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Millions of dollars in funding but still no plan: can Quebec save its caribou from extinction?
By Danielle BeurteauxThe Canadian government has committed C$25m to try to rescue the caribou in the province – but there is no agreement on how best to save the keystone species
#Wildlife #Environment #Canada #Worldnews #Americas #Quebec #Endangeredspecies #Endangeredhabitats #Indigenouspeoples #Treesandforests #Animals #Conservation #TheGuardian #DanielleBeurteaux
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Millions of dollars in funding but still no plan: can Quebec save its caribou from extinction?
By Danielle BeurteauxThe Canadian government has committed C$25m to try to rescue the caribou in the province – but there is no agreement on how best to save the keystone species
#Wildlife #Environment #Canada #Worldnews #Americas #Quebec #Endangeredspecies #Endangeredhabitats #Indigenouspeoples #Treesandforests #Animals #Conservation #TheGuardian #DanielleBeurteaux
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Millions of dollars in funding but still no plan: can Quebec save its caribou from extinction?
By Danielle BeurteauxThe Canadian government has committed C$25m to try to rescue the caribou in the province – but there is no agreement on how best to save the keystone species
#Wildlife #Environment #Canada #Worldnews #Americas #Quebec #Endangeredspecies #Endangeredhabitats #Indigenouspeoples #Treesandforests #Animals #Conservation #TheGuardian #DanielleBeurteaux
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Millions of dollars in funding but still no plan: can Quebec save its caribou from extinction?
By Danielle BeurteauxThe Canadian government has committed C$25m to try to rescue the caribou in the province – but there is no agreement on how best to save the keystone species
#Wildlife #Environment #Canada #Worldnews #Americas #Quebec #Endangeredspecies #Endangeredhabitats #Indigenouspeoples #Treesandforests #Animals #Conservation #TheGuardian #DanielleBeurteaux
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Jani Ingram, a professor from the Northern Arizona University (NAU) and a group of researchers, created an interactive map online that helps residents find clean drinking water on the Navajo Nation.
#fyp #foryou #explore #news #newsfeed #newsletter #navajo #navajonation #indigenous #indigenouspeoples
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Jani Ingram, a professor from the Northern Arizona University (NAU) and a group of researchers, created an interactive map online that helps residents find clean drinking water on the Navajo Nation.
#fyp #foryou #explore #news #newsfeed #newsletter #navajo #navajonation #indigenous #indigenouspeoples
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Jani Ingram, a professor from the Northern Arizona University (NAU) and a group of researchers, created an interactive map online that helps residents find clean drinking water on the Navajo Nation.
#fyp #foryou #explore #news #newsfeed #newsletter #navajo #navajonation #indigenous #indigenouspeoples
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Jani Ingram, a professor from the Northern Arizona University (NAU) and a group of researchers, created an interactive map online that helps residents find clean drinking water on the Navajo Nation.
#fyp #foryou #explore #news #newsfeed #newsletter #navajo #navajonation #indigenous #indigenouspeoples
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Jani Ingram, a professor from the Northern Arizona University (NAU) and a group of researchers, created an interactive map online that helps residents find clean drinking water on the Navajo Nation.
#fyp #foryou #explore #news #newsfeed #newsletter #navajo #navajonation #indigenous #indigenouspeoples
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When It Comes to Climate, #WesternScience Can Learn from #Indigenous Communities
Native people who possess #traditionalEcologicalKnowledge have long understood environmental management.
By Heather Hansen, March 1, 2022
Excerpt: "Chisholm Hatfield emphasizes a shift from isolation to integration in order to bridge the gap between Native and Western science, and between many people and the natural world. On a planet with worsening wildfires and floods, and a staggering loss of biodiversity, some western researchers are now asking the original land stewards for help restoring the balance in ecosystems. In Alaska, the #Inuit are teaching researchers about #biodiversity and sea ice conditions in the Arctic; in the American West, tribal members are collaborating with land managers to burn small fires to prevent big ones. But there’s much more to be done, #TEK leaders say.
