Mx. Luna CorbdenJun 20

Went to look up noxious weeds on the USDA+Forest Service website that used to have this information and when I click a plant name, I get "You are not authorized to access this page."

So that's how that's going. Thanks DOGchE.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/r01/idahopanhandle/animals-plants/plants/noxious-weeds

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Idaho Panhandle National Forests - Noxious Weeds

What's a noxious weed?Noxious weeds are aggressive plants which are not native to our area. They crowd out beneficial plants and create a "monoculture" of just themselves. They are often harmful to humans, livestock, wildlife, the environment or the economic well-being of the area.

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Show threadMx. Luna CorbdenJun 20
Now I'm *forced* to do my own research. With a PDF from a state agency and wading through search engine slop.
Show threadMx. Luna CorbdenJun 20

Fash also wants a monoculture of aggressive, stinky, toxic, domineering WEEDS pushing out the native plants.

What an apt metaphor.

#Rewilding

Show threadMx. Luna CorbdenJun 20

Finally finding some info on the local Kootenai tribe. (I'd searched before but only found Wikipedia, and some info on the Canadian groups.)

Check this out. This happened just days after I was born!

Context:

https://www.kootenai.org/pages_AboutUs/tribalHistory.html

And what they did to take (some of) it back:

https://www.kootenai.org/pages_AboutUs/kootenaiWar.html

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Tribal History | Kootenai Tribe of Idaho

Show threadMx. Luna Corbden

I've been trying to get an accurate bead on the policing up here. Word from the human rights taskforce is that the three police forces, including Kootenai Tribal Police, cooperate, that they're aware of hate groups and keep an eye on them, and that they're not aggressive towards the left.

I'm trying to connect the dots here (I'm sure I'll learn more), but these dots seem to go: Kootenai refused to sign the treaty with the US that would have stripped their rights, held a peaceful war (civil disobedience and blocking traffic) to get rights without giving any up, and because of that got a significant amount of policing power, which has influenced settler policing.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that THESE particular cops are not bastards. Until I hear otherwise.

"The Kootenai Tribe of Idaho Police Department is a Community-Based Policing agency which prioritizes interaction and input from the Tribal Community to address issues which affect the lives of its members."

I see their cars out around town, btw. They were patrolling around the protest along with the sheriff.

https://www.kootenai.org/pages_Government/lawEnforcement.html

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Law Enforcement | Kootenai Tribe of Idaho

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Show threadMx. Luna CorbdenJun 20

Oh!! And the huge convenience store which was where we stopped on the way home after our emergency visit up here last fall while making the decision to escape mom to up here, the one where I posted (or intended to post) a pic of the Bear Spray Recycling Bin, is owned by the tribe! I will be shopping there on purpose now. It's closer to where I live than down in Bonner's Ferry proper. Maybe I'll make that my main gas station.

I remember it was a REALLY nice convenience store. Rather huge, lots of lunch type foods, like real sandwiches. I was super in trauma-brain, so I can't describe my fragmented memories well, but I remember being quite impressed.

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#decolonize
#decolonization
#antifa #LandBack

Show threadMx. Luna CorbdenJun 20

Just a little tip from a white American living on stolen land to other white people trying to decolonize:

Use your powers of commerce for good. Track down your local tribal businesses and shift your purchases over to them. (I know you have some – even living up north of Seattle I couldn't help but notice some, so I'm sure you'll find them if you actually go looking, and if not (say if you live on the side of the Mississippi where indigenous people were OUTLAWED), find some online.)

Money is power, so give some of your power to people who will use it for better things than Starbucks investors do.

🧵

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#decolonize
#decolonization
#antifa #LandBack #rewilding #Solarpunk

Show threadMx. Luna CorbdenJun 20

Anyway, I wore myself out with research today. Lately I've been waking up without fatigue, but as soon as I do *anything*.... 😓

I want to reach out to their environmental and fish and wildlife contacts, to ask about what I can do to help rewild my little area.

Show threadJason844Jun 20
@corbden Interesting. You're making the Idaho panhandle sound quite attractive.
Show threadMx. Luna CorbdenJun 20
@Jason844 Well don't *everybody* move here! 😅 But yes, there are reasons my sister chose this place.