Please Keep Our Pastures - Tumblr Posts

This kind of thing will likely happen if agriculture is done more in my homelands. Would you want your pastures to result in dust storms like described above? More importantly, zuds will probably become more frequent and more damages to our way of life would be brought on, thereby hurting our livelihoods.

I’m serious too when I say that settlers and their aggressive, destructive farming practices were main factors in the dust bowl.

They stripped the prairie by plowing deep, deep into the soil—destroying the deep roots of the prairie grasses and plants that hold onto moisture in the soil and hold it together even during a drought.

Those roots were so important:

They planted voracious plants by themselves acre upon acre—things like corn which is so destructive even here in the Great Lakes region we rotate our fields of corn with soybeans because the corn strips nitrogen and beans put it back.

The soil turned to dust. The plants were not there to hold the soil and hold the moisture. The droughts hit and that was that.

Settlers version of farming is DANGEROUS and harsh and requires so many chemicals—chemicals most white people will never have to worry about in their water

So yes. Fuck your fantasy. Grow some lettuce in a wheelbarrow, put some herbs on your window sill, and raise some backyard chickens instead lmfao.