Secwépemc woman living in & moving through Salish Lands | Geography | Genealogy | Poetry | Plants | Toponymy | Neurosavoury CoyoteDreams & CoyoteRain elsewhere http://coyoterain.redbubble.com https://ko-fi.com/midniterainhttps://bsky.app/profile/midniterain.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/midniterain.bsky.social/post/3mmozo7p4u22x🧡🪶 Day of Reflection 🪶🧡- today marks 5 years since the #Secwépemc #215 announcement Indian Residential School Survivors Society: 1-800-721-0066 KUU-US Crisis Line: 1-800-588-8717 National Residential School 24-hour Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419 Hope for Wellness: 1-855-242-331025 May 2026 17:42 +0000at://did:plc:omszp7xtyzfcif6gu2sojgu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmozo7p4u22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/midniterain.bsky.social/post/3mlhivj3nfc2p"What is growing is the comfort people have with sharing their denialism... we're seeing a lot of politicians giving permission to people to be racist" - Ted Gottfriedson #Indigenous #Racism #ResidentialSchools #ResidentialSchoolDenialism #Secwepemc [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 May 2026 00:28 +0000at://did:plc:omszp7xtyzfcif6gu2sojgu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlhivj3nfc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/midniterain.bsky.social/post/3mlcwspkrvs25Reposting as I see that I have some new followers & I slowly return to social media. I'm currently living in W̱SÁNEĆ (Saanich) & lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen; Songhees & Esquimalt) territories for medical care & to eventually finish my Master's program. My heart is always home in Secwépemcul'ecw. [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 May 2026 04:54 +0000at://did:plc:omszp7xtyzfcif6gu2sojgu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlcwspkrvs25https://bsky.app/profile/midniterain.bsky.social/post/3lbkluppmzs2gWeytk-p xwexwéyt-tp, I've made a Secwépemc feed! https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:omszp7xtyzfcif6gu2sojgu4/feed/aaafj45qrx57k It pulls everything tagged with #Secwépemc #Secwepemcúl'ecw #Secwépemctsín #Shuswap (and similar spellings) [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Nov 2024 18:21 +0000at://did:plc:omszp7xtyzfcif6gu2sojgu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbkluppmzs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/midniterain.bsky.social/post/3mjzcfux6os2yI kept getting targeted ads from a self-defense business for women to pay men to learn to defend themselves from men, right after the 62 million views thing came out. I commented that they should charge men to learn how not to be r@pists & use that $ to fund free self-defense classes for women. 1/21 Apr 2026 15:30 +0000at://did:plc:omszp7xtyzfcif6gu2sojgu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjzcfux6os2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/midniterain.bsky.social/post/3mjyz5d75sk2mThe #Sinixt are not a "foreign Indian Band." An invisible border that was only settled 180 years ago doesn't suddenly make a People that are #Indigenous to the land somehow "foreign" & no longer Indigenous. They didn't stop existing the moment Canada declared them "extinct," either.21 Apr 2026 12:44 +0000at://did:plc:omszp7xtyzfcif6gu2sojgu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjyz5d75sk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/midniterain.bsky.social/post/3mjvpjf75ss2gI worked in the garden all day today, prepping garden beds. It has been an unusually cool spring here, with a few very late frosts (for this climate), so I've been holding off jumping into getting the garden ready. It was so nice to work outside, even if I pushed myself a little too hard. 🌱🤲🏼💚20 Apr 2026 05:14 +0000at://did:plc:omszp7xtyzfcif6gu2sojgu4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjvpjf75ss2g