#Kaska

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Kaskians

The Kaska or Kaskians were a tribe of the Pontus, northern Anatolia (today's Turkey), around the Kizil Irmak river mouth, bordering on and constantly harrasing the Hittite empire. That area is mostly mountainous in nature, and there the Kaska occupied simple settlements which presumably formed a loose confederation.

The first recorded appearance of the Kaska in history was during the reign of Hantili I (c. 1590 BCE - 1560 BCE), when they conquered territory including the holy city of Nerik. The city could not be put back under Hittite control until two centuries later.

The Kaska repeatedly penetrated Hittite lands, but never with a permanent occupation, except for the area around Nerik city, which was the gateway between Kaskan and Hittite territories. During Tudhaliya's reign, a major Kaska invasion -maybe concurrently with attacks from other Hittite enemies - led to the brief occupation of the Hittite's capital city, Hattusa, which was burned to the ground (c. 1380 BCE).

The Hittites in turn directed many punitive campaigns against the Kaska territory throughout their history, never being able to subjugate the area. Much of Mursili II's reign (c. 1321 BCE - 1295 BCE), one of the Hittite's greatest kings, was devoted to campaigns against the Kaska. Mursili stated that in his time there was a Kaskan leader called Pihhuniya who acted as king of the Kaska, something never seen before in Kaskan affairs. Occasionally the Hittites and the Kaska chiefs were able to settle treaties of peaceful coexistence, as was the case under Hittite king Arnuwanda I.

The Kaska joined other invaders from afar, the Sea Peoples and the Phrygians, in the final collapse of the Hittie empire c. 1200 BCE. After that, and since Hittite records are our main source about the Kaska, we lose track of them; they fade away as the general political and ethnic landscape in Anatolia changed. They are, however, referenced in the neighbouring Assyrian empire somewhat later, who's king Tiglath-Pileser (c. 1112 BCE - 1072 BCE) fought against Kaskan forces. The last reference to the Kaska comes from the time of the Assyrian king Sargon II around 700 BCE, who also fought them.

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HAWKEYE - "Clint's Farm"

Art by Kaśka Gazdówna

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A Yukon judge has handed a partial victory to First Nations who said they weren't adequately consulted over a proposed mine project in Kaska territory in southeast Yukon. But the court also found that the federal and territorial governments largely met their duty to consult throughout the environmental assessment process. 

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The First Nation argued that the consultation process for the proposed mine in southeast Yukon was unfair and inadequate, as the Crown allegedly listened to Kaska concerns but failed to meaningfully address and incorporate them. The Kudz Ze Kayah project is about 260 kilometres northwest of Watson Lake, Yukon, on Kaska traditional territory.

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[destineden-archived]

@sunbentsky : Kaska —   you can tell me, you know. that’s the way the whole friends thing works. 

"I know," She cuts in before Kaska can fully finish her sentence. It's an ungrateful sound, a cold interjection. She knows. She fucking knows. Miriam drags herself into the bar like she's both the dead bird and the cat. Scruffy, ruffled, mange-ridden, broken wing and bleeding scratches. She wipes sweat from her brow before it can drip down and sting her eyes. She opens her palm and it comes away red. The sight used to startle her. Now it only chills her, a freezing nausea turning over in her gut until her skin crawls. Not her blood, not her problem.

She looks at her friend as she finally, gratefully, lets her rifle slip from her shoulder. The strap has eaten a groove into her flesh, chafed her raw. She'll never get the indention out of her skin. It'll leave a scar all its own. Kaska looks a bit better. The extraction was a clusterfuck. She almost lost her. Almost fucked that up, too. Miriam remembers pressing her dirty hands over the wound in Kaska's side, every alarm bell ringing in her head, screaming about sterility, about infection, sepsis and gangrene. Plague or cholera, really. She wouldn't have lived long enough to get sick. Miriam, already struck with the horror of having killed her best friend, got to watch her recover under more capable hands. Patrick fixed what she could not.

But how can she carry all those images in her brain and then expect Kaska to carry even more? All Miriam ever does is burden her. Every time she tries to help, she makes it worse. Whose fault is it that they're even here? Miriam grabs a bottle of moonshine from the bar, helpfully opened by Mary beforehand.

"Sorry." She adds, more softly, as she sits down with Kaska. The bottle turns into a lifeline under her trembling fingers. She takes a swig and almost burns her throat to cinders. It helps against the cold, though. The cold in her head and her stomach and her bones. She's freezing all the way through. "I know, Kas. I'm just... I don't have anything new to say. It's the same shit as yesterday. And the day before. I can't do that to you. You've done so much, I can't ask more of you. And I can't talk about it. I— If I talk about it," She shakes her head like a child in denial. Instead she reaches her hand over the table to take Kaska's, give it a squeeze with all the dirt and gore that crusts under her fingernails. She lets love overtake her briefly, fill her heart until it aches. It feels so much like grief.

"I love you, okay?"

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[sunbentsky-archived]

I need to talk more about my beloved Kaska and how the artistic urge to create grips her sometimes like an impetuous illness of both spirit and flesh. Art isn’t just a hobby or passion in her life-- it’s an imperative. She will paint and dance and sing even as the world goes down around her because it’s the only thing that truly, truly matters. The only constant that makes sense.

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The Ross River Dena Council is appealing a court decision that said the Kaska Nation was, for the most part, adequately consulted on the Kudz Ze Kayah mining project in the Yukon. The First Nation, in a notice filed to the Yukon Court of Appeal on Feb. 1, is asking for last month's ruling by Yukon Supreme Court Chief Justice Suzanne Duncan be set aside, and for its appeal to be heard on an expedited basis.  The notice continues a legal battle over the proposed development of the Kudz Ze Kayah site, a lead-copper-zinc mine set to be located in southern Yukon between Ross River and Watson Lake on Kaska traditional territory. [...] During a six-day hearing last spring, lawyers for the First Nation emphasized the importance of the area to Kaska, describing it as sacred land and a "bread basket" that could be irreparably damaged. Despite that, they alleged, territorial and federal government bodies undertook an unfair and incomplete consultation process that didn't allow Kaska First Nations to provide proper input. 

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