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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 random
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The OceanGate guy is a predictable product of white culture. Stupid wealthy white people think breaking rules is great because it's white culture to make up a bunch of fucking rules, and it can be hard to tell which ones are necessary, or just, or founded in anything meaningful.

In Native culture, the "rules" are mostly the laws of nature, which don't need to be written or enforced, and can't be broken cause they'll crush you like a goddamned can if you try. 🤷

Toastie, to journalism
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Last call for internship applications to HCN's Affairs Desk! Deadline's Friday!

https://classifieds.hcn.org/denver/employment-education/editorial-intern-indigenous-affairs-desk/AC1E022C0eccf1973Dlq8B3F8790

thiswomanswerk, to random
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So do the Orcas got a gofundme yet or

Toastie,
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@thiswomanswerk Dunno but I'm preeeetty sure the orcas found a submarine full of billionaires.

Toastie,
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@ricardoharvin @thiswomanswerk Gofundme to get these orcas a can opener, some crackers and a bottle of wine.

Toastie, to Arizona
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Beneath all the complicated issues is a big, simple question that media hasn't adequately covered or even really approached: why don't communities have water? Literally just WHY. Without crazy loopy wonky theatrics. Ag has water. 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,
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"The whole system sets up this adversarial relationship between states and tribes... When you're off the reservation, the state is fighting for your water interests. When you're on the reservation, the state is opposing your water interests."

---Dr. Andrew Curley (), assistant professor in the School of Geography, Development, & Environment at the University of

Hear him speaking with @ProPublica reporters on America Calling 🎙️👇

https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/tuesday-june-20-2023-arizona-tribes-face-high-hurdles-to-water-rights/

Toastie,
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@ArrowbearMoore Are you suggesting a state should NOT be allowed to withhold water from people in order to coerce limitations on sovereignty??? 🧐

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@GatekeepKen @FinalCall @ProPublica

80% of water goes to ag; about a third of that is for alfalfa. In 2020, 40% of alfalfa grown in was shipped overseas (incl. to Saudi Arabia).

https://www.hcn.org/articles/south-colorado-river-hay-yes-hay-is-sucking-the-colorado-river-dry

And some of the alfalfa farms in are Saudi-owned:

https://www.hcn.org/issues/55.1/south-interview-why-are-saudi-farmers-pumping-arizona-groundwater

ianrosewrites, to random

A lot of papers recently talk about incorporating traditional ecological knowledge into the sciences. But too often, it's non-Indigenous people, from non-Indigenous organizations and universities, doing the talking.

Here's a rare thing, a paper about Indigenous knowledge and fish genetics in which not just one, but every author on the paper comes from a tribal organization (CRITFC here in Oregon and Idaho):

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1755-0998.13815

Toastie,
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@ianrosewrites One of the craziest aha moments I've had while reporting on tribes in the is realizing that, because salmon return to spawn in the streams where they hatched, the same family of salmon has fed the same family of people in any given river community since basically the dawn of time.

Tribal people today are caring for the descendants of the salmon that fed their ancestors.

Toastie, to portland
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city council just approved Wheeler's proposal to ban camping on public property from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

"Civil rights attorneys warned city commissioners that the policy may open the city to legal challenges, as it might violate both state and federal law."

"The city has not shared any information with the public about where someone can legally set up a tent between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m.

https://www.opb.org/article/2023/06/07/portland-oregon-approves-ban-daytime-street-camping-homeless/

Toastie, to random
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"Hey," "Hay--yes, hay"

Our homepage at work has me thinking of a joke I heard as a kid, which at the time was meant to be homophobic, but I'm reclaiming it.

Q: What does a queer cow eat
A: Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

🌈 🐮

Toastie, to random
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Dear New York,

We love you! Here's how we cope. Hope it helps.

Yours,
The West

https://www.hcn.org/articles/hey-new-york-weve-survived-decades-of-smoke-heres-how-we-did-it

Toastie, to random
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This weekend I went to the High Desert Museum in Bend, .

I did not expect it to be so big and fancy. They have a whole wing dedicated to the people of the Plateau tribes.

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Interior sign that says "Hall of Plateau Indians" and "Desertarium"
Map showing the Columbia River Plateau and the names of the tribes from that region.

Toastie,
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Museums are tricky, especially for a nerdy mixed like me. At their best, they provide rich opportunities to absorb knowledge and beauty while moving through peaceful interior spaces designed to stimulate reflective contemplation.

At their worst, they are prisons for stolen treasures and perpetuate narratives benefiting those in power by, for example, framing Native people as relics of an ancient past instead of as living, contemporary people and cultures.

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Toastie,
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I was surprised at how thoughtful the High Desert Museum’s presentation was. It was made in collaboration with some prominent plateau families. One of my favorite things the curators did, which I’ve never seen before in a museum, was to include contemporary objects mixed in with displays of ancient practices and artworks.

For example:

In this replica tule mat tipi, there’s a basketball jacket, a camping chair and a sleeping bag, instead of cave man stuff.

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Toastie,
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This replica sweat lodge, made from blankets instead of hides, is surrounded by flip flops, jeans, and some Keds or something. It literally looks like what I would see if I went to a sweat today.

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Toastie,
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These ladies brought their cooler along on their root digging trip. Good thinking! Because they are people, not prehistoric mythological creatures.

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Toastie,
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This wealthy Nez Perce family is enjoying a fine day of motoring. Cool, guys, have fun!

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Toastie,
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Here’s a basketball team from Chemawa Indian School. You wouldn’t know it from most museum displays, but for some reason Natives love basketball (myself not included, alas 🤷).

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Did you know there was a Nez Perce swing band? This is full throttle learning right here. If anyone has these dudes’ recordings, please let me know.

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Toastie,
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Alongside the feather headdresses, you’ll find this cool shirt and some cool bumper stickers. ✊

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Toastie,
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Hey, a woman laughing! That’s not something one usually sees in a museum display. Aren’t we all supposed to be suffering and surviving?

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Okay, High Desert Museum.

You have fully won me over.

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Toastie,
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There was a lot more to like about this museum wing. It has sterotype-busting signage, and lots of impactful displays about Celilo Falls (they even replicated the sound, bless them, since the US has silenced the real life waterfall 💔).

So while museums remain Western institutions and not Native ones, the High Desert Museum’s display does give some refreshing examples of positive steps that more museums could stand to take. ✨

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Toastie, to music
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RIP Astrud Gilberto 💔
29 March 1940 - 05 June 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE8rYqP1Ejg

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