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Dr. Paulette Steeves

@indigarc.bsky.social

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Canadian, Cree-Metis, Archaeologist, Canada Research Chair Tier II. Pyroepistemology, Author of the Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere. Gardening, food security, Terra Preta soils. Democracy

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Dr. Paulette Steeves @indigarc.bsky.social · 7h

Yes there are no weeds. There are many plants. You just have to learn how to use them preserve them and honour them.

Honey Girl Grows @honeygirlgrows.bsky.social · 1d

Last botanical from the art gallery of NSW Sydney Australia: Murnong daisies being harvested by an Aboriginal woman allude to food histories that many have forgotten. 🌱

Daisy’s being harvested by an aboriginal woman, others do with in frame surrounding

A book cover, ‘he oldest foods on earth’

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Dr. Paulette Steeves @indigarc.bsky.social · 7h

Nice app free food

cozybearhugs.bsky.social @cozybearhugs.bsky.social · 8d

fallingfruit.org

Falling Fruit

A massive, collaborative map of the urban harvest uniting the efforts of foragers, freegans, and foresters around the world. Explore and share information about the sources of free food in your neighb...

fallingfruit.org

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Dr. Paulette Steeves @indigarc.bsky.social · 7h

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Dr. Paulette Steeves @indigarc.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe you could post for me some of the things that Democrats are doing that would be good to know

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Dr. Paulette Steeves @indigarc.bsky.social · 2d

Yeahhhh thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...

Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order establishing ‘ICE-free zones’ • The TRiiBE

Johnson is calling for a full investigation into “all of the brutality” that federal agents have conducted this past week.

thetriibe.com

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Dr. Paulette Steeves @indigarc.bsky.social · 2d

This is so unbelievable and so incredibly sad. I wish the Democrats would or could do more to stop this craziness of ICE.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters..."

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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Dr. Paulette Steeves @indigarc.bsky.social · 3d

GrandmaDeb @deebee54.bsky.social · 3d

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Dr. Paulette Steeves @indigarc.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, I am sure we all agree

DemCast USA @demcast.com · 4d

ICE is too dangerous to be left unaccountable.
Violence & abuse against Americans is wrong.

If you see an incident occurring, get out your cellphone. Document it. Send it to your Congressperson and the press. Do it anonymously if you need to. #BeTheChange

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Dr. Paulette Steeves @indigarc.bsky.social · 4d

It is amazing that it’s October and I still have new flowers popping out every day. They are such a blessing. These are a few from my yard.

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Dr. Paulette Steeves @indigarc.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you :)

Dr. Paulette Steeves @indigarc.bsky.social · 4d

Enjoying a beautiful day with my cat and my dog and a coffee on my newly roofed front porch in between editing book chapters. Have a beautiful Saturday, everyone.

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Dr. Paulette Steeves @indigarc.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you

Dr. Paulette Steeves @indigarc.bsky.social · 5d

Porch roof is finished so nice to sit on the front porch now and no more deep snow at the door :)

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Dr. Paulette Steeves @indigarc.bsky.social · 6d

So this is happening and when I open my door this winter, I may not immediately see four or 5 feet of snow :)

The framing of a new front porch roof on my house

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Dr. Paulette Steeves @indigarc.bsky.social · 6d

These artifacts from Santa Elina are roughly 27,000 years old—more than 10,000 years before scientists once thought humans arrived in the Americas.

phys.org/news/2024-12...