"For both #ChisholmHatfield and #AnnMarieChischilly , it is a time for action, hope and #resilience. 'When we talk about resilience, it’s not just in what we’re doing. It’s resilience in the mind and spirit,' says Chischilly. 'There’s always been adaptation in the Indigenous community, there’s a foundation that we don’t let go of. That’s what keeps us alive.' "
Read more:
https://thestoryexchange.org/traditional-ecological-knowledge-climate-change/#SolarPunkSunday #TheStoryExchange #LoTEK #ClimateChange #ClimateResilience #TraditionalPractices #IndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousPeoples #Observation #KnowledgeKeepers
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When It Comes to Climate, #WesternScience Can Learn from #Indigenous Communities
Native people who possess #traditionalEcologicalKnowledge have long understood environmental management.
By Heather Hansen, March 1, 2022
Excerpt: "Chisholm Hatfield emphasizes a shift from isolation to integration in order to bridge the gap between Native and Western science, and between many people and the natural world. On a planet with worsening wildfires and floods, and a staggering loss of biodiversity, some western researchers are now asking the original land stewards for help restoring the balance in ecosystems. In Alaska, the #Inuit are teaching researchers about #biodiversity and sea ice conditions in the Arctic; in the American West, tribal members are collaborating with land managers to burn small fires to prevent big ones. But there’s much more to be done, #TEK leaders say.
"For both #ChisholmHatfield and #AnnMarieChischilly , it is a time for action, hope and #resilience. 'When we talk about resilience, it’s not just in what we’re doing. It’s resilience in the mind and spirit,' says Chischilly. 'There’s always been adaptation in the Indigenous community, there’s a foundation that we don’t let go of. That’s what keeps us alive.' "
Read more:
https://thestoryexchange.org/traditional-ecological-knowledge-climate-change/#SolarPunkSunday #TheStoryExchange #LoTEK #ClimateChange #ClimateResilience #TraditionalPractices #IndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousPeoples #Observation #KnowledgeKeepers
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When It Comes to Climate, #WesternScience Can Learn from #Indigenous Communities
Native people who possess #traditionalEcologicalKnowledge have long understood environmental management.
By Heather Hansen, March 1, 2022
Excerpt: "Chisholm Hatfield emphasizes a shift from isolation to integration in order to bridge the gap between Native and Western science, and between many people and the natural world. On a planet with worsening wildfires and floods, and a staggering loss of biodiversity, some western researchers are now asking the original land stewards for help restoring the balance in ecosystems. In Alaska, the #Inuit are teaching researchers about #biodiversity and sea ice conditions in the Arctic; in the American West, tribal members are collaborating with land managers to burn small fires to prevent big ones. But there’s much more to be done, #TEK leaders say.
"For both #ChisholmHatfield and #AnnMarieChischilly , it is a time for action, hope and #resilience. 'When we talk about resilience, it’s not just in what we’re doing. It’s resilience in the mind and spirit,' says Chischilly. 'There’s always been adaptation in the Indigenous community, there’s a foundation that we don’t let go of. That’s what keeps us alive.' "
Read more:
https://thestoryexchange.org/traditional-ecological-knowledge-climate-change/#SolarPunkSunday #TheStoryExchange #LoTEK #ClimateChange #ClimateResilience #TraditionalPractices #IndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousPeoples #Observation #KnowledgeKeepers
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When It Comes to Climate, #WesternScience Can Learn from #Indigenous Communities
Native people who possess #traditionalEcologicalKnowledge have long understood environmental management.
By Heather Hansen, March 1, 2022
Excerpt: "Chisholm Hatfield emphasizes a shift from isolation to integration in order to bridge the gap between Native and Western science, and between many people and the natural world. On a planet with worsening wildfires and floods, and a staggering loss of biodiversity, some western researchers are now asking the original land stewards for help restoring the balance in ecosystems. In Alaska, the #Inuit are teaching researchers about #biodiversity and sea ice conditions in the Arctic; in the American West, tribal members are collaborating with land managers to burn small fires to prevent big ones. But there’s much more to be done, #TEK leaders say.
"For both #ChisholmHatfield and #AnnMarieChischilly , it is a time for action, hope and #resilience. 'When we talk about resilience, it’s not just in what we’re doing. It’s resilience in the mind and spirit,' says Chischilly. 'There’s always been adaptation in the Indigenous community, there’s a foundation that we don’t let go of. That’s what keeps us alive.' "
Read more:
https://thestoryexchange.org/traditional-ecological-knowledge-climate-change/#SolarPunkSunday #TheStoryExchange #LoTEK #ClimateChange #ClimateResilience #TraditionalPractices #IndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousPeoples #Observation #KnowledgeKeepers
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When It Comes to Climate, #WesternScience Can Learn from #Indigenous Communities
Native people who possess #traditionalEcologicalKnowledge have long understood environmental management.
