photo + text: To the Bullock Roseroot What’s the thought you think all your life long? It must be a great one, a solemn one, to make you gaze through the world at it, all your life long. When you have to look aside from it your eyes roll, you bellow in anger, anxious to return to it, steadily to gaze at it, think it all your life long. — Ursula K. Le Guin · Always Coming Home · 1985 — photo of Le Guin, smiling, by Euan Monaghan/Structo · 2015 — meme by Aqua Tenebris · 2024

A little verbal medicine: To the Bullock Roseroot, from Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Hekate and Athena were once feral barn kittens in Yakima, Washington, which may explain their obsession with food and disregard for their "obligate carnivore" status as cats. Crazed for smoked salmon, sure, but cabbage? kale? melons? apples? They cry for cucumbers. "Sharing is caring, Papa!" Nomm!

Oregon tribe celebrates as court lifts decades-long hunting and fishing restrictions US and state acknowledge that 1980 agreement was ‘biased and distorted’ against Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians

Indigenous: good news at long last for the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

This is my third day on Bluesky. I'm still learning the basics, what it can do and how to communicate with it. For the past decade, my social media activities have been at Facebook, where I write at length, but that's right out here. This will be a new discipline for me. Excellent!

Thank you for sharing this list. I love indigenous films, but I haven't seen any of these yet. I'm going to watch them all now. Yay!

Watch Neither Wolf Nor Dog - Special Edition Online | Vimeo On Demand Neither Wolf Nor Dog is a movie adaptation of the novel of the same name by filmmaker Steven Lewis Simpson. It stars Dave Bald Eagle (who was 95 years old) during…

You can purchase Neither Wolf Nor Dog to watch on Vimeo here.

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Neither Wolf Nor Dog - Native American Movie Trailer YouTube video by Steven Lewis Simpson

Here's a trailer for one of my favorite Native American films, Neither Wolf Nor Dog.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ9z...

Some of my favourite Indigenous films available on NFB are:
- You Are On Indian Land (1969)
- Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993)
- Qallunaat! Why White People are Funny (2006)
- Ever Deadly (2022)

Share yours!

After Five Generations, a Family Gave Back the Treasures in its Closet (Gift Article) The descendants of a 19th-century federal official decided to return a prized collection of heirlooms to a descendant of a Lakota leader, Chief Spotted Tail.

The Newells’s suitcase is part of an untold number of Native artifacts kept in attics and closets, their origin stories often clouded by decades-long games of intergenerational telephone.

The descendants decided to return heirlooms to a descendant of a Lakota leader.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/a...

The U.S. has broken every single treaty it has ever made with indigenous peoples. The Native American Rights Fund specializes in legal action focused on getting the U.S. to honor its treaty commitments.

narf.org

Here is an interesting article about the indigenous-food movement.

Donate to Woodland Women: Community Healing and Growth, organized by Rachel Fernandez Posoh, my name is Rachel Fernandez. I am the founder & Executive Directo… Rachel Fernandez needs your support for Woodland Women: Community Healing and Growth

500 years of genocide has taken a heavy toll on indigenous people, leaving survivors with more than their share of trauma, which makes life so much harder. Maeqtekuahkihkiw Metaemohsak, Woodland Women, is an elder-led trauma-support and -healing group.

www.gofundme.com/f/woodland-w...

Donate » NICWA

In the U.S., poverty rates for indigenous people are higher than for any other race or ethnic group, and poverty hits children hard. The National Indian Child Welfare Association helps protect the health and wellbeing of indigenous children.

www.nicwa.org/donate-onlin...

I support Voting Equality! I just made a contribution to Four Directions, and you should too! Join me in fighting for Native American ballot access and fair elections.

Most Americans don't know our history of systematically preventing indigenous people from voting. Four Directions helps them register to vote and even helps create mailing addresses on reservations. It's such important work for improving indigenous lives!

secure.actblue.com/donate/fourd...

For Truthsgiving, we can cook and eat with family and friends, give thanks for good things in the world, learn more about indigenous history, and give more than thanks, give a little financial support to indigenous charities, as a tangible show of gratitude and empathy. I'll list several.

Voices of resilience: Indigenous women at the heart of language preservation Indigenous languages, which are vital carriers of heritage, identity and worldview, face extinction, with Indigenous women playing a crucial, yet often overlooked, role in their preservation. As cultural stewards and family leaders, women pass down traditions, songs and oral histories. However, persistent gender inequality and systemic exclusion from decision-making processes hinder their contributions to safeguarding linguistic heritage.

Voices of resilience: Indigenous women at the heart of #language #preservation
www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
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The Myths of the Thanksgiving Story and the Lasting Damage They Imbue In truth, massacres, disease and American Indian tribal politics are what shaped the Pilgrim-Indian alliance at the root of the holiday

Truthsgiving, a replacement for Thanksgiving, keeps the healthy parts of Thanksgiving—cooking and eating with family and friends and exploring gratitude—but replaces the lies with the truth, so joy and grief mingle, as they often do in an honest life.

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/than...

Thanksgiving: Why some push back against the holiday's 'mythology' - BBC News Native Americans have said the story behind the holiday glosses over troubling periods in US history.

For my friends in the UK and elsewhere who may not know, there are many Americans, especially from indigenous groups, who don’t feel they can celebrate Thanksgiving. I found this article helpful in understanding their concerns:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...

Athena and Hekate were squabbling this evening, with a certain amount of hissing and stalking—until I realized their favorite empty box had been put away where they couldn't get into it. I opened it up and put it on the floor, and the household has been peaceful ever since. Cats and boxes, man.

“Hunter-gatherer” doesn’t actually describe how most civilizations related to production. “Hunter-gatherers” engaged in millennia of selective plant breeding & advanced landscape stewardship, which created wildly productive perennial gardens & managed hunting grounds www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...