Mastodawn

Join me in reading Ned Blackhawk's amazing history, The Rediscovery of America. Along the way, I bet we discover a few things about ourselves and our current crises!

Find the reading schedule and video reflections along with a glossary here:

https://waywordsstudio.com/project/blackhawk-rediscovery-of-america/

#nedblackhawk #therediscoveryofamerica #democracy #readingguide #reflections #chapterreflections #history #literacy #indigenoushistory #settlercolonialism #americanhistory #dialectics #survivance #tropesofdiscovery

Waywords Studio 2d ago

𝐍𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐡𝐚𝐰𝐤: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 - 𝐏𝐫𝐞-𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 -

Full video, glossary, and more on the website.

Reading Guides on Waywords, one chapter and reflection video about every two weeks.
https://waywordsstudio.com/project/blackhawk-rediscovery-of-america/

#democracy #readingguide #reflections #chapterreflections #history #literacy #indigenoushistory #settlercolonialism #americanhistory #nedblackhawk #therediscoveryofamerica #dialectics #encounterhistory

DoomsdaysCW 6d ago

#EarthDay Celebration at #DescansoGardens

April 22 @ 1:00 pm - 6:15 pm

Location:
1418 Descanso Drive
#LaCañadaFlintridge, CA 91011

Price: Included with admission or membership

Admission prices:
Adult $18.00
Senior $14.00
Student $14.00
Child $8.00
Child under 3 - Free

"Join us for a fun and inspiring Earth Day celebration! Explore creative ways to protect our planet and help it thrive through hands-on workshops and activities all around Descanso Gardens.

Included with admission or membership, RSVP is required for the #KnitwearMending #Workshop and the #DIY #SoilBioremediation Workshop.

#SeedNest Creation Station

Create California #NativeWildflower 'Seed Nests' to plant in a pot, flowerbed, wild patch in your lawn or an entire meadow
Rose Garden Pavilion: 1-4pm. Drop in anytime! While supplies last

#RepairCafe Pasadena

Bring your broken clothing, appliances, bikes, jewelry, electronics, and more to get help fixing them to make them last longer and keep them out of the landfill
Gathering Room A: 1-4pm. Drop in anytime! Free and open to the public

Knitwear Mending Workshop with Nico Sorensen

Bring a sweater or knit item with a hole and learn basic surface darning and decorative mending techniques to give it new life and personal flair
Magnolia Court (across from Center Circle): 1-4pm. RSVP required. Limited spots available

DIY Soil Bioremediation Workshop with Dr. Daisy Rosas Vargas
Hands-on demo to create a #mycelium #straw #wattle filled with spent #OysterMushroom substrate and housed in remnant fabrics such as burlap or canvas. These wattles help to heal soil in gardens while capturing runoff
Main Lawn: 4-5pm. RSVP required. Limited spots available

#Sustainability at Descanso Tours
Find out more about the many ways Descanso works with our natural environment to care for the plants, animals, and people that live in and visit the gardens
Meets at Center Circle: 1-2pm, 2:30-3:30pm

#IndigenousHistory of Music with Natural Materials Performance + Presentation with Christopher Garcia
Come close out Earth Day by experiencing #IndigenousMusic and the environmentalist history behind it
Amphitheater 5-6:15pm "

FMI:
https://www.descansogardens.org/event/earth-day-2026/

#SolarPunkSunday #EarthDay2026 #EarthDayExtravaganza #EarthDayEvents

Earth Day

Join us for a fun and inspiring Earth Day celebration! Explore creative ways to protect our planet and help it thrive through hands-on workshops and activities all around Descanso Gardens. […]

Descanso Gardens

Global News | Breaking, Latest News and Video for Canada Apr 18

How rum fuelled ‘alcoholic capitalism’ in Canada’s early economy

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://globalnews.ca/news/11805690/how-rum-fuelled-alcoholic-capitalism-canada-early-economy/

EAZ Apr 16

🦌🏔️🔍#EAZAarchive: EAZ 56 (1/2), 2015
Research from West Greenland: What did caribou hunting look like in the centuries before industrialisation?
Neubeck, V., C. Pasda. 2015. “Caribou Hunting in Alpine West Greenland. An Archaeological Investigation”. EAZ 56 (1/2):65-91.
https://doi.org/10.54799/EGIG5418
#Archaeology #ArcticStudies #HunterGatherers #IndigenousHistory #LandscapeArchaeology #EAZ

Caribou Hunting in Alpine West Greenland. An Archaeological Investigation | EAZ – Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift

EAZ, EAZ journal, Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift, Ethnographisch-Archäologische Zeitschrift, EAZ – Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift

ResearchBuzz: Firehose Apr 15

CBC: Journalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it’s too late. “A new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/15/cbc-journalist-plans-to-create-new-archive-of-residential-school-survivor-stories-before-its-too-late/

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DoomsdaysCW Apr 13

@wyatt_h_knott Actually, the Aztecs invented rubber, which was re-invented in the 1800s. I just found out about that myself.

Aztec, Maya Were Rubber-Making Masters?

Ancients blended plant juices to get bouncier or tougher rubber, study says.

By Rachel Kaufman
Published June 30, 2010

"Ancient civilizations in much of #Mexico and #CentralAmerica were making different grades of rubber 3,000 years before Charles #Goodyear 'stabilized' the stuff in the mid-19th century, new research suggests.

"The #Aztec, #Olmec, and #Maya of #Mesoamerica are known to have made rubber using natural latex—a milky, sap-like fluid found in some plants. Mesoamerica extends roughly from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua.

"Ancient rubber makers harvested #latex from #RubberTrees and mixed it with juice from #MorningGlory vines, which contains a chemical that makes the solidified latex less brittle."

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/XMpwr

#AncientTechnology #SolarPunkSunday #TraditionalTechnology #IndigenousHistory

Aztec, Maya Were Rubber-Making Masters?

Ancient Mesoamerican cultures blended plant juices to make rubber bouncier or more durable, a new study says.

Science

ResearchBuzz: Firehose Mar 29

Vancouver City News: TMU research group working to preserve accounts of residential school survivors . “Thousands of residential school survivors, who spent years sharing their experiences as a way to find healing, closure, and accountability, are facing the prospect of losing the largest archive of their testimonies, which is set to be destroyed next year. However, the Survivors Secretariat, a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/29/vancouver-city-news-tmu-research-group-working-to-preserve-accounts-of-residential-school-survivors/

Vancouver City News: TMU research group working to preserve accounts of residential school survivors

Vancouver City News: TMU research group working to preserve accounts of residential school survivors . “Thousands of residential school survivors, who spent years sharing their experiences as…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

MárciaW 🇸🇩Mar 28

"While the media portrays the ancient cultural heritage of Amazonian peoples as somehow less significant than Stonehenge, the Sistine Chapel, and Jerusalem, archaeology may help uncover the millennia-old histories of original populations silenced through time"
#IndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousRights #Amazonia #Archeology #IndigenousHistory

Enough of lost kingdoms: the Amazon has its own history, and archaeology helps tell it
https://sumauma.com/en/chega-de-reinos-perdidos-a-amazonia-tem-suas-proprias-historias/

Enough of lost kingdoms: the Amazon has its own history, and archaeology helps tell it

While the media portrays the ancient cultural heritage of Amazonian peoples as somehow less significant than Stonehenge, the Sistine Chapel, and Jerusalem, archaeology may help uncover the millennia-old histories of original populations silenced through time

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