atomicthumbs

remote sensing practicioner

gregarious canid. avatar by ISANANIKA.


Website League address
@wolf@forest.stream
send me an email
atomicthumbs@wolf.observer
twitter but hopefully i only post photos there in the future
twitter.com/atomicthumbs
newsletter!! this one will let me tell you where i go
buttondown.com/atomicthumbs
newsletter rss same thing
buttondown.com/atomicthumbs/rss
Website League (centralized federation social media project)
websiteleague.org/
Push Processing (Website League photography instance)
pushprocess.ing/
88x31 button embed code
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forest.stream (general admission website league instance)
forest.stream/
bluesky (probably just for photos)
bsky.app/profile/wolf.observer
this will be a cohost museum someday
cohost.rip/

Sahoni
@Sahoni

Please read the preliminary report from the department of the interior's initial investigation to understand the very surface level of what it is the ICWA (indian child welfare act) is defending against. It is not an easy read. It in fact will be very upsetting.

But know no matter how upsetting you find the horrific abuse and death, this is the surface of a very deep trauma. There are many aspects it did not touch. And the academic language used to insulate mutes a level of horror.

These schools did not end. Some are still in operation. Some closed in the 80s. Many of them became adoption agencies. There use to be vans that grabbed kids off the street.

Estimates place 25-35% of native children were taken out of their communities. Forced sterilization was something that happened to about 1 in 4. There were whole communities that lost all their children. The reason we don’t have examples of exact numbers were that people didn’t think it was important enough to track or purposefully obfuscated and buried it.


Sahoni
@Sahoni

I have uncles missing because of the things the ICWA is arguing over. This is personal to me dammit. I don't want any family to ever go through this trauma. Its scarred all of us. This is genocide plain and simple. It's people who keep taking and don't know when to stop.

I can't tell you the kind of silence that fills a room when someone who has been taken is brought up and remembered.

It's like a deep and uncertain death.


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