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Elisabeth M Oct 26, 2024

The wapato spilled a huge pile of seeds beside my pond. I didn't know it did that! I'm going to share them with the creek behind my house. #nativePlant #seedBomb #pacificNorthwest #pnw #kalapuya

Compiled our documentation Apr 29, 2023

P.S. Found this neat little Aloha food truck alley the other day ... tucked kind of behind "Laundromat" and strip malls -- lots of traffic goes by daily, if you know where to look, these PoC make good food!

This is kind of what I want to bring to Forest Grove. But instead of being stuck in an alley behind BIG LOTS, we can have a similar space for a smaller concept of "Farm to Table"

I like working outside in yard all day and the village corridors work well with tiny houses and kitchens. A year or two ago there was somebody making southern soul food in front of Plaid Pantry and Esterella's ... the paper-towel sprout seeding method the lady in video gets credit for? Working perfect. I transfer those sprouts to a hydroponic system for a little while and now is warm enough for them outside.

#Okra #SoulFood #Aloha #FoodTrucks #Kalapuya

Tucker Teague Apr 19, 2023

#Introduction Born on #TurtleIsland on land stolen from the #Kalapuya tribe. #PNW "native," #SettlerColonialist, lover of #art, #music, #poetry, & #cinema. Call me #Socialist, #Christian, #privileged, perhaps #Buddhist, lover of #books, #married, #parent, #friend, #laborer, #manager, & #gourmand. Also, an amateur #screenwriter, #trivia collector & holder of 4 #college degrees. Used to be a #photographer, #professor, #TelevisionDirector, & #FactoryWorker. Wondering what I'll be when I grow up. 😂

Compiled our documentation Jan 31, 2021

Donating some more research to the public spheres because I love the #Kalapuya and other indigenous peoples of the region whose lands I get to live on, in this little wing of Turtle Island.

The 2020 fire season here was ABNORMAL. We did not have an especially dry summer. Areas where most of the Beachie Creek and Lionshead fires were is basically a RAINFOREST with a microclimate. Yet we had extraordinarily large fires, and many of them in a line suspiciously directly to something the Fascistbook wants: a central Oregon location, for all of its young and way-too-inflated megalomaniacs. Is suspicious, yeah.

¨Why indie won´t shut up about Fascistbook?¨ Take it from the chick familiar with the streets of East Palo Alto in 2007, right before the Fascistbook blew out the gentle little SUN microsystems (young tech kids have no idea about that) to take over the building where SUN once lived. It only took about 4 years for Zuck and Zell to take over and destroy the whole town.

Dangerous to underestimate malice of young millionaires who want ... things.

Anyway.

Wall Street Bets kiddos have been playing similar inflationary games lately... what you think they will make of this? Would it even be worth posting on Reddit or ... um. Lemme think. Where are people getting and sharing news these days that is not controlled by the #wašíču ?

Sources and related threads with financial and other motives:

https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2021/01/23/oregon-department-transportation-awards-wildfire-tree-removal-contract/6687770002/

https://centraloregondaily.com/arson-investigation-underway-following-recent-central-oregon-wildfires/

https://ecosteader.com/@indie/105634060366890388

#qmec #wildfire #wildfires #Oregon

ODOT awards contract to remove trees from wildfire areas

The state has awarded contracts for removal of hazard trees from the wildfire-damaged roadsides and private properties in Santiam Canyon cities.

Compiled our documentation Oct 27, 2020

Spotted in downtown Hillsboro on Monday.

Psst. Check out our old thread with the #Kalapuya tag for additional info.

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Compiled our documentation Mar 16, 2020

iNaturalist has an algorithm-based tool that kind of works (and sometimes it really doesn't work) for identifying some species based on things like leaf shape, location, flower petals, color, etc. But it only works if something has been identified before and exists in the database. If you have a less-than-ideal image capture, or is something it doesn't already know about it
doesn't work as well, either. It can help narrow results.

If the "suggested" species that it tries to identify
something as doesn't look right, people sometimes help out with their suggestions, too.

Not always, though. Sometimes when there are two (or more than two), like

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/27965754

the UI doesn't quite accommodate categorization.

Another downside is that it uses primarily the Euro-centric 'Latin' names of plants, which are not what we called them pre-Columbus. The native words of a locally-indigenous plant and IDs can be more
tricky, but not impossible. There's a place called Tualatin Valley Wildlife Refuge that
has -- get this -- cutouts of the Atfalat'i people with literal "footnotes" by their feet. Apparently there was some consultation back-in-the-day. Can you imagine how frustrating it must be for them who modern settlers are still trying to write-off as footnotes?

White settlers cannot stand it when the narrative spins out of their control.

Both of these tribes were acknowledged by name at the MarkCharles2020 event in E Portland.

Related tangent:

The visitor center also has some info on invasive species of the region, which is how I knew that the scoparius "scotch broom" my bruh and I removed from a forest in the Grand Ronde region is, indeed, invasive.

iNaturalist doesn't explain any of this, and also sometimes can't tell an insect from a monkey.

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47920-Antheraea/browse_photos

#TEK #Indigenous #Ecology #Kalapuya #inaturalist

@emsenn