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[rainintheevening]

Happy Canada Day!!!

From Uclulet to Puslinch, I love my country so much, and am happy to have seen so much of it. I look forward to seeing more

May God keep our land glorious and free. Because He's the only one who can.

[sunshine-gumdrop]

Golden trio

Silver trio

The boy who lived!

All is well!

[xtruss]

Native Tribe To Get Back Land 160 Years After Largest Mass Hanging In US History

Upper Sioux Agency state park in Minnesota, where bodies of those killed after US-Dakota war are buried, to be transferred

— Associated Press | Sunday 3 September, 2023

The Upper Sioux Agency State Park near Granite Falls, Minnesota. Photograph: Trisha Ahmed/AP

Golden prairies and winding rivers of a Minnesota state park also hold the secret burial sites of Dakota people who died as the United States failed to fulfill treaties with Native Americans more than a century ago. Now their descendants are getting the land back.

The state is taking the rare step of transferring the park with a fraught history back to a Dakota tribe, trying to make amends for events that led to a war and the largest mass hanging in US history.

“It’s a place of holocaust. Our people starved to death there,” said Kevin Jensvold, chairman of the Upper Sioux Community, a small tribe with about 550 members just outside the park.

The Upper Sioux Agency state park in south-western Minnesota spans a little more than 2 sq miles (about 5 sq km) and includes the ruins of a federal complex where officers withheld supplies from Dakota people, leading to starvation and deaths.

Decades of tension exploded into the US-Dakota war of 1862 between settler-colonists and a faction of Dakota people, according to the Minnesota Historical Society. After the US won the war, the government hanged more people than in any other execution in the nation. A memorial honors the 38 Dakota men killed in Mankato, 110 miles (177km) from the park.

Jensvold said he has spent 18 years asking the state to return the park to his tribe. He began when a tribal elder told him it was unjust Dakota people at the time needed to pay a state fee for each visit to the graves of their ancestors there.

Native American tribe in Maine buys back Island taken 160 years ago! The Passamaquoddy’s purchase of Pine Island for $355,000 is the latest in a series of successful ‘land back’ campaigns for indigenous people in the US. Pine Island. Photograph: Courtesy the writer, Alice Hutton. Friday 4 June, 2021

Lawmakers finally authorized the transfer this year when Democrats took control of the house, senate and governor’s office for the first time in nearly a decade, said State Senator Mary Kunesh, a Democrat and descendant of the Standing Rock Nation.

Tribes speaking out about injustices have helped more people understand how lands were taken and treaties were often not upheld, Kunesh said, adding that people seem more interested now in “doing the right thing and getting lands back to tribes”.

But the transfer also would mean fewer tourists and less money for the nearby town of Granite Falls, said Mayor Dave Smiglewski. He and other opponents say recreational land and historic sites should be publicly owned, not given to a few people, though lawmakers set aside funding for the state to buy land to replace losses in the transfer.

The park is dotted with hiking trails, campsites, picnic tables, fishing access, snowmobiling and horseback riding routes and tall grasses with wildflowers that dance in hot summer winds.

“People that want to make things right with history’s injustices are compelled often to support action like this without thinking about other ramifications,” Smiglewski said. “A number, if not a majority, of state parks have similar sacred meaning to Indigenous tribes. So where would it stop?”

In recent years, some tribes in the US, Canada and Australia have gotten their rights to ancestral lands restored with the growth of the Land Back movement, which seeks to return lands to Indigenous people.

‘It’s a powerful feeling’: the Indigenous American tribe helping to bring back buffalo 🦬! Matt Krupnick in Wolakota Buffalo Range, South Dakota. Sunday 20 February, 2022. The Wolakota Buffalo Range in South Dakota has swelled to 750 bison with a goal of reaching 1,200. Photograph: Matt Krupnick

A National Park has never been transferred from the US government to a tribal nation, but a handful are Co-managed with Tribes, including Grand Portage National Nonument in northern Minnesota, Canyon de Chelly National Monument in Arizona and Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, Jenny Anzelmo-Sarles of the National Park Service said.

