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You are the dream my life made…

Wolves teach humility they teach that we are all in this together that we are all a part of the same whole. If something happens to one of them, they all feel it.

“Time to drum,” Rita says, to a place far away. You’re supposed to celebrate a moon, they are powerful. all right then, Let’s get this party started. Cheryl jokes and tosses her smoke out the window. They both laugh, probably too hard. And get their coats to walk off to the bar Arms, interlinked They slip in the snow And laugh with mouths open And too loud because no one cares what old ladies do.

Gary: I think it’s pretty amazing, the nights we will go just to feel something (read a book 400 pages long).

Virginia Wolf
Mrs Dalloway….

If loneliness is a problem….. …..In a way, Mrs Dalloway is a hero, for giving everyone a place to be.

Phoebe began to understand that on some nights, Lila it’s probably the loneliest girl in the world, just like Phoebe. and maybe they are all lonely maybe this is just what it means to be a person to constantly reckon with being a single being in one body maybe everybody sits up at night and creates arguments in their head for why they are the loneliest person in the world.

A naturalist looks for the wonders of nature, listen to the voice of nature and learns to understand it.

As a naturalist, u need 2 have empathy & intuition & love. You have to be prepared to look at a murmuration of starlings. & be filled with awe @ agility of these birds, how do they fly in a flock of several thousand without touching each other? yet they have such formations and swoop & turned together, as one.

That’s why this book is important. It will help people realize. that their actions no matter how small they may seem truly do make a difference. The cumulative effect of thousands of ethical actions. can help to save and improve our world for future generations.

1880 John elk, (Winnebago)left his reservation to live in Omaha Nebraska & tried to register to vote. the Supreme Court ruled against him in elk V. Wilkins (1884). “Any Indian tribes, or any member thereof, have become so far advanced in civilization that they should be let out of a state of pupilage, & admitted to the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship.

Indian citizenship act of 1924

Only natives who left their communities enjoy the majority society were counted as “taxed.“ Making a distinction between wild and civilized that deprived the vast majority of Native Americans of basic citizenship, rights and protections. According to the census of 1870, only 8% of American Indians were classified as taxed, and even that small majority were eventually stripped of their citizenship rights. P305

The civil rights act of 1866 and the 14th amendment in 1868 also failed to bring relief to Native Americans held in bondage. The statues protected and conferred citizenship, rights on “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subjects to the jurisdiction thereof,“ but quite crucially excluded “Indians not taxed.”

California

Indian act of 1850
authorize the arrest of “vagrant” natives who could then be “hired out” to the highest bidder. This act also enabled white persons to go before a justice of the peace to obtain Indian children “For indenture.”
This act may have affected as many as 20,000 Californian Indians, including 4000 children kidnapped from their parents & employed as domestic servants & farm laborers

California

Despite being a “free soil“ state, American settlers were buying and selling Indians as a common practice.

1846, the first American commander of San Francisco said “certain persons have been and still are imprisoning and holding to service Indians against their will.”

He warned the general public, “Indian population must not be regarded in the light of slaves.“

Ironically, One of the reasons Mexico had encouraged Americans to settle into the territory in the 1820s and 30s was because they wanted a buffer against Comanches a sort of insurance policy on their borderland. In that sense the Alamo, Goliad, San Jacinto and the birth of the Texas Republic were a product of a misguided scheme to stop the Comanches.

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By 1836 the Spanish were long gone. The Mexicans that were left had even less success dealing with Comanches who contemptuously referred to them as their stop keepers.

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Buffalo 🦬 slaughter

The greatest destruction of warm blooded animals in human history

Moly, & mug wart, lavender and bone dust, the Amber hearts of newborn stars.. It came so quickly to me now, my craft considered ANATHEMA 2 the gods. I gently placed the last heart I had into the chest of a blue corpse. He rose as the others from the endless sleep of death back into a half life. Stepping back, they were human. Now touched by divinity, they were an abomination to everyother god. I called them Legion.

Hecuba -
By my side. For comfort, I would sometimes stroke her silver fur as we saw a body after body and she wind.

Witchcraft is work, practiced every day

Sky Rim

Assassin’s Creed

PS4

Witcher 3 - Wild hunt

Video games - role playing games help to process betrayal and pain, work out PTSD

ancestry.com.

The comprehensive digitized records – birth, marriage, death, census, immigration - compressed time into a searchable syntax, a kind of cosmic phonebook second only to the scrolls of heaven.

Morgan, Parker "meanwhile, black Americans don't, and will never know our real names; commercials for ancestry.com feel like a personal attack."

Originario

A word meant to denote a detribalize indigenous person

J. Derrida - Hauntology
Nostalgia for lost futures.

A state of grief, in relationship to history, where what is lost & what could’ve been are temporary entangled, the past ever present, & refusing to be forgotten. It is the post colonial condition of forgetting & being forgotten in the aftermath of violence, longing for a homeland That will no longer exist. What was and what could have been haunting the present.

“the body is an extension of the land remembering"

describes a key theme within the genre, particularly in works that explore postcolonial, cultural, and environmental trauma. It suggests that the body is not just a container for a person, but is a physical record of ancestral memory and the history of the land from which it comes. This connection manifests in magical ways that defy rational explanation

Anti-Ableism

Developing a whole practice to combating ableism. Anti-Ableism is strategies, theories, actions and practices that challenge ableism and counter ablesim and inequality, prejudices and discrimination based on developmental, emotional, physical or psychiatric disability.

ableism is a systemic cultural issue often tied to limiting beliefs about disability and connected to other oppressions like racism.

"A system that places value on people's bodies and minds based on societally constructed ideas of normalcy, intelligence, excellence and productivity". These concepts are connected to anti-Blackness, eugenics, colonialism, and capitalism, and this systemic oppression leads society to judge worth based on appearance or ability to conform."

Commonwealth secured for all people not just an individual for them self

Laws of man over the divine?

State sanctioned death penalty for guilt of theft.


Christian commandment - Do not kill, except when the state sanctions manslaughter?