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Journey to Kohm Yah-mah-nee “Mount Lassen”, unceded Mountain Maidu territory with mom. They burned our forests but we keep coming back.
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Mom at the Bear Dance (Maidu New Years) Taylorsville, California The thing about reconnecting is eventually you’re reconnected.. Our Maidu matriarch, was stolen away from her family in the mountains as a young girl to be in servitude to a wealthy settler family in the valley. This was typical of the time for Indigenous Californian children, theft and slavery disguised as charity and care and legalised under the Act for the Government and the Protection of Indians 1850-1937. A diaspora of disconnected, reconnecting, and reconnected Natives spreads across the “gold fields” of California as a result of generations of dispossession. Our Maidu matriarch was trafficked as property through 3 marriages to white settler men. She was listed as “servant” to 3 white men in the 1920s census. Her son who served in the calvary had his land in Alturas stolen for him being “Indian”. He was paid to fist fight for crowds and worked in a lumber mill to keep his family fed. His daughter grew up dirt poor and served as a maid in a motel in Sacramento. Her daughter, maintaining a promise to her Modoc grandmother and Maidu grandfather (to never forget) raised her 3 sons in culture. She taught archery and beadwork and worked the local powwow for 20 years. Her youngest son went to Europe and raised hell about the California Genocide and California’s censored slavery. Then after dancing for 24hrs about the censored California Genocide in London and after confronting John Sutter’s legacy of child trafficking and slavery in Munich, we found the family we were stolen away from. We found the faces of our relatives in “strangers” up the mountain. We found our valley, we found our people, we found our way back. We are Mountain Maidu from Taylorsville, California in “Indian Valley”. These are our homelands, and our homecoming. We are undying and indestructible. #reconnectingnative #reconnectednative #mountainmaidu #maidu
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Hey dear 🥰 I think my colleague contacted you some time back, hope you don't mindme reaching out again... @JunoValentina.amb would love to have you on the team & gift you (yes, totally free) some of their newest jewelry collection as a welcome package! Please send them a DM saying “TEAM” and they will explain the amazing benefits of joining! X ‎ ‎ 👉 @JunoValentina.amb 👈
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How'd your super bowl gathering go 😂👏
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