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ᏣᎳᎩ Auntie & Grandmother 🌾
@saveelati.bsky.social
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Artist, writer, educator, advocate, animator & editor
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Good morning to everyone supporting the boycott
#WeAintBuyingIt
Four inflatable frogs plant a flag that says "Party like your freedom matters" in a pile of corporate "logo" look-a-likes
December 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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For just $5 you can:
Give yourself an eBook
Gift someone on your list the same eBook (just add to, from, delivery date & their email to your order)
Give to DV & trafficking survivors
Support a nonprofit cooperative
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Cover of "They are not Wild, They're Family" with 5 Indigenous figures wrapped in blankets with indigenous medicine plants as headdresses and roots as hair below a starry sky
December 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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The only measurable difference between the GOP & DNC is the hate they stoke
Both share negative long-term impacts on workers, children & seniors (because they're both backed by the same billionaires/corporate welfare agenda) but 1 spews intolerance of "others"* & 1 others poor yts*
*for billionaires
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/04/20/how-the-american-middle-class-has-changed-in-the-past-five-decades/ Chart showing the following data "The share of aggregate U.S. household income held by the middle class has fallen steadily since 1970. The widening of the income gap and the shrinking of the middle class has led to a steady decrease in the share of U.S. aggregate income held by middle-class households. In 1970, adults in middle-income households accounted for 62% of aggregate income, a share that fell to 42% in 2020. Meanwhile, the share of aggregate income accounted for by upper-income households has increased steadily, from 29% in 1970 to 50% in 2020. Part of this increase reflects the rising share of adults who are in the upper-income tier. The share of U.S. aggregate income held by lower-income households edged down from 10% to 8% over these five decades, even though the proportion of adults living in lower-income households increased over this period."
March 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Some good news, the last of the materials for the prototypes for my new emotional support pillows/puffer books arrived this week
A yellow puffer pillow with the words "I am your pillow!" in black
March 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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UPDATE: ISABELLA HAS BEEN LOCATED AND IS NOW SAFE.
UPDATE: ISABELLA YU HAS BEEN LOCATED AND IS NOW SAFE.
March 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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As of June 2023, the percentage of missing
persons identified as Indigenous American and
Alaskan women in the National Missing and
Unidentified Persons System represented three
times the overall percentage of Indigenous
American and Alaska women in the total US
population
March 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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See you Saturday
Human needs Not corporate and fascist greed Feb. 28, 2025 Buy Nothing
February 28, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Reminder:
billionaires & powerful millionaires go "camping"* in the woods together Every Year to put on ceremonial plays about murdering & cremating CARE

They ceremonially kill & cremate care, as in Caring, yearly

*with catering & personal waiters/valets for attendees
#BohemianGrove
screencap of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove#Cremation_of_Care Screencap from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove
February 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Did you know if you don't want to accept DMs on this app, you can turn them off?
The other day I learned that not everyone knows this
To turn off direct messages (DMs) on Bluesky, go to your settings, navigate to "Direct Messages," and select "No one" to prevent anyone from sending you DMs, or choose "Users I follow" to restrict DMs to only those you follow. Here's a more detailed breakdown: Accessing Settings: Open the Bluesky app and tap the hamburger menu icon (three horizontal lines) to open the "Settings and Activity" menu. Navigating to DM Settings: Within the settings menu, find and tap on "Messages and Story Replies," then select "Message Controls". Choosing DM Permissions: You'll find options to control who can send you direct messages: "Everyone": Allow any Bluesky user to send you a DM. "Users I follow": Restrict DMs to only those you follow. "No one": Disable direct messaging entirely. Notification Sounds: You can also choose whether to enable or disable message notification sounds.
February 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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The founders of GreasyGrass Cooperative Press have never even considered betraying millions (or ourselves) by "scaling back" our DEI policies, to do otherwise would compromise our founding purpose.

