Scott 🦇Cave🦇
@hellabarnes.bsky.social
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Former historian, current stay at home dad. just a clod of the common earth Posting RVA-area plant pics on Insta @powerlinebotany, for now
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hellabarnes.bsky.social
no, I said I wanted a tradewife. like a union electrician
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hellabarnes.bsky.social
I’ve been sitting on this really cool historical document about life in Indigenous 16th century Appalachia for seven years.

Since today is Indigenous People’s Day, I’m going to translate it and put it on my website instead of waiting for the perfect moment.
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hellabarnes.bsky.social
Here is a fairly drafty first draft!

I am so thrilled to tell the story of these two Appalachian Indigenous women from the 16th century, a story that is just barely tellable. Please let me know if you use it!

www.scottcave.net/blog/2025/10/13/luisa-and-teresa-of-appalachia
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hellabarnes.bsky.social
If you are looking for a good treatment of Indigenous slavery in this era, may I recommend

www.pennpress.org/978081225310...
hellabarnes.bsky.social
it features such fun topics as captivity, made up pale Indigenous people, nose rings, bison, nut butter, and 30-50 feral hogs eating babies.
hellabarnes.bsky.social
They disappear from the archival record, but that just gives me space to hope for the same thing!

I do have a story about an Indigenous woman who makes it home, if you’re interested.

muse.jhu.edu/pub/122/arti...
Project MUSE - Madalena: <i>The Entangled History of One Indigenous Floridian Woman in the Atlantic World</i>
muse.jhu.edu
hellabarnes.bsky.social
featuring captivity, made up pale Indigenous people, nose rings, bison, nut butter, and 30-50 feral hogs eating babies.

In the coming weeks I will add my transcription so that you can check my work.
hellabarnes.bsky.social
Here is a fairly drafty first draft!

I am so thrilled to tell the story of these two Appalachian Indigenous women from the 16th century, a story that is just barely tellable. Please let me know if you use it!

www.scottcave.net/blog/2025/10/13/luisa-and-teresa-of-appalachia
hellabarnes.bsky.social
“no ay mas de quatro puertas principales y que las sierran de noche por causa de las guerras y puercos grandes que ay que si no las serrasen las puertas entrarian y suelen matar algunos niños”
hellabarnes.bsky.social
I forgot there are 30-50 feral hogs in here
hellabarnes.bsky.social
I couldn’t have written my dissertation without her dissertation, which became this book
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greatlakesqueer.bsky.social
Agreed, this book is very good and REALLY important.
hellabarnes.bsky.social
If you are looking for a good treatment of Indigenous slavery in this era, may I recommend

www.pennpress.org/978081225310...
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cheatlines.co
my page is an anti-anti-hops safe space. rp if you're not scared of a fluffy green flower
hop vine with cones
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thefred.bsky.social
"Well, everyone knows Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the earth 1,700 years ago. What this voyage presupposes is, maybe he didn't."
hellabarnes.bsky.social
and it’s relatively affordable for an academic book
hellabarnes.bsky.social
If you are looking for a good treatment of Indigenous slavery in this era, may I recommend

www.pennpress.org/978081225310...
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marbleliberal.bsky.social
"...by what right or justice do you hold these Indians in such cruel and horrible slavery?... Be sure that in your present state you can no more be saved than the Moors or Turks who do not have and do not want the faith of Jesus Christ." -Antonio de Montesinos, Santo Domingo, 1511
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marbleliberal.bsky.social
"I who am the voice of Christ crying in the wilderness of this island...declare that you are in mortal sin, and live and die therein by reason of the cruelty and tyranny that you practice on these innocent people." -Antonio de Montesinos, 1511, Santo Domingo
Sculpture of Antonio de Montesinos https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monumento_Fray_Antonio_de_Montesinos_SD_08_2019_7873.jpg
hellabarnes.bsky.social
I wish that every social interaction in Latin America was not some form of judicial testimony in run on sentences, but alas.
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hellabarnes.bsky.social
“christopher columbus, manatee fucker” is an example of what werner herzog refers to as “ecstatic truth”
kellylwatson.bsky.social
I’m not a Columbus apologist by any measure, but I am going to need to see her sources linking Columbus’ predilection for sea cows and the emergence of STDs
hellabarnes.bsky.social
my keyboard is dying and school pickup is looming, but I will do as much as I can today
hellabarnes.bsky.social
this implies that koreans invented bees
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swolecialism.bsky.social
i love the implication that gochu predate the evolution of flowers by 800 million years or more
theophite.bsky.social
this is a common insane Korean nationalist belief. from History of Korean Gochu, Gochujang, and Kimchi: