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What should you do if you find an artifact (arrowhead, pottery shard, etc.), on US public lands?
This is a departure for me, but I recently saw a post here that suggested that if you found an artifact from the 1800s on federal land, you should take it to a museum.
PLEASE DON'T DO THIS!
If you find an artifact on public land, like a national park, please don't move it! Report its exact location to the agency that manages the land, like for a National Park, find the nearest park ranger.
Why?
Any time an artifact is moved, or removed, from its location, valuable information about that object is lost. Even if the object is returned, the context is destroyed.
Also, this is illegal, and most museums cannot accept artifacts collected illegally, i.e. on public land without a permit.
How do you know?
I studied anthropology & archeology in college, and then museum studies in grad school, so I'm fairly familiar with the major issues and US laws in question.
From the 1906 Antiquities Act which, among other things, first established penalties for removing objects from public lands, to the Native American Graves Protection & Repatriation Act, passed in 1990, which deals with the "repatriation and disposition of certain Native American human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony," US laws have increasingly provided care for natural and cultural objects found on federal land. (Laws concerning natural objects is a whole other subject, and mostly depends on which agency controls the land.)
This is a good thing! So, first of all:
What is an artifact?
Generally speaking, artifacts are things that people in the past made, purchased, collected, or left behind at archeological sites. Sometimes they're objects like arrowheads, but they can be more subtle traces of humanity, like bricks or wood from an ancient house. They might only be a few decades old, or they might be thousands of years old. (In other parts of the world, they may be hundreds of thousands of years old or older!)
What should you do if you find an artifact on public land in the US, including national parks, forests, BLM land, state parks, etc.?
Leave the artifact where you found it. Please don't pick it up, move it, throw it, put it in your pocket or your bag, or bury it.
Note & record your exact location. Snap a picture of the artifact where you found it. Step back and photograph the artifact with a landmark. Please don't post them on social media. (If you take a photo with a recent cell phone, it will automatically record the GPS coordinates if you have location services turned on. This information can be extracted from the original photo file.)
Report what you found. Show a park ranger your pictures and the location of the artifact. If you cannot find a ranger, or you're not on park service land, you can email your photos and findings to the Archeology or Cultural Resources division of the land's governing body. If you're not sure where to turn, I'd email your State Archeologist (Google your state + "office of state archeology") and ask for help.
The agency in charge will appoint an archeologist to properly investigate the site, conduct any necessary fieldwork, and recover and curate the artifacts (or convey them to a museum or other approved repository). Artifacts generally then become available to researchers for study, and sometimes for display in public exhibits.
More about what archeologists do
#archeology#ancient artifacts#cultural artifacts#national parks#national monuments#national forests#BLM lands#US laws#united states#I'm not very familiar with laws in other countries#but I know many have similar laws#museums#thanks for coming to my TED talk#history museums#natural history museums
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Apparently it is federally illegal, punishable with up to five years in prison, for marketing a product in such a way as to falsely suggest that it was produced by an Indian tribe within the borders of the united states.
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America’s claims to be the “land of the free” and yet America’s Revamped bill of rights in 2022-the one’s politicians will die on-looks like this:
Create laws that restrict women’s bodies to become nothing more then a vessel for a group of cells
Would rather suck the tit of the NRA rather then save their Children.
Fund a group of LARPing racists living out their white supremacy fantasies-aka cops-rather then have the money be put towards something that would actually benefit its people.
Ban books that allow children to discover themselves and express themselves. (God forbid they learn gay and trans people exist)
Prohibit critical race theory that would criticize their own actions and reveal them to be the bad guys who stole this land (“land of the free, but by god not free thinking”)
Would rather overturn an election because it didn’t turn out the way they wanted
Consider people “illegal” when this land isn’t theirs.
Forbid people who have been wrongly convicted of overturning/challenging their sentence.
Will not install any anti hate crime bill that would protect its citizens
Allows doctors/healthcare professionals to refuse seeing anyone who doesn’t fit a certain profile (cough, cisgender, cough)
#US laws#American laws#land of the free is bullshit#America sucks#pro choice#us gun control#queer books#book banning#all cops are murderers#all cops are pigs#fuck the nra
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IMPORTANT FOR LGBTQ+ and Allies
Senator Mike Johnson has proposed a bill that would ban any mention of or depiction of LGBTQ+ identities in education settings. This includes banning these identities as the identities of the educators as well. The bill proposes that children seeing any depiction, simulation or actual Transgender or Nonbinary person (or other identities) is sexualizing children. More or less it lists gender identity as pornography. (It literally puts gender identities, child pornography viewing and stripping for children as equally criminal O.o)
You can read more about this: HR9197
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This article has a link to the PDF to read it. (Particularly Section 4 but definitely read the whole proposal. It is only 6 pages.)
Please, please, please remember to vote. It is important. It matters.
It's not just at the Federal level either. Michigan House Bill 6454 makes it a felony child abuse level crime to assist and acknowledge transgender children. As a parent this could mean up to a life sentence in jail.
Alabama, Florida, and other states have similar proposed laws that regard LGBTQ+ identity, transgender/nonbinary healthcare, and in some cases even acknowledging or being transgender or nonbinary as a crime at some level or another.
#WTFH!!#When I asked for 1984 this is not what I meant#LGBTQ+#LGBTQ+ Rights#Transgender#transgender rights#nonbinary#nonbinary rights#US laws#US senate#Election things
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Omg I'm itching for a fight! I'm try of all nonsense and bullshit! That we were subjected to on a daily basis! It's turning my brain into utter mush... but on the other side of that I'm so fucking frustrated and aggravated of the lies. Like how is fucking Fox News still standing when all those text came out that they literally hate Trump, didn't believe the big lie even though they were all reporting like they did. Are partially responsible in my opinion of what happened on January 6th. If something like happened at any other time Fox News would be destroyed! But because we not live in a world where truth is lies, lies are facts, facts are not to be trusted, it's like every fucking person on the right thinks their being gaslight. Their still watching Fox News and completely ignoring what they did. It's completely ridiculous.
Everyone talks about bringing the country back together, it's not like I don't want to see that happen but how? When we have one side determined to eradicate certain civil rights, groups of people, certain freedoms. Their looking more and more like everyone must live the way we deem correct and their making laws to have that happen, from Florida to Wyoming to Arkansas to Tennessee to Texas to Oklahoma...
We can no longer sat idly by and allow these laws to stand in place. We should be out in the streets everyday in every city, every town, in front of the White House, in front of Congress, in front of the Supreme Court. We need to show those in power that we don't stand for what their doing. That we will not allow them the silence our voices!
We fought at Stone Wall, we fought during the Aids Epidemic, we fought for gay marriage, we fought for civil rights, we fought for women's rights, we fought for labor unions, we fought against child labor, we fought for women's rights to vote, we fought against the Vietnam War, we fought for black lives matter, we fought against police violence...
We Americans have always fought and protested against the evils in our country no matter what they are. We have to do again now!! The evil on our door step seems innocuous but it is not. It's worse kind pitting people against one other, saying the way someone lives is incorrect by a narrow definition. To villainize someone simply because their different then you. Trying to erase our history because the truth makes certain people uncomfortable. Deciding to take the control over women's health care choice away from her because they think the know better. Forcing one religious point view on the country! Deciding that fascist ideals and an authoritarian view point is far better then democracy, civil liberties, freedom of choice, our Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
Right now it seems like nothing but if we do nothing we're going to be in very deep waters. We'll be treading water we won't know how we got here...
#american right now#we need to be on the streets protesting#us politics#us government#us laws#civil liberties#democracy#Constitution#Declaration of Independence#we must fight#anti fascist#anti authoritarianism#lgbtqia+ rights#women's rights#black lives matter#blm#labor unions#child labor laws#can no longer sat idly by
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AL.com: Alabama bank slammed for Robert E. Lee, MLK holiday sign: ‘Pull your money out’
Alabama and Mississippi are the only two states in the union to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert E. Lee on the same day. Every year, notices reminding bank customers, teachers and post office visitors of the joint holiday on the third Monday in January draw confusion.
This year, Alabama celebrates the holiday Monday, January 16, 2023.
More recently, a photo of an Alabama-based bank commemorating the Confederate general alongside King has gone viral online.
“This office will be closed Monday, January 16 in observance of Robert E. Lee and Martin Luther King, Jr.,” a flyer read outside of a CB&S Bank, according to a photo posted to Reddit Wednesday.
