In Seneca, the opposum is called dzagoyö:di:h "the smiling one" - and that's just perfect.

Everyone can see that prioritizing public health over private profit leads to better health outcomes at less cost. Siding with private profit in the face of this evidence says everything.
#HealthCareIsAHumanRight #UniversalHealthCare #MedicareForAll

Some turkey facts:

- In the Potawatomi calendar, the month of November is Pne'kesis - the turkey moon.

- Colonization nearly made wild turkeys extinct. By the early 1900s, there were only 30,000 in the entire US. - English-speakers called it a turkey, thinking it the same bird as the African guineafowl imported from Turkey at the time. Turks called it a hindi, thinking it from India. Same with the French (poulet d’Inde - literally “chicken from India”), Dutch (kalkoen, a contraction of

Map: "Indian Country" from NatGeo If Native people, cultures, and languages seem invisible, it's because of deliberate colonial erasure. Indigenous people are 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲.

Colonizers have long used flags as a tool of control. In their twisted idea of land "ownership" sticking a flag in the ground somehow meant the land was theirs, as if the people who actually lived there had no rights on the basis of not having their own flag.
(Pictured: Māori) Now, Indigenous nations are reclaiming the flag as a source of cultural pride - and their designs are more beautiful and meaningful than any colonial flag.

(Amazigh, Wiphala, Aboriginal Australian, Mohawk Warrior Society)

Contrary to popular belief, coal isn't made from dinosaurs. It's much older than that. We're burning peat bogs compressed over 300 million years. And it's taken less than a century to burn through most of it.

Map: USGS, 1985 The biggest regret - aside from, you know, destroying the planet - is that this one time gift of concentrated energy wasted. Fossil fuels weren't used to create thriving, livable communities.