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if you are going to need some kind of sedative for 4th of july fireworks for your pets NOW IS THE TIME TO SCHEDULE THOSE APPOINTMENTS TO ASK FOR THEM

NOT WHEN ITS 2 DAYS AWAY

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Why "Precolonial" Indigenous North American History Matters: A Mini Syllabus

Okay I had this half-finished lying around so I prettied it up into something vaguely usable and added links wherever possible (most of them being totally legal...)

This is not a full treatment of Indigenous history before European contact. It was originally created to be a 15 week class, so it was not intended to cover everything but to give a taste of various regions and histories. Unfortunately, certain essays I would highly recommend are in the Oxford handbooks I listed at the end, and I have been unable to locate free-to-access versions.

Each section includes a question to consider that is intended to suggest ways that these precolonial histories have reverberations into the present. In a course I'd be able to draw them out more clearly, but keep them in mind as you read, if you like. Finally, please keep in mind that few of these sources will read like a "straightforward history" of "precolonial [xyz region/tribe/nation]." Be open-minded and critical-thinking!

Part 1: Foundations

Questions to consider:

Why didn't we learn this stuff?

Why should we learn this stuff?

Why do so many Indigenous people distrust historians / anthropologists / archaeologists?

Readings:

Michael Witgen (Red Cliff Ojibwe), "American Indians in World History" in The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History

Vine Deloria, Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux), Custer Died For Your Sins, chapter 4: "Anthropologists and Other Friends"

Floyd Westerman (Sisseton Dakota), "Here Come the Anthros" (music video!!)

Juliana Barr, "There's no such thing as prehistory"

Peregrine and Lekson, "The North American Oikumene"

(Parts 2-6 under the cut)

Part 2: Mesoamerica

Question to consider: How could so few Spaniards conquer the vast population of Tenochtitlan and other Aztec cities?

Readings:

Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

Popol Vuh (translated by Allen J. Christenson)

Part 3: Aridoamerica/Oasisamerica

Question to consider: How did the Southwest region of the United States become so associated with the touristy image of the "peaceful Pueblo Indian"?

Readings:

Joe Sando (Jemez Pueblo), Pueblo Nations: Eight Centuries of Pueblo Indian History

Kelley and Francis (Navajo), A Diné History of Navajoland, introduction

Severin Fowles, "The Pueblo Village in an Age of Reformation"

Part 4: The Midcontinent

Question to consider: How did the Five "Civilized" Tribes become so powerful, both historically and today?

Readings:

Alt and Pauketat, "Medieval Life in America's Heartland"

Christopher B. Teuton (Cherokee Nation), Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liar's Club

Part 5: The Great Lakes

Question to consider: What role did Indigenous peoples play in the French ultimately losing their North American colonies? (Why am I writing this in English and not French?)

Readings:

Georges Sioui (Wendat), Huron-Wendat: Heritage of the Circle (I can't find an online copy but it's extremely worth buying)

Kayanerehkowa: The Great Law of Peace (Kahnawake Mohawk)

Part 6: General Resources

I would also recommend these two handbooks, if you can get a hold of them for a non-outrageous price:

The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History (2016)

The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology (2011)

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forever grateful i was simply too lazy to let the makeup industrial complex get its hooks in me. I was just like im not doing all of that. in fact. im doing none of that

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Why are they making a second Spaceballs movie

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some of my best friends i met at the devil’s sacrament

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since the old version of this post was flagged for ‘adult content’…

reblog this post if your account is a trans safe space or owned by a trans person!

along with that, reblog if your account is a non-binary spectrum safe space or owned by someone on the nb spectrum!

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if you're looking to tablet-weave or kumihimo-braid some pride stuff, here are the options I came up with for bracelets for my husband and me. if you're on twistedthreads the name of the pattern is "ally mcbeal". go nuts

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Happy fathers day to Luo Binghe with his 4 dad's Tianlang-Jun, Shang Qinghua, Shen Qingqiu and Step Dad Mobei Jun

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happy father's day <3

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An Ultimate Triumph, Nine Years in the Making—Thunderbolt Fantasy: The Final Chapter 

In 2016, I was looking at a preview of the new anime season with friends, as was our custom. We talked about the shows we thought had potential, the ones we were more skeptical about, and anything else of note. But there was one series that seemed to come completely out of left field. A Taiwan-Japan co-production that wasn’t animated but rather performed using puppets, and it was written by…

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The mayumiko in The Comic Bang is INSANE. The ways they danced around censorship. Thank you, The Comic Bang staff. I owe you my life.

The last one is making me lose my mind. They got locked (or locked themselves?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!) in Ye Xi's (Nozaki) room and this is how they answered the door after Qiandai (Sakura) knocked, opened the door just barely and poked their heads out one by one 😭

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OK this is for real

The director and writers of The Comic Bang agreed to sit down for an interview on my Bilibili channel in the future.

Sooooo if you have a question re: the show and how it was made, feel free to drop a comment or DM me.

Be nice! And once we've had our chat, I will translate their answers and get back to you.

This is a link to my channel:

This is the drama review I made for The Comic Bang which almost brought the director to tears because I managed to pick up all his movie references and weird Easter Eggs.

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hey uh new type of ao3 spam comment just dropped. (I know it's spam because the fic they left this comment on . doesn't have chapters. lmfao). Report this kinda comment as spam and don't take it personally it is literally recycled bullshit

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marauders fans are so much worse than garden variety hp fans bc they've deluded themselves into having a superiority complex. "ackshually we don't support jkr and our fandom has queer & poc representation" girl...your fandom is the worst mass delusion since the dancing plague of 1518, your "representation" is a series of headcanons for characters who are little more than names in a series whose worldbuilding you continue to use in your art and whose existence has material consequences for trans people in the uk. you cannot headcanon your way out of supporting one of if not the most famous transphobe in the world. there are fantasy books by real life queer people and people of colour that will never get a fraction of of support that jkr does. read those instead and take a personality quiz oh my GOD

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Im not a religious man but I've read the Bible three times front to back (don't ask me to remember any of it that was over a decade ago)

But i once had a talk with a co worker about their trans kid (he was viciously anti queer and as "one of the good ones" he wanted my advice)*

When he brought up how God doesn't make mistakes so being transgender isn't ok

I said to him

Of course not. Do you think you're child being transgender is a mistake ? Are you, man, deciding what God's intentions are ? Being transgender may be the path and test of faith that God put before your child and you shouldn't pass judgment

That is for God to do

Anyway

I hope maybe that might help someone who has that kind of person in their life