(Source: kamalanilk)

tortillapower:

Fact: The invasion of the Americas was histories largest genocide and demographic devastation to date, killing over 90% of the original population.

Native genocide continues in certain parts of the southern hemisphere, where mining companies and government personal have been known to gun down communities.

lakotapeopleslawproject:

South Dakota’s #NDNs are IDLE NO MORE! ICWA Directors and 7 of 9 tribal councils have sent a report to Congress exposing the illegal seizure of thousands of Native children by the Department of Social Services! Want to know more? Tune in to NPR’s “All Things Considered” tomorrow for the full story. Also SHARE this status, SIGN our petition to Congress, and READ the report:www.lakotalaw.org

maybeedmonton:

“I wasn’t sure there was anything faked about this realty sign until I saw Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper actually smiling.”

warlikeparakeet88:

Indigenous Women Take the Lead in Idle No More

Motivated by ancient traditions of female leadership as well as their need for improved legal rights, First Nations women are stepping to the forefront of the Idle No More movement.

moniquill:

girljanitor:

moniquill:

nethilia:

karnythia:

madgastronomer:

sleepydumpling:

Found on the twitters.  Seriously?  This wankerism passes for food these days?

Actual exchange on twitter after I retweeted the above:

ME: What in the FUCKING FUCK are activated almonds?

HAEScoach: @madgastronomer nuts and seeds that have been soaked to breakdown the phytic acid among other things to make it more digestible

ME: @HAEScoach …And is it any less bunkum than alkalized water or green coffee beans or whatever else they’re selling these days?

HAEScoach: @madgastronomer actually it’s based on science & they do taste better! I’m the biggest sceptic & do my research on all the ‘new’ best things

HAEScoach: @madgastronomer walnuts especially are the most noticeable as it gets rid of that bitter taste (phytic acid)

ME: @HAEScoach I’ve seen “it’s based on science!” touted by people who insist “negative ion gold” is hydrating to the skin. References?

HAEScoach: @madgastronomer yeah I hear ya and Wikipedia isn’t it :)

Whole conversation, complete with bad references and more proof by assertion, here.

You have to love people who eat junk “health” food & then claim it is better for you than something made with basic ingredients. I’m certain you’d lose weight with this menu. I’m also certain most of it tastes like wallpaper paste.

The fuck is that that’s not real food where are my chicken nuggets and sweet and sour sauce

Here let me summarize: “I ATE ALL THE MOST EXPENSIVE AND THEREFOR BEST STUFF AT WHOLE FOODS!”

Okay I finally give in and reblog this because it’s just so…wow

“activated almonds”

“alkalized water”

And here’s a big ol article about how/why “The Modern Way of Eating Nuts, Grains, and Legumes Isn’t Safe”

with a big old part on “antinutrients” (LOLOLOL)and ways to prepare foods in order to get ride of “antinutrients” (WHICH THE AUTHOR HAD FIRST HEARD ABOUT “A YEAR AGO”)

Ways of preparing plant-based foods that help to neutralise antinutrients and make food easier to digest include:

• soaking
• sprouting
• fermenting
• cooking
• malting

And you know what is really irritating to me about this shit?

Do you know what Pellagra is?

Do you know WHY it happened?

Because when the Americas were colonized, the colonizers were all like, “oh hey CORN this stuff is like a MIRACLE FOOD!”

And they saw that the Indigenous people were doing something to it, and of course because they were doing something to it while being Indigenous people, it was of course worthless and stupid and gross and unnecessary…right?

So, they ignored it, and they all got pellagra.

THEY IGNORED IT UNTIL THE 1940’S

PEOPLE WERE DYING IN EPIDEMIC PROPORTIONS

Do you know what the Indigenous people were doing to the corn? Can you guess?

THEY WERE SOAKING IT IN ALKALI SO THEY DIDN’T GET PELLAGRA

It’s called nixtamalization.

I am so fucking sick and tired of this “discovery” of the ways to improve the nutritional content of food. This “activated almonds” bullshit and alllll that other processing is just shit POC have been doing for hundreds or thousands of years. And colonizers come along and are like, “whatever you’re doing is primitive, horrible, disgusting, distasteful, we must wipe it out, wipe out your culture, you have to eat/speak/dress/think like us” and then of course the disenfranchised Indigenous folks get EVERY NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY because they’ve been stripped of their traditional practices.

And then white people are all like, “OH HEY WE DISCOVERED THROUGH OUR AMAZING WHITE SCIENCE HOW TO INCREASE THE NUTRITIONAL CONTENT OF FOOD!1111 AREN’T WHITE SCIENCES AMAAAAAAZING”

No really fuck this shit forever.

reblogging again for epic commentary^

lostintrafficlights:

littleangrytiger:

labmunky:

This was at the rally on Parliament Hill on January 11th, 2013…these three white women told us to take their photo with their sign and post it online to show that they are disgusted with their colonial government…

natives peacefully fighting for clean water on their own land?

white people think this justifies murder threats.

Well Mr. Devin Hardy, I think we can make you famous. 

theshewomanboyhatersclub:

Looks like somebody accidentally got some truth all over a statue of Canada’s first Prime Minister.