Aja Yasir
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New Episode of Abundant Living and Gardening Podcast. You can listen at or wherever you listen to podcasts (Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, etc).
#regenerativeagriculture
#growyourown
#buildsoil
#dryfarming
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@RaveenTheDream
Both ED and scalp health are connected to kidney health. Organs hold emotions and kidneys are known as the organs that hold fear. So I wonder how their modern lifestyles, including their emotional states, may be impacting their kidneys.
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@TorraineWalker
I may have missed something. However, from what I saw he never mentioned race.
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If you don’t eat peach cobbler, sweet potato pie, collard greens, and corn bread; you should not be playing Whitney Houston.
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@SheBeatsMe
Sugaring? I love that word. It’s a whole Grandma Madame 1920s vibe. Imma start using it. “You been out there sugaring?”
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Eat anything? Rabbits are way cleaner animals than chickens.
Niggas from Da Souf is different lmao deep fried Rabbit is different. They’ll eat anything 🤣. Look like chicken tho
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The Carnegie Foundation. Now I have to go back in time and figure out what type of mind control Sesame Street had me under. However, I loved watching Gordon because he was bald like my daddy. Lol.
Did you know Sesame Street was originally created for black and brown inner city kids?
A THREAD
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@thedoctormom
💯 a chicken will eat any damn thing, including chickens. I fed my chickens very high quality food though, including kombucha and fermented foods, and they became bougie as 💩
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Indian Bread: CASSAVA, bread made of Indian corn, Cornbread. Webster’s Dictionary 1955.
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Someone on here asked me how many tribes in SC are mentioned in this book. I don’t know but there are 276 pages of names from the Abbapoola to the Ypaguano. It also includes some names and wills. It’s definitely a good reference book.
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Depression will take you out just like any other disease. Give yourself grace.
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Names, owners, and e’rething. Wait, I thought you couldn’t find… never mind.
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Found a dictionary at my parents’ house from 1955. Indian Hemp (Dogbane) is listed as Choctaw Root.
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If you have the opportunity to learn at least one of your Indigenous languages, no matter your ancestral continent, learn it. Even if you can only learn a few words, learn them. Speak them. They will change your thinking. 🧵1/2
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@HenriettaSnacks
@MonicaRambeauYo
Who is this person? Many Chicagoans (including me) are rooted in Mississippi. Many of us have not lost those connections.
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Went thrifting today. Found a Blackhawks jersey. Copped it because I’m sure they’re going to eventually remove Blackhawk and rename the team the Chicago Weathers or something.
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@carrchristmas
Why do people add “Afro” as a prefix for darker Indigenous people but never say Scottish, Irish, English-Native?
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I’ve watched videos of gardeners in Africa. But most of the food they grow is from the Americas and Asia. What does it say about culture and identity when the majority of the foods you grow on your private land, in your home country, is foreign? Food & culture are not separate.
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Regular old colonizer. He didn’t “found” Chicago. Chicago (shikaakwa) is Algonquian for the wild ramps that are Indigenous to the area.
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Chukkalissa (the fictional Mississippi town where P-Valley takes place) means abandoned house in Chahta. There are so many messages intertwined in the show. What happens when we abandon our land, language, culture, spirituality, reverence?
#PValley
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Jackie Robinson, his wife Rachel Robinson, and son.
Absolutely gorgeous family.
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Wonder why elders don’t talk?
There was once an elder who revealed a vital part of their family history. Most didn’t believe the elder so she changed her story to fit the narrative they wanted to believe. When the elder died, a family historian confirmed her original story.
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Shout out to Lumbee Indians for keeping the tradition of collard green and cornbread sandwiches alive. Fresh picked collards, seasoned to perfection. I also seasoned the cornbread to perfection. Slamming. I’m not Lumbee but 🔥🔥
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North American Wild Yam (Indian Yam). Medicine. Such a stunning plant.
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I’m seeking reparations from my 5th grade teacher who told me Indians were weak so colonists brought in Africans to work on plantations.
