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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @economics_that_works

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...in your thread.

2.) Not long after the First #OilCrisis of the 1970's, gas-guzzling #SUVs like the #Jeep #Cherokee (1984) and the #Toyota #RAV4 were introduced.1)

3.) Presently, it seems that (virtually?) *all* (additionally generated) #GreenEnergy will be consumed by the energy-devouring #AI #Datacenters 2), which, in turn, heat up the atmosphere even more than before the WWW.

1) https://daxstreet.com/cars/148917/evolution-of-suvs-from-ancient-carriages-to-modern-electric-vehicles/

Evolution of SUVs: From Ancient Carriages to Modern Electric Vehicles - DAX Street

The public in America has shown a strong preference for larger and heavier passenger cars, a trend that is quickly spreading globally. Besides the

DAX Street

Blog Oklahoma Jun 11

Cherokee Nation uses storytelling to preserve culture through Stories on the Square
https://ktul.com/news/local/cherokee-nation-uses-storytelling-to-preserve-culture-through-stories-on-the-square-06-10-2026

#Oklahoma #Cherokee

Cherokee Nation uses storytelling to preserve culture through Stories on the Square

Children and families gathered in downtown Tahlequah on Wednesday morning as the Cherokee Nation continued its annual Stories on the Square program.

KTUL

Hacker News Jun 10

A Written Language for the Cherokee So Efficient It Was Thought to Be Magic

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/man-created-written-language-cherokee-did-efficiently-elegantly-peers-thought-magic-180988850/

#HackerNews #Cherokee #Language #Magic #WrittenLanguage #CulturalHeritage #Innovation

The Man Who Created a Written Language for the Cherokee Did It So Efficiently and Elegantly, His Peers Thought It Was Magic

Sequoyah’s syllabary faced suspicion initially, but after a demonstration, his version of “talking leaves” was widely embraced. And then the word spread

Smithsonian Magazine

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Yehuda TurtleIsland.social Jun 9

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Usually once a year or so I get some version or another of the #Cherokee story. Today:

Neighbor: Blah blah blah, I didn't even know Buffy St Marie was Native...

Me: Really? 👀

Neighbor: My family says we have Native ancestry, probably [here it comes] Cherokee!

Me: Oh... [silent facepalm, no energy or time to shatter the myth...]

~30% of US residents think they have Native ancestry, most of those Cherokee, when the real number is about 3%, a whole lot of imagination...
#Native #Indigenous

MikeDunnAuthor Jun 8

Today in Labor History June 8, 1917: The Granite Mountain/Spectacular Mine disaster killed 168 men in Butte, Montana. It was the deadliest underground mine disaster in U.S. history. Within days, men were walking out of the copper mines all over Butte in protest of the dangerous working conditions. Two weeks later, organizers had created a new union, the Metal Mine Workers’ Union. They immediately petitioned Anaconda, the largest of the mine companies, for union recognition, wage increases and better safety conditions. By the end of June, electricians, boilermakers, blacksmiths and other metal tradesmen had walked off the job in solidarity.

Frank Little, a Cherokee miner and member of the IWW, went to Butte during this strike to help organize the miners. Little had previously helped organize oil workers, timber workers and migrant farm workers in California. He had participated in free speech fights in Missoula, Spokane and Fresno, and helped pioneer many of the passive resistance techniques later used by the Civil Rights movement. He was also an anti-war activist, calling U.S. soldiers “Uncle Sam’s scabs in uniforms.” On August 1, 1917, vigilantes broke into the boarding house where he was staying. They dragged him through the streets while tied to the back of a car and then hanged him from a railroad trestle.

Author Dashiell Hammett had been working in Butte at the time as a striker breaker for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. They had tried to get him to murder Little, offering him $5,000, but he refused. He later wrote about the experience in his novel, “Red Harvest.” It supposedly haunted him throughout his life that anyone would think he would do such a thing.

You can read my biography of Little here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/05/frank-little/

And my biography of Hammett here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/05/dashiell-hammett/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #union #strike #FrankLittle #indigenous #nativeamerican #cherokee #freespeech #mining #antiwar #civilrights #Pinkertons #books #fiction #writer #author @bookstadon

Yehuda TurtleIsland.social Jun 7

My neighbors got their #CherokeeNation Tribal IDs updated at an outreach event in Chicago yesterday. They also got to meet Principal Chief Chuck Hoskins.

Outreach like this is great, I wish more Native Nations would do it in Chicago.
#Tsalagi #Cherokee #Native #Indigenous

PugJesus Jun 6

Paul Downing, a Black Cherokee trans man arrested in the UK, ~1905

https://piefed.social/c/historyphotos/p/2118337/paul-downing-a-black-cherokee-trans-man-arrested-in-the-uk-1905

Paria sans portefeuille Jun 5

"#TheCherokeeWarOf1776 recasts America's founding moment by tracing the importance of westward ambition and #settlerViolence to the origins of the Revolutionary War. In this gripping and sobering book, historian #KevinKokomoor uncovers the rarely acknowledged war waged by the emerging United States against the #Cherokee people just days after the Declaration of Independence was signed."

https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/54068/cherokee-war-1776?srsltid=AfmBOopCfe5J7Kh2tklkz6cNBUiWEQhpKq6cDxcy-Rkc7DiIBgBm1h93
#NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #UShistory #Indigenous #books @bookstodon