with myopic 🛎️ 🥊 👣

    Toastie,
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    @giantspecks Fine fine if you won't argue with me I'll have to state my case flatly: Bio-pic sounds clinical. Biopic sounds like a biography!

    Toastie, to random
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    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 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

    sarahc, to worldwithoutus
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    Over the past decade or so, researchers have found genetic evidence for contact between people in eastern Polynesia and those in coastal Peru and Colombia. Now archeologists studying the oldest settlement on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) have found physical evidence that islanders traveled to South America at least once and returned with food crops not known in Polynesia.

    https://phys.org/news/2024-03-material-obsidian-blades-rapa-nui.html

    Toastie,
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    @sarahc I love thinking of someone on Rapa Nui chopping ginger with their obsidian knife. Happy, back from their adventure at sea, cooking some good food with kin. 🥰

    Toastie, to random
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    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,
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    @stevegis_ssg Can we close Pandora's box?

    Or like put it in a basement somewhere in a fleshbound tome for future teens to dust off at their peril?

    Toastie,
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    @mizblueprint It's like they're trying to be this way.

    Toastie,
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    @shaknais @tezoatlipoca I want to log in with a unique limerick that can only be told in my voice.

    Toastie, to california
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    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,
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    @hydropsyche I hope we can get Nanih Waiya back 😑

    Toastie,
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    @jenniferplusplus Nice. Although it's not being returned. 😕 Just co-managed.

    seachanger, to random
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    tfw you are on the M/V Kennicott ⛴️

    Toastie,
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    @seachanger @rejinl I would like to take naps on a boat for 2-4 days please yes please.

    Toastie, to random
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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.

    Toastie,
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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)

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