Re-Blog to support Native hunting rights and fight against individuals who don’t understand our Indigenous cultures.
???? no? “”“culture”“” isn’t an excuse for violence against a peaceful species for absolutely no logical reason
Well it’s not really about culture so much as FEEDING THEMSELVES so
Hey, @romancatholic wanna guess how much a head of cabbage costs up in indigenous communities up north? Did you guess the price in your local store, likely around 50 cents or a dollar something? You’d be incredibly wrong.
$28. Fucking
$28 for a single head of cabbage. Baby formula can be upwards of 55 dollars. And when you’re that far up north, being vegan is a LUXURY that virtually no one can afford. They need PROTEIN. They need fuel to survive. And a whale carcass can provide WEEKS, if not a couple MONTHS of food for a community. That is an insane amount of time, and he did his community an incredible service by killing that whale.
Sorry you’d rather see people starve to death but fuck off?
Canada’s Native population are constantly given the shaft. This dude is a hero for catching that whale.
It’s worth mentioning here that the species of whale he killed was not endangered, and that the whale had a far better life than factory farmed animals/fish, and that if you want to make a difference to the lives of animals, there are SO many more effective ways you could go about that than go after very poor indigenous people who’ve been oppressed for centuries and have no other realistic way of feeding themselves.
Indigenous people also do not over hunt in the way that commercial whaling companies do. Because whale hunting is an important source of food in their community and they don’t want to hunt an animal into extinction, they actually practice conservation and their methods of hunting are less destructive and leave less of a footprint, in that they don’t upset the ecosystem the way commercial hunting does.
I believe many people hear about indigenous people hunting animals like whales and there is this knee-jerk of, “Whales are endangered! That’s unethical!” but really indigenous people are being given the shaft in these narratives because they’re being lumped in with these larger entities that do hunt species into extinction and do it for no reason other than profit. For the indigenous people who hunt these whales, they do it for survival and they do it in a way that won’t deplete important resources to them.
This boy fed his WHOLE VILLAGE for an ENTIRE WINTER.
Cannot recommend WDHDT highly enough. I’ve found it helpful not just for romantic relationships, but also for growing up w a “unexplainable/uncontrollable” dad.
IT HAS ALSO BEEN REALLY HELPFUL FOR UNDERSTANDING ONLINE MOB HARASSMENT.
So if you’ve ever been bombarded w threats to be raped/killed, (so…if you’re a minority and you’ve been on the Internet for a while), this book might be useful for getting clarity around the whole entitled, abusive mindset that drives certain kinds of people to behave that way. And by “getting clarity”, I mean (for me) being able to go “oh, that’s what’s happening” and not really feel scared anymore. Or angry, or drawn out into it, or anything.
And if you’re still standing around going “but how does something like GamerGate happen?” or “but why do men hit their wives?” or whatever – please read that book and learn something.
^^^^ truth WDHDT is fantastic at cutting down MRA bullshit and calling it what it really is
Please consider reading these. WDHDT is really, really helpful. And I know some of you are struggling with abusive relationships, friendships, families, etc. You’re not alone. There is help.
Yo. This family holiday, please, please take care of yourself. You aren’t there to be anybody else’s cushion.
All the books in this thread are great; adding this one because it was the most helpful to me. Free pdf here
toxic parents is the book i checked out from the library last january that REALLY SINCERELY helped kickstart my road to recovery. even if you are not a victim of abuse, they are invaluable reasources, but help pass them around so people who have been abused can have access to material that actually, genuinely, sees them and provides them with concrete help
saved which ones i could as pdfs
“adult children of emotionally immature parents” is $10 on ibooks, lower than amazon
just make sure you tap the little icon in the top-right
before copying to ibooks because for some reason the link won’t go straight to the download and trust me i pasted the right one :/
From an early age I understood my father was abusive and so I could write his temper off as *his* problem and not mine, which helped. But I was so angry with my mother for a longer time bc I felt like she basically didn’t stand up for me and etc etc. It wasn’t until yearsss later that a family member of mine said that from the outside, what they observed was my mother being *jealous*. The thought never crossed my mind then but now, and also after reading some things about mothers, I think it’s really important to focus on that. A lot of our mothers became jealous of us, perhaps on this deep-seated level of competing with us for fatherly attention (as in to compete for resources) and that’s…not okay.
On this day, 17 March 1876 US troops attacked sleeping Cheyenne and Oglala Sioux people in Montana in the Battle of Powder River, marking the beginning of the Sioux wars. They destroyed the village and stole large amounts of the Native Americans’ possessions. However fortunately there were not many casualties, and the Cheyenne and Sioux managed to regroup and recapture 500 of their horses the next morning. The incident solidified resistance to US attempts to force Native Americans from the Black Hills and live on a reservation. More info in this excellent book of American history from an Indian perspective: https://ift.tt/2GR2Ykq
Pictured: the battlefield today https://ift.tt/2TQ5O3g
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