Purple flowers, Taos Pueblo 1

Taos Pueblo
New Mexico
29 June 2025

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5 August 2025

Remembering Oak Park gurdwara shooting.
Paramjit Kaur, Satwant Singh Kaleka, Prakash Singh, Sita Singh, Ranjit Singh, Suveg Singh

Grace of God – Sat Hari Singh
Gideh Vich – Anakhi
God and Me – Dev Suroop Kaur & Liv Singh
I Am the People – Mata Mandir Singh & Friends
The Lord’s Prayer – Singh Kaur
Tere Bin – Rabbi Shergill
Mil Mere Pritama Jiyo – Bhai Harjinder Singh
Akhiyan Ch Ton Wasda – Surindar Kaur
Tu Thakar – Craig Pruess & Dya Singh
Long Time Sun – Snatam Kaur

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4 August 2025

Louis Armstrong birthday. All songs by Louis Armstrong.
Chimes Blues
Heebie Jeebies
Potato Head Blues
West End Blues
Tight Like This
Mahogany Hall Stomp
Ain’t Misbehavin’
St. Louis Blues
Blue Again
Lazy River
Chinatown, My Chinatown
Star Dust
Shadrack
When The Saints Go Marching In
Marie
Rockin’ Chair
Blueberry Hill
Mack The Knife
A Fine Romance
Hello, Dolly!
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
Cabaret
The Home Fire
Dream A Little Dream Of Me
The Sunshine Of Love
Hello Brother
There Must Be A Way
Fantastic, That’s You
I Guess I’ll Get The Papers
Hellzapoppin’
Tin Roof Blues
Cake Walkin’ Babies
Black And Blue
When It’s Sleepy Time Down South
I Double Dare You
Give Me Your Kisses
What A Wonderful World

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Purple flowers, Albuquerque 18

Wyoming Boulevard
Albuquerque, New Mexico
27 June 2025

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Purple, not flowers, scooter

Wyoming Boulevard
Albuquerque, New Mexico
27 June 2025

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Purple flowers, Albuquerque 16

Winrock Park
Albuquerque, New Mexico
25 July 2025

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Purple flowers, Albuquerque 15

Winrock Park
Albuquerque, New Mexico
25 July 2025

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Winrock Park
Albuquerque, New Mexico
25 July 2025

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There’s a lot in a name

Isn’t it odd that the same person who removed the Indigenous name Denali from the mountain in Alaska now wants to return the name of the Washington football team to a racist slur because “Our great Indian people … their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them.”???

Spoiler:
This is a rhetorical question.
There is nothing odd about it.
It is the same old white supremacist bs that undergirds the dominant society and is being expressed in so many ways by the current administration.

Here endeth the lesson.

Here begineth and continueth the advocacy.

Advocacy opportunities related to the use of Indigenous names and imagery include
National Congress of American Indians
Committee of 500 Years of Dignity and Resistance
Not Your Mascot
National Museum of the American Indian Webinar: Changing the Narrative About Native Americans
Twin Cities PBS: Not Your Mascot: Native Americans and Team Mascots
The Lakota Law Project provides many opportunities for advocacy around issues facing Indigenous peoples
In Whose Honor? – video from more than 20 years ago that, sadly, remains relevant in the current atmosphere

For information about the naming of Denali and the suggestion to change back the names of the Washington football team and the Cleveland base ball see:
Denali name change
Proposed sports name changes

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Purple flowers, Albuquerque 13

Winrock Park
Albuquerque, New Mexico
25 July 2025

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