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Baby girl- mommy, why don’t we have any Chahta dolls in our collection?
Me- say no more.
I hadn’t been able to find one until baby girl asked. After she asked, I typed in vintage Choctaw doll and she popped up. She just arrived and she’s a cutie.
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Last December my mom taught my daughter how to make corn husk dolls like she used to make when she was a little girl. I’m grateful she passed this down to her granddaughter, as she entered the ancestral world weeks later. My daughter and I made this doll yesterday. 💞
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My Grandmother and Great Aunts were in a boarding school in the early 1900s. American Indian languages were banned from schools from 1887-1990. Every syllable of Chahta I relearn and reteach my children is restoration.
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A porcelain doll my mom bought my daughter before my mom passed. She would always say, “girl, let her play with those dolls. I didn’t buy them for them to stay in boxes on a shelf.” I have to admit, this is the first time we took her out the box.
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Rereading this book and finding even more 💎 💎 since I’ve gotten further in my genealogy.
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@Nike
Runners come in all sizes. There’s nothing about this woman that indicates she’s not a runner. There are plus size ultra marathoners. So stop it.
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🌽 rows and beads, as familiar as Towanda (Osage word) and Misha (Choctaw for “beyond”), eating sunflower seeds . A South African friend of mine said she loved seeing American girls with beads in their hair when she first got to the US. She had never seen anything like it in 🇿🇦
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@polo_man404
May present and future generations of children experience safe spaces with their parents. There are too many young people dying from depression for parents to be dismissive.
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I was offered hoe money to be the face of an agriculture initiative. Offended, I turned it down. Agriculture is my spiritual work and I don’t take my ancestors and my work lightly. I am the matriarch of this in my family now. I CANNOT be bought.
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All Tacos are Indian- “Tacos are believed to have originated in the Aztec Empire, or at least that region of what is now Mexico.”
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There’s an awakening occurring. People are getting more in tune with their spiritual (authentic) selves. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that at the same time, society is being pushed towards more technology-driven artificiality. Tech is cool but don’t let it halt the healing.
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Food and medicine from my mother’s garden. She’s been in the ancestral world since January and her piece of earth is still doing what it does.
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The cherry tree we planted in honor of my father is nourished by the placenta of my daughter. ♾️
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An East Indian gardener I met on Clubhouse a while back told me she shops in the spice section at East Indian grocery stores for seeds. I shall never be the same.
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I stepped back from genealogical research because one of my ancestors told me to “sit” with her for a while. When an elder tells you to, “sit a spell,” you sit a spell. I’d been sitting with her, feeling her presence for a while. Last night
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She’s here- my vintage Inuit doll. Her details are gorgeous. Both her coat and boats are made with real fur. She’s pretty big but I think I’ve found a location to keep her.
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“Poker is a Noxubee Indian word, and it means five-luck or five-hazard; and the Noxubee Indians were Choctaw affiliates,” Okla Hannali
BUT HOLD ONNN!! Congrats to Princess Love for winning the Celebrity Poker Tournament ♣️😍. The 1st black woman in history to do so!! Give her her TENS 💐👏🏾.
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After not eating meat for 28 years, incorporating rabbit, deer, and alligator into my life has been a beautiful process. I just made some 🔥 deer breakfast sausages with fresh herbs from the garden and I feel like I can fly.
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We’ve lost 70% of the Eastern Woodlands. You want better air quality? Plants some trees and respect the forests.
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Have empathy for elders who reveal stories. They could be reaching down deep into their own pain to unravel parts of themselves they’ve quieted. When they’re not believed, not only are they open and vulnerable; they’re re-traumatized.
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Cooking is very powerful medicine. The one who cooks has the power to build or destroy.
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@RareRareness
As a farmer, I’ve seen shifts the earth is experiencing. But I’m not fearful of them. I think we need to lean into the shifts and continue to care for earth. Yes, droughts exist but water management is key. There HAS to be a shift in ag practices though
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Runoko Rashidi said he feared Pan Africanism was dying because he was one of the last people writing books. Years ago a friend of mine who owned a black bookstore said no one was writing books anymore. If something ONLY survives because of books, is it real? What is YOUR story?
