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In actuality, fully two-thirds of all the vegetal foodstuffs now consumed by humanity were under cultivation in Native America — and nowhere else — at the moment Columbus first set foot on Hispaniola. An instructive, but by no means exhaustive list of these crops includes corn, potatoes [about 3,000 varieties], yams, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, squash [about 600 varieties], pumpkins, most varieties of beans, all varieties of pepper except black, amaranth, manioc (tapioca), mustard and a number of other greens, sunflowers, cassava, some types of rice, artichokes, avocados, okra, chayotes, peanuts, cashews, walnuts, hickory nuts, pecans, pineapples, bread fruit, passion fruit, many melons, persimmons, choke cherries, papayas, cranberries, blueberries, blackberries, coffee, sassafras, vanilla, chocolate, and cocoa. In order to raise this proliferation of food items, American Indians had perfected elaborate and sophisticated agricultural technologies throughout the hemisphere long before the arrival of the first European. This included intricate and highly effective irrigation systems, ecologically integrated and highly effective planting methods such as milpa and comico, and the refinement of what amounted to botanical experimentation facilities, among other things.
– The Stone Age Revisited by M. Annette Jaimes, quoted in Demography of Native North America by Lenore A. Stiffarm

8 months ago  77 notes

Enjoying the puddles.

By mintchoco

9 months ago  41 notes

PPG snoozes.

By mintchoco

9 months ago  45 notes

This is a series of maps charting the shrinkage of Native American lands over time, from 1784 to the present day.  Made because I was having trouble visualizing the sheer scale of the land loss, and reading numbers like “blah blah million acres” wasn’t really doing it for me.  The gif is based on a collection of maps by Sam B. Hilliard of Louisiana State University.  You can see the original map here.

For those who do prefer dealing in numbers, here are some:

By 1881, Indian landholdings in the United States had plummeted to 156 million acres. By 1934, only about 50 million acres remained (an area the size of Idaho and Washington) as a result of the General Allotment Act* of 1887. During World War II, the government took 500,000 more acres for military use. Over one hundred tribes, bands, and Rancherias relinquished their lands under various acts of Congress during the termination era of the 1950s.

By 1955, the indigenous land base had shrunk to just 2.3 percent of its original size.

—In the Courts of the Conqueror by Walter Echo-Hawk

* The General Allotment Act is also known as the Dawes Act.

Edit: Got rid of some of the fold lines and discoloration on the gif.  *is anal*

1 year ago  5,106 notes

Hoop skirts made of stars.  *___*

Read it here

1 year ago  60 notes

Dr. Chris O’Sullivan, a psychologist at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, studied 24 incidents of gang rape. Two were committed by male students in residence halls, nine by athletes, and 13 by fraternities. The men involved seemed to think that what they were doing was okay, most often because they regarded the women as promiscuous.

In O’Sullivan’s sample, the women were distinguished in the rapists’ minds from the women they dated in terms of respectability. One man involved in a gang rape told O’Sullivan that what happened to the woman was “not rape” because she had dated two of the men involved previously and had hurt the men’s feelings by having sex with each of them.

Researchers have found that as a gang rape proceeds, that is, as each successive man takes his turn, the woman is viewed increasingly as a “whore” who deserves to be raped — even though, by their own words, the men do not consider what they are doing to be rape.

Among O’Sullivan’s sample, the men typically formed a tight male group. She said, “The men tend to have grown up together. They have gone off to college together and maintained childhood friendships through adolescence and young adulthood.”

She found that more traditional fraternities and more traditional men were more likely to commit gang rape. “They stand when women enter. They buy into rigid sex roles. They are likely to believe you treat good women nicely and you can do anything to bad women.”

– Encyclopedia of Violence by Margaret DiCanio

1 year ago  41 notes

Heroic Sacrifice versus Victim Blaming

Let me offer you a hypothetical:

A young man enlists in the military, is sent off to war, and is killed in the line of duty.

How do his countrymen usually react to such an event?

Do they cynically blow it off?  Do they blame him for his own death?  Do they say things like “Well what did he expect?  He knew the risks, but he went in there anyway, like an idiot.  He deserved it.”

No, not in my experience.  Instead, they usually cry a lot, hold a big funeral, talk about what a brave and heroic and noble guy he was, give him medals, maybe even erect a statue in memorial of him and his fallen comrades, and praise him for serving his country so valiantly.

Lara Logan was also serving her country.  Actually she was serving the whole world.  She and all the other reporters in Egypt played a vital role in keeping the rest of the world informed about the triumphs and atrocities of the Egyptian revolution.  Of course she knew the risks she faced, but rather than wringing her hands and hiding under the bed, she bravely risked her life and well-being in order to do what needed to be done.  She should be praised for her devotion to her craft and her willingness to help others.

So why are people still snidely pointing out her hair color or her level of physical attractiveness or what she was wearing?  Why are they still acting like it was her fault that she got raped?  Like the hypothetical soldier, she took great risks and made a great sacrifice in service to her country and the world, yet unlike the soldier, she’s been mocked, derided, and blamed for what she’s suffered.  Why the double standard?  Why is the soldier praised as “brave” while Logan gets labelled “stupid” and “naive”?  Are we as a culture really that fanatically devoted to blaming rape victims?

If that soldier was a hero for knowingly risking his safety because he believed it was the right thing to do, then so is Lara Logan.

1 year ago  370 notes

Culture matters

Sometimes I hear people say that racism/sexism/etc in culture isn’t important or worth criticizing.  ”Oh it’s just a book,” they say.  ”It’s just a crappy TV show.”  ”It’s just a commercial.”

This argument always baffles me.  It’s like if you put poison into a fish-tank and then say “Oh well I didn’t poison the fish, I just poisoned the water.”  The fish lives in the water, dumbass; it’s completely submerged in and surrounded by the water.  I’m pretty sure that poisoned water is going to affect the fish.

Similarly, we all live constantly immersed in this miasma of information that we call “culture.”  People are not born prejudiced.  We don’t emerge from the womb knowing that all black men are scary thugs, that all Latinas are spicy sexpots, that all Indians are violent savages, that all women are weepy and frail, that all gay men are depraved pedophiles, and that all people in wheelchairs are objects of pity.  We learn these things, usually starting at a very young age, and we often learn them from our culture — the books we read, the movies we watch, and the constant barrage of advertising that we don’t really pay attention to but which still manages to seep into our brains, and which shapes the way we think about the world, for better or for worse.

If you want to save the fish, you need to purify the water.

1 year ago  3,292 notes

Pretty colors!

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U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords expected to recover from Arizona shooting that killed 6

A surgeon said he was “very optimistic” about the recovery of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords after the congresswoman was among 18 shot this morning at a Safeway grocery in Tucson, Ariz.

The Pima County Sheriff’s Office said that six people were killed when a gunman opened fire at an event the 40-year-old Democratic congresswoman was holding around 10 a.m. local time. A spokesperson for the local hospital said that five victims were in critical condition and four were stable. One of the victims that died was a young child, authorities said.

(bolding mine)

1 year ago  48 notes

“Why didn’t you tell me you were a bishie!?”

By 380992

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Wibbly wibbly.

1 year ago  126 notes

Great sound effect?  Or GREATEST sound effect?

1 year ago  48 notes View high resolution

I’m reading up on the Memoirs of a Geisha controversy, since I’d neither seen the movie nor read the book, and the more I read about it, the more pissed off I get.  Basically it went down like this:

Japanese woman tells white American man about her past life as a geisha.  White American man then writes a novel that sells itself as an accurate memoir of Japanese woman’s life, but instead falsifies a number of her life events, misrepresents her trade, and exoticises her culture.  He also names her as a source even though she specifically asked him to keep her anonymous.  Japanese woman gets death threats.  White American man becomes bestselling author.

Then Japanese woman gets fed up and writes her own memoir to set the record straight.  Meanwhile, white American man’s book gets adapted into a film that grosses $162 million and wins three Oscars.

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Looking at this picture gave me diabetes.  :|

By 321050.

