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Daniel Bachman

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Guitar, etc./Folklore & History of Virginia/Gardener Manahoac Territory Born at 353.15 ppm.

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · Jun 28

My new piece is about a community in the Blue Ridge who doesnt know a Helene strength storm is coming because the weather alerts have been privatized, & after losing their home, take refuge in the large camps of unhoused people living in the former National Park.

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As Time Draws Near

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 5h

Thanks for the photo of this, I've wondered what that location looks like now, about the same as the sites here in Madison.

Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 8h

These Vege Shreds are not as tasty as the soy curls but are pretty versatile. We did some pretty good vegan burritos with them tonight, thinking they’d work great with Chinese food.

A small bag of plant based vege shreds depicts a young man joyfully eating a taco with two other tacos waiting nearby. The contents of the bag look like that flintstones chocolate cereal.

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 8h

If you are looking for a good treatment of Indigenous slavery in this era, may I recommend

www.pennpress.org/978081225310...

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · Apr 16

Not far from, and only 417 years after Amorolek, a Manahoac/Monacan man captured by English colonist John Smith & his soldiers near the fall line at modern day Fredericksburg told them...

“We heard that you were a people from under the world, to take our world from us.” 1607

Amoroleck Encounters John Smith Historical Marker

In August 1608, the first meeting between the Mannahoac Indian people of the Piedmont and the English colonists at Jamestown occurred at the falls of the Rappahannock River. (A historical marker loca...

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 12h

"Thomas Jefferson: Architect of Indian Removal Policy"

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 19d

I’ve been thinking about settler colonial erasure of Indigenous landscapes for a while but its really hitting during Trump 2/Gaza, etc. This area is Manahoac, a mound culture & sister Nation to the Monacan. The mounds have been erased by centuries of plowing, but still remain on the historical maps.

A moody photo of a freshly harvested corn filed along the Robinson river. The sky is grey with the sun trying to shine through the clouds.

A map showing our area of Madison county from the 19 century, in the circles area shows two mounds in the same location as the first photo.

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 12h

Pre-Columbian North America was in many ways a more advanced society beyond what European settlers lived. The largest platform mound at Cahokia is as big as the Great Pyramid. These people perfected corn based agriculture while the English were sleeping with livestock & eating gruel.

Mari 🏳️‍⚧️ @mari-paige.bsky.social · 16h

For Indigenous People’s Day, I’d like to infodump about the Cahokia mound. Built near present day St. Louis around 1000 CE, it was a vast trade hub with a population of about 20,000. This made it the largest city north of Mexico on the continent, bigger than London and Paris at the time!

The Cahokia mound, located outside modern day St. Louis, Missouri. It is a large hill which is now covered in grass, under a clear blue sky.

Image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 12h

Nothing gets the Bevis moving around like a fresh kong full of treats.

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dona 🍤🥔 @aldonanana.bsky.social · 16h

This is the most perfect example of Madison County Facebook posts I’ve ever seen

A Facebook post in the group “Photos of Madison County, VA” that reads:
“Should be an American flag waving in all its GLORY on the communications tower in the vicinity of Blakey Ridge Mountain.”

A zoomed in photo of a mountain ridge at sunrise with a communications tower visible on the horizon

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 13h

Death to Spotify

aeon @aeon-music.bsky.social · 16h

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app

Musicians have long criticized the streaming service’s paltry payouts, but a new wave of boycotts is emerging

www.theguardian.com

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · May 31

This is Monacan historian Victoria Ferguson speaking to 16 century interactions between the SE Indigenous Nations & the Spanish during Hernando de Soto’s expedition into the interior. This footage is from an unreleased documentary about eugenics in Virginia & is now available through Library of Va.

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Rep. Jennifer McClellan @mcclellan.house.gov · 14h

Last month, I filed legislation to extend federal recognition to the Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia. Learn more here:

McClellan Introduces Bill to Grant Federal Recognition to the Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia

Washington, D.C. – In case you missed it, this Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) introduced H.R. 5327, the Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia Federal Recognition Act, to extend federal recognition to the Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia.

mcclellan.house.gov

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 15h

I still 100% believe Rights of Nature is the future. Change our minds and life ways collectively or take all other life on Earth down with us. ❤️‍🔥

Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · Aug 30

Rights of Nature is the future. It offers ways to reject settler colonial attitudes of profit driven extraction & instead honors the interconnectedness of all life on Earth, & the movement is growing all the time. Here in the Rappahannock watershed its been written into a Tribal constitution. ❤️‍🔥

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · Apr 16

This area, which has experienced some of the most sustained violence against N Am Indigenous ppl over the last 500 years is leading with Rights of Nature work including the Rappahannock Tribe & the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation. Imo it offers a powerful way to change our minds going forward.

Rappahannock Tribe first in US to enshrine rights of nature into constitution

The Rappahannock Tribe has become the first tribal nation in the United States to successfully recognize the rights of nature in their constitution, giving legal protection to the river they have liv...

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you, cannot wait to check this out.

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George Chidi, Evil Reporter @neonflag.bsky.social · 3d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US immigration enforcement using military hardware and tactics on civilians

Agencies like Ice are way ahead of Donald Trump, who wants the military to treat cities like ‘training grounds’

www.theguardian.com

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 1d

Still can’t get over this one after watching the doc the other week.

Kongurey (Where Has My Country Gone?)

Kongurey (Where Has My Country Gone?)

YouTube video by Paul Pena - Topic

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 1d

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 1d

We have only truly had one successful cauliflower year, it’s tough!

Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 1d

Fall garden is kicking in here. First transplants taking off & second round will be late but I think will do well too. Daikons turnips & radishes are doing good. Maybe our best year for gourds yet and I’m excited to see how the dipper style ones did. Lots from summer still growing too. 🍁

A view into one of the low tunnels we have with Chinese mustard greens and lettuce behind that. The ground is moist and rainwater drips off the cover hung above the plants.

My hand next to a very large pennsyvania dutch crookneck squash with some watermelons vines growing beside it.

L to R daikons beets green onions and radish’s in the middle and Japanese/European turnips on the right side, with a wall of gourds still growing on the far right.

A handful of young turnipngreens against the garden.

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 1d

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 1d

Rattlesnake piece of a Citico style shell gorget by my friend John Henry Gloyne EBCI.

A citico style gorget, it is a acrylic painting on canvas showing a rattlesnake coiled around its head, with different motifs going down it’s body, ending in a large mouth of teeth and central eye.

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Ratan Vaswani 🇺🇦 @ratanvaswani.bsky.social · 4d

A nice five-minute read on animal language #langsky

Dogs name toys while elephants name each other. Animal language is more complex than we imagine | Helen Pilcher

If we really want to grasp what animals are ‘saying’, we need to understand their communication on their terms, not ours, says science writer Helen Pilcher

www.theguardian.com

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 2d

We have the little ones for 3’ rows !

Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 2d

Row cover is on sale through Johnnys Seeds right now. $20 for 10x50, we cut it in half and get 100 feet out of it.

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Johnny's DuraSpun™ 55 – 10' x 50' - Row Cover | Johnny's Selected Seeds

Exclusive! Maximum UV resistance. Developed by Johnny's for superior performance in challenging weather conditions. Durable spunbonded fabric was designed for ...

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