Some see objects in the Earth, where I see lungs. Sky mother falls thrua hole, lands on a turtle.Hole is my favorite band.TommyPico 39
All about perspectives. Now I want to look up hole to check out this genius’s taste in music. LOVE THIS POET!
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- Oct 2022
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I love how he gives nature feelings and human like emotions to help us relate to it, instead of “othering” nature to make us feel superior to it.
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mother waves at oak trees. A doctor delivers her diagnosis.When she ascends the mountains to pick acorn, my mothermotherfucking waves at oak trees. Watching her stand there, herhands behind her back, rocking, grinninginto the face of the bark-They are talking to each other.I am nothinglike that, I say to my audience.I say, I went to Sarah LawrenceCollegeI make quinoan shitOnce on campus I see a York Peppermint Pattie wrapper on the ground,pick it up, and throw it away. Yr such a good Indian says some dickwalking to class. So,I no longer pick up trash.
I can totally relate! My friends called my family weird when they heard my mom talking to our mint plant when she was picking sprigs from it sol stopped talking to plants when my friends were around.
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He keeps talking like I want to hear himLike he's so comfortableLike everybody owes him attentionI'm a weirdo NON faggotHe puts his hands on the ribs of my chair asks do I want to go into thebathroom with himLet's say it doesn't turn me on at allLet's say I literally hate all men be literally men are animals-This is a kind of nature I would write a poem about.
The cringe factor is at 100! I feel his dry heave. This kind of human male who thinks they are Gods gift to planet Earth and all it’s inhabitants. 🤮lol I enjoyed this modern poem with slang writing. Kept me interested in what he had to say next. Very clever.
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May that fire within your body continue to glow brightly.”
Reminds me of Namaste ❤️
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Meanwhile, Indigenous people remain largely absent fromstudent populations, staff, faculty and even curriculum
This is the Central problem. It’s on-going. It didn’t stop and stolen lands, it’s the inequities that continue in education to this day.
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Recent investigations into universities’ ties to slavery provide blueprintsfor institutions to reconsider their histories. Land acknowledgementsfurnish mechanisms to recognize connections to Indigenousdispossession. Our data challenges universities to re-evaluate thefoundations of their success by identifying nearly every acre obtained andsold, every land seizure or treaty made with the land’s Indigenouscaretakers, and every dollar endowed with profits from dispossession.
This is a very interesting piece of data to use if I were going to take the energy to challenge the decision of need-based Native Grants (thought bubble).
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Altogether, the grants, when adjusted for inflation, were worth about half abillion dollars.
JUST WOW.
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which is why a 2014 studycalled it “the gift that keeps on giving.”
Which is why I believe the Native American Grants are necessary and should not be need based. Ofcourse theres a need, Its 2022!
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“last wild Indian.”
Wow, exploitation at it's finest! This is classic "othering". They didn't see him as a man, or a fear cultivating savage, or simply a survivor, they framed him defeated, and something to domesticate. The fact that he felt the need to become known to the 'enemy' after 40 years of hiding is profound in itself! So sad.
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he swept the floors with astraw broom as a janitor’s assistant. In return, he waspaid $25 a month
I find it interesting that they taught him new skills that required low intelligence when they could have asked to learn how he survived the forest, river, and canyons while evading the colonizers for so long. I think they missed a very valuable learning opportunity for useful skills.
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I agree with this whole paragraph in that, yes, details are necessary but that is extreme. We need to find the middle ground in-between the details and the bigger picture, where most students thrive. Because we all learn different, we all come from different backgrounds with conflicting common knowledge and even attitudes towards learning, our testing learning should match that right?
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