CB&S Bank is headquartered in Russellville and serves dozens of locations across Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. It is unclear when and at which location the photo was taken, and efforts by AL.com to reach CEO Mike Ross were not immediately successful.
“If you live in Alabama you should pull your money out of [CB&S Bank] immediately,” Brock Boone, a civil rights attorney, said in a tweet Wednesday evening. “Unless you think Black Americans should be slaves.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday is recognized nationally on the third Monday of January. For decades, Alabama has officially observed the birthday of Lee, a Confederate general born on Jan. 19, 1807 in Virginia, alongside the slain civil rights leader.
Read more: Renaming of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis schools will be first to test Alabama monuments law
Only Alabama and Mississippi combine a holiday honoring Lee and King, though Alabama lists Lee’s name second to King’s in its most recent calendar. Other states, including Florida and Tennessee, set aside a day for Lee but do not combine it with the King holiday and state offices remain open.
Previous efforts to end the joint holiday, including a 2020 bill that would give Lee his own day in October, have failed in the Alabama Legislature. Southern states began celebrating days honoring Lee and other Confederate leaders in the late 1800s.
“Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert E. Lee were two men with totally different agendas, beliefs and goals,” Sen. Vivian Figures, the author of the bill, told AL.com at the time. “To separate them as individual holidays is the right thing to do.”
Read more: Alabama lawmaker wants to separate King, Robert E. Lee holidays
Alabama also recognizes Confederate Memorial Day on April 24 and Jefferson Davis’ Birthday on June 5. Rosa Parks Day, on December 1, is commemoration on.
Juneteenth, a federal holiday recognizing the end of slavery, was recognized statewide in 2022. The legislature must still decide if it will become a permanent state holiday.
#Alabama#white supremacy#loosers of the confederacy#white ignorance#Civil Rights#US Laws#MLK Jr Birthday Federal Holiday#Alabama bank slammed for Robert E. Lee#MLK holiday sign: ‘Pull your money out’.
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If you were in elementary school in the 90's, you might remember an old monthly publication called Time Kids. It was exactly what it sounds like, a short, infotainment dealie for little kids. A little world events, a few animal facts, a crossword puzzle.
And there at the end, there was always an article on some school which eliminated homework and tripled recess and watched their test scores improve, or brought in chefs to work the cafeteria and actually gave kids time to eat, and BMI percentages dropped, kids ate more vegetables, nourished children did better in class, etc.
And you always thought, "Well if it works so well there, why not do that in every school?".
And then you went back to simultaneously trying to pay attention in class while keeping a lookout for the black widow spiders which made their home in the "temporary" trailer classroom, now older than several graduating classes.
And that's what being a millenial in the US feels like. Watching other places rock universal healthcare, universal living wage, bodily autonomy for all, drug laws which treat addiction as medical rather than criminal - and being told they can't be done, watch for spiders.
And just like living through the height of No Child Left Behind, we get to get up each morning and read an article about how our standardized test scores are what's keeping us down.
#millenialsbelike#millenials#time magazine#roe v wade#laws#us laws#lgbtq#no child left behind#us education#us politics
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#destiel#henry kissinger#us politics#politics#war criminals#war crimes#international law#castiel#dean winchester#breaking news
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for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal
before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"
and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"
#the truman show#sbs rambles#I keep thinking about how children on popular youtube channels should probably have laws to protect them#social workers assigned to them maybe#I dunno#they did not sign up to have their lives sold for profit#but here we are#tho#I guess none of us signed up for it#and our data is harvested more than ever#god#high-tech capitalism sucks turns out#OH WAIT because tumblr is bad at getting context sometimes#let me specify:#I am not saying that the movie The Truman Show is bad or that it normalizes this#like all good sci-fi (because it is kind of sci-fi) it's there to warn us of what the future could hold#and it did that in a very good way - it's a beautiful movie#I could see someone with a bad faith take assuming I meant that it was part of the problem#it absolutely wasn't. it didn't normalize this; we did#youtube did and social media#it's us that's the problem#or more specifically: big corporations and a lack of regulation#that's the origin of most modern problems
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#international#law#international law#israel#free palestine#palestine#gaza#israel massacre#israel is a terrorist state#free gaza#occupied palestine#us#united states#us government#fuck israel#south africa#yemen#news on gaza#mems#facts#important#humans rights
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A general tip for students who are sending those dreaded Religious Absence Emails to your professors: Rather than asking permission to take the day(s) off, politely let them know that you will be taking the day(s) off.
