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[Thread] So, my "homework" assignment has to do with #Amazons -- one of my favorite topics to focus on (since I was 11 years old). I was recently gifted a new book about Amazons, and also had one that I picked up for myself years ago, but hadn't gotten around to reading yet. The books are: "The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across The Ancient World" by Adrienne Mayor (2014), and "Amazons: The History Behind the Legend" by David Braund. Both of them are Classics scholars, but they seem to have completely different takes on Amazons (from what I've read in the reviews). And yes, I am planning on diving into both books, but first, I'm going to work on my own translations of certain passages in #TheIlliad and #Herodotus' "Histories"!

#Classics #Histodon #AncientGreece #BronzeAge #WarriorWomen #AncientHistory #WomenInTheAncientWorld

I haven't seen a website for this event yet, but it's been an annual event for years!

#4DirectionsMarch
February 27, 2025
Wounded Knee, South Dakota

AIM Liberation of Wounded Knee 1973

North Direction: 9am Porcupine Post Office
East Direction: 9am 2 miles back on Mouse Creek
South Direction: 9am 18 Junction & Big Foot Trail
West Direction: 9am Manderson Post Office

AIM Liberation Celebration and Honorings 2pm
Wounded Knee District School, Manderson, South Dakota

#LeonardPeltier #WarriorWomen
#WoundedKnee #NDNCollective #IndigenousProtectorMovement #WaterProtectors #DefendTheSacred #ProtectTheSacred

All three of us have faced multiple violent threats & assaults from RCMP. All three of us refused to bow down to any colonial corporate entities. All three of us lost loved ones to colonial violence. We are not built like some other women. We are women in active colonial resistance & it is a lifelong commitment. We do not have or will ever have white privileges. We respect our white comrades who have done heavy decolonization work a lot. We do not really respect anyone who always obeys any colonial masters & does not challenge them.

#WarriorWomen #POCcommunity #ColonialResistance #Decolonization #RainbowNation #Activists #MatriarchRising #WomenOfResistance

All three of us have faced multiple violent threats & assaults from RCMP. All three of us refused to bow down to any colonial corporate entities. All three of us lost loved ones to colonial violence. We are not built like some other women. We are women in active colonial resistance & it is a lifelong commitment. We do not have or will ever have white privileges. We respect our white comrades who have done heavy decolonization work a lot. We do not really respect anyone who always obeys any colonial masters & does not challenge them.

#WarriorWomen #POCcommunity #ColonialResistance #Decolonization #RainbowNation #Activists #MatriarchRising #WomenOfResistance

All three of us have faced multiple violent threats & assaults from RCMP. All three of us refused to bow down to any colonial corporate entities. All three of us lost loved ones to colonial violence. We are not built like some other women. We are women in active colonial resistance & it is a lifelong commitment. We do not have or will ever have white privileges. We respect our white comrades who have done heavy decolonization work a lot. We do not really respect anyone who always obeys any colonial masters & does not challenge them.

#WarriorWomen #POCcommunity #ColonialResistance #Decolonization #RainbowNation #Activists #MatriarchRising #WomenOfResistance

All three of us have faced multiple violent threats & assaults from RCMP. All three of us refused to bow down to any colonial corporate entities. All three of us lost loved ones to colonial violence. We are not built like some other women. We are women in active colonial resistance & it is a lifelong commitment. We do not have or will ever have white privileges. We respect our white comrades who have done heavy decolonization work a lot. We do not really respect anyone who always obeys any colonial masters & does not challenge them.

#WarriorWomen #POCcommunity #ColonialResistance #Decolonization #RainbowNation #Activists #MatriarchRising #WomenOfResistance

All three of us have faced multiple violent threats & assaults from RCMP. All three of us refused to bow down to any colonial corporate entities. All three of us lost loved ones to colonial violence. We are not built like some other women. We are women in active colonial resistance & it is a lifelong commitment. We do not have or will ever have white privileges. We respect our white comrades who have done heavy decolonization work a lot. We do not really respect anyone who always obeys any colonial masters & does not challenge them.

#WarriorWomen #POCcommunity #ColonialResistance #Decolonization #RainbowNation #Activists #MatriarchRising #WomenOfResistance

Native Warrior Women

Indian women have always been written out of history, but their bravery is being rediscovered in archives and Native oral traditions.

