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Both of my in stock boards for BLFC are assembled! Find them at table 80 in the Dealer's Den. You can still get pre-order price on my etsy until Wednesday! https://www.etsy.com/shop/RaddestDads

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Shit like ATCR and Never Alone just make me so inspired on how to save my own culture and AHH

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I'm gonna make hella Chickasaw!Cecil shit that's what i'm gonna do, AND TRANSLATE NIGHT VALE!!!! AHHH CHICKASAW WTNV

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Buzzard Doctors Rabbit

One day, Rabbit was injured. He was so hurt, he was laying down. They went around looking for a doctor, but there wasn’t one. They found Buzzard.

Buzzard said to them “I can cure him. If you close up all the cracks and holes in the house, I will doctor him.” So they closed up all the cracks and holes. Buzzard doctored Rabbit.

They heard Rabbit cry out.

The one’s outside said, “Why is he crying?” “I’m doctoring him, I’m putting medicine on his wounds, so he said he hurts.” Buzzard replied. Then Rabbit got quiet and those who were outside said “Why’s he gone quiet?” “I’m using medicine on him, so he feels better and is sleeping.” Buzzard said.

Then a little while later, Buzzard said “I’m ready, open the door now!” And they opened the door, and Buzzard himself flew out over their heads. They looked in the house and there was only Rabbit’s bones. He had eaten him all up!

Credit to Catherine Willmond for her recording of the story which I have translated here.

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How Possum got his smile

(We’re actually working on a project with this story within my household right now!)

Himonnahma chakwihili benilichi’tok aaiti takeloshi’.

One fall day, possum sat in a plum tree. He was very fat, because he could climb around in all the fruit trees that no other animal could reach. He saw deer passing under him, skinny and starving because he couldn’t reach any food and the plants were rapidly becoming dormant for winter.

"Hey possum, do you know how I could get some food?" Deer called out.

Possum thought for a bit and said “I know! There’s a mound over there, go to the top of it and get a running start. If you hit this tree very hard, some plums might fall down!”

So deer went to the top of the mound, got a running start, and head butter the tree. He was killed instantly.

Possum laughed so hard and for so long that his mouth stretched out and has been that way ever since.

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The Legend of the Squirrel stick, is a story that has been passed down through generations of Chickasaw families.

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Get ready for a little Chickasaw story spam, gathering some resources.

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S H R I M P

S. A RANDOM FACT ABOUT MYSELF.

I once ran up a tree because I saw Jackie Chan do it an I broke my wrist. My parents actually let me do a zipline and play on it all day before I saw a doctor.

H. FAVORITE THING ABOUT MYSELF.

My hair probably. And I think I'm a pretty resilient and tough dude.

R. FAVOURITE SONG AT THE MOMENT.

I Will Wait by Mumford and Sons. Or West Coast by Coconut Records.

I. HAVE ANY TATTOOS OR PIERCINGS?

YES! I have this tattoo on my left wrist in white ink, it says "the world is quiet here." I love it and its a comfort to me frequently.

M. ICE CREAM OR COOKIES?

Ice Cream DUH

P. WHY I HATE SCHOOL.

Public school: the corruption that permeates every fucking inch of a school from its funding to its enforcement of rules.College: I loved college aside from one fucking professor who was a racist idiot and thought she knew more about indigenous cultures than AN ACTUAL INDIGENOUS PERSON and never shut up about how she "volunteers at the native american center on campus". Bitch the first ay of class you told me the missionaries and boarding schools were a GOOD THING, and got angry when I told you not to use berdache because its a fucking slur, you don't get to say a goddamn thing.