This is is the introduction on Jetsonorama’s website: “The question I’m asked most frequently is how a black doctor in his 50s working on the Navajo reservation started doing street art on said reservation. In retrospect, it was only natural for this evolution to occur.” 2016: Navaho Nation: 2016: Colorado Plateau: 2016 Cow Springs: 2016: […]
via Jetsonorama. Navajo Nation. Painted Desert Project. — Frankie Beane
And this is why we don’t like the police…
Saskatoon Police patrol 20th Street and Avenue D in the Riversdale neighbourhood of Saskatoon. (Photograph by Derek Mortensen)
Macleans.ca, April 8, 2016
An attempt to erase reference to the deadly practice from the police force’s Wikipedia page stirs up dark memories, and new questions
On Jan. 28, 2000, two police officers drove Darrell Night five kilometres outside of Saskatoon and abandoned him in -22° C weather with just a T-shirt and jean jacket on his back. The incident was part of a series of “starlight tours,” a practice in which officers were said to have picked up drunk or rowdy people like Night, at night, and dropped them off in the dead of winter.
At least three Indigenous people in Saskatoon are suspected to have died this way, beginning with 17-year-old Neil Stonechild in 1990.
Although Night survived, he moved to British Columbia and has never returned. “In Saskatoon I found…
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Photographer Nick Brandt is behind a project titled Inherit the Dust where he underlines the fact that the increasing urbanisation of Africa chased elephant, lions or leopards away from their natur…
Source: Life-Size Portraits of Wildlife in Destructed African Landscapes where They Lived
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