By Heather Hansen, March 1, 2022
Excerpt: "Chisholm Hatfield emphasizes a shift from isolation to integration in order to bridge the gap between Native and Western science, and between many people and the natural world. On a planet with worsening wildfires and floods, and a staggering loss of biodiversity, some western researchers are now asking the original land stewards for help restoring the balance in ecosystems. In Alaska, the #Inuit are teaching researchers about #biodiversity and sea ice conditions in the Arctic; in the American West, tribal members are collaborating with land managers to burn small fires to prevent big ones. But there’s much more to be done, #TEK leaders say.
"For both #ChisholmHatfield and #AnnMarieChischilly , it is a time for action, hope and #resilience. 'When we talk about resilience, it’s not just in what we’re doing. It’s resilience in the mind and spirit,' says Chischilly. 'There’s always been adaptation in the Indigenous community, there’s a foundation that we don’t let go of. That’s what keeps us alive.' "
Read more:
https://thestoryexchange.org/traditional-ecological-knowledge-climate-change/#SolarPunkSunday #TheStoryExchange #LoTEK #ClimateChange #ClimateResilience #TraditionalPractices #IndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousPeoples #Observation #KnowledgeKeepers
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#Anishinaabe Insights: A closer look at #TEK - #IndigenousKnowledge finds its way into science & policy.
By Michael Waasegiizhig Price, GLIFWC TEK Specialist
Excerpt: " #Indigenous #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge is not about human beings saving the earth, but rather, it is about us, as human beings, saving ourselves. As #OrenLyons, Faithkeeper of the #OnondagaNation, stated, ' #Nature has no mercy, only law. If you don’t abide by the law, you suffer the consequences.' I believe that the understanding of natural law comes from the lifeways and wisdom of #IndigenousPeoples from all over the earth. The integration of Indigenous knowledge and science is a noble effort to preserve and honor our existence on this planet, the #EarthMother of us all."
Read more:
https://glifwc.org/about-us/news/anishinaabe-insights-closer-look-tek-indigenous-knowledge-finds-its-way-science#SolarPunkSunday #LoTEK #IndigenousSolutions #ClimateResilience #KnowledgeKeepers #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge
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'This same crap': Why a trailblazing surgeon took on the establishment
By Erin Semmler and Leisa ScottAustralia's first Indigenous eye surgeon Kris Rallah-Baker has walked a zigzag path, driven by family struggles and overcoming 'unashamed racism'.
#Ophthalmology #IndigenousPeoples #DoctorsandMedicalProfessionals #HumanInterest #Racism #IndigenousCulture #Eyes #ErinSemmler #LeisaScott
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'This same crap': Why a trailblazing surgeon took on the establishment
By Erin Semmler and Leisa ScottAustralia's first Indigenous eye surgeon Kris Rallah-Baker has walked a zigzag path, driven by family struggles and overcoming 'unashamed racism'.
#Ophthalmology #IndigenousPeoples #DoctorsandMedicalProfessionals #HumanInterest #Racism #IndigenousCulture #Eyes #ErinSemmler #LeisaScott
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'This same crap': Why a trailblazing surgeon took on the establishment
By Erin Semmler and Leisa ScottAustralia's first Indigenous eye surgeon Kris Rallah-Baker has walked a zigzag path, driven by family struggles and overcoming 'unashamed racism'.
#Ophthalmology #IndigenousPeoples #DoctorsandMedicalProfessionals #HumanInterest #Racism #IndigenousCulture #Eyes #ErinSemmler #LeisaScott
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'This same crap': Why a trailblazing surgeon took on the establishment
By Erin Semmler and Leisa ScottAustralia's first Indigenous eye surgeon Kris Rallah-Baker has walked a zigzag path, driven by family struggles and overcoming 'unashamed racism'.
#Ophthalmology #IndigenousPeoples #DoctorsandMedicalProfessionals #HumanInterest #Racism #IndigenousCulture #Eyes #ErinSemmler #LeisaScott
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'This same crap': Why a trailblazing surgeon took on the establishment
By Erin Semmler and Leisa ScottAustralia's first Indigenous eye surgeon Kris Rallah-Baker has walked a zigzag path, driven by family struggles and overcoming 'unashamed racism'.
