the grasslands near Ventura, CA was named 'kaʔapiwil ʔini' which in Chumash literally translates to 'fire is born' 😭
2026-10-15 13:01:51
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Katie🐉Rise In Spirit🐦🔥🍄🍃 :
Ancestors be like moving around, for a reason.
2026-10-14 19:43:54
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Minty fresh :
This is literally the dust bowl in a nutshell
2026-10-14 19:36:38
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Michael Marlow :
half of florida is shocked that it floods when it rains. like this place was literally a swamp
2026-10-15 10:44:34
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CURTIS COUNTS :
Its an old Lenape word meaning “flash floods and horrible mosquitoes”
2026-10-14 18:59:17
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Jordan :
“Why are these invasive trees that we planted that require a shitillion ton of water to keep alive suddenly catch fire in the town we built in the desert???”
2026-10-16 07:10:51
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Gazelle Mone’t :
My hometown’s name means “to feel sickly”, and every time I come back…. I get sick.
2026-10-14 22:54:47
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Pimp Lucius :
valley of trees (they cut down for ugly houses) then get surprised it floods.
2026-10-14 18:41:50
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jesstice_league :
Natives really said the US was meant for nomad activity & they said you don’t know whot yer talkin bout. Now we have to deal it 😭
2026-10-16 01:23:54
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dante :
"why are there so many forest fires here?" then the indigenous name for the place is "fire hazard"
2026-10-16 01:18:37
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Swamp Pizza :
Sometimes the coloniser name is Marshland and people still build their houses there.
2026-10-16 01:12:29
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mack :
In Tāmaki Makurau (Auckland), the city centre's main street (Queen Street) flooded in 2023 and everyone was shocked. It used to be a river, that's now piped beneath the street, called Te Waihorotiu (wai meaning water) and I think about this often
2026-10-15 19:14:04
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walkthisway Kwe :
And moving beavers out of their natural area
2026-10-18 00:23:26
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gunit8766 :
Check out Kirkland nm 😂
2026-10-14 19:02:33
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chel 🐞 :
this is so real. there's a lake nearby where the name literally means "bad" "no good" "danger" and people drown in it every year. almost like we were actively warned or something
2026-10-18 19:41:44
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𝕽𝖊𝖓 • {surrealism art} :
LITERALLYYYYYY
2026-10-18 21:08:01
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lee :
Or destroy the mangroves
2026-10-18 09:09:40
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999_demon_slayer_666 :
awww I love it
2026-10-18 04:11:47
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twzero :
"Why do people keep randomly dying in this lake we destroyed a town to make?"
2026-10-14 21:57:50
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Tommi Gunn :
Literally all of Indiana and parts of Illinois, South michigan and Ohio… it was a second Everglades before they drained it!!!
2026-10-14 20:22:19
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Marcos :
Houston used to be call "land of low water"
2026-10-14 21:06:54
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jayhmswim :
The Native peoples of Oklahoma knew not to settle in the OKC/Moore/Norman area because of the tornadoes lol. Moore gets wiped off the map like once a decade from a tornado
2026-10-16 04:33:26
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Wild Aloof Rebel :
or the colonizers ficked with the flowing water and made it worse so now it floods annually 🙃🫠😑
2026-10-14 21:50:50
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Farmgirl1991 :
Then they solve it by putting in golf course lawns (which don’t hold water), miles of concrete and asphalt, no natural drainage or absorption by native plants.
2026-10-15 21:23:09
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one_eye_blind_ :
People wonder why we have so many carpet snakes but the town is called Caboolture and it translates into “Land of the carpet snakes”.🇦🇺❤️
2026-10-15 06:14:10
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