This will be the first time Minnesota transfers a state park to a Native American community, said Ann Pierce, director of Minnesota State Parks and trails at the natural resources department.

Minnesota’s transfer, expected to take years to finish, is tucked into several large bills covering several issues. The bills allocate more than $6m to facilitate the transfer by 2033. The money can be used to buy land with recreational opportunities and pay for appraisals, road and bridge demolition and other engineering.

Chris Swedzinski and Gary Dahms, the Republican lawmakers representing the portion of the state encompassing the park, declined through their aides to comment about their stances on the transfer.

— The Guardian USA

[0rph3u5]

Elbows up, Canada. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

no name calling, no insults, no propaganda.

[scuderlia]

[idkhowtoread-ink]

Sooo i started watching Hetalia a while ago and I'm enjoying it!

But I was just wondering, why do all the other country's have diffrent accents but Canada doesn't? Why doesn't he have a accent?

But then i remembered, I'm Canadian.

The reason Canada "doesn't have an accent" is because the accent sounds normal to me..

I'm a dumbass

[dinosaurwithablog]

Top Chef is being held in Toronto, Canada, this season!! It's the first time that they have had this competition in Canada 🇨🇦

The lovely Kristin Kish is hosting the show for her second season!! 😍 I love Kristin!! She's an incredible chef and a fantastic host!!

She's so beautiful 😍

[anachronistic-falsehood]

also WHAT the fuck is a sophomore and a freshman and a junior and a senior. i think senior is ur last uear of high school but i know nothing else. just call them by their grades what r u doing………….

[pammyloumendkens]

2Day...

...In Toronto,🍁Canada🇨🇦

[overwhelmedfernfrond]

Well guys, my good friend has returned from her trip to the US of A and made the following commentary upon her arrival home:

“[It was] good, it had the power of freedom. And the American people were crazy, I miss Canadian 😭”

*please be nice, English is her second language*

So yeah, that was her impression 😭 take that as you will, Americans

[0rph3u5]

Nearly 500,000 fewer travellers crossed the land border from Canada into the U.S. in February compared to the same month last year, according to data from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the latest sign that President Donald Trump's taunts and tariffs have shaken bilateral relations.

[hearty-an0n]

john tavares looks hot as fuck in a maple leaf no matter the colour

[ms-rampage]

You know what's funny? Having a 🇨🇦Canadian🇨🇦 as US President 😂😂😂😂

[magpies-gold]

Blessings be upon me. I have scored a week off from work in early April. \o/ I haven’t been able to take a break since September, this year has been bananas, December almost killed me, and I am t i r e d.

Jokes on me: I get to do my taxes that week (hhhhh) and we have a slightly stressful doctor’s appointment mid-week. I hope it goes okay because getting this slot required calling five clinics and the one we got in with only let us because A) we’d been there before (no new patients allowed - and this is at what’s on paper as a “walk in” clinic, hahaaa :| ) and B) they happened to have one opening. Just one. For a phone call with the doc. Otherwise nothing until at least May. If we gotta try again after this… well. Argh.

The healthcare situation in Victoria is kind of ludicrous and somehow getting worse? I’m perpetually astounded. It feels like someday it’s going to be just Emergency Room or perish for literally everything.

I’m just gonna work hard to zen out the rest of the week and not exist in the places of worry. To that end, I’ve been outlining Alpha Base for the… fifth? time? But focusing on each character individually this time, like I’m their damn therapist. Get Paul to sit in the chair and tell me all about his childhood so I can have a little map of how these characters interact and where they’re coming from.

The end result is going to be the prequel that’s been threatening to become a thing rearing its head and demanding to be given life and I know it. I was rotating young Errick and Jacob’s relationship with each other in my mental microwave all day. Might have overcooked them both.

I will try to remember to go outside and blink at the sun at least once during my brief but good staycay.

[supmaww]

“Maple syrup. Moose. Quebec. Maple leaf. Plaid.”

I feel something awakening inside of me at these words. He knows the Canadian sleeper agent words.

[zleepiepnk]

🎪⭐️Clown⭐️🎪