#Ophthalmology #IndigenousPeoples #DoctorsandMedicalProfessionals #HumanInterest #Racism #IndigenousCulture #Eyes #ErinSemmler #LeisaScott
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'Western values' and 'national pride' underpin Coalition's education reform plans
"The Coalition has unveiled its plan for "root and branch" educational reform, which would remove cross-curricular units on Indigenous history and Asian studies."
"The Coalition would also "streamline pathways" for future teachers to address shortages." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-19/coalition-education-policy-western-values-julian-leeser/107172572
#education #NationalPride #ConstitutionalMonarchy #ClassroomDisruption #military #TheWest #values #IndigenousPeoples #FirstNationsPeoples #Australia #curriculum -
'Western values' and 'national pride' underpin Coalition's education reform plans
"The Coalition has unveiled its plan for "root and branch" educational reform, which would remove cross-curricular units on Indigenous history and Asian studies."
"The Coalition would also "streamline pathways" for future teachers to address shortages." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-19/coalition-education-policy-western-values-julian-leeser/107172572
#education #NationalPride #ConstitutionalMonarchy #ClassroomDisruption #military #TheWest #values #IndigenousPeoples #FirstNationsPeoples #Australia #curriculum -
'Western values' and 'national pride' underpin Coalition's education reform plans
"The Coalition has unveiled its plan for "root and branch" educational reform, which would remove cross-curricular units on Indigenous history and Asian studies."
"The Coalition would also "streamline pathways" for future teachers to address shortages." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-19/coalition-education-policy-western-values-julian-leeser/107172572
#education #NationalPride #ConstitutionalMonarchy #ClassroomDisruption #military #TheWest #values #IndigenousPeoples #FirstNationsPeoples #Australia #curriculum -
'Western values' and 'national pride' underpin Coalition's education reform plans
"The Coalition has unveiled its plan for "root and branch" educational reform, which would remove cross-curricular units on Indigenous history and Asian studies."
"The Coalition would also "streamline pathways" for future teachers to address shortages." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-19/coalition-education-policy-western-values-julian-leeser/107172572
#education #NationalPride #ConstitutionalMonarchy #ClassroomDisruption #military #TheWest #values #IndigenousPeoples #FirstNationsPeoples #Australia #curriculum -
'Western values' and 'national pride' underpin Coalition's education reform plans
"The Coalition has unveiled its plan for "root and branch" educational reform, which would remove cross-curricular units on Indigenous history and Asian studies."
"The Coalition would also "streamline pathways" for future teachers to address shortages." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-19/coalition-education-policy-western-values-julian-leeser/107172572
#education #NationalPride #ConstitutionalMonarchy #ClassroomDisruption #military #TheWest #values #IndigenousPeoples #FirstNationsPeoples #Australia #curriculum -
Growing #Indigenous #ForestGardens
January 12, 2023, #UBC Forestry
Excerpt: "Prior to #colonization, #IndigenousPeoples managed their lands extensively, placing certain plant species at various intensities in different locations to provide food and medicines on a broad scale, Jennifer explains. Forest soil was fertilized with fish bones, similar to how gardeners use fish emulsion to fertilize their backyard plants. Fire was used to conduct quick burns to open up the forest canopy, sweeten the soil (improve fertility) and remove dry woody debris that could ignite into a major blaze.
"Many of these practices are being reclaimed and adapted in the modern context by Indigenous communities, says Jennifer, yet few are currently integrated into non-Indigenous-led, large- and small-scale forestry operations, despite their potential to improve #ClimateResiliency.
"Indigenous #ForestGardening was developed and passed down over millennia, which accounts for the sophistication and ingenuity of #ForestGarden practices."
Learn more:
https://forestry.ubc.ca/branchlines-articles/growing-indigenous-forest-gardens/#SolarPunkSunday #FirstNations #FoodForests #FoodSecurity #CulturalPreservation
#IndigenousGardening #IndigenousHistory #Resiliency #TraditionalPractices #TEK -
Growing #Indigenous #ForestGardens
January 12, 2023, #UBC Forestry
Excerpt: "Prior to #colonization, #IndigenousPeoples managed their lands extensively, placing certain plant species at various intensities in different locations to provide food and medicines on a broad scale, Jennifer explains. Forest soil was fertilized with fish bones, similar to how gardeners use fish emulsion to fertilize their backyard plants. Fire was used to conduct quick burns to open up the forest canopy, sweeten the soil (improve fertility) and remove dry woody debris that could ignite into a major blaze.
