The very first step
"Advance Native Political Leadership says there are 184 Native candidates running across the country this year, up from 100 when it first started counting in 2016. About 80% of this year's candidates are women."
Native candidates see holding office as a chance to fight back following several national events that challenged treaty rights, protections for land and wildlife, and even adoption.
For years I have been referencing Native traditional housing as a critique of the housing scarcity imposed on the masses. I pointed out that when climate change happens ppl will ideally be mass displaced and that will call for housing that is adaptable to nomadic lifestyles.
Here’s what I firmly believe about climate catastrophes: the answer is never to place blame or to shrug and say certain people need to “just move.” There is no place that isn’t going to need help in some kind of a catastrophe.
Annual reminder that Hancock and his pseudoarchaeology would have us believe that brown ancient civilisations are not capable of having created amazing things and that it was a mysterious white race that created them: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A catastrophe is indeed looming in letting Graham Hancock return with his oddball theories, now with Keanu Reeves in tow
But it was the template for colonialism
New Mexico is complicated, because a significant number of Indigenous people live in poverty but at the same time some Indigenous people in New Mexico choose a traditional subsistence lifestyle, which is counted as poverty by statisticians. New Mexico is a deep Blue state with a few red patches.
Aww shucks
Another project finished (in the nick of time -for once) another family dinner cooked and eaten, the rest of the weekend I will doing to laundry, visiting the bank, and getting ready to go to the Shifting Seasons Summit