Horus, god of kingship, the sun, and the sky. Detail of a wall painting from the Tomb of Horemheb (KV57). New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1306-1292 BC. Valley of the Kings, West Thebes.
Bas relief of the warrior goddess Sekhmet with head of a lioness and a solar disk and uraeus above her head, detail of a wall carving in the Temple of Hathor at Dendera.
Listen to activist Marilyn James discuss Sinixt/Native storytelling, caribou of the rainforest, and extinction in the Inland Northwest, from June 2019: ‘Marilyn James and Kootenay Co-op Radio have won the 2019
Neskie Manuel Award for Aboriginal Affairs and Cultural Programming for
the “In the Shadow of Extinction” episode of Sinixt Stories: Ancestral
Roots, Cultural Seeds program. The award is given annually by the
National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA) for a radio shows
or individual radio segment by, for, or about Indigenous people.’ [x]
Excerpts from series producer Catherine Fisher’s summary of this episode:
“In
the Shadow of Extinction” was recorded and produced at Kootenay Co-op
Radio by Catherine Fisher, a member of the Blood of Life Collective. The
Collective has been working on numerous projects from recordings of
traditional and contemporary Sinixt stories told by Sinixt
knowledge-keepers Marilyn James and Taress Alexis.
“In the Shadow
of Extinction” is based on a contemporary story told to Marilyn James by
her relative, Ambrose Adolph, about his experiences with caribou in the
Sinixt tum'xula7xw (traditional territory) in the 1930s and then after
his return from World War 2. The episode also features information about
the plight of the caribou herds in the Sinixt tum'xula7xw currently.
1) The endangered southern mountain caribou - a unique ecotype of woodland caribou - which rely on the inland temperate rainforest and live almost exclusively on Sinixt and Kutenai traditional land. Photo by BC provincial government. 2) Cedar-hemlock temperate rainforest on Sinixt land. Photo by Tourism Revelstroke. 3) Sinixt activist and storyteller Marilyn James. Photo by Catherine Fisher.
In
the episode Marilyn notes, “As settlers began settling the area, like
Ambrose said, open spaces were dissected by fences and fields. It
becomes critical for the survival of migratory animals for settlers and
people to make way for those travel corridors, but that was never
considered… Now, the caribou are like the Sinixt, they’re just a
shadow of the landscape - you don’t see them, and when you do see them
it’s kind of a vision because they’re so rare. And it was such a natural
aspect to this landscape in the past.”
“As many people are
aware,” says Blood of Life Collective member K.L. Kivi, “the South
Selkirk and South Purcell caribou herds were extirpated this past year
and the Central Selkirk herd is down to about 25 individuals. What many
people don’t realize is that pre-contact, the caribou lived here in the
hundreds of thousands and were a main food source for the Sinixt
people.”
What I expected moving to texas: oh hm, cowboy boot… steak..,? the ole’ prairie. youve been invited to,come lasso a tumbleweed,! ‘howdy there sherriff’ as a tramp stamp tattoo. Sweet teA hp potion… country girls make do
What I got when I moved to texas: i cant really leave the house bc theres about 20-30 of these big blue crabs that came up from their underground tunnels bc of the wet and rainy weather all standing on the patio having a fucking clawnference meeting
Does anyone else remember Brett Kavanaugh throwing one childish mantrum™ after another during his confirmation hearings? But yeah, sure, please keep telling me how AOC is the “emotional” one.
Republicans: Crying for others who are suffering is a sign of weakness and instability, but crying for yourself? That shows real character.
I’ll take a woman crying because she genuinely cares about something bad happening over a bunch of old white men’s stoicism any day
You know how in the movies, there’s always that one scene, when the bad guy says to the hero, “Oh, you care about the weak and the innocent? That is your weakness and it’s why I will win.”? That’s how cartoonishly evil conservatives are. They genuinely believe that showing compassion and empathy for others, they think that’s a character flaw.
