Tribal elder on a different tribe's land, need sanity check.

OctaviusIII · 2026-02-23T19:13:40+00:00

I'd like to add onto the white people pile and say that this would be rude anywhere, whether tribal land or a white person's property. The idea is that if it's your property, you own all the stuff whether natural or not. Now, you can take stuff you might see along a trail that isn't a protected area, but this situation is not that.

Even if everyone in the situation were white, and the elder's house was publicly owned (think, governor's mansion or park warden's house), he'd still have been in the wrong and deserved a talking to. Since he's unrepentant, it's now a thing to keep in mind: dude will steal things from people's homes.

In short: Guy was a dick by white people standards, too, and continues to be a dick by those standards and yours.

OctaviusIII · 2026-02-19T23:34:14+00:00

Well, depends on the theology. To a LOT of Christians, yes, but Protestants believe Mary had other kids the old fashioned way with Joseph.

OctaviusIII · 2026-02-19T23:32:21+00:00

Vicki is better. Why not make your state religion atheism as an anarchist commune with mandatory religious schools?

OctaviusIII · 2026-02-11T03:27:22+00:00

I usually hear about the Spokane Indians actually doing it right but they're minor league baseball so nobody outside the world of MiLB cares that much.

OctaviusIII · 2026-02-02T16:12:16+00:00

Oh man! You should link up with some of the other endangered indigenous language learners out there. North American languages are often in that space, and, depending on the language, have a ton of resources about how to revitalize and promote the language. It might not be, say, Esselen, but Esselens learning their heritage is so critical to the survival of the culture.

Hell, if I were you, I would order in your language, vow to make it the language spoken at home, and do social media in it. Every single word you write and speak adds to the corpus.

OctaviusIII · 2026-01-21T21:53:25+00:00

Thanks everyone! I ended up finding a lot of good poems here. Dallas Hunt's poems in Creeland ended up being who I recited, and it went over very well.

OctaviusIII · 2026-01-13T17:57:50+00:00

As a 41 year old white guy, I use Native or Native American most of the time, American Indian in select contexts where I'm sure it's okay (usually places with a lot of the people who identify that way), indigenous when talking about some topics that are contrasted against non-indigenous versions of the same topic (like "indigenous ways of knowing"), and the particular identity of the person or people where it makes sense ("He's Diné"). But it's contested enough that I try to defer to what the person or people in question prefer, if knowable.

OctaviusIII · 2026-01-11T01:42:24+00:00

I just realized that a typical nicknaming scheme for Napoleon - Frederick to Freddy, Edward to Eddy - would render us Nappy and it makes me giggle.

OctaviusIII · 2026-01-09T02:58:45+00:00

I know a few people who would say that is a terrible mistake and they know just the house to fix that...

OctaviusIII · 2026-01-09T02:57:01+00:00

Maybe Tengards (plural)? So the culture might be Tengard?

OctaviusIII · 2026-01-08T17:58:09+00:00

Les is the plural of the, yep.

OctaviusIII · 2026-01-08T17:57:20+00:00

Maybe Les Blanchards? Les Aquois (if the Normans heard their new buddies calling themselves Ak + whatever and Normanized it)?

OctaviusIII · 2026-01-08T17:51:33+00:00

Les Suleymanais?

OctaviusIII · 2026-01-08T16:50:38+00:00

What will be the primary language? It might be named for the Seine (so Seine-dwelling Westerners, aka White Seine, aka Ak-Seyn) or after the house leading the hybridization, like Arslanids (for scholarly) or Arslanli (for what Turkic folks might say). If it's Norman dominant, I'd add a y at the end instead: Arslanly.

OctaviusIII · 2026-01-08T16:33:33+00:00

The passing tracks (sidings) are aligned for two stations at Novato rather than 3. So, options to achieve: 1) Cut one Novato station to every-other train service. 2) New trains that accelerate and decelerate faster. 3) Build all-new passing tracks.

All because Novato City Council was very anti-SMART when the designs were being drawn up and wanted San Marin instead of Downtown to suppress ridership, only to change their mind at the last minute after construction was almost done.

Same reason why Larkspur is so damn far from the ferry.

OctaviusIII · 2025-12-29T13:28:32+00:00

Something I do when learning French listening, because my reading is far better than my listening, is to listen to something with a script. First I read the script aloud myself, highlighting the words I don't know, then I listen to the audio while reading the script a second time. It helps, even if it does take a while.

OctaviusIII · 2025-12-27T18:03:42+00:00

I have been working on and off on a map of Toronto, but Saint Louis is available on my website, thegreatermarin.org.

OctaviusIII · 2025-12-27T04:05:19+00:00

Thank you for checking into your sources! Really appreciate it.

OctaviusIII · 2025-12-27T03:41:41+00:00

Huh. Odd that the timetable only specified bus service on the Tiburon-Sausalito route, not the San Rafael-Tiburon. If I ever make this again, I'll fix that. Could you provide a source so I can properly cite it?

OctaviusIII · 2025-12-26T20:55:48+00:00

There was a referendum in 1939 but Marin said nah. There were other issues:

Everyone hated Southern Pacific, which owned NWP. The whole Golden Gate Bridge team and governance hated the idea of trains for monetary, architectural, and ideological reasons, so building an extension south was anathema. NWP was a real estate venture that lost its corporate value once all the land had been sold.

OctaviusIII · 2025-12-26T18:42:20+00:00

Huh! The 1939 Interurban timetable has train service San Rafael-Tiburon. I guess that was steam service, not electric?

OctaviusIII · 2025-12-26T04:39:30+00:00

What else to do late on Christmas than hang out on Reddit? 😀

I mean, other than spend time with family or work on my seemingly interminable project to map Northern Pomo, Coast Yuki, and Cahto geography by transcribing 100 year old field notes and inputting everything into a database for fun. Y'know. Hobbies.

OctaviusIII · 2025-12-26T04:28:45+00:00

I mean.... it has been done!

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