One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.
-- Vincent T. Foss

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⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah

Erin Rode: #California tribe takes back over 600 acres near Palm Springs in historic land return. Over 1,200 acres have been returned to the tribe since 2024.

#NativeAmerican #PalmSprings #AguaCaliente
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/desert-tribe-land-return-22070949.php

#Kuntewiktuk: A #Mikmaw #Adventure Ep. 4: Between U'n and the surface lurks the creepiest boss yet!
#indie #greenrobotstudios #indigenous #firstnations #indiegames #indiegaming #indiegamedeveloper #action #ActionAdventure #nativeamerican #native #archery #handtohand #spear #spiritworld #spirit #nature

https://youtu.be/TmDKd2jSHIk

Today in Labor History March 12, 1928: The St. Francis Dam failed in Los Angeles, California, killing 431 people. It is the second deadliest disaster in California, after the 1906 earthquake, and one of the worst U.S. civil engineering disasters ever. A defective foundation and design flaws caused the failure. Yet, the inquest absolved chief engineer, William Mulholland, of all criminal responsibility, and he continued to earn a salary from the Bureau of Public Works (though his career was effectively ended). The authorities continued to find the remains of victims of the flood until the mid-1950s. Many of the victims were washed out to sea. Some washed ashore as far south as Mexico. Mulholland was also the designer of the 233-mile Los Angeles Aqueduct, which sucks water from the Owens Valley and is a major cause of the depletion of the fragile Mono Lake. As its water levels continues to decline, it threatens the world’s second largest gull rookery, home to up to 50,000 birds. The aqueduct’s construction, and the shady methods Mulholland used to acquire the water rights, led to the California Water Wars between L.A. County and Owens Valley farmers. Many of those same Anglo farmers (or their predecessors) usurped the land from Piute people during the 1863 Owens Valley Indian War, which was precipitated, in part, by the vast loss of human and cattle lives, and the displacements, caused by the Megaflood of 1861, which inundated much of the West, from Idaho and Oregon, down to northern Baja California. The corruption related to the construction of the aqueduct has been portrayed in the film Chinatown, and in the nonfiction book, “Cadillac Desert.”

For more on the Megaflood of 1861, please read my article, “Worse Than the Big One”: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2023/01/04/worse-than-the-big-one-californias-coming-megaflood-2/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #flood #dam #mulholland #monolake #owensvalley #disaster #nativeamerican #indigenous #piute #ecology #chinatown #indianwar #habitatdestruction #books #nonfiction #author #writer #losangeles @bookstadon

LAPD Officer Jessicah T. Perez https://copblaster.com/blast/51531/lapd-officer-jessicah-t-perez?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #LAPD #LawEnforcement #PoliceDepartment #JessicahPerez #NativeAmerican

lo-fi native american tracks to tot and convey to

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fZ5k7JN64TE — miserable for no reason 😂 #nativeamerican #indigenous #powwow #native #culture #viral #shorts (0:13)

#Kuntewiktuk: A #Mikmaw #Adventure Ep. 3: Waseuk's brother U'n starts his own trek for #freedom from the #underworld, and I find I'm way out of practice with #platformer sections (or those parts are wonky... or both!).
#indie #greenrobotstudios #indigenous #firstnations #indiegames #indiegaming #indiegamedeveloper #action #ActionAdventure #nativeamerican #native #archery #handtohand #spear #spiritworld #spirit #nature

https://youtu.be/rz-aMXuP9Q0

Some Doña Ana County commissioners were visibly frustrated when a discussion of a potential agreement between the county and the Mescalero Apache Tribe to manage a new event venue was scuttled Tuesday.

https://www.abqjournal.com/news/county-partnership-with-mescalero-apache-questioned/2997801

#NewMexico #LasCruces #mescaleroapache #NativeAmerican

Today in Labor History March 9, 1911: Frank Little and other free-speech fighters were released from jail in Fresno, California, where they had been fighting for the right to speak to and organize workers on public streets. Little was a Cherokee miner and IWW union organizer. He helped organize oil workers, timber workers and migrant farm workers in California. He participated in free speech fights in Missoula, Spokane and Fresno, and helped pioneer many of the passive resistance techniques later used by the Civil Rights movement. He was also an anti-war activist, calling U.S. soldiers “Uncle Sam’s scabs in uniforms.” 1917, he helped organize the Speculator Mine strike in Butte, Montana. Vigilantes broke into his boarding house, dragged him through the streets while tied to the back of a car, and then lynched him from a railroad trestle. Prior to Little’s assassination, Author Dashiell Hammett had been asked by the Pinkerton Detective Agency to murder him. Hammett declined.