1 year ago  View high resolution

In actuality, fully two-thirds of all the vegetal foodstuffs now consumed by humanity were under cultivation in Native America — and nowhere else — at the moment Columbus first set foot on Hispaniola. An instructive, but by no means exhaustive list of these crops includes corn, potatoes [about 3,000 varieties], yams, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, squash [about 600 varieties], pumpkins, most varieties of beans, all varieties of pepper except black, amaranth, manioc (tapioca), mustard and a number of other greens, sunflowers, cassava, some types of rice, artichokes, avocados, okra, chayotes, peanuts, cashews, walnuts, hickory nuts, pecans, pineapples, bread fruit, passion fruit, many melons, persimmons, choke cherries, papayas, cranberries, blueberries, blackberries, coffee, sassafras, vanilla, chocolate, and cocoa. In order to raise this proliferation of food items, American Indians had perfected elaborate and sophisticated agricultural technologies throughout the hemisphere long before the arrival of the first European. This included intricate and highly effective irrigation systems, ecologically integrated and highly effective planting methods such as milpa and comico, and the refinement of what amounted to botanical experimentation facilities, among other things.
– The Stone Age Revisited by M. Annette Jaimes, quoted in Demography of Native North America by Lenore A. Stiffarm
Enjoying the puddles. By mintchoco

Enjoying the puddles.

By mintchoco

PPG snoozes. By mintchoco

PPG snoozes.

By mintchoco

This is a series of maps charting the shrinkage of Native American lands over time, from 1784 to the present day.  Made because I was having trouble visualizing the sheer scale of the land loss, and reading numbers like “blah blah million acres” wasn’t really doing it for me.  The gif is based on a collection of maps by Sam B. Hilliard of Louisiana State University.  You can see the original map here. For those who do prefer dealing in numbers, here are some: By 1881, Indian landholdings in the United States had plummeted to 156 million acres. By 1934, only about 50 million acres remained (an area the size of Idaho and Washington) as a result of the General Allotment Act* of 1887. During World War II, the government took 500,000 more acres for military use. Over one hundred tribes, bands, and Rancherias relinquished their lands under various acts of Congress during the termination era of the 1950s. By 1955, the indigenous land base had shrunk to just 2.3 percent of its original size. —In the Courts of the Conqueror by Walter Echo-Hawk * The General Allotment Act is also known as the Dawes Act. Edit: Got rid of some of the fold lines and discoloration on the gif.  *is anal*

This is a series of maps charting the shrinkage of Native American lands over time, from 1784 to the present day.  Made because I was having trouble visualizing the sheer scale of the land loss, and reading numbers like “blah blah million acres” wasn’t really doing it for me.  The gif is based on a collection of maps by Sam B. Hilliard of Louisiana State University.  You can see the original map here.

For those who do prefer dealing in numbers, here are some:

By 1881, Indian landholdings in the United States had plummeted to 156 million acres. By 1934, only about 50 million acres remained (an area the size of Idaho and Washington) as a result of the General Allotment Act* of 1887. During World War II, the government took 500,000 more acres for military use. Over one hundred tribes, bands, and Rancherias relinquished their lands under various acts of Congress during the termination era of the 1950s.

By 1955, the indigenous land base had shrunk to just 2.3 percent of its original size.

—In the Courts of the Conqueror by Walter Echo-Hawk

* The General Allotment Act is also known as the Dawes Act.

Edit: Got rid of some of the fold lines and discoloration on the gif.  *is anal*

Hoop skirts made of stars.  *___* Read it here

Hoop skirts made of stars.  *___*

Read it here

Dr. Chris O’Sullivan, a psychologist at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, studied 24 incidents of gang rape. Two were committed by male students in residence halls, nine by athletes, and 13 by fraternities. The men involved seemed to think that what they were doing was okay, most often because they regarded the women as promiscuous.

In O’Sullivan’s sample, the women were distinguished in the rapists’ minds from the women they dated in terms of respectability. One man involved in a gang rape told O’Sullivan that what happened to the woman was “not rape” because she had dated two of the men involved previously and had hurt the men’s feelings by having sex with each of them.

Researchers have found that as a gang rape proceeds, that is, as each successive man takes his turn, the woman is viewed increasingly as a “whore” who deserves to be raped — even though, by their own words, the men do not consider what they are doing to be rape.

Among O’Sullivan’s sample, the men typically formed a tight male group. She said, “The men tend to have grown up together. They have gone off to college together and maintained childhood friendships through adolescence and young adulthood.”

She found that more traditional fraternities and more traditional men were more likely to commit gang rape. “They stand when women enter. They buy into rigid sex roles. They are likely to believe you treat good women nicely and you can do anything to bad women.”

– Encyclopedia of Violence by Margaret DiCanio

Heroic Sacrifice versus Victim Blaming

Let me offer you a hypothetical:

A young man enlists in the military, is sent off to war, and is killed in the line of duty.

How do his countrymen usually react to such an event?

Do they cynically blow it off?  Do they blame him for his own death?  Do they say things like “Well what did he expect?  He knew the risks, but he went in there anyway, like an idiot.  He deserved it.”

No, not in my experience.  Instead, they usually cry a lot, hold a big funeral, talk about what a brave and heroic and noble guy he was, give him medals, maybe even erect a statue in memorial of him and his fallen comrades, and praise him for serving his country so valiantly.

Lara Logan was also serving her country.  Actually she was serving the whole world.  She and all the other reporters in Egypt played a vital role in keeping the rest of the world informed about the triumphs and atrocities of the Egyptian revolution.  Of course she knew the risks she faced, but rather than wringing her hands and hiding under the bed, she bravely risked her life and well-being in order to do what needed to be done.  She should be praised for her devotion to her craft and her willingness to help others.

So why are people still snidely pointing out her hair color or her level of physical attractiveness or what she was wearing?  Why are they still acting like it was her fault that she got raped?  Like the hypothetical soldier, she took great risks and made a great sacrifice in service to her country and the world, yet unlike the soldier, she’s been mocked, derided, and blamed for what she’s suffered.  Why the double standard?  Why is the soldier praised as “brave” while Logan gets labelled “stupid” and “naive”?  Are we as a culture really that fanatically devoted to blaming rape victims?

If that soldier was a hero for knowingly risking his safety because he believed it was the right thing to do, then so is Lara Logan.

Culture matters

Sometimes I hear people say that racism/sexism/etc in culture isn’t important or worth criticizing.  ”Oh it’s just a book,” they say.  ”It’s just a crappy TV show.”  ”It’s just a commercial.”

This argument always baffles me.  It’s like if you put poison into a fish-tank and then say “Oh well I didn’t poison the fish, I just poisoned the water.”  The fish lives in the water, dumbass; it’s completely submerged in and surrounded by the water.  I’m pretty sure that poisoned water is going to affect the fish.

Similarly, we all live constantly immersed in this miasma of information that we call “culture.”  People are not born prejudiced.  We don’t emerge from the womb knowing that all black men are scary thugs, that all Latinas are spicy sexpots, that all Indians are violent savages, that all women are weepy and frail, that all gay men are depraved pedophiles, and that all people in wheelchairs are objects of pity.  We learn these things, usually starting at a very young age, and we often learn them from our culture — the books we read, the movies we watch, and the constant barrage of advertising that we don’t really pay attention to but which still manages to seep into our brains, and which shapes the way we think about the world, for better or for worse.

If you want to save the fish, you need to purify the water.

Pretty colors! By 2449590

Pretty colors!

By 2449590

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords expected to recover from Arizona shooting that killed 6

A surgeon said he was “very optimistic” about the recovery of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords after the congresswoman was among 18 shot this morning at a Safeway grocery in Tucson, Ariz.

The Pima County Sheriff’s Office said that six people were killed when a gunman opened fire at an event the 40-year-old Democratic congresswoman was holding around 10 a.m. local time. A spokesperson for the local hospital said that five victims were in critical condition and four were stable. One of the victims that died was a young child, authorities said.

(bolding mine)
“Why didn’t you tell me you were a bishie!?” By 380992

“Why didn’t you tell me you were a bishie!?”