We will continue to hold diversity, equity & inclusion as core principles.
The founders of GreasyGrass Cooperative Press have never even considered betraying millions (or ourselves) by "scaling back" our DEI policies, to do otherwise would compromise our founding purpose. We will continue to hold diversity, equity & inclusion as core principles.
February 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Not gonna lie, it's viciously hurtful to see complaints about striking a handful of words like diversity & equity from federal sites from those who downplayed or IGNORED Biden waiving the law that decriminalized EVERY INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE & Religion (ALL OF OUR WORDS) to build p2025's wall in 2023
Proof https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/06/biden-border-wall-indigenous-climate-rio-grande Alt On newsprint: "Public law 95-341-Aug 11, 1978, 95th Congress Joint resolution. American Indian Religious Freedom. Whereas the freedom of religion for all people is an inherent right, fundamental to the Democratic structure of the United States & is guaranteed by the First amendment of the United States Constitution; Whereas the United States has traditionally rejected the concept of a government denying individuals the right to practice their religion & as a result has benefited from a rich variety of religious heritages in this country; Whereas the religious practices of the American Indian as well as Native Alaskan & Hawaiian are an integral part of their culture, tradition & heritage, such practices forming the basis of Indian identity & value systems: Whereas the traditional American Indian religions, as an integral part of Indian life, are indispensable & irreplaceable.."
February 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Post from Greasy Grass Cooperative with the following text over a gif of Wes Studi dancing "Word on Auntie chat is Greasy Grass Cooperative Press's first by Indigenous for Indigenous Comic Book to raise money to help end the MMIW/MMIP crisis is entering the final lettering stage & could be released in a matter of weeks!"
February 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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February 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Promised pics of the progress (tomorrow work begins on our future guestrooms for DV & Trafficking Survivors traveling to safety)
1 step at a time, doing our part to end the Missing & Murdered Indigenous People #MMIP crisis
An old sunday-school classroom, long unused. A forgotten cabinet filled with forgotten items. An empty cabinet ready to be cleaned An empty room ready to be cleaned. This room will have heavy book-binding equipment so it will require sound-dampening, because of this the walls will not be painted as they will be covered in acoustic insulation board and egg-crate foam.
February 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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We're adding guest rooms so that DV & trafficking victims who have experienced trauma in hotel rooms have a safe, well-secured, free option
A photo of a cabinet filled with linens and service items before Nick started cleaning it out A photo of an empty cabinet after Nick cleaned it out A photo of our small gymnasium-size multi-purpose room, carpet cleaning in progress A photo of our small gymnasium-size multi-purpose room, carpet cleaning still in progress
February 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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These are the buildings we LandBacked & are turning into a culturally appropriate safe-stop for MMIP survivors traveling home or to a place of recovery, & space for our author & artist workshop program for vulnerable Indigenous youth co-created with authors Weyodi OldBear & Sarah Perrote
February 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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A Poem & visual aid:
Humanity is synonymous with compassion
So are true human beings
People who have no compassion are quite literally less human
Screen cap from https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/humanity#benevolence
February 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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The fact that privately written history is Far easier to manipulate than publicly held oral history is well proven

#ReIndigenize
Highway that says "Republicans erasing history from books...Again," exit to the right says "Healthy oral history networks of Indigenous cultures" car swerving towards exit says everyone but wh*te supremacists
September 13, 2023 at 4:59 PM
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Painting with neuroscience is a long-time passion of mine, especially now that so many new dye colors are being used in fluorescence microscopy

My new book will contain all new images but here are a couple I've made over the past few decades
Pale blue lines pulled from a photo of neurons create the shape of a scarab on a deeply saturated dark blue background An image made of blue and red stained neurons shows two mirrored and alienesque, skull-like shapes which are surrounded by a frame that seems to be made of long strips of fabric floating in liquid
September 5, 2023 at 4:10 PM
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The same bigots who whine about "reverse racism" are the 1st to believe true inborn Evil of All ethnic Europeans- that they're all so "inherently" Twisted that wh*te-supremacy just "naturally evolved" from their hate & biases (in reality it was created by commission for a medieval king in 1452)
Just so it's clear, those who identity with "whiteness" have Chosen to identify as made up "science" invented by a man named Gomez "Whiteness" & white-supremacy were invented in Portugal by Gomes/z Azurara, the biographer of Henry the Navigator & King Alfonso (who had 0 scientific knowledge) Remember this when they pick on pronouns & gender identity
August 11, 2023 at 1:03 AM
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Sometimes I make beads from soundwaves, this one is from our language's word for love, ᎬᎨᏳᎢ, it means "you will eat before I eat, I will stand in the rain to keep you dry..." (depending on how moved the speaker is this list can go on)
August 4, 2023 at 4:20 PM