In other words, consider not saying this:
"May I miss class on [date] so I can observe [holiday]?"
It's not that there's anything wrong with the above, per se. But because it's phrased as a request, it risks coming across as optional — a favor you hope to be granted. Problem is, favors are not owed, and so unfortunately asking permission opens the door for the professor to respond "Thanks for asking. No, you may not. :)"
Instead, try something along the lines of:
"I will need to miss class on [date] because I will be observing [holiday]. I wanted to let you know of this conflict now, and to ask your assistance in making arrangements for making up whatever material I may miss as a result of this absence."
This is pretty formal language (naturally, you can and should tweak it to sound more like your voice). But the important piece is that, while still being respectful, it shifts the focus of the discussion so that the question becomes not "Is it okay for me to observe my religion?", but rather, "How can we best accommodate my observance?"
Because the first question should not be up for debate: freedom of religion is a right, not a favor. And the second question is the subject you need to discuss.
(Ideally, do this after you've looked up your school's policy on religious absences, so you know what you're working within and that religious discrimination is illegal. Just in case your professor forgot.)
#this strategy got me through all of college#and some professors were a lot more supportive than others but no one ever told me no#because i didn't give them the chance#jumblr#judaism#religious absences#relevant to other minority religions as well#as well as non-religious accommodations#and non-school settings#dandelion says#jewish dandelion#note: the policy/legality details will vary depending on where you live and go to school#when i talk about religious discrimination laws this is based on public universities in the us
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the thing about art is that it was always supposed to be about us, about the human-ness of us, the impossible and beautiful reality that we (for centuries) have stood still, transfixed by music. that we can close our eyes and cry about the same book passage; the events of which aren't real and never happened. theatre in shakespeare's time was as real as it is now; we all laugh at the same cue (pursued by bear), separated hundreds of years apart.
three years ago my housemates were jamming outdoors, just messing around with their instruments, mostly just making noise. our neighbors - shy, cautious, a little sheepish - sat down and started playing. i don't really know how it happened; i was somehow in charge of dancing, barefoot and laughing - but i looked up, and our yard was full of people. kids stacked on the shoulders of parents. old couples holding hands. someone had brought sidewalk chalk; our front walk became a riot of color. someone ran in with a flute and played the most astounding solo i've ever heard in my life, upright and wiggling, skipping as she did so. she only paused because the violin player was kicking his heels up and she was laughing too hard to continue.
two weeks ago my friend and i met in the basement of her apartment complex so she could work out a piece of choreography. we have a language barrier - i'm not as good at ASL as i'd like to be (i'm still learning!) so we communicate mostly through the notes app and this strange secret language of dancers - we have the same movement vocabulary. the two of us cracking jokes at each other, giggling. there were kids in the basement too, who had been playing soccer until we took up the far corner of the room. one by one they made their slow way over like feral cats - they laid down, belly-flat against the floor, just watching. my friend and i were not in tutus - we were in slouchy shirts and leggings and socks. nothing fancy. but when i asked the kids would you like to dance too? they were immediately on their feet and spinning. i love when people dance with abandon, the wild and leggy fervor of childhood. i think it is gorgeous.
their adults showed up eventually, and a few of them said hey, let's not bother the nice ladies. but they weren't bothering us, they were just having fun - so. a few of the adults started dancing awkwardly along, and then most of the adults. someone brought down a better sound system. someone opened a watermelon and started handing out slices. it was 8 PM on a tuesday and nothing about that day was particularly special; we might as well party.
one time i hosted a free "paint along party" and about 20 adults worked quietly while i taught them how to paint nessie. one time i taught community dance classes and so many people showed up we had to move the whole thing outside. we used chairs and coatracks to balance. one time i showed up to a random band playing in a random location, and the whole thing got packed so quickly we had to open every door and window in the place.
