Speaking of conflicts...

...Take for example, the case of the Anishnabek (Ojibway) community of Asubpeeschoseewagong (Grassy Narrows), located 80 kilometres north of Kenora, in present-day Ontario, Canada. Grassy Narrows is one of 26 reservations that form a part of the traditional land use area of the Anishnabek people. Looking at select experiences of the 800 residents of Grassy Narrows, in just the last few decades, the physical and cultural genocide perpetrated against indigenous communities throughout Turtle Island (North America), is visibly apparent.

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I am an interests-whore. I am consistently remodelling my LJ interests list. The first thing I do when I add a new user in my friends list is to load up their interests list so that I can add those that we share. However I am always a bit too enthusiastic, so I end up adding far too many interests... Things that I think are cool, but that I don't actually pay much attention to. So I go through a regular purge as well, like I just did. I think that eventually I'd like to boil down the list to some 25 interests, things that really define me. ("vegan lesbians" ? veganism yeah, lesbians yeah, both together yeah, but as a specific interest? nah. that just looked cute in ethosgurl's list. Yet I keep adding stuff.

Lists are fun.