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*New Day* — This Week In American Indian News: POWs, Pipelines, Pitchers, & More
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UPDATED: NEW ITEM! Kos Katalogue: Winglion Quilts and the Community Quilt...
This is going to be a testimonial diary.We talk a lot at this site about the importance of community. Talk is one thing; it's a lot harder to live it. Harder still when faced with growing medical and...
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Kos Katalogue: Kitsap River's Artisanal Jams
We like to eat. A lot, actually; we're serious foodies in this household. But there are a couple of conditions:1) It has to be healthy.2) It has to taste good.With a lot of commercial foods, those...
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*New Day* — This Week In American Indian News: Reparations, Remains, Unforced...
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*New Day* — This Week In American Indian News: Kids, Votes, Vets, TV, Rap
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$500 MATCH MET! Community Fundraisers: When Your Own Surgery Risks Hurting...
UPDATE 5 - LAST UPDATE FOR TONIGHT: WE'VE MADE THE $500 MATCH - THAT'S $1,000 IN A MATTER OF HOURS. I believe we've raised just about $2,000 in actual PayPal donations and money orders committed....
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Please Rec and Share a Diary to Help One of Our Own
No, not this diary.THIS DIARY. Kossack tonyahky is in desperate need of major surgery. She can get it, but her recovery will be at least six weeks. During that period, there will be no one else to...
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* New Day * — The Magpie Diaries
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Please Rec/Share: A Diary to Help A Kossack's Children Make It Through Her...
No, not this diary.THIS DIARY. Kossack tonyahky is in desperate need of major surgery. She can get it, but her recovery will be at least six weeks. During that period, there will be no one else to...
View ArticleUPDATE 2: She's going home anyway. Richmond, Kentucky-area Kossack needed;...
UPDATE 2: We do have a few people on the ground now who are within driving distance. One of them has spoken with her at the hospital, and she will be okay for tonight. People will be checking in on...
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*New Day* — This Week In American Indian News Special Edition: News from the...
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*New Day* — This Week In American Indian News: Adoptions, Ethics, Votes,...
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*New Day* — This Week In American Indian News: Treaties & Lands, Massacre &...
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*New Day* — This Week In American Indian News: Adoptions, Education,...
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*New Day* — This Week In American Indian News: Wind River, Buffalo, Rally,...
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RaceGender DiscrimiNATION: Indigenous Women at the Crossroads of a...
This series is, among other things, about the intersectionality of race and gender in this country's culture, both historical and contemporary.Intersectionality is simply a fact of being, of...
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*New Day* — This Week In American Indian News: Labor Day Edition. Including...
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View ArticleSeven Years.
I hate this day.For the past seven years, September 5th has brought nothing but pain and grief.This year, it's exacerbated by other, unrelated issues. But the reminder of the day is always the same....
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RaceGender DiscriminiNATION: Watery Trading Posts, Where the "Trade" Is in...
Last Sunday, I wrote about the escalating rates of rape and other violence inflicted on Native women in and around the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota — a deadly byproduct of the new...
View ArticleHummingbirds: Announcing This Week's Blogathon on Climate Change Impacts
A Note from Aji: This diary was actually written by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse, who organized the blogathon. She developed a scheduling conflict and was unable to post today, so I am doing so on...
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*New Day* — This Week In American Indian News: Hotshots & History, Votes &...
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Hummingbirds: Epilogue From Indian Country
So yesterday, I was supposed to post a diary as part of the "Hummingbirds" blogathon on local climate change impacts.And then those local climate change impacts came home to roost.I know, I know: Not...
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*New Day* — This Week In American Indian News: Flooding In Indian Country
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*New Day* — This Week In American Indian News: Native Women, Marriage...
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*New Day* — This Week In American Indian News: "Scars Upon Sacred Land"...
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* New Day * — Of War Chiefs and Red Earth
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*New Day* — This Week In American Indian News: Shutdown & SCOTUS, Racism &...
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Landmarks and Lodestones.
Yesterday, I responded to the question of what October means to me with a litany of all the things I've loved about it since childhood. And even though I felt guilty omitting it, I didn't want to...
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*New Day* — This Week In American Indian News: Fighting Back Against...
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*New Day* — This Week In American Indian News: Shutdown, Sentencing...
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Butterfly Woman: Announcing the 2013 Blogathon for Food Justice
I'm honored to announce the launch of this year's annual Daily Kos blogathon to fight hunger in America.This year, we're taking a bit of a different approach: We're focusing on food justice...
View ArticleButterfly Woman: Food Justice in Indian Country, Even Unto the Seventh...
This is the fourth year in a row that I've participated in the Daily Kos blogathon to fight hunger in America. It's also the fourth year in a row that I've focused my efforts specifically on the...
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*New Day* — This Week In American Indian News: Imagery and Identity Edition
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View ArticleHelp a Navajo Woman Filmmaker Smash Stereotypes and Support Two-Spirit Rights
In yesterday's edition of "New Day— This Week In American Indian News," I led off with what, superficially, seems to be an arts-related story about a film project currently in the works.It's actually...
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*New Day* — This Week In American Indian News: Children, Writing, Artifacts,...
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The Man I Call Cousin [Ojibwa] Starts a New Phase of Life Tomorrow
As the title indicates, the man I call "cousin"— the man this site knows as Ojibwa— today watched the sun set on a central part of his life.Today was Ojibwa's last day of formal teaching.His career as...
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Kos Katalogue Holiday 2013 Secret Santa: Wings: Hands on Silver
Christmas is a week from today, and we elves are hard at work. Wings has been in the studio most of the last two weeks, creating gorgeous one-of-a-kind pieces to fill holiday orders, while I take care...
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Gifts
I had a really frustrating, irritating, maddening afternoon.Probably typical for Christmas Eve if one has to be out and about, which I did. But by the time I got home, I was thoroughly depressed, and...
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A Final Christmas Gift: Okiciyap ("We Help")
DONATE by credit card Okiciyap is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization Donate by Check: Okiciyap PO Box 172 Isabel, SD 57633 I mentioned last night that I'd received several gifts over the course of the...
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Community Fundraisers: Expenses for a Funny, Fierce Kossack Taken Too Soon
January 16th was not a good day.It would have been my father's 90th birthday, and as usual, the date dredged up a lot of things I'd really rather not remember, so my morning didn't begin well.It didn't...
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Community Fundraisers: Walking a Mile In Another Man's Moccasins
In my post of last Saturday, I said that one of the subjects of this site would be helping people who need help. That time is now.Come with me. I want to take you on a little walk in another man's...
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Community Fundraisers: More than Shelter, Home
Photo copyright Wings, 2014; all rights reserved It's a basic human need: Shelter. A roof over your head; a floor under your feet. A place to be safe from the elements.But it also needs to be liveable....
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Community Fundraisers: When Your Own Home Is Killing You
UPDATE: Wings and I are in for $30 via Tonya's GoFundMe site as of this morning. That's $15 from us, and $15 from Kitsap River and Charles CurtisStanley. How many people can we get to match that...
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Community Fundraisers: My sister the anti-torture activist needs help
Heather and her beloved Dan Photo copyright Heather, 2014; all rights reserved. I have a lot of sisters, none of them blood. It doesn't matter; in most cases, we're as close or even closer (than my own...
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A Lake for Lin: A Community Fundraiser for an Eco-Warrior In the Fight of Her...
Joy is a lake.Grief is a river.You can lose yourself in one; be lost in the other.I wrote those words on the first day of this month. Then, I had no idea how soon I would have reason to understand, yet...
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A Lake for Lin: Tracing Her Ripples, Telling Their Stories
UPDATE: I have been advised that there is a $100 anonymous match on offer. If we can raise another $100 right now, it doubles instantly. Go here to give, and let us know in the comments for tracking...
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A Lake for Lin: A Call from Wings to Acts of Joy, Love, Community, and Spirit
A note from Aji: Last week, as we were trying to schedule diarists on behalf of Lin through the holiday season, Wings told me that he wanted to write one for her, and asked me to post it for him...
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When the Water Meets the Light: Linda McClure, April 22, 1953-December 28, 2016
Joy is a lake.Grief is a river.You can lose yourself in one; be lost in the other.As this day dawns, we are in the river: swept along in the rapids, sucked under here, dashed on the rocks there,...
View ArticleWater, Light, and Love. Lin, One Year On.
A year ago today, the water met the light.I said goodbye, from a distance, to one of the dearest friends I've ever known. Her sister Laura, who was far closer to her even than I, lost her North...
View ArticleIt's Valentine's Day. Let's show some love to a family fighting cancer, and...
Heya. Yup, it’s me. Us, actually; Wings is in on this, too. So is the spirit of She-Wolf, up there in that photo; she’s been gone almost a year now. I’m lucky to be here even now.A couple of things:...
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