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Eat green leafy vegetables. Use cast iron skillets. Drink more water. Take molasses. Eat more fruit. Drink warm teas (raspberry leaf is 💕). Make sure you're having proper bowel movements. Exercise. Rest.
🩸 🩸 🩸 is sacred time.
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A farmer friend of mine who also works in the school system told me farmers can reach out to vocational schools and have students build things like chicken coops, raised beds, etc for small fees or school projects. My life shall never be the same.
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I’m glad she was reported. If therapists can’t hold safe spaces for clients they should be fired. No one goes to therapy to be traumatized by their therapist.
It's amazing what you can do with a couple of phone calls...
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This is one way trauma and self loathing are spread through the female line. We must speak gentleness, life, and love over our girls.
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@theTashaXi
these books are beautiful!!! These books deserve to be in every school. I’m happy they’re in our unschool. Order here- and here
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Cherokee Family on reservation in western North Carolina. 1936. I think this pic is from the book Native Carolinians.
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I don’t think it’s a coincidence that I found my Taino Pumpkin seeds soon after I found a language connection between Chahta and Arawak. This year I’ll be growing the Chahta Pumpkins near the Taino Pumpkins. Perhaps they’ll share stories with each other.
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Our largest, earliest, most squash bug resistant Choctaw Sweet Potato Squash. This is the fruit I’ll be saving seeds from, she’s the 👵🏾 of Choctaw Sweet Potato Squash for generations to come.
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It’s Hoodoo Heritage Month and I feel some kind of way. Hoodoo is not an ATR. As a practice that centers ancestor veneration, it is lineage based and is strengthened when one can name and give honor to their OWN ancestors.
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Misclassification. Did you know the stories that are labeled Black American Folktales are really American Indian? Same themes. Same characters. Same cadence. Different classification. Sign the petition below.
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Thank you for posting this beautiful postcard
@ALibraryForUs
I found it on eBay. It’s even more beautiful in person 😍
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@FlagBlack007
I had the pleasure of getting to see him play when he was a child. He and his father came to Jackson Park Golf Course in Chicago often and donated their time and energy to inner city children and the community of “black” golfers.
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This milky white substance coming out of this wild lettuce contains lactucarium, a pain reliever that has similar effects as opium without the harmful side effects of synthetic opioids. It’s sometimes coined as, “morphine lettuce.”
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I read this book years ago. I’m going to have to revisit it. It touches on some very interesting stuff that I’m just putting together now. 🤯
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Hakchoma. Tobacco. I had to hang some of my Chahta tobacco outside because it was drying green instead of brown + it needed more humidity. Man oh man, it smells so good now and it’s more brown. I think it’s become one of my favorite things to grow.
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Jemima is a Hebrew name that was popularized in the 1700s. It was the name of Job’s daughter in the Bible.
@DTheKingpin
@reyno_lr
I'm just going to snapshot my previous tweet and add that Uncle Ben was based on the enslaved men they would lease to other plantations for entertainment. There were a lot of racist trope product labels beside those as well.
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My organization, Kilikki, is working on an indigenous plant/endangered indigenous plant installation in Chicago. Virgin’s Bower Clematis is one of the plants that I’m really excited about. It attracts hummingbirds, bees, butterflies, and wasps. It’s also medicinal.
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Our Cayuga Ducklings arrived yesterday. Unlike most domestic ducks, this is an American breed that is now on the threatened list. They’re black when they’re babies but develop beautiful green and blue feathers as they grow.
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Or dentures. Perception is everything
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A colonist descends from colonists. Imagine that.
“Do you know what you’re looking at? That is a list of the passengers on the Mayflower.”
Our researchers discovered
#AngelaDavis
’s ancestors traveled to the US on the Mayflower and here is her reaction.
#FindingYourRoots
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