#native blogs

[tvstvnvkke]

Tribal Names

I don’t think many people, even some native people, are aware that the legal names of many tribes are actually not from the tribe.

Often the names came about because colonizers would ask one tribe "hey, what do you call those people over there?". then they would assign the name given to that tribe. so often the names were descriptions from unrelated tribes, or in more extreme cases, insults.

The Muscogee tribe got pretty lucky since the legal name was "creek" and it came from a different tribe going "oh, those are the people near the creek". which, is accurate enough, most creek settlements were placed along creeks. a famous one that is related to the Muscogee is the name "Cherokee". "Cherokee" is a Muscogee word meaning something along the lines of "people who don’t speak our language". Even this is pretty light compared to some names. some official tribal names translate to phrases like "dog eaters" or "lazy people".

This is why it’s not uncommon for tribes to start using older names. Muscogee comes from the term for our people "Mvskoke", and the tribe has made efforts to distance itself from the name "Creek". Although it is likely still the name you’ll hear most often.

[lop23015]

Hello, my name is Lop, I'm from Brazil so forgive me if my English isn't the best. I'm researching Native American people because I have plans to produce a web comic where the protagonist will be a Native American. To contextualize: the comic will be a Steven Universe AU, in Steven Universe, in the canonical history, it is shown that planet Earth went through a colonization process that began 6,000 years ago, carried out by an alien species called Gems, but this colonization was interrupted due to a rebellion carried out by individuals of the same species who saw value in the life that existed on planet Earth and fought to protect it and free it from Gem tyranny. It's important for me to contextualize this for you because my AU story will take place a few hundred years after the end of this rebellion, but this rebellion took place 4/5 millennia ago. In other words, we are talking about native North American people about 3,800 years ago. And the challenge is to imagine exactly what the native people of North America would have looked like 3,800 years ago. the place where the story will take place will be the Delmarva peninsula in the USA for narrative purposes, and in my research I ended up discovering that at the time my story will take place, the native North American peoples of that region spoke the Algonquian language, and I also discovered that, in more recent times, this region was populated by the Delaware people and the Lenape people. So, to create my character and also her tribe, I'm taking inspiration from the culture of these two tribes, the issue is that I'm not sure what I'm doing, because I haven't found much information about these 2 tribes, to be honest, I don't even know If I should be inspired by these or if there would be another people closer to the people I'm going to portray in my story, then if you have more information about the Lenape and the Delaware to share in the comments, it would be a lot of help, or even if you think you have something that needs to be corrected in everything I wrote.

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

Beware baobabs ahead.

[asgardian--angels]

**URGENT** HELP SAVE THE USGS BEE LAB!

PLEASE circulate this as widely as possible, as soon as possible.

Hi all, you may not know me but I am a native bee researcher in the eastern US. People like me work to study and protect the 3600 species of native bees in North America, many of which are in severe decline.

We just received devastating news, that unfortunately was not surprising. The Trump administration's proposed 2026 budget is set to defund most of the ecological research happening at the USGS, and that includes zeroing out the budget for the USGS Native Bee Inventory & Monitoring Lab.

Don't know them? Maybe you've seen stunning photos like this:

These gorgeous and evocative focus-stacked photos of native bees on black backgrounds - all of which are public domain - come from the USGS Bee Lab (here's their Flickr). Through these, they've helped bring the beauty and importance of native bees to the public's attention. Hundreds if not thousands of news articles, videos, and publications use these photos.

But that is just one tiny slice of what the USGS Bee Lab does for pollinator conservation. Its primary role is much bigger; they provide technical support, research collaborations, and financial & grant partnerships to federal and state agencies, academic institutions and researchers, and much more, so we can study, manage, and protect North America's wild pollinators. They conduct research of their own that has led to species rediscoveries, and produce invaluable resources that have greatly advanced our understanding of wild bees and our approaches to studying and conserving them. They also provide the essential and irreplaceable service of bee identification. For those who don't know, identifying bees is hard. Sometimes Really Hard. And this lab is one of just a handful of places in the entire country who can identify some of the toughest groups of bees, and who sit on the forefront of breakthroughs on taxonomy and identification that the rest of us in this field rely on. Without this service, agencies and researchers trying to survey and monitor bees in order to track population declines, manage land, and get policy changed are stuck with a lot of nameless bees, severely limiting the usefulness of that data.

Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of bee specimens pass through this lab annually, plus the thousands in permanent storage, from long-term monitoring efforts by state and federal agencies, and researchers like myself. They operate at a greater capacity than basically any other institution doing this kind of work. Few if any bee researchers in the eastern US, or even the country, have not benefitted from this lab's work, and those benefits are passed on to you through being able to protect pollinators and the services they provide both in agriculture and ecosystems.

This lab is headed up by scientist Sam Droege, who has dedicated decades of his life to this cause, and whom I consider not just a research partner but, humbly, a friend. I am utterly indebted to him for helping me get my start in this field, and for the support and kindness he has shown me and every other young professional who is passionate about pollinators. The Lab operates with an insanely small budget already, and a very limited staff, yet the impact they have is exponentially outsized. Losing the USGS Bee Lab would be a devastating blow to pollinator conservation in this country, at a time when native bee species are sitting on the precipice, and sustainable agriculture is non-negotiable for our future.

You can read more about the Bee Lab here. The Lab is not well-publicized, but it's a lifeline for the many dedicated people who work to try and protect pollinators and the environment at large.

SO WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Sam Droege has sent out a request for help, and has encouraged us to post on social media. This is what he wants you to do to help us save the Bee Lab.

This is verbatim:

What is Happening: ·       The USGS Bee Lab is at risk of being permanently closed due to cuts in the 2026 Federal Budget and looming federal RIF’s ·       Specifically, the Ecosystem Mission Area (EMA) budget, which funds the USGS Bee Lab and the Eastern Ecological Science center has been zeroed out ·       Thousands of layoffs to hit Interior, National Parks imminently - Government Executive What you can do ·       Write to your representatives, the White House, and the Department of the Interior that they should restore the funding for the USGS Bee Lab ·       Send digital or physical letters, write emails, post to social media What you should be highlighting: ·       Personal anecdotes about how the Bee Lab has impacted you or your organization ·       How important the research the Bee Lab is conducting is to your state Contact Information: 1.      Representatives: Find Your Representative | house.gov 2.      Senators: U.S. Senate: Contacting U.S. Senators 3.      White House: Contact Us – The White House 4.      Interior: feedback@ios.doi.gov Send a copy of the letter to droegesam@gmail.com Pass this email around.  Post your response to social media

IT'S OK if you are not a scientist and have not directly interacted with the Bee Lab. Have you seen the lab's photos? Are you concerned about native pollinator declines? Are you aware of any pollinator conservation initiatives or policies in your own state - those almost certainly have drawn, directly or indirectly, from work the Lab has done. Speak about American food production and agriculture, how the Lab's research and collaborations are essential to safeguarding pollination services (this might help reach across the aisle).

Sam urges that these letters, emails, phone calls, etc, must happen quickly - within the next couple days. This information went out on May 8th and that is the day I am posting this. So please, don't wait.

If 'save the bees' has ever meant anything to you, this is the agency that is playing one of the biggest roles in this country in making that happen. Please, contact your representatives, and pass this call to action along however you can. Thank you.

[mortellanarts]

Você vai embora e meus sonhos vão contigo / You go and my dreams go with you

Me esquecerás Me esquecerás / You'll forget me You'll forget me

Sei que vou perder um grande amor e um bom amigo / I know I'll lose a great love and a great friend

Me diga então Como vai ser? / Tell me then How will it be?

Eu sem você / Me without you

[summerwages]

the secret life of weeds...

[ask-the-pioneer]

do you remember your father?? i mean, if you remember having one as a pup

"My other parent...?"

"I don't remember them... him... at all. I'm sorry." She says as if apologizing to herself. "Mom would never talk about him, and I was too young to even understand you need a mate to have pups, or that slugcats form colonies."

Marbles is lost in her thoughts again. You keep asking questions, and it unearths some of her long forgotten memories.

"There was this one time... me, my sibling, and mom, we got to observe a big noodlefly nest. I saw their delicious eggs hanging from the ceiling for the first time. When I asked mom about it, she explained that when two noots pair up, they lay their eggs in safe places so they could hatch. Little baby noodles attach to the parent's tail for safety. «Like slugcats!», she said. So, of course my tiny child mind pressed on. «Do slugpups hatch from eggs? Can I lay an egg? Can I eat egg? Was I a good egg?». Mom put up with my nonsense, I think she found it funny... until my brilliant child brain connected the dots, and asked «if I'm an egg, then who did she make me with». She hesitated, and the brief silence mixed with the look on her face is what seared that moment into my mind. «...With your father, of course. But, he's gone. Let's go get something to eat now. You want a blue fruit? I think we can get some of them down the pipe over there...», Mom blurted out as she took my hand in hers. I followed with «Why?», but she pretended not to hear it. In the end, my mind was quickly distracted from asking any more awkward questions by the promise of a tasty meal. I can't remember any other time my second parent was brought up again..."

