Update 042726: Called 1800 # and they asked me what the # I was calling about was. A “digital assistant” answered. When I gave my ph# (I carried it over to Xfinity so it isn’t in their system now) they said, “this isn’t a # that is showing in our system” and automatically disconnected me….
Category: Because it’s important to share
Because It’s Important to Share — Attempts at Extinguishing Native American Cultures Continues
Mary Ellen Johnson-Davis Attempts at Extinguishing Native American Cultures Continues I have watched two different things in the past month that have inspired me to write this post. The first one was a documentary, “Missing from Fire Trail Road,” (2024,) which focuses on one particular missing woman from the Tulalip Tribe, Mary Ellen Johnson-Davis. It…
Update in Suit against Nome Police for Failure to Investigate Sexual Assault against Native Woman — Turtle Talk
Excerpts from the complaint: Plaintiff Clarice Hardy is an Alaska Native woman from Nome, Alaska, who worked at the Nome Police Department (NPD) as a dispatcher. In March 2017, Ms. Hardy reported to her superiors at the NPD that she had been sexually assaulted.2. The NPD left her case uninvestigated and untouched for over a…
Things that make me go hm?
Last night as I was watching movies, the bright of the almost full moon kept flickering through the blinds, finally calling enough times to motivate me to do something I rarely do: go outside in the middle of the night to take a picture. It was 3 a.m. when I set my new phone’s camera…
Because it’s important to share: Bone Rooms
Measuring human skulls in physical anthropology (SIA Acc. 12-492 – United States National Museum. Division of Graphic Arts. Section of Photography, Photographic Collection, 1933, Smithsonian Institution Archives) You know how sometimes you randomly come across information that evokes such a visceral response that you are compelled to share the information with others? Going through…
Tao-Talk 