"Many of these practices are being reclaimed and adapted in the modern context by Indigenous communities, says Jennifer, yet few are currently integrated into non-Indigenous-led, large- and small-scale forestry operations, despite their potential to improve #ClimateResiliency.
"Indigenous #ForestGardening was developed and passed down over millennia, which accounts for the sophistication and ingenuity of #ForestGarden practices."
Learn more:
https://forestry.ubc.ca/branchlines-articles/growing-indigenous-forest-gardens/#SolarPunkSunday #FirstNations #FoodForests #FoodSecurity #CulturalPreservation
#IndigenousGardening #IndigenousHistory #Resiliency #TraditionalPractices #TEK -
Growing #Indigenous #ForestGardens
January 12, 2023, #UBC Forestry
Excerpt: "Prior to #colonization, #IndigenousPeoples managed their lands extensively, placing certain plant species at various intensities in different locations to provide food and medicines on a broad scale, Jennifer explains. Forest soil was fertilized with fish bones, similar to how gardeners use fish emulsion to fertilize their backyard plants. Fire was used to conduct quick burns to open up the forest canopy, sweeten the soil (improve fertility) and remove dry woody debris that could ignite into a major blaze.
"Many of these practices are being reclaimed and adapted in the modern context by Indigenous communities, says Jennifer, yet few are currently integrated into non-Indigenous-led, large- and small-scale forestry operations, despite their potential to improve #ClimateResiliency.
"Indigenous #ForestGardening was developed and passed down over millennia, which accounts for the sophistication and ingenuity of #ForestGarden practices."
Learn more:
https://forestry.ubc.ca/branchlines-articles/growing-indigenous-forest-gardens/#SolarPunkSunday #FirstNations #FoodForests #FoodSecurity #CulturalPreservation
#IndigenousGardening #IndigenousHistory #Resiliency #TraditionalPractices #TEK -
Growing #Indigenous #ForestGardens
January 12, 2023, #UBC Forestry
Excerpt: "Prior to #colonization, #IndigenousPeoples managed their lands extensively, placing certain plant species at various intensities in different locations to provide food and medicines on a broad scale, Jennifer explains. Forest soil was fertilized with fish bones, similar to how gardeners use fish emulsion to fertilize their backyard plants. Fire was used to conduct quick burns to open up the forest canopy, sweeten the soil (improve fertility) and remove dry woody debris that could ignite into a major blaze.
"Many of these practices are being reclaimed and adapted in the modern context by Indigenous communities, says Jennifer, yet few are currently integrated into non-Indigenous-led, large- and small-scale forestry operations, despite their potential to improve #ClimateResiliency.
"Indigenous #ForestGardening was developed and passed down over millennia, which accounts for the sophistication and ingenuity of #ForestGarden practices."
Learn more:
https://forestry.ubc.ca/branchlines-articles/growing-indigenous-forest-gardens/#SolarPunkSunday #FirstNations #FoodForests #FoodSecurity #CulturalPreservation
#IndigenousGardening #IndigenousHistory #Resiliency #TraditionalPractices #TEK -
Growing #Indigenous #ForestGardens
January 12, 2023, #UBC Forestry
Excerpt: "Prior to #colonization, #IndigenousPeoples managed their lands extensively, placing certain plant species at various intensities in different locations to provide food and medicines on a broad scale, Jennifer explains. Forest soil was fertilized with fish bones, similar to how gardeners use fish emulsion to fertilize their backyard plants. Fire was used to conduct quick burns to open up the forest canopy, sweeten the soil (improve fertility) and remove dry woody debris that could ignite into a major blaze.
"Many of these practices are being reclaimed and adapted in the modern context by Indigenous communities, says Jennifer, yet few are currently integrated into non-Indigenous-led, large- and small-scale forestry operations, despite their potential to improve #ClimateResiliency.
"Indigenous #ForestGardening was developed and passed down over millennia, which accounts for the sophistication and ingenuity of #ForestGarden practices."
Learn more:
https://forestry.ubc.ca/branchlines-articles/growing-indigenous-forest-gardens/#SolarPunkSunday #FirstNations #FoodForests #FoodSecurity #CulturalPreservation
#IndigenousGardening #IndigenousHistory #Resiliency #TraditionalPractices #TEK -
Contesting #Surveillance Infrastructure on #IndigenousLands
by #OpheliaRivas, #CaitlinBlanchfield, and #NinaKolowratnik
"The broad slope and rounded crest of O’ks Tak’am Do’ak outline the profile of a woman sitting and facing the west. Her name is O’ks Ta’kam. She is part the O’odham origin story, passed down through oral history. She sits there vigilant, a warrior protecting, and will warn the people when a catastrophic event will occur. When this event comes, she will stand and gather the smallest creatures in her skirt to protect them.
