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Posted Sat Sep 19, 2020

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https://mobile.twitter.com/DarrylLeroux/status/1307347195860058113

Sep 19, 2020

puoin-deactivated20240805

this is what’s happening right now in DIGBY NOVA SCOTIA.

GREEDY WHITES VS. TREATY RIGHTS ‼️

keep-her-wild

Why Traffickers Go After Native American Women

In 2015 the National Congress of American Indians found that an estimated 40 percent of women who are victims of sex trafficking identify as American Indian, Alaska Native, or First Nations.

Why seek Natives? “We’re associated with fetishes,” such as long hair, exotic looks that sex patrons perceive as Asian or Hispanic, Imus-Nahsonhoya says.”We could look like anything.”

Sex traffickers prey upon young girls and women they perceive as vulnerable. Labor traffickers look for boys and young men, as well as girls, to labor in oil fields, sweatshops, “man camps” and as domestic help.

The high rates of poverty and hardship in tribal communities; historical trauma and culture loss; homelessness and runaway youth; high rates of involvement with child welfare systems, including entry into the foster care system; exposure to violence in the home or community; drug and alcohol abuse; and low levels of law enforcement all add up to a community rich in targets for traffickers.

Imus-Nahsonhoya says that she learned most of what she knows about trafficking from survivors of this degrading and often dangerous life. “One trafficked woman showed me a list of services and her daily quota,” says Imus-Nahsonhoya. “From age 14 to 17, she had to make $600 a day. But she never saw a dime of that.” That’s why sex trafficking is said to be a $12 billion business.

thecarlosramos

revretch

This is partially Smokey’s fault, though. The brushfires wouldn’t be half as bad if we’d kept up with the controlled burns.

The “Smokey Bear” effect:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brief-history-smokey-bear-180972549/

Native American controlled burn methods (which shaped the landscape to begin with):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_use_of_fire_in_ecosystems

synbiosys

Thaaat’s right!

The Willamette Valley used to be composed primarily of wetlands and oak savanna. The oak savanna was maintained partially by the Kalapuya, who harvested the bulbs of camas (a plant in family Asparagaceae with edible bulbs), bracken fern rhizomes and grasshoppers. They also hunted the ungulate mammals that came to the savannas for grazing opportunities.

The onset of fire suppression by european settlers allowed douglas-fir and western hemlock dominated forests to take over, because the plants that comprise those communities generally lack fire tolerance, while the native oaks (Quercus garryana) and associated species are highly fire-tolerant.

Decades of this and later development have reduced oak savanna to about 1% of its historic extent. There is a litany of species that have suffered from this; for instance, egg-laying reptiles cannot find nesting sites with enough sun once the doug fir takes over.

The same issues exist in the SE, where fire suppression has lead to the loss of habitat for carnivorous plants, because the carnivorous plants need bright sunlight and the trees shade them to death.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

once again, native people know what the fuck they’re doing, and tremendous harm comes from colonizer interference

not-todd86

Can confirm! My dad worked as a Fire Management Officer for YEARS up until very recently (he retired this year). Fire Management in the National Parks, the State Parks, and the Fish & Wildlife service involves doing controlled burns in order to maintain the health of the forest. Some tree species, like the Giant Sequoia, can’t reproduce without the aid of fire.

A lot of people can’t fathom how setting the landscape on fire intentionally could possibly be healthy for the environment. I remember going with my dad to a wildlife refuge event in upstate New York once and accidentally being grilled on the subject by a man who called himself ‘Andrew the Cryptozoologist’ because I made the mistake of agreeing to mind the booth and wearing the official fire vest. I was fourteen and unfortunately didn’t know anything, and Andrew was a hard-line environmentalist who didn’t actually understand how the environment works (weirdly, this applies to a lot of people who ‘love’ nature).

Controlled burns work to clear the undergrowth, and supervised fires are much easier to manage than wildfires, which can get out of control and blow up BAD if there’s too much dry material around for them to consume. Like people have said, this is nothing new, various Native American tribes have been doing controlled burns for AGES (especially in California). We’ve ALSO been doing this for a while (the various organizations that fall under the banner of ‘Department of the Interior’, I mean).

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hound1998

compilation of defaced racist monuments feel free to add more!

tepkunset

Queen Victoria bonus round -

And a John A. MacDonald bonus round for the road -

alchemistamethyst

HAHAHAHAHA YES

hayaosmiyazaki

CLUELESS (1995) dir. Amy Heckerling

samuelljackson

Um, Michael… Do you know your friends are cartoon characters?

Space Jam (1996) dir. Joe Pytka

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rootbeergoddess

This.

There are so many rich people who get to try a new hobby every day while the rest of us are struggling

cringesedimentdeposits

cinematv

Top 10 Favorite Movies ➞ Rae (@matt-bomer) ↳ #2 A LITTLE PRINCESS (1995) dir. Alfonso Cuaron

knifenymph

a reminder to pause for a moment and reconnect with yourself. i always find this unmatched peace in allowing myself to be still for a little bit, whatever form this may take. whether that be through making art, being in nature, journaling, closing my eyes, yoga, or anything — stillness is so important in this world that teaches us that rest is wasteful