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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.

Ch.3

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.

Ch. 3

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?

Baby farms
Orphanages
Changes in adoptions
Georgia Tan
Tennessee children home society in Memphis, Tennessee

book recommendation:
pricing the priceless child - the changing social value of children 1985 vivana
Orphans and orphans in America, 2005
The baby thief, the untold story of Georgia Tan

1951 the report to governor Gordon Browning on Shelby County branch Tennessee children’s home Society 1951

The love of sisters needs no words
It does not depend on memories or Momentos or proof it runs as deep as a heartbeat it is as ever present as a pulse.

Operation Longhorn

Central Texas army action to practice and prepare for Soviet union invasion

Senator Margaret Chase Smith

Declaration of conscience - the four pillars of Americanism:

1 to criticize
2 hold unpopular beliefs
3 to protest
4 hold independent thought

All American girls baseball league

First Female scout Edith Houton

When the house laughed, the lights flickered…

Your brother said something striking to me today. She said, your people storys are what keeps the rainforest alive and if the Aronie people lose their stories then the forest will fall to the oil companies.

End of chapter 14

They all want to help, but they end up hurting. In reference to “the gringos“ I find the statement interesting because she’s an indigenous person talking about Spaniard maybe and calling them gringos I’m not quite sure i about her experience with a missionary is full Spaniards and other white people are considered gringo to her?

We have our territory, but We choose to live in the of town or rather in the Mud on the outsikrts of town. I winced. was it really a choice? It’s hard to know anymore. Was it possible to live between world? Between languages between the past and the future? Civilization has a strange power over us.

Are you a communist now or an evangelical?

Chapter 12

Silence registers the presence of power.

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