"The mountain forms part of the Tak’Va’Vak range which cuts through #TohonoOodham land, joining peaks like Han’a-mek and Ma’mke-mad. These mountains are known as a place to gather sweet fruits from the chu-chues (organ pipe cactus). They are home to caves, springs, and seasonal water holes. Each year ceremonies and hunts take place all across the Tak’Va’Vak, and trails lead through the mountain passes, connecting the springs at A’al Va’pai (Quitobaqito) to O’odham villages in Sonora, and leading all the way to the salty Ge-Ka-ch’k (Sea of Cortez). The mountains hold deer, mountain rams, javalina. They hold burial places. Medicines grow there. In the evening they are especially beautiful, bathed in crimson.
"The Tak’Va’Vak range also forms one border of the Tohono O’odham Nation. The boundary runs along the ridge line and separates the reservation from the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a United States national park to the west.
"The border with the #NationalMonument is one of three that divide Tohono O’odham Nation from the #UnitedStates; the reservation’s southern border is with #Mexico. It is this border that dominates the others—both in its real effects and in media representations—and with good reason, especially in the last decades, and acutely in the present moment. It separates the Tohono O’odham in Sonora from those in Arizona, dividing the people; and its securitization has brought violence and destruction to O’odham lands on both sides in different ways. Yet these two borders—one between nation states and one between reservation and national park—work together: they are part of the same process of colonialism and dispossession that have been constricting O’odham life for hundreds of years. The construction of the US-Mexico border is intertwined with the expropriation of #IndigenousLand and the subsequent creation of #NativeAmerican reservations as much as it is with United States expansionism and policies of exclusion. More than that, the US-Mexico border, and the many weapons, technologies of surveillance, and #BorderPatrol officers that comprise it, is an extension of the United States’ ongoing, violent, and racialized campaign to contain and assimilate Indigenous peoples—it is a settler colonial border. But as Salt River Pima-Maricopa scholar #FantasiaPainter reminds us, the #borderlands are not yet settled, and they are unsettled: this is because of the refusal of Tohono O’odham and other #IndigenousPeoples to see and accept their lands as not their own."
Read more:
https://urbannext.net/significant-impact-contesting-surveillance/#SettlerColonialism #SurveillanceState #USPol #CulturalGenocide
#NoBorderWall #TrumpsBorderWall
#ProtectTheSacred #EnvironmentalProtectionAct
#RespectTheTreaties #AbolishICE #DefundDHS #MurderPatrol #BorderPatrol #IndigenousSacredSites
#DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity -
Contesting #Surveillance Infrastructure on #IndigenousLands
by #OpheliaRivas, #CaitlinBlanchfield, and #NinaKolowratnik
"The broad slope and rounded crest of O’ks Tak’am Do’ak outline the profile of a woman sitting and facing the west. Her name is O’ks Ta’kam. She is part the O’odham origin story, passed down through oral history. She sits there vigilant, a warrior protecting, and will warn the people when a catastrophic event will occur. When this event comes, she will stand and gather the smallest creatures in her skirt to protect them.
"The mountain forms part of the Tak’Va’Vak range which cuts through #TohonoOodham land, joining peaks like Han’a-mek and Ma’mke-mad. These mountains are known as a place to gather sweet fruits from the chu-chues (organ pipe cactus). They are home to caves, springs, and seasonal water holes. Each year ceremonies and hunts take place all across the Tak’Va’Vak, and trails lead through the mountain passes, connecting the springs at A’al Va’pai (Quitobaqito) to O’odham villages in Sonora, and leading all the way to the salty Ge-Ka-ch’k (Sea of Cortez). The mountains hold deer, mountain rams, javalina. They hold burial places. Medicines grow there. In the evening they are especially beautiful, bathed in crimson.
"The Tak’Va’Vak range also forms one border of the Tohono O’odham Nation. The boundary runs along the ridge line and separates the reservation from the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a United States national park to the west.
