Our black cherry ᎩᏔᏯ blossoms #nativeplants

We Are KidLit Summer Reading List: "The We Are Kid Lit Collective selects books for summer reading that are created by and about BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color), with attention to their intersecting identities." View the list: wtpsite.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/2... #KidLit

💮 four-leaf milkweed 🌿 Asclepias quadrifolia peculiar distribution: two large, geographically distinct populations in the eastern usa separated by the wabash -> ohio -> mississippi river #nativeplants #ecoregion71

ᏲᎾ ᎤᏤᏍᏙ. In Cherokee one of the names for fern is bear’s pillow. Shady parts of our yard are a mix of ferns and violets this spring! #nativeplants

Zizia aurea appreciation post! These cheery yellow blooms are popping before all of my other spring perennials. 💛 #nativeplants

Currently reading Calling For a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah.

Heard our first returning Baltimore Oriole, ᏬᎵᎦ in Cherokee, this morning!

Tufted titmouse Blue jay Northern cardinal Cooper’s hawk Red tailed hawk Carolina wren White breasted nuthatch American kestrel American crow Red bellied woodpecker Downy woodpecker Ruby throated hummingbird Black vulture Black capped chickadee Grey catbird

Native Americans at Harvard bring ancient sport of stickball to campus. www.wbur.org/news/2026/04...

And one more for the #NativePlants 🌱 feed - super adorable Cinnamon fern (Osmundastrum cinnamomeum) that is just unfurling :)

did you know there are yellow violets, despite the contradiction in terms?

Trillium grandiflorum | large “white” trillium the new-to-me Caltha pallustris | marsh marigold the also new to me Comptonia peregrina | sweet fern, which smells divine Silene virginica | fire pink

Spring at the native plant conservancy! Blood root, evidence of beavers at work, turtle crossing sign telling you to slow down, squirrel corn aka dicentra canadensis, in bloom

ᎩᎵ ᎤᏩᏘ gitli uwati, blood root, one of our most treasured ᏣᎳᎩ tsalagi Cherokee plants. ᎩᎵ ᎤᏩᏘ is a spring ephemeral whose blooms only last until the weather warms. #nativeplants

Spring at the native plant conservancy! Blood root, evidence of beavers at work, turtle crossing sign telling you to slow down, squirrel corn aka dicentra canadensis, in bloom

I'm sorry, the State House isn't the correct forum to discuss a POLITICAL ISSUE??? Fuck these people. Proud of my chief for advocating for expanded healthcare coverage for Oklahomans. oklahomavoice.com/2026/04/16/c...

ᎩᎵ ᎤᏩᏘ gitli uwati, blood root, one of our most treasured ᏣᎳᎩ tsalagi Cherokee plants. ᎩᎵ ᎤᏩᏘ is a spring ephemeral whose blooms only last until the weather warms. #nativeplants

ᎧᏅᏏᏔ kanvsita dogwood on the precipice of a full bloom #nativeplants

This is the most accurate description of our state legislature I’ve ever read.

Green thumb? Here are 10 affordable native plants for Tulsa gardens this summer. Planting native could help save on fertilizer and water costs and the headache of trying to keep your garden alive during the Oklahoma seasons.

Western civilization really is just about giving one specific type of man power, & then giving him the means to just destroy everything. Maybe this is... you know... a bad system.

More spring ephemerals are up! Trilliums, twinleaf, and wild ginger have emerged, and the ginger is in bloom. #nativeplants 🌱

Signs of spring! Sound on for ᏩᎶᏏ ᎪᎨᏱ spring frogs!

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

“When Americans do not have to confront the ways that our government attempted to exterminate Native peoples and their cultures, we are more liable to view westward expansion as our historic destiny.”

Legitimate Cherokee relations aren’t particularly obscure or difficult to trace…we’re one of the best-documented peoples in the world, with an extensive and detailed documentary archive, as well as community genealogists and researchers who can assess relations with high reliability. #indigisky

Signs of ᎪᎨᏱ gogeyi, spring, seen yesterday. #nativeplants #cherokeelanguage

Last week, in a unanimous vote, the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma banned AI data centers on their land. nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/...

Signs of ᎪᎨᏱ gogeyi, spring, seen yesterday. #nativeplants #cherokeelanguage

ᏗᏂᏠᎯ ᎤᏪᏯ dinitlohi uweya meet me at the creek. First day working at Nasami Farm, Native Plant Trust, Massachusetts #cherokee #nativeplants #tsalagi

The glee of a manuscript author noting a point on which the two peer reviewers contradict each other.

Signs of spring on this chilly Friday: little mountain mint shoots pushing up through their winter leaf litter cover. Spring is coming! 💚 #nativeplants

🌹 toadshade 🌿 Trillium sessile #nativeplants #ecoregion71

It's only going to get worse as we replace actual (police) work with AI.

I have a piece in this edition that I co-wrote with my cousin, Jesse Deer In Water looking at the impacts of AI on the environment & Native tribes. You can read it & the new issue at the link. & subscribe & donate today so we can keep Indigenous news alive. crushingcolonialism.org/progress-or-...

If you all haven't read this one, here's your chance. And it's a DELIGHT. A bloody, justice-filled, period-immersive delight.

if grammarly is just gonna rip off writers' identities for edits, go all the way: have e.e. cummings tell you to take out all your capital letters, have cormac mccarthy tell you to get rid of all your quotation marks, have dan brown tell you to include more random info cribbed from wikipedia

No AI centers anywhere but especially not on native land!!

this is a tim wong stan account. he basically single-handedly revived revived this species and is trying to get people to grow the host plant www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/lo...

Currently reading Blood Sisters by Vanessa Lillie. A Cherokee Nation archaeologist investigates the disappearance of her sister in Oklahoma. #booksky #indigisky

On this day in 1832, the US Supreme Court rules, in its Worcester v Georgia Decision, that the State of Georgia did not have rights to enforce its laws on 'Indian land'. anticolonialhistory.com/event/27/

A great way to support native bees and pollinators is by planting native plants. No yard? Try pots/planters! Even California natives (which can be picky about water) can work well!! I’m particularly fond of native geophytes paired with native succulents or other perennial for year-round color. 🌼

Canada goose surveying his domain. There was a rooftop territorial squabble! Video of honking and aggression in comments. Pictured: the winner.

“This task force is about exercising our sovereignty in the digital age. It is about making sure that the tools shaping decisions over Cherokee land, Cherokee water, and Cherokee futures are informed by Cherokee knowledge and accountable to Cherokee people.”

“Our relationship with the land and water on the Cherokee Nation Reservation is not a dataset. Instead, it is a precious resource passed down through generations of Cherokee people. www.anadisgoi.com/index.php/go...

Ardmore, OK, get ready! The Planning Commission rejected the data center proposal, but the City Commission has the final say at its March 16 meeting. www.kten.com/news/oklahom...

Ꮒ ᎪᎦ ᎫᏘᎭ ᏏᏊ! Ni koga, gutiha siquu! Look, crow, it’s snowing again!

If you are interested in learning ᏣᎳᎩ ᎦᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ tsalagi gawonihisdi Cherokee language, registration for Cherokee Nation online classes opens today. Spring classes start March 2. learn.cherokee.org