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Wapshkankwet @wapshkankwet.bsky.social · 5h

HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY

Wapshkankwet @wapshkankwet.bsky.social · 17h

hey, everyone.

i have 3 pair of beaded cab earrings for sale. Halloween inspired, lil goth vibes. Potawatomi made. Support small Indigenous owned business.

Im a single mom and my 6 year old’s birthday is coming up (along with rent).

www.melancholynow.com

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Mark Mason @markmason13.bsky.social · 9d

We have no choice.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19h

I wish people in this country would be honest about the country.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1d

Don't forget that your homeless neighbors, the people living in the streets & out of their cars around you that you see every day, are part of your real world community.

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Wapshkankwet @wapshkankwet.bsky.social · 1d

cheers to all the weirdos.

may they receive it tenfold.

www.melancholynow.com

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Wapshkankwet @wapshkankwet.bsky.social · 1d

bro, it’s mad weird to be boosting your political views, rallies, backing white nationalists & then making shit that reads “decolonize”, like whuuuut

Wapshkankwet @wapshkankwet.bsky.social · 1d

times are definitely uncertain, protecting your energy, intellectual property & extending that protection and assertiveness to include your name, clan, family, communities are so important.

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Wapshkankwet @wapshkankwet.bsky.social · 1d

When “bad medicine” has no meaning to you, yet you’re wishing ill will and hoping bad things happen to others, based on your reactionary feelings and emotions-you best be real mindful of what you’re doing and who you’re doing it to.

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The Entity Formerly Known As The Impercievable Entity 🇲🇽 🇵🇸 @threeninjas.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Stevie White Magpie is a Lakota grandmother who lives in Box Elder, SD. She's been raising her 3 grandkids and last week her daughter died in a car crash, so now she's raising 4. She needs help with food and clothes for them, if anyone is able.

#SettlerSaturday

$tevian78

Stevie White Magpie top right, with her oldest daughter and some of her grandchildren.

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Wapshkankwet @wapshkankwet.bsky.social · 1d

If anyone is interested in supporting cancer research efforts and reading our poems:

www.finishinglinepress.com/product/amer...

American Indian Understandings of Cancer: An Anthology of Poetry Edited by Mariah Abney – Regina Idoate – Aislinn Rookwood – Finishing Line Press

www.finishinglinepress.com

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Wapshkankwet @wapshkankwet.bsky.social · 1d

In the past 5 years I have only self-published and contributed one poem to this anthology.

I write on my patreon and share with my subscribers. No one or entity has helped me in any way. I did buy cover art that was paid in full from a Native artist, but I haven’t used it yet.

Picture of cover of book: mountain range in high plains, with the sunset setting after a rain storm and a rainbow: titled American Indian Understandings of Cancer. An anthology of poetry.

Names of authors at bottom.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 2d

It's amazing how much of not falling for America's settler colonial narrative means actually learning the documented, recorded facts of the noble figures of their pantheon. They're monsters with appetites for cruelty.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

t.co

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#ProtectJhordin and #FreeLink @permanentalien.blacksky.app · 2d

artists who don’t share other artists? red flag 🚩

people requesting mutual aid who don’t share other mutual aid requests?

red flag 🚩

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 2d

"[O]ver 300,000 people had made the trek to Gaza City over the past two days."

"There's no life here."

"All we ask is for the world to help us clear the ruins to make it possible again for us to live with our families and for our children to grow up here."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

Gazans march north again, returning to homes made of rubble

As Palestinians return to the rubble of their homes, the effects of the genocide are being felt amid heightened social unrest. “This war broke us,” one returnee to Gaza City told Mondoweiss. “It…

mondoweiss.net

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Wapshkankwet @wapshkankwet.bsky.social · 2d

precious pierced poodle (moths).

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Wapshkankwet @wapshkankwet.bsky.social · 3d

SLAY!!!! you got this, especially as the deadliest auntie

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Wapshkankwet @wapshkankwet.bsky.social · 3d

We do not celebrate Christopher Columbitch in this house.

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Wapshkankwet @wapshkankwet.bsky.social · 3d

Survivors, victims, relatives and kin have every right to protect themselves and have full transparency from programs they’re associated w/ & working with, whether it’s as a client, creator, contracted or volunteer employee/member, and supporter, so they’re safe

Wapshkankwet @wapshkankwet.bsky.social · 3d

And until we are ready to protect victims and survivors, and stop hiding behind “hurt people, hurt people” & fearing consequences of holding people and entities accountable, we will be supporting our oppressors, predators, and allowing our most vulnerable to be exploited

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Wapshkankwet @wapshkankwet.bsky.social · 3d

It is not abusive for board members and employees of programs to ask for transparency to documentation of claims for filling statuses, records of labor and deliverables, claims on IRS statuses, court proceedings or records that stand against or to support existing programs.

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Wapshkankwet @wapshkankwet.bsky.social · 3d

It’s so common to have survivors in CEO, Director, and managing roles, who aren’t at a point where they SHOULD be accessing survivors, hiring and supervising staff, taking on HR responsibilities , accessing funding and money, and doling out tasks or deciding who is on legal docs.

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Wapshkankwet @wapshkankwet.bsky.social · 3d

Indian Country has so much work to do when it comes to developing, curating, and maintaining programs and resources for victims & survivors to access for safety, protection, and healing, and a lot of it starts with holding those creating and managing programs accountable.

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Wapshkankwet @wapshkankwet.bsky.social · 3d

death moths & a forever kind of love are both available!

gettin’ all ready for Halloween, we are rolling through the end of this year with some goth-ish vibes.

Potawatomi made. Sales go towards Baby Kikwé’s birfffffday!

www.melancholynow.com

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