"The border with the #NationalMonument is one of three that divide Tohono O’odham Nation from the #UnitedStates; the reservation’s southern border is with #Mexico. It is this border that dominates the others—both in its real effects and in media representations—and with good reason, especially in the last decades, and acutely in the present moment. It separates the Tohono O’odham in Sonora from those in Arizona, dividing the people; and its securitization has brought violence and destruction to O’odham lands on both sides in different ways. Yet these two borders—one between nation states and one between reservation and national park—work together: they are part of the same process of colonialism and dispossession that have been constricting O’odham life for hundreds of years. The construction of the US-Mexico border is intertwined with the expropriation of #IndigenousLand and the subsequent creation of #NativeAmerican reservations as much as it is with United States expansionism and policies of exclusion. More than that, the US-Mexico border, and the many weapons, technologies of surveillance, and #BorderPatrol officers that comprise it, is an extension of the United States’ ongoing, violent, and racialized campaign to contain and assimilate Indigenous peoples—it is a settler colonial border. But as Salt River Pima-Maricopa scholar #FantasiaPainter reminds us, the #borderlands are not yet settled, and they are unsettled: this is because of the refusal of Tohono O’odham and other #IndigenousPeoples to see and accept their lands as not their own."
Read more:
https://urbannext.net/significant-impact-contesting-surveillance/#SettlerColonialism #SurveillanceState #USPol #CulturalGenocide
#NoBorderWall #TrumpsBorderWall
#ProtectTheSacred #EnvironmentalProtectionAct
#RespectTheTreaties #AbolishICE #DefundDHS #MurderPatrol #BorderPatrol #IndigenousSacredSites
#DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity -
Contesting #Surveillance Infrastructure on #IndigenousLands
by #OpheliaRivas, #CaitlinBlanchfield, and #NinaKolowratnik
"The broad slope and rounded crest of O’ks Tak’am Do’ak outline the profile of a woman sitting and facing the west. Her name is O’ks Ta’kam. She is part the O’odham origin story, passed down through oral history. She sits there vigilant, a warrior protecting, and will warn the people when a catastrophic event will occur. When this event comes, she will stand and gather the smallest creatures in her skirt to protect them.
"The mountain forms part of the Tak’Va’Vak range which cuts through #TohonoOodham land, joining peaks like Han’a-mek and Ma’mke-mad. These mountains are known as a place to gather sweet fruits from the chu-chues (organ pipe cactus). They are home to caves, springs, and seasonal water holes. Each year ceremonies and hunts take place all across the Tak’Va’Vak, and trails lead through the mountain passes, connecting the springs at A’al Va’pai (Quitobaqito) to O’odham villages in Sonora, and leading all the way to the salty Ge-Ka-ch’k (Sea of Cortez). The mountains hold deer, mountain rams, javalina. They hold burial places. Medicines grow there. In the evening they are especially beautiful, bathed in crimson.
"The Tak’Va’Vak range also forms one border of the Tohono O’odham Nation. The boundary runs along the ridge line and separates the reservation from the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a United States national park to the west.
"The border with the #NationalMonument is one of three that divide Tohono O’odham Nation from the #UnitedStates; the reservation’s southern border is with #Mexico. It is this border that dominates the others—both in its real effects and in media representations—and with good reason, especially in the last decades, and acutely in the present moment. It separates the Tohono O’odham in Sonora from those in Arizona, dividing the people; and its securitization has brought violence and destruction to O’odham lands on both sides in different ways. Yet these two borders—one between nation states and one between reservation and national park—work together: they are part of the same process of colonialism and dispossession that have been constricting O’odham life for hundreds of years. The construction of the US-Mexico border is intertwined with the expropriation of #IndigenousLand and the subsequent creation of #NativeAmerican reservations as much as it is with United States expansionism and policies of exclusion. More than that, the US-Mexico border, and the many weapons, technologies of surveillance, and #BorderPatrol officers that comprise it, is an extension of the United States’ ongoing, violent, and racialized campaign to contain and assimilate Indigenous peoples—it is a settler colonial border. But as Salt River Pima-Maricopa scholar #FantasiaPainter reminds us, the #borderlands are not yet settled, and they are unsettled: this is because of the refusal of Tohono O’odham and other #IndigenousPeoples to see and accept their lands as not their own."
