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[[The Picts]]
===== Meet the woman who lives without money: ‘I feel more secure than when I was earning’ =====
[https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/feb/01/meet-the-woman-who-lives-without-money-i-feel-more-secure-than-when-i-was-earning by Louise Southerden 31/1/25 The Guardian]
Sharon Brodie clearly remembers her first Christmas with her good friend Jo Nemeth. It was 2016 and also her first Christmas without her husband, Monty, who had died suddenly a month earlier
===== I was a long-haired teenage boy in the 1960s. Why did everyone hate us so much? =====
[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/14/i-was-a-long-haired-teenage-boy-in-the-1960s-why-did-everyone-hate-us-so-much by Alan Clayson 14/12/24 The Guardian]
Throughout the mid-to-late 60s, I had to fight every literal inch of the way over the matter of long hair. As I practised being Mick Jagger before the bedroom mirror, it was always on the understanding that, within hours, I might be in front of that same mirror after a parentally-dictated trip to the barber.
===== Bhutan tried to erase us. Now, Trump’s America is helping =====
[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/10/bhutan-refugees-trump-america by Lok Darjee 10/7/25 The Guardian]
In mid-March 2025, I sat quietly in the back of a small, crowded room at the Asian Refugees United center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, surrounded by members of the Bhutanese diaspora. The silence was heavy, thick with fear and uncertainty. This modest office, once a vibrant hub for refugee youth, cultural celebrations, and literary competitions, had become an impromptu crisis center, where community leaders scrambled to make sense of the Trump administration’s escalating immigration crackdown on Bhutanese refugees across the country.
===== The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world Moustafa Bayoumi =====
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jul/06/destruction-of-palestine-is-breaking-the-world by Sereen Haddad 6/7/25 The Guardian]
Haddad, who is Palestinian American, had been raising awareness on her campus about the Palestinian fight for freedom as part of her university’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. The struggle is also personal for her. With roots in Gaza, she has lost more than 200 members of her extended family to Israel’s war.
===== Ben Franklin Declared His Independence from his Inheritance of Nasty Superstitions and Became an Enlightenment Man =====
[https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/ben-franklin-declared-his-independence by ANDY CRAIG 4/7/25 The UnPopulist]
In 1692, Salem, Mass. was in the throes of its infamous witch trials. In courtroom scenes which seem so inexplicably absurd to us, human beings were sent to the gallows on the basis of “spectral evidence”—invisible proof of alleged witchcraft that only the accusers, mostly young girls, could see or experience. Many would collapse into screaming fits in front of the judges, alleging that they were being tormented in that very moment by the bewildered defendants. But not all such accusers were impressionable children, as it’s often remembered. One was a woman around the age of 40.
===== The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were spun from lies, deceit and desperation =====
[https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/the-real-salt-path-how-the-couple-behind-a-bestseller-left-a-trail-of-debt-and-deceit by Chloe Hadjimatheou 5/7/25 National]
A heartbreaking “true” story of two people in their early 50s forced out of their rural home in Wales and weighed down by a sudden diagnosis of Moth’s terminal illness, The Salt Path went straight to the top of the bestseller charts, selling more than 2m copies worldwide since its publication in 2018.
===== A beautiful, broken America: what I learned on a 2,800-mile bus ride from Detroit to LA =====
[https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/jul/26/america-roadtrip-greyhound-bus by Joanna Pocock 26/7/23 The Guardian]
Historically, chroniclers of the road have travelled by car – intrepid individuals in charge of their destinies. They also tend to be male. The only book I could find by a woman about crossing the US was America Day by Day by Simone de Beauvoir. It is also the only Great American Road Trip book that features Greyhound bus travel. Simone became my companion on the road.
===== How did these class rings stay put for decades? Santa Cruz County beach mystery delights ocean expert =====
[https://lookout.co/how-did-these-class-rings-stay-put-for-decades-santa-cruz-county-beach-mystery-delights-ocean-expert/story by Hillary Ojeda 3/7/25 LookOut
When UC Santa Cruz ocean expert Gary Griggs read this week about a ring found on a local beach 28 years after it was lost in the water, he was struck by the similarities to another story he’s told his students for more than two decades about a long-lost ring found on the beach.
===== Is America’s oldest Chinese restaurant in a tiny suburb of Sacramento? Historians investigate =====
[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/may/02/oldest-chinese-american-restaurant-chicago-cafe by Clair Wang 2/5/24 The Guardian]
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/may/02/oldest-chinese-american-restaurant-chicago-cafe
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=====Sand Creek Massacre of November 29th, 1864: 160th Anniversary=====
[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/29/2289278/-Sand-Creek-Massacre-of-November-29th-1864-160th-Anniversary?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=latest_community&pm_medium=web by Winter Rabbit 11/29/24 DailyKos]
The massacre was on. Chivington ordered that cannons be fired into the panicked groups of Indians first; then the troops charged on horseback and on foot. There was nowhere for the native people to hide.
I saw quite a number of infants in arms killed with their mothers. I went over the ground soon after the battle [reported Asbury Bird, a soldier with Company D of the First Colorado Cavalry]. I should judge there were between 400 and 500 Indians killed .... Nearly all, men, women, and children were scalped.
