Cruel, Cruel World, I'm Gone

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great blue heron in august

Denali National Park, Alaska, USA

zitkala-sa or red bird (1876-1938) was was a yankton dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. her later books were among the first works to bring traditional native american stories to a widespread white english-speaking readership. she was co-founder of the national coouncil of american indians in 1926, which was established to lobby for native people’s right to united states citizenship and other civil rights they had long been denied. when she was a child, she was taken to white’s indiana manual labor Institute, a quaker missionary boarding school in wabash, indiana. this training school was founded by josiah white for the education of “poor children, white, colored, and indian to help them advance in society.” she wrote about this in one of her books describing the misery of having her hertiage stripped from her and being forced to cut her hair.

Panoramic views in The Adirondacks

le chariot

Lone Pine

(his name is Bucky)

scenery gif dump 9/?

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all i draw now are deer

Taken October 2022