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Joanne Hammond
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Archaeologist & anthropologist. Settler doing my best on Secwépemc and Nlaka'pamux territories. Land back. Free Palestine. Pro swearing.
Building public washrooms and water stations that are powered 24/7 but CLOSED UNTIL SPRING is hostile municipal behaviour. The public exists and has to hydrate and pee in the winter. Pioneer Park, Kamloops
December 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
At dusk tonight, looking across the South Thompson River at Tk’emlups from Kamloops 🧡
December 12, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The parents bring their little* gray toddlers to fatten up and learn to swan here, before heading back to Yukon/Alaska 🩶

*lol, 20 lbs or more
December 10, 2025 at 5:53 AM
The waters where the Thompson Rivers meet at Tkemlups/Kamloops stay ice-free, at least in part, for longer than many in the region, so we’re a migratory stopover for loads of water fowl. Welcome, webbers!
December 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
loooooook who’s back!
Trumpeter swans marking the beginning of winter at Tk’emlups. Volume up for honks🤍
December 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Winter afternoons along the Thompson River at Kamloops/Tk’emlups are getting washed out bright and I don’t like it. Turn that shit off.
December 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM
500 m west. Asphalt plant, overhead wires, light, and Tsqwmémenk (Mts Paul and Peter) back there in the after dark haze.
December 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
🩶 Tsqwmémenk (Mts Paul and Peter) at Tk’emlups tonight. Neat lighting courtesy ambient light pollution.
December 4, 2025 at 1:05 AM
favourite photojournalism ever, no notes
December 1, 2025 at 2:16 AM
fealty always!
Remember the Roundest One??
December 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I loved this book in so many ways! Familiar lives in lands so far apart, the fallout of invasive forces, all with a captivating Indigenous woman archaeologist character (!!) and a sensitive recognition of the everyday heartache of the MMIWG crisis. Thank you ♥️ @shobharaowrites.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"We're making unprecedented investments in nation building projects."

The nation we're building:
November 28, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Damn. TMX is your model, Alberta NDP? You sure? How many Indigenous people arrested, harassed, charged, kept from their lands? How much for the lawyers to fight FN title? How much debt for Canadians for this sunset industry nowhere project that no one wants to buy? Do the fucking math.
November 28, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Looking across the current of the Fraser River at Lytton, in one of its lower and slower and greener moments. I just love how this river changes. Volume up. #waterislife
November 27, 2025 at 6:36 AM
It seems like a bad time to revive this phrase that most people had not heard until that dead sex criminal used it to describe the US rapist-in-chief. About the massive sex trafficking ring with hundreds of survivors? Who can read? Maybe lead with something else @theguardian.com 👎
November 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Enjoy a few moments of a quiet lil bit of the Fraser River at Tl'ḵémtsin (Lytton) just below the mouth of the Thompson. Volume up, shoulders down. #waterislife
November 26, 2025 at 3:44 AM
None of this jargon means anything. It’s insultingly vacant communication and we’re not fooled. Kamloops families are so tired of the slowly revolving door that is SD 73 leadership.
November 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
wtf is happening for Marjorie Taylor Greene to be making sense, even as a Canadian I know this is not normal
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 AM
omw to explain that we have to dig up and move the bodies
November 19, 2025 at 7:46 AM
testing
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Sarah Aziza’s The Hollow Half is an *amazing* recent read: a beautifully poetic and completely unique Palestinian-American memoir of the colonialism and diaspora.
November 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
These are Royal Canadian Mounted Police. RCMP were created to clear the land that is now Canada of Indigenous peoples and to secure it for occupation by white people, with extreme prejudice. Their entire history is consistent with that goal. But sports, I guess?
November 17, 2025 at 4:07 AM
This is a crucial bit about clandestine child graves at residential “schools”. FNMI communities who’ve become caretakers of the remains and memories of many thousands who died at residential “schools” owe us non-Indigenous Canadians NOTHING. It’s not about us or up to us.
November 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
November 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
sky says free free Palestine 🇵🇸
photo by @lacci.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 7:14 AM