i don't think i can tell you how much people want to be making art and engaging with art. they want to, desperately. so many people would be stunning artists, but they are lied to and told from a very young age that art only matters if it is planned, purposeful, beautiful. that if you have an idea, you need to be able to express it perfectly. this is not true. you don't get only 1 chance to communicate. you can spend a lifetime trying to display exactly 1 thing you can never quite language. you can just express the "!!??!!!"-ing-ness of being alive; that is something none of us really have a full grasp on creating. and even when we can't make what we want - god, it feels fucking good to try. and even just enjoying other artists - art inherently rewards the act of participating.
i wasn't raised wealthy. whenever i make a post about art, someone inevitably says something along the lines of well some of us aren't that lucky. i am not lucky; i am dedicated. i have a chronic condition, my hands are constantly in pain. i am not neurotypical, nor was i raised safe. i worked 5-7 jobs while some of these memories happened. i chose art because it mattered to me more than anything on this fucking planet - i would work 80 hours a week just so i could afford to write in 3 of them.
and i am still telling you - if you are called to make art, you are called to the part of you that is human. you do not have to be good at it. you do not have to have enormous amounts of privilege. you can just... give yourself permission. you can just say i'm going to make something now and then - go out and make it. raquel it won't be good though that is okay, i don't make good things every time either. besides. who decides what good even is?
you weren't called to make something because you wanted it to be good, you were called to make something because it is a basic instinct. you were taught to judge its worth and over-value perfection. you are doing something impossible. a god's ability: from nothing springs creation.
a few months ago i found a piece of sidewalk chalk and started drawing. within an hour i had somehow collected a small classroom of young children. their adults often brought their own chalk. i looked up and about fifteen families had joined me from around the block. we drew scrangly unicorns and messed up flowers and one girl asked me to draw charizard. i am not good at drawing. i basically drew an orb with wings. you would have thought i drew her the mona lisa. she dragged her mother over and pointed and said look! look what she drew for me and, in the moment, i admit i flinched (sorry, i don't -). but the mother just grinned at me. he's beautiful. and then she sat down and started drawing.
someone took a picture of it. it was in the local newspaper. the summary underneath said joyful and spontaneous artwork from local artists springs up in public gallery. in the picture, a little girl covered in chalk dust has her head thrown back, delighted. laughing.
#writeblr#warm up#this is longer than i wanted i really considered removing that part about myself and what i went thru#but i think it really fucking bothers me that EVERY time i talk about being an artist#ppl assume i just like. had the skill and ability to drop everything and pay for grad school.#like sir i grew up poor. my house wasn't a safe space. i gave up a FREE RIDE TO LAW SCHOOL. for THIS. bc i chose it.#was it fucking hard? was i choosing the hard thing?? yes.#but we need to stop seeing artists as lazy layabouts that can ''afford'' to just ''sit around and create''#when MANY - if not MOST - of us are NOT like that. we have to work our fucking ASSES off. hard work. long and hard work#part of valuing artists is recognizing the amount we sacrifice to make our art. bc it doesn't just#like HAPPEN to us. also btw it rarely has anything to do with true talent.#speaking as someone with a chronic condition i hate when ppl are like u have it easy. like actively as i'm writing this my hands r#ACTIVELY hurting me. i haven't been posting bc my left hand was curled in a claw for the last week#this isn't fucking luck. after a certain point it's not even TALENT. it's dedication & sacrifice.#''u get to flounce around and do nothing with ur life'' is a narrative that is a direct result of capitalism#imagine if we said that about literally any other profession.#''oh so u give up 10 yrs of ur life to be a doctor? u sacrifice having a social life and u get SUPER in debt?#u need to work countless hours and it will often be thankless? well i wish i was that lucky''#we should be applying that logic to landlords ONLY#''oh ur mom and dad gave u the money to buy a house? and all u did was paint it white and rent it? huh.''
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#one piece#trafalgar law#donquixote corazon#donquixote rosinante#corazon one piece#law one piece#one piece fanart#colored these as if they were riso pieces just to practice#riso is a rlly weird way to think as someone v used to digital lol#but oddly satisfying#i dont think ill print these tho theyre a lil too niche for the school events id be selling prints at#also omg im vv close to finishing dressrosa and i like them SM#dont have more thoughts abt them other than :D rn but ough#good shit
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