The Indian Placement Program

Pittsburgh Daily Post, Pennsylvania, August 4, 1912

Hopkins falls under the Milky Way

Craig Richards

You know that age old saying of leave only footsteps implying a lot of native americans didn’t leave a trace.  That isn’t always correct.  Around here the Anishinabe bands would sometimes leave birch bark staked into the ground near the riverbank campgrounds like a modern sign. It had basic pictographic messages for other Anishinabe bands to know what is going on. It provided valuable info like which clans crossed, If they were a visiting, hunting, peace or war delegation, What direction they went, If there was death or illness and approx time they camped. 

Celebrating The First Americans Means Green, Not Red White and Blue

American jade is made up of a group of semiprecious hard stones. Chief among them is a dense rock composed almost entirely of the mineral jadeite, a sodium aluminum silicate of the pyroxene family noted for its beautiful color when worked. All American works of art in jade are basically green, but they are vary widely in tone, ranging from a pale apple hue, like below, to a distinctive blue green, to almost black.

As in China, where semiprecious hard stones — also known collectively as jade — were worked from very early times, the initial use of jade in the Americas is thought to have developed from the production of tools, weapons, and ornaments of more common stone. Jade is particularly hard and therefore useful for tools and weapons. But jade’s beautiful color, and shine when polished, would have made it stand out. Over time, jade became more and more favored for works of special status, like jewelry and ceremonial items. By the Olmecs in 1000 BCE, jade was high enough of a status symbol that the stone was being carved into non-useful sculptures and being placed in royal burials, never to be seen or used again.

why net neutrality matters, in two images

Liz: You're smiling, did something good happen?

Michelle: Can't I just smile because I feel like it?

Ned: Peter tripped and fell in the parking lot.

if you ever feel left out just remember that you weren’t the fifth gryffindor guy in the marauders’ dormitory

If I couldn't wear my sassy pants I wouldn't have any pants to wear at all

Brady

Southern Region, Iceland

At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.

by Daniel Herr from Germany 

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