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My cousin Michelle Sylliboy wrote the words in Mi’kmaq language for an opera being performed in Edinburgh next month! So cool.

Get to Know: Indigenous Voices of Canada | Edinburgh International FestivalTwo Indigenous poets. Two composers. This is the story how the first half of Voices of Canada came together, where Indigenous artists and voices take centrwww.eif.co.uk

This month it turns out I'll be a-week-with-back-pain-after-standing-too-long-at-the-noise-gig years old.

Sometimes walking home down Glasgow alleys has a Pompeii vibe about it.

A gold ring purchased in England in 1775-6 by Mohawk leader Joseph Brant; there he had his Mohawk name Thayendanegea engraved on it so that, according to some sources, he could be identified if he died in battle.

Some of the serrated mountains that are the namesake of the ancient monastery and pre-Christian site of Montserrat.

The article partly discusses the Townshend monument in westminster abbey, which depicts two Indigenous men modelled on a young Odawa boy kidnapped and brought to London as a gift for a British general.

A picture from Geneva in 1923, when Deskaheh Levi General (Cayuga) visited the League of Nations in an attempt to gain international recognition of Haudenosaunee sovereignty.

This seagull was really vibing with his reflection on a tenement stoop today.

An excellent postbox yarn bombing in Glasgow.

Great to see this finally out: My article "The Stubborn Will to Mean: Sympathy, Relationality, and the Origins of Collecting Indigenous Bones in the Eighteenth Century" in ELH!

Spotting this sign makes me want to make more pilgrimages to sites where people sold out their political and/or aesthetic ideals.

Dusk in a small Lake District village. In 1802 Dorothy Wordsworth wrote in her journal that this is a village she “dearly loved to think of”; around this very spot she washed her feet in the clear and shallow river after getting refreshments with William in the pub still a few metres downstream.