===== Opinion: As darkness descends on Gaza, I yearn for the world to see us, too =====
[https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/11/opinions/gaza-palestinian-israel-hamas-seige-ghraieb/index.html by Omar Ghraieb 12/10/23 CNN]
An explosive roar shakes my home and my laptop goes flying, landing amid shattered glass and debris. Looking at its flickering screen, I sigh and brace myself to pronounce the death of another computer — and this essay. I collect it gently from the floor and coax it back to life. I keep writing.
===== Ancient Celtic tribe had women at its social center =====
[https://www.npr.org/2025/01/15/nx-s1-5258236/ancient-celtic-tribe-had-women-at-its-social-center by Ari Daniel 15/1/25 npr]
In Britain, during the Neolithic Period (characterized by the introduction of agriculture) and the Bronze Age, which dated from about 4000 to 800 BCE, prehistoric human societies tended to be patrilocal. That's "where women move," says Cassidy. "They leave their home upon marriage, and they go join the village, the community of their husbands."
===== Harriet Tubman’s church in Canada was a crucial force in the abolitionist movement. It’s still standing today =====
[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/19/harriet-tubman-church-canada-abolition by Adria R. Walker 19/6/25 The Guardian]
Salem Chapel is one of the oldest Black churches in Ontario. Though it may not be widely known to most Americans or Canadians, its influence on both countries’ history is undeniable. The church, which is still in use as a religious institution, is considered a sacred site and tourist destination because of its importance for people who participated in the Underground Railroad and for their descendants.
===== Circassia: The land, people, and brutal Russian genocide you've never heard of =====
[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/17/2129458/-Circassia-The-land-people-and-brutal-Russian-genocide-you-ve-never-heard-of by Spherical Aberration 17/9/22 DAILY KOS]
Well, until the Russian Empire got involved, anyway. In 1763, Russia essentially declared that it was annexing Circassia. The Circassians... strongly disagreed, sparking one of the longest, bloodiest, most brutal conflicts that you've never heard of. The Russo-Circassian War lasted from 1763 until the final Circassian army was defeated in 1864. Yep, that's 101 years of more or less constant warfare in the region, combined with relentless atrocity. The Russians declared the Circassians to be "subhuman", "mountain scum", and “untrustworthy swine” and that Circassia was a land of "bandits" and criminals. And I bet you can guess where this is going.
===== Looking at Black Lives Matter mural in downtown Santa Cruz from above =====
[https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2025/06/17/photo-looking-at-black-lives-matter-mural-in-downtown-santa-cruz-from-above/ by Shmuel Thaler 24/6/25 Santa Cruz Sentinel]
https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2025/06/17/photo-looking-at-black-lives-matter-mural-in-downtown-santa-cruz-from-above/
===== Early humans survived in a range of extreme environments before global migration, study says =====
[https://apnews.com/article/ancient-humans-migration-adaptability-homo-sapiens-d7c15932203b50221d3ff321f10da44b by Christina Larson 19/6/25 AP]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.
===== Indians 101: Emancipating California's Mission Indians in 1833-1834 =====
===== [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/6/19/2328563/-Indians-101-Emancipating-California-s-Mission-Indians-in-1833-1834?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=latest_community&pm_medium=web by Ojibwa 19/6/25 DAILY KOS] =====
The Spanish Mission Era in California begins in 1769 and lasted until 1834. During this time the Franciscan missionaries founded 21 missions in California, or, more precisely, Alta California. These missions sought to capture souls for Christ by converting the Indians to Catholicism and to solidify Spain’s imperial control over the region.
===== Indians 101: A very short overview of the California missions =====
[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/30/1964625/-Indians-101-A-very-short-overview-of-the-California-missions by Ojibwa 30/7/20 DAILY KOS]
In 1769 Father Junípero Serra leads a group of Franciscan friars from Baja California to establish a series of 21 missions, starting with San Diego de Alcalá in the south. The group is accompanied by a column of Spanish soldiers under the leadership of Captain Gaspar de Portolá. As with other Christian missionaries throughout the world, there was little concern for aboriginal lifeways: to become Christian required abandoning aboriginal traditions and fully assimilating to European way of life.
===== Indians 201: Indian Rebellions at the California Missions =====
[https://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/04/1282022/-Indians-201-Indian-Rebellions-at-the-California-Missions by Ojibwa 4/3/14 DAILY KOS]
While it is not uncommon for some textbooks to give the impression that the California Native Americans passively accepted the missions, Spanish domination, and conversion to Christianity, this was not the case. In fact, the initial reception of the Franciscans by the California Indians was anything but hospitable. Resistance to the Spanish Franciscans was organized by village chiefs and influential shamans and this resistance was expressed through attacks on both the Spanish soldiers and the Franciscan missionaries. During the first years of the Franciscan mission program the overt hostility of the Indians slowed the rate of the establishment of the new missions and created a reliance on soldiers to protect the Franciscans.
===== Indians 201: The death toll in the California missions =====
[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/29/2088493/-Indians-101-The-death-toll-in-the-California-missions by Ojibwa 29/3/22 DAILY KOS]
Indian people did not come joyously or freely to live and work at the new missions. In his book Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places, Peter Nabokov writes:
===== Indians 201: The Navajo and Mexico =====
===== Indians 201: The Navajo and Mexico =====


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