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Layla ᎴᎳ
@laylajohnston.bsky.social
ᏥᏣᎳᎩ. Cherokee Nation citizen. Cherokee language learner. Reader and writer. Western Massachusetts. Native plant enthusiast. Climate crisis is now. 🪶💧🌽🍓
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ᎣᏏᏲ ᏂᎦᏛ. ᎴᎳ ᏓᏆᏙᎠ ᏥᏣᎳᎩ ᎢᎵᏃᏱ ᏗᎨᎬ. ᎧᎾᎧᎩ ᎢᎵᏃᏱ ᎠᏩᏕᎾ ᎠᎴ ᎧᎾᎧᎩ ᎠᏩᏛᏒ. ᎺᏌᏧᏎᏗ ᏥᏁᎳ.
What are the best bookstores in Albuquerque and Santa Fe? Native owned businesses? Anyone have a favorite or two? #booksky #indigisky
I’ll be visiting Santa Fe and Albuquerque in a few weeks. I’m looking for Native galleries, great restaurants, and any other recommendations you want to share!
December 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I’ll be visiting Santa Fe and Albuquerque in a few weeks. I’m looking for Native galleries, great restaurants, and any other recommendations you want to share!
December 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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One of my favorite local planthoppers, Dictyonissus griphus. Such distinctive wing venation.
December 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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The seeds of River Oats are ready to be collected and distributed to spread Louisiana’s #nativeplants!

This decorative grass produces flat seed heads that provide a great food source for birds and its planting helps with soil erosion along rivers 🌱

DM me if you’d like a free pack sent your way!
December 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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If you’re in the Northeast and want to learn how to get started with native plants, check out this package of classes offered by the experts at Native Plant Trust! $60 for 8 workshops covering everything from water to soils to flowers, starting in January! www.nativeplanttrust.org/events/intro...
Introduction to Native Plants Package - Native Plant Trust
www.nativeplanttrust.org
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
If you’re in the Northeast and want to learn how to get started with native plants, check out this package of classes offered by the experts at Native Plant Trust! $60 for 8 workshops covering everything from water to soils to flowers, starting in January! www.nativeplanttrust.org/events/intro...
Introduction to Native Plants Package - Native Plant Trust
www.nativeplanttrust.org
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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It’s Fly-day. We made it!

Potter wasp on dill flower
(Eumenes fraternus)

on the native plant trails
that surround the PN Nature Museum

in Chicago, Illinois
8-30-25

#flyDay #EastCoastKin #bugsky #macro #photography #native #insects #wasps #pollinators #nature #art #macroPhotography #chicago
December 5, 2025 at 5:01 AM
The delicate beauty of monarda punctata stems covered in ice and snow. I saw 2 dark-eyed juncos snacking on the frozen and bent to the ground goldenrod stems and seed heads later in the afternoon. #nativeplants
December 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on November 19, 2025

Some of the camera settings I used to make this photo are at: www.rsok.com/~jrm/2025Nov...

#birds #nuthatch #treetrunk #wildlife #wildlifephotography #Oklahoma #photography
December 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The findings ultimately pointed blame at the government’s failure to uphold its treaty obligations to Indigenous nations in the U.S. and its harmful policies that disconnected them from their land, culture and language — something Moorehead wrote about more than a century ago.
December 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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This kinda article reminds use we're living in a Gilded Age and it's our neighbors, friends, families, babies and even fetuses suffering so the billionaires can have more and more.

Corruption from the local officeholders to the governor to the feds. Sometimes I think direct action is inevitable.
There is a movement to "prove that the datacenter water issues is fake". If you venture into Muskrat's hell site, you can see the community note these people put on this great piece of investigative journalism, accusing them of unfairly implicating datacenters.

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
www.rollingstone.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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November 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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[LIVE] National Day of Mourning 2025, (27 November 25 @ 12pm ET)
YouTube video by hate5six
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Was not expecting to see this when i opened up a 1978 issue of High Times
November 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Tribal Alliance Against Frauds publishes results of their investigations of dishonest claims of Indigenous heritage. So many fake Cherokees out there, especially in academia. One would think academics, of all people, would know how to verify research and claims. tribalallianceagainstfrauds.org
Tribal Alliance Against Frauds
Learn about our advocacy for American Indian Native American tribes and our fight against tribal fraud. Join us in protecting indigenous communities.
tribalallianceagainstfrauds.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
So many pretendians claim to be Cherokee. It’s exhausting and enraging for those of us tsalagi enrolled in one of the 3 federally recognized tribes. Tribal Alliance Against Frauds is doing great work.
November 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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You know what, I'm just gonna re-up this post
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Layli Long Soldier's book Whereas addresses the US Congressional apology to Native nations from 2009, which was not read aloud or witnessed by Native nations and was buried in the enormous Defense Appropriations Act, at the time the largest commitment to military expenditure in human history.
This week’s teaching.
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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This is a good article about data sovereignty, AI grift, the marginalization of Indigenous languages, and how these and many other things converge to wreak superfluous harm on Indigenous communities.
November 15, 2025 at 3:25 AM
No thanks, no giving! Anybody else headed to the National Day of Mourning in Plymouth? If you can’t make it in person, the event will be live streamed on YouTube
56th annual National Day of Mourning
Thursday Nov. 27, 2025 - 12 noon
Plymouth MA
#nothanksnogiving #ndom2025
November 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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"the fossil fuel industry has been lobbying the climate negotiations for 30 years now"

~ a flotilla of Indigenous people travels 3000km to ensure their voices are also heard at COP30. See the full story at:

youtube.com/shorts/RAJRO...
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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This was Alessandra Korap Munduruku this morning. She lives in the Brazilian state where COP is taking place this year! She was not given a pass into the Blue Zone.

These are the voices you should be listening to, boosting, and celebrating. Not the politicians who are attending #COP30!
November 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
“Growing a forest can take generations. But the Auburn study is finding that it takes about eight years to convert degraded landscapes into grasslands that can absorb about as much carbon as the remnant prairies.”
Old-growth grasslands still exist in the eastern US! Two orgs in this article are searching them out, documenting them, and harvesting seed. These important bio hotspots are overlooked compared to forests. (And I've gone on a bio hunt with Devin - good guy.) #nativeplants

Gift link: wapo.st/49Rtfzu
Column | Scientists discover an ancient landscape – in our own backyard
Newly recognized patches of undeveloped grassland are accidental time travelers from a distant past, and they offer answers for our 21st century problems.
wapo.st
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Have you seen winter bird yet? They eat seeds from the “dead” native plants. When you deadhead the flowers, you remove critical food sources for the birds. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼. I painted American Tree Sparrow with Stiff Goldenrod and Cup Plant. Aren’t they cute? #botanicalart #SciArt #birdsinart #naturalhistory
November 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM