Ig: Katewas_

sometimes its just like *street lights reflecting off the wet asphalt at night* maybe life isnt so ugly after all

Yang-Tsung Fan (Taiwanese, b. 1982)

After Summer, 2013

Acrylic on canvas

Handmade dinosaurs made of soapstone (talc)

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Camas: Camassia quamash

The bulbs of this native flower are edible & valuable sweeteners shared or traded as gifts of local Oregon tribes. Tribal families took care to pass down traditional harvesting sites across generations: despite genocide and colonialization the shared traditions are still implemented today. During spring to late summer, the bulbs can be unearthed. Once harvested, the bulbs might be ground and stored in cake form. During gatherings, families bake the bulbs in earthen ovens by layering them over hot stones with branches of native shrubs, herbs, and trees, then cooking the bulbs until tender and sweet. This plant is cared for & valued by many Oregon tribes: The Kalapuyans of the Willamette Valley and the Nez Perce, who in 1805, shared their bulbs with members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, rescued the party from near starvation.

Read that again: “rescued the party from near starvation.” - despite it all, Native people treated colonizers with compassion. #respectnativepeople #unlearnAmericanHistory

-Edited content from oregonencyclopedia.org

For anyone who doesn't know what's going on in Canada right now (which, let's be real, is probably everyone who's not in Canada):

This week, a mass grave was discovered at a former Indian Residential School, in Kamloops, BC. The grave contained the bodies of 215 Indigenous children.

For people outside of North America, residential schools were places that Indigenous children were sent to, to have their language and culture stripped away from them. They were literally stolen from their families, and scattered across Canada, to ensure that they would be surrounded by children who didn't speak their language. They were given Christian names and forced to speak English. They were horrendously abused, and the survivors have been traumatized.

Hundreds of children never returned. The assumption has always been that they died. This has now been confirmed.

The school in Kamloops closed in 1978. They are now trying to identify bodies to inform family members. The last residential school closed in the 1990s. There is growing demand to search all of them, but the government hasn't responded to that, as of yet. Ottawa JUST gave in to pressure to fly the Canada flag at half mast. They weren't even going to do that.

This is the reality if anti-Indigenous racism in Canada. The residential schools may be closed, but that hasn't stopped the abduction of Indigenous children, let alone the hundreds of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

Zinaida Serebriakova - The Shoots of Autumn Crops (1908)

People with ADHD be like:

the massive power of trains yet confinement to a single path makes them comparable to angels

"Science literacy empowers you to know when someone else is full of shit." ― Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson