airykillm

airykillm t1_ixiuwnp wrote

If you download the Native Land app (available on iOS and Android; run by Native Land Digital, a Canadian non-profit led by an Indigenous Board of Directors), it can show you which indigenous groups lived where you live now. For my home (southside/Chesterfield), the land belonged to the Powhatan people and for my work (Innsbrook area), the land belonged to the Monacan people.

I'll be making the mashed potatoes for dinner with my mom's family tomorrow if my hands will cooperate. If they don't, my spouse will do the potato cutting, but I'll do the rest. I'm taking a turkey-substitute log to my in-laws' tomorrow (I've already told them they don't need to eat it if they don't want to, I'm mostly bringing it because I want to try it and there are already plenty of other dishes being prepared).

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