By 380992

Wibbly wibbly.

Wibbly wibbly.

Great sound effect?  Or GREATEST sound effect?

Great sound effect?  Or GREATEST sound effect?

I’m reading up on the Memoirs of a Geisha controversy, since I’d neither seen the movie nor read the book, and the more I read about it, the more pissed off I get.  Basically it went down like this: Japanese woman tells white American man about her past life as a geisha.  White American man then writes a novel that sells itself as an accurate memoir of Japanese woman’s life, but instead falsifies a number of her life events, misrepresents her trade, and exoticises her culture.  He also names her as a source even though she specifically asked him to keep her anonymous.  Japanese woman gets death threats.  White American man becomes bestselling author. Then Japanese woman gets fed up and writes her own memoir to set the record straight.  Meanwhile, white American man’s book gets adapted into a film that grosses $162 million and wins three Oscars.

I’m reading up on the Memoirs of a Geisha controversy, since I’d neither seen the movie nor read the book, and the more I read about it, the more pissed off I get.  Basically it went down like this:

Japanese woman tells white American man about her past life as a geisha.  White American man then writes a novel that sells itself as an accurate memoir of Japanese woman’s life, but instead falsifies a number of her life events, misrepresents her trade, and exoticises her culture.  He also names her as a source even though she specifically asked him to keep her anonymous.  Japanese woman gets death threats.  White American man becomes bestselling author.

Then Japanese woman gets fed up and writes her own memoir to set the record straight.  Meanwhile, white American man’s book gets adapted into a film that grosses $162 million and wins three Oscars.

Looking at this picture gave me diabetes.  :| By 321050.

Looking at this picture gave me diabetes.  :|

By 321050.

"In actuality, fully two-thirds of all the vegetal foodstuffs now consumed by humanity were under cultivation in Native America — and nowhere else — at the moment Columbus first set foot on Hispaniola. An instructive, but by no means exhaustive list of these crops includes corn, potatoes [about 3,000 varieties], yams, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, squash [about 600 varieties], pumpkins, most varieties of beans, all varieties of pepper except black, amaranth, manioc (tapioca), mustard and a number of other greens, sunflowers, cassava, some types of rice, artichokes, avocados, okra, chayotes, peanuts, cashews, walnuts, hickory nuts, pecans, pineapples, bread fruit, passion fruit, many melons, persimmons, choke cherries, papayas, cranberries, blueberries, blackberries, coffee, sassafras, vanilla, chocolate, and cocoa. In order to raise this proliferation of food items, American Indians had perfected elaborate and sophisticated agricultural technologies throughout the hemisphere long before the arrival of the first European. This included intricate and highly effective irrigation systems, ecologically integrated and highly effective planting methods such as milpa and comico, and the refinement of what amounted to botanical experimentation facilities, among other things."
"

Dr. Chris O’Sullivan, a psychologist at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, studied 24 incidents of gang rape. Two were committed by male students in residence halls, nine by athletes, and 13 by fraternities. The men involved seemed to think that what they were doing was okay, most often because they regarded the women as promiscuous.

In O’Sullivan’s sample, the women were distinguished in the rapists’ minds from the women they dated in terms of respectability. One man involved in a gang rape told O’Sullivan that what happened to the woman was “not rape” because she had dated two of the men involved previously and had hurt the men’s feelings by having sex with each of them.

Researchers have found that as a gang rape proceeds, that is, as each successive man takes his turn, the woman is viewed increasingly as a “whore” who deserves to be raped — even though, by their own words, the men do not consider what they are doing to be rape.

Among O’Sullivan’s sample, the men typically formed a tight male group. She said, “The men tend to have grown up together. They have gone off to college together and maintained childhood friendships through adolescence and young adulthood.”

She found that more traditional fraternities and more traditional men were more likely to commit gang rape. “They stand when women enter. They buy into rigid sex roles. They are likely to believe you treat good women nicely and you can do anything to bad women.”

"
Heroic Sacrifice versus Victim Blaming
Culture matters
U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords expected to recover from Arizona shooting that killed 6

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