[noseysilverfox]

March 2025

Field elm (lat. Úlmus mínor), small elm, or birch bark. It blooms before the leaves bloom and is considered a good honeybush.🌱

One of the longest-living elms once stood in the village square of Metaxades, Thrace, Greece. After abandoning their original village in 1286 due to cholera outbreaks, the villagers resettled on nearby hills, where a young elm grew beside a spring. This elm remained a focal point of village life until the late 20th century🌳

Малый вяз или вяз листоватый (лат. Úlmus mínor). Другие названия: берест, карагач, пробковый ильм, красный ильм. Цветет до распускания листьев и считается хорошим медоносом🌱

Один из самых долгоживущих вязов рос на площади деревни Метаксадес, Фракия, Греция. Покинув свою первоначальную деревню в 1286 году после вспышек холеры, жители деревни заново основали ее на холмах, где рядом с источником рос молодой вяз. Данный вяз были центром внимания деревни до конца 20-го века🌳

[corvid-language-library]

I asked my supervisor - who has lived in Japan for 17 years, speaks fluent Japanese and reads Japanese documents/emails on a daily basis for work/general life (including helping us with complicated official paperwork) - how to read a fairly basic word (人物 - じんぶつ). He stared at it for a moment and was like, yeah I'm not actually 100% sure.

It's an N3 word btw, but those kanji are N5/N4.

If someone who's fluent in Japanese and has lived in Japan for 17 years and is generally pretty interested in languages doesn't always remember how to read N3 vocab then you really don't need to kick yourself for not remembering all the kanji readings all the time.

[tvstvnvkke]

Counting in Mvskoke, extended!

[lop23015]

Hello, my name is Lop, I'm from Brazil so forgive me if my English isn't the best. I'm researching Native American people because I have plans to produce a web comic where the protagonist will be a Native American. To contextualize: the comic will be a Steven Universe AU, in Steven Universe, in the canonical history, it is shown that planet Earth went through a colonization process that began 6,000 years ago, carried out by an alien species called Gems, but this colonization was interrupted due to a rebellion carried out by individuals of the same species who saw value in the life that existed on planet Earth and fought to protect it and free it from Gem tyranny. It's important for me to contextualize this for you because my AU story will take place a few hundred years after the end of this rebellion, but this rebellion took place 4/5 millennia ago. In other words, we are talking about native North American people about 3,800 years ago.And the challenge is to imagine exactly what the native people of North America would have looked like 3,800 years ago. the place where the story will take place will be the Delmarva peninsula in the USA for narrative purposes, and in my research I ended up discovering that at the time my story will take place, the native North American peoples of that region spoke the Algonquian language, and I also discovered that, in more recent times, this region was populated by the Delaware people and the Lenape people. So, to create my character and also her tribe, I'm taking inspiration from the culture of these two tribes, the issue is that I'm not sure what I'm doing, because I haven't found much information about these 2 tribes, to be honest, I don't even know If I should be inspired by these or if there would be another people closer to the people I'm going to portray in my story, then if you have more information about the Lenape and the Delaware to share in the comments, it would be a lot of help, or even if you think you have something that needs to be corrected in everything I wrote.

[wolvertooth]

(Wolverine 2003, issues #16 + #17)

one of the best written sabretooths of all time, unfortunately paired up with one of the worst written wolverines.....

guy does not shut up the entire arc(13 - 19) and even by the end, even after logan parks a fucking truck ontop of him, still wants to hang around and help him out.

‘i know you, i know the way you think…’ DONT SAY THATTTTT

also the way he just LETS HIM DRIVE HIS TRUCK…..

and saying wet while stroking his face. dude. cmon. kinda faggy.

(i mean obv its not intended to be, hes more so just blabbing on n on cuz hes got like. 0 friends outside of this runt. who hates his guts. sad!) (he calls him runt like every other sentence....thats legally no longer an insult, thats just straight up a nickname)

[aurapeach]

source

[rooftopdaigos]

[summerwages]

moth mullein on a monday...

[bsomfiat]