Zebedee Nungak ᔭᐃᐱᑎ ᓄᓐᖓᖅ

On this day in 1951, Inuit leader, Zebedee Nungak ᔭᐃᐱᑎ ᓄᓐᖓᖅ is born.

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The birds are calling for spring By Xavier KataquapitI recently took a long walk out into a beautiful spring day. The weather was pleasant, the sun was bright and the air was brisk and cool. I could still feel the sting of winter han...

“When winter is still lingering with cold winds, the Chickadee will continue its plain one-tone ‘tee-tee’ song. As soon as it senses that warmer weather is on the way, it will change its tune…”

#Indigenous #FirstNations #birds #goose #hunting #language

A color map showing the zone of application for the Treaty of Tlatelolco (denoted by latitude and longitude), encompassing all of South and Central America, the waters surrounding them, and the Caribbean (excluding the territorial waters of the United States). Source: https://media.nti.org/documents/tlatelolco_treaty.pdf

Today in 1968, the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean—commonly known as the Treaty of Tlatelolco, which opened for signature in Mexico City on February 14, 1967—entered into force.

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out

An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

Carl and Joe Martin, nephews of Tla-o-qui-aht Chief Moses Martin, outside a protector cabin built to house blockaders on Meares Island in the mid-1980s. The effort to protect Meares Island was among the opening salvos in British Columbia’s so-called War in the Woods.

On this day in 1984, Tla-o-qui-aht and Ahousaht First Nations declare Wah-Nah-Jus Hilth-hoo-is (Meares Island) a tribal park.

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largest tern in the world backlit against cloudy gray sky

sunrise over puget sound

my first of year Caspian Tern today

"And the logical course of the class struggle is not to confuse anti-semitism with anti-Zionism. The former is reactionary, but the latter is one of the means of fighting the former."

Albert Meltzer (1942)

US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN Head of UN’s humanitarian agency frustrated that $2bn weekly cost of conflict comes amid big cuts to aid budgets

£1.5 billion a day is being spent by the US on its illegal war on Iran - billions that could instead be spent providing genuine security to millions of people.

A lesson for Keir Starmer to prioritise #NursesNotNukes and #WelfareNotWarfare!

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young guide dog yellow lab giving major puppy dog eyes

more good boys

Pat Nāmaka Bacon and her mother Mary Kawena Pukui performing hula. Pukui was born in April 20, 1895. Photo courtesy of Bishop Museum.

On this day in 1895, Hawaiian scholar, author, composer, hula expert, and educator, Mary Abigail Kawenaʻulaokalaniahiʻiakaikapoliopele Naleilehuaapele Wiggin Pukui is born.

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Sources: BIA edition 2000, California Indian Trust Land, William Bright, 1957. The Karok Lanugage. UCPL 13

On this day in 1988, the US Supreme Court handed down its decision against the Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association, ruling that the Free Exercise Clause of the 1st Amendment to the Constitution doesn't protect Native ceremonial sites from development.

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First swift.
First swallow.
First cuckoo.

You can keep them all.

Nothing uplifts the spirit more than the first Bonxie.

Over Hinso today.

#Papay #firstbirds #Orkney #greatskua #bonxielove

The cast for the summer bird ensemble is almost assembled.

The first Scootie Allans arrived yesterday, the islands favourite kleptoparasite is back!

Arctic skua over South Wick.

#Superseabirdsunday

South Polar Skua, Antarctica.

#BirdOfTheDay #gulls #birds #SuperSeabirdSunday

Trump schedules controversial drilling auction in Alaska wildlife refuge The Trump administration has officially scheduled an auction for the rights to drill in a controversial spot: a wildlife refuge in Alaska. The auction, in which companies will be able to bid for th…

It just never ends. The Trump administration has officially scheduled an auction for drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Companies can bid for the right to drill in ANWR starting June 5.

you can find their press releases and info here

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Bureau of Land Management announced the next lease for Arctic NWR will be held June 5th. Hopefully no bids will be received, like last year but a great time to be vigilant in support of Gwich’in Steering Committee who leads this fight for sovereignty and protection of their lands and caribou

Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market
by Adam Hanieh

$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026

nice summary here of how oil companies are benefitting from the US/Israel war on Iran www.theguardian.com/environment/...

U.S. soldiers inspect Captain Jack's cave in the Lava Beds in 1873

On this day in 1873, the Second Battle of the Stronghold begins during the Modoc War. Despite being greatly outnumbered, the natural lava bed fortress allows the Modoc to hold off US forces for two days, until their water supply is cut off, and they escape.

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Battle of Fort Pitt. Contemporary illustration from "The Illustrated London News".

On this day in 1885, Cree forces prevail over Canada's North-West Mounted Police (now named RCMP) at the Battle of Fort Pitt, in what's now Saskatchewan, during the Northwest Resistance. Police commander Francis Dickens, son of novelist Charles Dickens, surrenders.

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one month until two month leave of absence from boat job to go do bird job yayyy

"...the Colonies are the breeding-ground for the type of fascist mentality which is being let loose in Europe today… The fight against fascism cannot be separated from the right of all colonial peoples and subject races to Self-Determination."

George Padmore, How Britain Rules Africa (1936)

ah might as well put in for warbling vireo

#OtD 13 Apr 1890 Black Philadelphia docker and @IWW member, Ben Fletcher, was born. Joining the IWW in 1913, he organised a multiracial union on the Philadelphia docks when many unions were still segregated. Learn more in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e73-...

gray brown sparrow perched in bare branches

gray zonotrichia sparrow molting into breeding plumage, showing pin feathers on top of head where the golden crown is coming in

zonotrichia sparrow with messy dark face turns to look at camera while hiding in blackberry brambles

great sparrows lately. fox, golden-crowned and my lifer Harris’s #🪶

Utah pioneer monument about Black Hawk War

On this day in 1865, Antonga (Black Hawk), a Timpanogos war chief, leads a raid on Mormon settlers in Utah, driving off a herd of cattle, shooting and killing one settler, and kicking off the Black Hawk War that would last until 1872.

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people will scold you for joking around when things seem really scary and fucked up. brother, those are the times what we invented joking around for

black and brown sparrow with white spots singing in a budding tree

spotted towhee doing their explosive trill #🪶

male red-winged blackbird holding a WORM. standing in grass

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.