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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk

@adriftalchemist.bsky.social

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Dakota/Lakota (Ft. Peck) • Lingít (Sheet'ká Kwáan) 🌱 Just an auntie tryna make the world a better place for the nieces/nephews 🌱 Panzer’s madre

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 1h

i’m expecting a declaration of emergency from dunleavy—and am hopeful that the native village of kotzebue will apply for a federal declaration as well

CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 1h

kotzebue, alaska declared a mandatory evacuation order

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 1d

forget-me-not

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 1d

📍sheet’ka, lingit aani

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 1d

⛅️

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 2d

don’t wear shoes in the house 😜

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 2d

hoover dual power max pet

CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 2d

gotta love a good carpet cleaner

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 2d

this is what 10 hours of beginner ravenstail weaving looks like 😮‍💨

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 3d

what once was considered a lost art form is now booming and prevalent in our communities

it’s beautiful what can come from passion and perseverance

they did it. teri did it

CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 3d

like, me and an eagle watched a whale swim by right after taking the photo above

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 3d

the view from my local grocery store parking lot—where you can see whales (grey, humpback, orca), sea otters, seals, eagles, and ravens on the regular

📍sheet’ka, lingit aani

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 3d

love this photo of tlingit weaver teri rofkar (rip)

she looks so happy

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 3d

guess who has a new obsession to hyperfixate on??

after 30 years of beading, i’m finally learning weaving

after struggling on the first row, my fingers started getting into a steady weaving rhythm on the second ☺️

gunalchéesh sitka tribe of alaska and university of alaska southeast

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 4d

beading is medicine 🌱

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 4d

started the morning with a beautiful pink sunrise and ending it with an equally stunning pink sunset 🤩

📸 iris klingler

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 5d

we were there this afternoon looking for mushrooms!

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 5d

🙂

CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 5d

boo

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 5d

did you whistle?

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Don Moore @capture907.bsky.social · 5d

Who's ready for more aurora? This is in normal speed (no timelapse) from 9/30 around 930pm in Anchorage.

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 6d

guuuuuuurl… get over here so i can smudge you and tigiq down

CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 7d

northern lights are out again! whistled at them and they started dancing across the sky above me

gotta get up early so can’t watch them tonight, but have fun everyone in alaska who’s awake right now

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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 7d

they’re out in sitka too!

CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 7d

welp… i mean, they can try

but there’s a lot more that goes into this and the local municipality could definitely put up roadblocks

permitting, infrastructure (water/wastewater), taxes, etc.