May 11, 2023

“#Cheyenne warrior #BuffaloCalfRoadWoman had fought a number of battles in leadership roles. At the Battle of the #LittleBigHorn, it is told she charged #Custer, grabbed his saber and stabbed him, knocking him off his horse, killing him. Afterward, Cheyenne and #Arapaho women stabbed their awls in Custer’s ears, chanting ‘you will listen to our people in the next world.’ They were avenged.'

"She wasn’t the only female warrior at the Little Big Horn. The Arapaho Chief, #PrettyNose, fought there, too. She lived to be 101 years old and her grandson served in the Korean War as a U.S. Marine and later an Arapaho chief, just like his grandmother.

"Lozen (c. 1840-June 17, 1889) was a female warrior and prophet of the Chihenne Chiricahua #Apache who fought beside #Geronimo. She was the sister of Victorio, a prominent chief. Born into the #Chihenne band during the 1840s, Lozen was, according to legends, able to use her powers in battle to learn the movements of the enemy. The Apache tribesman, scholar and author, James Kaywaykla, was a child during the fighting days of Geronimo, Lozen and Victorio. Kaywaykla wrote, as a child:

"'I saw a magnificent woman on a beautiful horse—Lozen, sister of Victorio. Lozen the woman warrior! High above her head she held her rifle. 'She could ride, shoot, and fight like a man, and I think she had more ability in planning military strategy than did Victorio.'

"He added that Chief Victorio honored his sister as a great warrior: "Lozen is my right hand ... strong as a man, braver than most, and cunning in strategy. Lozen is a shield to her people."

Lozen fought beside Geronimo after his breakout from the San Carlos reservation in 1885, in the last campaign of the Apache wars. The band was pursued relentlessly by both the U.S. and Mexican cavalries. According to Alexander B. Adams in his book Geronimo, Lozen would try to ascertain where the enemy was by standing 'with her arms outstretched, chant a prayer to Ussen, the Apaches' supreme deity, and slowly turn around.' The band often relied on her strategic prowess.

"In 1885, Geronimo and about 140 of his followers, including Lozen, fled the reservation when they heard rumors that they were to be imprisoned on Alcatraz Island. Lozen and another female warrior, Dahteste, were designated to try to negotiate a peace treaty. Ultimately, after Geronimo's final surrender, Lozen traveled as a prisoner of war to the barracks in Mount Vernon, Alabama. There, along with many of her fellow warriors, Lozen died in confinement of tuberculosis in 1889.

"#Dahteste was a #Mescalero Apache warrior who rode with Lozen. Dahteste was fluent in English and often acted as a translator for the Apache people and was designated to lead in treaty negotiations with the American and Mexican armies. When Geronimo surrendered, she was arrested alongside Geronimo and Lozen, but was shipped to St. Augustine, Florida, rather than the barracks in Alabama. Nevertheless, like other prisoners in Florida, she contracted tuberculosis and pneumonia, but managed to survive both. Some scholars believe that #Lozen and Dahteste were #TwoSpirits and lovers."

https://www.notesfromthefrontier.com/post/native-warrior-women

#NativeAmericans #WarriorWomen #TwoSpirit

Went to drop off an aloe cutting for a neighbourhood guerrilla gardener. She's waging war with the city council, warding off the council's tractors with wooden stakes, standing up to the drivers, and multiple phone calls. It's an ongoing battle and if she relaxes even a bit it would all get mown into shreds, she's a real warrior.

If it wasn't for her this stretch of land would be a sandy wasteland growing only grass and devil thorns. As it is, I've spotted a grey heron walking around in it the other day, which must mean the smaller critters are flourishing too, for it to be hunting there.

The wooden cross is for a tree she planted that got stolen. She still mourns it.

The people who live on the other side of the road got infected with the guerrilla gardening virus too, and planted a whole row of aloes that are all flowering now.

#GuerillaGarden #UrbanGarden #WarriorWomen #PeopleAreAwesome #today

I redid the face on this #painting so many times until I got it to where I liked it just now. I did have it once where I liked it, then ruined it 😭 Now I am FINALLY happy with it and how I intended it to look.
The whole painting is coming along.
Crop on the face of #Bishamon, One of the Seven Lucky Gods, as a woman. She is looking side-eyed & sneering.

#artishard #dontgiveup #art #artist #figurativeart #warriorwomen #goddess #workinprogress #arte #symbolicart #wip #BuddhistArt #Buddhism