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Garden of Hope - James Gurney (detail)

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I love that phenomenon where ur talking to another neurodivergent person for the first time and u haven’t quite grocked their flavor of brain yet and they haven’t grocked yours and you’re both using your Acceptable Friendly Person Getting To Know You Script on each other but of course those scripts have been calibrated mainly for use with, like, normal people, so you just end up being like two conversational roombas bonking gently off one another like “hello fellow human” “hello fellow ‘hello fellow human’” until you both at some point manage to adjust your programming and actually like, communicate

It’s like when I was a kid I had two furbies and when you put them next to each other they’d just natter nonsensically past one another for a bit and then at some point one would abruptly recognize the other with its furby sensor or w/e and it would shout “DANCE!” and the other one would flap its ears and reply “HEY, DANCE” and then, in perfect unison, they would begin to rock back and forth while chanting “doot doot doo doot doot doo”

It’s exactly like that. I love it. Crazy people are the best, we are super excellent, i love us, i love crazy ppl

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Needle Felted and Embroidered Art Hoops

Yuliya Krishchik on Etsy

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'Silver Skeleton' series (2019) by Valerie Hegarty (American, 1967)

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Indigenous place name etymologies in Canada, focusing on Ontario. This obviously isn’t all of them - there’s a lot.

Canada ▸ Kanà:ta’ (present in most northern-Iroquoian languages) “town/ settlement”

Ontario ▸ Ontarïio’ (Wendat) “beautiful lake”. Mohawk cognate: Oniatarí:io 

Quebec ▸ Kébec (Algonquin) “where the river narrows”

Saskatchewan ▸ Kisiskâciwanisîpiy (Cree) “swift flowing river”

Manitoba ▸ Manito-wapâw/Manidoobaa (Cree or Ojibwe) “straits of the great spirit”

Nunavut ▸ ᓄᓇᕗᑦ (Inuktitut) “our land”

Places in Ontario:

Toronto ▸ Tkarón:to (Mohawk) “tree in the water there”. Oneida cognate: Tkalú:to

Mississauga ▸ Misi-zaagiing (Mississauga-Anishinaabe) “those at the great river mouth”

Etobicoke ▸ Wadoopikaang (Mississauga-Anishinaabe) “where alders grow”

Nanticoke ▸ Nentego (Nanticoke) “tide water people”

Niagara ▸ Onguiaahra (Attawandaron) “thundering water”. Mohawk cognate: Oniahka:rà

Ottawa ▸ Odaawaa (Odawa-Anishinaabe) “to trade, traders”

Oshawa ▸ Aazhawa (Ojibwe) “to cross”

Wasaga Beach ▸ Nàdawesaga (Algonquin) “Iroquois at the river mouth”

Manitoulin ▸ Mnidoo Mnising (Odawa-Anishinaabe) “spirit island”

Deseronto ▸ Deserontoyon (Mohawk) - name of a Mohawk chief 

Kapuskasing ▸ (Cree) “bend in the river”

Mattawa ▸ (Ojibwe) “where water meets”

Moosonee ▸ Môsonihk (Cree) “moose river”

Petawawa ▸ Biidaawewe (Algonquin) “where one hears noise like this”

Timiskaming ▸ Temikaming (Algonquin) “deep water”

Saugeen Shores ▸ Zaagiing (Ojibwe) “at the inlet”

Tecumseh ▸ (Shawnee) “shooting star” - name of a Shawnee warrior-chieftain

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It’s funny when I encounter someone who hates Indigenous ppl, like you do realize you talk Indigenous everyday right?

Kangaroo (Gangurru) | Guugu Yimidhirr

Moose (Mooz/Mus/Môswa) | Algonquian languages 

Coyote (Cóyotl) | Nahuatl

Opossum (Opassum) | Powhatan 

Skunk (Segôgw) | Abenaki

Raccoon (Arahkunem) | Powhatan

Woodchuck (Wuchak) | Eastern Algonquian origin

Caribou (Qalipu) | Mi’kmaq

Chipmunk (Jiidhmoonh) | Odawa

Ocelot (Ocēlōtl) | Nahuatl

Puma | Quechua

Squash (Askútasquash) | Narragansett

Pecan (Pekani/Bagaan) | Alqonquian languages

Chocolate (Xocolātl) | Nahuatl 

Avocado (Ahuacatl) | Nahuatl 

Guacamole (Ahuacamolli) | Nahuatl

Tomato (Tomatl) | Nahuatl 

Quinoa (Kinwa) | Quechua

Barbecue (Barbacòa) | Taíno

Hammock (Hamaca) | Arawakan 

Canoe (Canaoua) | Arawakan

Kayak (Qajaq) | Greenlandic

Hickory (Pocohiquara) | Powhatan

Moccasin (Makizin/Mikusun) | Alqonquian languages

Toboggan (Topaqan) | Mi’kmaq

Shack (Xahcalli) | Nahuatl

Igloo (Iglu) | Inuktitut 

Cocaine (Kuka) | Quechua 

and this doesn’t even scratch the surface when you take into account all the states/provinces/towns/cities/parks etc in Indigenous words. 

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at left/center: an updated Bulwé chart.

at right: a demonstration of the most recent alterations used in a sentence.

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Jean deMers

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Just in case you guys didn’t know.

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A Bulué chart is a diagram used as a reference while learning the Paiyan writing system. The chart will often display vowels I, E, A, O, and U on its x-axis and consonants F, B, P, T, S, H, SH, R, Y, L, M, G, J, N, and W on its y-axis. This chart includes ‘harsh-radical’ consonants beside their roots.

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«komi yu panchu iko kumo yameyo gwajo twai eko kai»

“You shouldn’t pick flowers from the same plant twice in a day.”

A proverb in Paiya. Picking flowers for your vases or kwaiko is a springtime tradition. But while picking, be mindful not to remove too many flowers from one plant. Flowers are important to the plant’s growth, so only take one or two per plant. Don’t change too much in one day. Make your changes and let it sit. By rushing you might over look that you’ve picked all the flowers off a plant.

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Journal entries from April 5, (top) and April 6, (bottom) 2020; written in an 11 month old conlang.

Through normally written from left to right, writing from bottom to top is also acceptable. The reason being that the most abundant outdoor medium to write on is bare and rotting trees in the forest.

When writing on a tree, especially more than a few words or phrases, it’s important not to start from the end of a branch and work inward. A motto I stuck to while creating this conlang was: “As you would with the tree itself, the language you’ve learned, and any problems you may encounter, you should begin from the bottom, or the heart, look up and forward, and move outward from there.”

By journaling in the conlang, I can single out things I don’t have words for yet. The footnotes at the bottom are translations for words or phrases I haven’t had to use before.

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“Sateng kumo dudo, chodu zoshiko kumoyo Denguard gaze kozai”

A remark about restarting a world-building minecraft server with my friends.

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America wouldn’t be so fucked up if...

Native Tribal cultures, cuisines, languages and society weren’t treated as some bygone thing of the past.

Imagine restaurants for all sorts of new regional tribal foods, using nutritious, diverse ingredients and recipes, with influences from various cultures and fusion cuisine.

Imagine bookstores carrying loads of easy to access, student friendly books on native languages.

Imagine burning down or curbing colonial and cold war era establishments to create fantastic, creative places to celebrate regional native cultures.

All this is not yet reality in America.

America boasts about multiculturalism but ignores its own precolumbian societies.

That’s peak hypocrisy.