[CAPTION: tweet from username cripple skye @disabilisaur: what gets me about my disability isn’t that I can’t do stuff. It’s that I DON’T KNOW if I’ll be able to do stuff. Doing a thing can either put me in bed for days, it can be totally fine, no big deal, or randomly make me feel BETTER. 24 hours later the rules change again.]
Another affirmation that’s getting me through lately. Trying new things is so anxiety-provoking! But, if you want life to be the way you want it, you have to force yourself to do things you might not know how to do perfectly.
Nearly 40 members of two white supremacist gangs in Florida were arrested as the result of a massive drug trafficking sting, authorities announced this week.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida announced Thursday that 39 members of the Unforgiven and United Aryan Brotherhood gangs were charged with various federal firearms and drug violations.
Authorities seized more than 100 illegal firearms, a rocket launcher and several pipe bombs as part of the raid, local ABC affiliate WFTS-Tampa Bay reported. Authorities also reportedly found several pounds of crystal meth and fentanyl.
“We want the museum to understand that the moai are our family, not just rocks. For us [the statue] is a brother; but for them it is a souvenir or an attraction,” said Anakena Manutomatoma, who serves on the island’s development commission. “Once eyes are added to the statues, an energy is breathed into the moai and they become the living embodiment of ancestors whose role is to protect us.”
isnt the point of a museum to preserve history though? id prefer something be in a controlled environment than outside in the elements.
The moai have been standing JUST fine in the open in the island for literal centuries. Believe it or not, the Rapa Nui are NOT stupid; they know their island, how to live in it, and what materials and treatment to those materials do or do not last in the island they’ve called their home for ages. The moai are MADE to be “outside in the elements”.
And preserved for whom? I’m sure my ancestors wouldn’t feel it’s preservation to have a LIVING piece of their culture stolen by colonizers and kept away from them all this fucking long when I assure you, no one asked for their permission to take it in the first place.
That’s not fucking “preserving”, that’s just fucking stealing.
Even with regard to objects built outside that are made of organic, friable materials – totem poles on the Northwest Coast, say – if the intent of the culture is to have those object naturally decompose, so be it.
A lot of non-Natives are deeply uninformed about the fact that the collapse of these objects is in fact intentional and part of a cycle of rebuilding, rededicating, and redistributing cultural wealth.
The West does not get to decide how the rest of us practice our cultures, full stop.
Sincerely, as someone who is Native, has been a museum curator devoted to Native objects, and has been an employee of a State Historic Preservation Office, few people outside of these categories are genuinely knowledgeable about this topic. But plenty of materials about it exist – read some of them.
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