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DoomsdaysCW<p>Bringing the Ancestors Home</p><p>By <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrendaNorrell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrendaNorrell</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a> <br>Sept. 9, 2024</p><p>OKEMAH, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oklahoma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oklahoma</span></a> --"Les Williston, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Choctaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Choctaw</span></a>, spoke on living life with honor, during the Convening of the Four Winds gathering at the Phillip Deere Round House on Sunday, hosted by the<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mvskoke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mvskoke</span></a> family of the international rights leader Phillip Deere. </p><p>"'Your ancestors are always around,' Williston said, speaking of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredPlaces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SacredPlaces</span></a> along the rivers. Williston is entrusted with bringing the Chahta ancestors home."</p><p>[...]</p><p>"Williston said that all along the rivers, like the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KiamachiRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KiamachiRiver</span></a> in southeastern Oklahoma, there are sacred places, places that are the heart of the people, places where the council was built. </p><p>"Speaking on bringing the ancestors home at the Phillip Deer Roundhouse on Muscogee Creek land, Williston was joined by Native people from throughout the nation during the two-day weekend gathering. They shared the history of the struggle for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericanRights</span></a>, the hard-won victories of the 1970s, and the ongoing struggles to protect the water and rivers -- as the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a>, threats of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EminentDomain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EminentDomain</span></a> seizures, the violence of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ManCamps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManCamps</span></a> of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OilAndGas</span></a> industry, the desecration of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a> in burial places, and the manipulations of the United States government continue.<br>With gratitude to the Native women gathered here, Williston said he appreciates the strength of the women speaking and their leadership, for it is a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/matriarchal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>matriarchal</span></a> culture. </p><p>"'It is important that the women take the lead,' he said. 'I hear the wisdom come from these ladies.' 'We should always listen to the women, our clan mothers and clan sisters.'"</p><p>Full article:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/bringing-ancestors-home.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09</span><span class="invisible">/bringing-ancestors-home.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chahta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chahta</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FourWinds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FourWinds</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ConveningOfTheFourWinds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConveningOfTheFourWinds</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HonorTheAncestors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HonorTheAncestors</span></a></p>
This Is My Glasgow<p>Castellated accumulator tower of the Four Winds Building in Glasgow. Built for the Clyde Navigation Trust in 1894, this building originally functioned as a hydraulic Pumphouse to power cranes on the Prince's Dock.</p><p>There are a number of very similar towers around Glasgow which I presume were built around the same time.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/fourwinds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fourwinds</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgowbuildings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glasgowbuildings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/scottishbuildings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scottishbuildings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>design</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>architecture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/towers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>towers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/industrialbuildings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>industrialbuildings</span></a></p>
mdm<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@godpod" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>godpod</span></a></span> <br>I have an incredible painting of your son, Christ taking the wheel on a sailing boat where he has literally taken the wheel out of a mild mannered 50's style Bing Crosby dude whom if memory serves might actually be smoking, with nervous offspring back-lit by foaming waves<br>I rescued it from a Convent on a cliff where despite being only a summer house they were using it as a fire guard.<br>It was aptly named <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Fourwinds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fourwinds</span></a><br>I'll extricate &amp; photograph it)<br>It makes people laugh hard.<br><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Beannacht" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Beannacht</span></a></p>