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[gerudoe]

Cowlitz Beaver Kit Cam Live

ʔə́y t sʔísilp! (Welcome). The Cowlitz Indian Tribe welcomes you to the Cowlitz Beaver Kit Cam. Beaver (ɬə́qʼƛʼk), which translates to “wide

Livestream of baby beavers! Baby beavers!!!!!!!!! Baby !

[musicrunsthroughmysoul]

Happy birthday, Debora Iyall! (b. April 29, 1954)

"A lot of disaffected youth were relating to me. I had a lot of girls of color, and bigger girls who were embracing me just as I am. That’s why people loved Romeo Void, because I wasn’t a cookie cutter girl singer. I don’t have that in my being to ever be that, and that is a strength people love." (x)

[dailyhistoryposts]

The Coast Salish

The Coast Salish are a a large group of related Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, including the Cowlitz, Pentlatch, Quileute, Samish, Squamish, Xacuabš, and many, many others. They are related, linguistically, to the Interior Salish to the east. The first confirmed settlement was at 3000 BCE at Xa:ytem, in British Columbia.

Coast Salish groups have many cultural similarities with each others. Unlike many of their neighbors, they use a patrilineal kinship system. Historically, they had social and religious leaders, but no formal political system or standing army force. Warfare was tupically defensive action against raids from their neighbors.

Social organization had the highest-ranking male be the ceremonial leader, and had three hereditary social roles (upper class, lower class, slaves). Married women lived with their husband's village. Freeborn people were often marked via body modification, using cradleboards to shape the heads of their infants into a sloping shape.

Many groups had the same or similar beliefs, but they also diverged between groups. The Quileute, for example, believed that everything has a spirit with five parts: the body, the inner soul, the outer soul, the life force, and the ghost.

The land management practices of the Coast Salish benefitted the health of the ecosystem and the people. They maintained forest gardens that included types of fruit trees, anthrogenic grasslands from which to harvest vegetables and attract land game, and obtained a large part of their diet from the oceans and lakes.

[koipondering]

At the age of 41 I'm watching Hamilton with my grandma (84) who was bummed she couldn't understand the lyrics. So I turned on the subtitles and now she's singing along with Jefferson. If a Tribal elder singing along with a hip hop play about revolution on independence day isn't a snapshot of the best of America in a complex time, Im not sure what is.

[jimhair]

Yesterday the woman I love and am lucky enough to live with and I visited Mt. St. Helens. I am awed by so much on this planet, and saying I’m a photographer may be an excuse to have the opportunity to stand still for a moment and just enjoy the life we share in this world. If I’m not keeping an eye on her @vickiknits sneaks in a photograph between knits and purls too. Mt. St. Helens, June 9, 2021 #america #earth #sacred #mountain #Cowlitz #Klickitat #documentary #landscape #photography #veriwide #bnw @rollei_analog #rollei #infrared #film #blancetnoir #Hēiyǔbái #siyahbeyaz #白黒 #shirokuro #schwarzweiss #blackandwhite #filmisnotdead #istillshootfilm #fromwhereistand #pdx #portland #nw #northwest #leftcoast #oregon From Wikipedia: Mount St. Helens (known as Lawetlat'la to the Indigenous Cowlitz people, and Loowit or Louwala-Clough to the Klickitat) is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The volcano is part of the Cascade Volcanic Arc, a segment of the Pacific Ring of Fire. https://www.instagram.com/p/CP8oi8unLtd/?utm_medium=tumblr

[mycaffeinatedlife]

So... 5 years ago I made a video for fun.. It turns out to have been picked up and made popular by a crowd it wasn’t intended for, technically.  

[star-explorer]

[rapeculturerealities]

‘When I run about it, people will notice’: Rosalie Fish runs for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Rosalie Fish was the most recognizable athlete at the small-school state track and field meet last weekend.

The five trips to the awards podium to receive three gold medals, a silver and a sportsmanship award helped.

But as the Muckleshoot Tribal School student circled the track 18 times over three days, she stood out for the bright red paint over her mouth and the letters MMIW on her right leg.

It’s an epidemic on reservations across America. Violence against Native American women is rampant, and according to a recent study police agencies are not adequately identifying or reporting cases when a woman is killed or reported missing.

Fish, a member of the Cowlitz Tribe, chose to run at the Class 1B state meet at Eastern Washington University to represent women from near her home in Auburn who are among the gruesome statistics. She painted a hand over her mouth to speak for those who couldn’t speak for themselves.

“This weekend was really not like anything I’ve ever done or ever felt before,” she said after her last race. “It’s the first time I ran for anyone other than myself. … This is the first time I’ve ever made a scene and not been apologetic.”

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