Read my full bio of Frank Little here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/05/frank-little/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #union #strike #freespeech #indigenous #nativeamerican #cherokee #franklittle #civilrights #nonviolence #racism #vigilantes #lynching #author #writer #fiction #books @bookstadon

While hiking in New Mexico a while back, I saw these Native American pictographs. Staring at them and reflecting was mesmerizing.

Fun fact: people colloquially use “petroglyphs” to describe paintings on rock walls. But that specifically refers to etchings, not paintings. “Pictographs” is the term for the latter.

#Art #Indigenous #NativeAmerican #Pictographs #Petroglyphs #IndigenousArt

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
-- Voltaire

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Voltaire #Fools #Freedom

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah

I seek Native American / American Indian input on a personal project and set of social campaigns that aim to resolve the political-philosophical tensions of and paralogical gaps within and between several projects of my own --- projects that, I hope, lend credibility to a tentative campaign of my own for local, state, and federal offices over the course of the next thirty years. If you, or someone(s) you know are Native American, indigenous to North America, or an American "Indian", please reach out and/or direct those persons to me. I seek to honor personal and cultural autonomy while practicing the principles of plurality and inclusion: our diversity _is_ our equity.

#NativeAmerican #AmericanIndian #BureauofIndianAffairs #NorthAmericanIndian #indigenous #Politics #Philosophy #Paralogic #Logic #Campaign #StatePolitics #NationalPolitics #culture #antiethnocentrism #autonomy #inclusion #diversity #equity #DEI #syncretism #syncreticfaith #faith #permaculture #threeethics #peoplecare #fairshare #earthcare #churchandstate #resolution #utopia #dystopia #intentionalcommunity

#california #geyserville #unitedstates - Warm Springs Fish Hatchery: Reports of an elderly Native American couple roaming the grounds. The main building was haunted by a. . . Read: https://hauntedlineage.com/directory/warm-springs-fish-hatchery

#apparition #child #hatchery #hear #nativeamerican #radio #shower #woman

America is a pyramid scheme, and you ain't at the top!

Your demonization of those different than you is not just a cottage industry in America but an honest to goodness American value.

The foundation of this country is rooted in slavery and genocide born in the bosom of colonialism.

America acts like its original inhabitants are foreigners in their own lands.

Don't be scared about learning the whole history, it's not going to hurt you.

Capitalism can only exist if there is a poor class.

There are hostiles on the homelands of Indigenous people.

This structure is a rigged game that breeds racism homophobia, transphobia, classism, and ableism.

And it all makes me so very, so very tired.

Eli Weasel: American Hero or American Fool?

Eli is building a new democracy. Is he a hero or a fool?

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=18&id=270

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#nativeamerican #nativeamericans

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of dreams.
-- John Barrymore

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JohnBarrymore #Regret

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah

#Kuntewiktuk: A #Mikmaw #Adventure Ep. 2: Waseuk gets an artifact to return to the spirit world, & finds friends caught by a giant.

#indie #greenrobotstudios #indigenous #firstnations #indiegames #indiegaming #indiegamedeveloper #intro #action #ActionAdventure #nativeamerican #native #archery #handtohand #spear #spiritworld #spirit #nature

https://youtu.be/NCQNRvZp6io

Kindred Spirits Teaser Trailer

The next-coming project by Cartoon Saloon (Breadwinner, Song of the Sea). A story of the connection between the Irish and Native American. A short look at the film coming in 2028.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQn9TfXkzTk

#Animation #KindredSpirits #Trailer #CartoonSaloon #Irish #NativeAmerican #Native #Boxing #Film #Movies

'Comanche Warrior Lancing an Osage, at Full Speed' by George Catlin, c.1837-1839

#painting #paintings #art #arts #artist #artists #arthistory #nativeamericans #nativeamerican #nativepeople #nativepeoples #history #artlover #artlovers #artgallery #artgalleries #artmuseum #museums #artmuseums #museum