It actually means “thank you” lolPilamaya - Lakota for “trash,” I assume. (Taken with Instagram at Big Bat’s)
Custer Died For Your Sins
"Every step you take should be a prayer. And if every step you take is a prayer, then you will always be walking in a sacred manner."
-Hehaka Sapa (Black Elk)
-Hehaka Sapa (Black Elk)
DED X.x I’m so fucking kawaii. ApparentlyI’m fuckin’ tired. Little bastards are care intensive.
Musselschan… Uguu~~~ *-*;;;
Those are damn good questions.First Nations Man and His Wife, 1886.
via Glenbow Museum
omg look at her face she knows whats up
ACK
This is a great picture of a beautiful First Nations couple, but who are they? Where did they come from?
We are left with absolutely no idea as to who they were.
That bugs the hell out of me.
(via sleeping-at--last)
Epioblasma triquetra- Snuffbox mussel
My first batch of fully metamorphosed mussels! We took them out of the media and planted them in sediment today. They’re off to filter feed and whatnot. FYI: that white bulb on the right mussel is his little foot all ready to burrow!
Ellipsaria lineola- The Butterfly mussel
Our newest batch of larvae! Gorgeous ain’t they?
thewatermonchichi asked: I know it's not much, but I had a really awesome teacher at my public high school, Beth Reagan, who teaches Native American Studies. The class isn't required but she's gotten enough students interested that two sections she teaches each semester are almost always full. She's also raised awareness with the school board about the importance of native history, and convinced them not to put it on the chopping block in the recent budget cuts. It was definitely one of my most informative classes.
I’m glad! Its very heartwarming to know it is appreciated in some places. However, our nation will remain blissfully ignorant of its true origins until it is taught in every history class that this country was built upon the broken bodies of millions of innocent indigenous people. Our history books make a point to glance over the American genocide, brushing it off as a necessary evil on the road to American greatness. This is our legacy. This is a nation of murderers, denying their own holocaust.
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It’s rather ironic that American civil rights struggles are taught more in England than in America. Our government and education system likes to ignore that they ever did anything wrong. The millions of slaughtered native americans never comes up in our schools but as a foot note. Glad you enjoy the blog!
My sad attempt at a dry brush painting. I’m a musician, not an artist.
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