Read more:
https://urbannext.net/significant-impact-contesting-surveillance/#SettlerColonialism #SurveillanceState #USPol #CulturalGenocide
#NoBorderWall #TrumpsBorderWall
#ProtectTheSacred #EnvironmentalProtectionAct
#RespectTheTreaties #AbolishICE #DefundDHS #MurderPatrol #BorderPatrol #IndigenousSacredSites
#DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity -
Contesting #Surveillance Infrastructure on #IndigenousLands
by #OpheliaRivas, #CaitlinBlanchfield, and #NinaKolowratnik
"The broad slope and rounded crest of O’ks Tak’am Do’ak outline the profile of a woman sitting and facing the west. Her name is O’ks Ta’kam. She is part the O’odham origin story, passed down through oral history. She sits there vigilant, a warrior protecting, and will warn the people when a catastrophic event will occur. When this event comes, she will stand and gather the smallest creatures in her skirt to protect them.
"The mountain forms part of the Tak’Va’Vak range which cuts through #TohonoOodham land, joining peaks like Han’a-mek and Ma’mke-mad. These mountains are known as a place to gather sweet fruits from the chu-chues (organ pipe cactus). They are home to caves, springs, and seasonal water holes. Each year ceremonies and hunts take place all across the Tak’Va’Vak, and trails lead through the mountain passes, connecting the springs at A’al Va’pai (Quitobaqito) to O’odham villages in Sonora, and leading all the way to the salty Ge-Ka-ch’k (Sea of Cortez). The mountains hold deer, mountain rams, javalina. They hold burial places. Medicines grow there. In the evening they are especially beautiful, bathed in crimson.
"The Tak’Va’Vak range also forms one border of the Tohono O’odham Nation. The boundary runs along the ridge line and separates the reservation from the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a United States national park to the west.
"The border with the #NationalMonument is one of three that divide Tohono O’odham Nation from the #UnitedStates; the reservation’s southern border is with #Mexico. It is this border that dominates the others—both in its real effects and in media representations—and with good reason, especially in the last decades, and acutely in the present moment. It separates the Tohono O’odham in Sonora from those in Arizona, dividing the people; and its securitization has brought violence and destruction to O’odham lands on both sides in different ways. Yet these two borders—one between nation states and one between reservation and national park—work together: they are part of the same process of colonialism and dispossession that have been constricting O’odham life for hundreds of years. The construction of the US-Mexico border is intertwined with the expropriation of #IndigenousLand and the subsequent creation of #NativeAmerican reservations as much as it is with United States expansionism and policies of exclusion. More than that, the US-Mexico border, and the many weapons, technologies of surveillance, and #BorderPatrol officers that comprise it, is an extension of the United States’ ongoing, violent, and racialized campaign to contain and assimilate Indigenous peoples—it is a settler colonial border. But as Salt River Pima-Maricopa scholar #FantasiaPainter reminds us, the #borderlands are not yet settled, and they are unsettled: this is because of the refusal of Tohono O’odham and other #IndigenousPeoples to see and accept their lands as not their own."
Read more:
https://urbannext.net/significant-impact-contesting-surveillance/#SettlerColonialism #SurveillanceState #USPol #CulturalGenocide
#NoBorderWall #TrumpsBorderWall
#ProtectTheSacred #EnvironmentalProtectionAct
#RespectTheTreaties #AbolishICE #DefundDHS #MurderPatrol #BorderPatrol #IndigenousSacredSites
#DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity -
Contesting #Surveillance Infrastructure on #IndigenousLands
by #OpheliaRivas, #CaitlinBlanchfield, and #NinaKolowratnik
"The broad slope and rounded crest of O’ks Tak’am Do’ak outline the profile of a woman sitting and facing the west. Her name is O’ks Ta’kam. She is part the O’odham origin story, passed down through oral history. She sits there vigilant, a warrior protecting, and will warn the people when a catastrophic event will occur. When this event comes, she will stand and gather the smallest creatures in her skirt to protect them.
"The mountain forms part of the Tak’Va’Vak range which cuts through #TohonoOodham land, joining peaks like Han’a-mek and Ma’mke-mad. These mountains are known as a place to gather sweet fruits from the chu-chues (organ pipe cactus). They are home to caves, springs, and seasonal water holes. Each year ceremonies and hunts take place all across the Tak’Va’Vak, and trails lead through the mountain passes, connecting the springs at A’al Va’pai (Quitobaqito) to O’odham villages in Sonora, and leading all the way to the salty Ge-Ka-ch’k (Sea of Cortez). The mountains hold deer, mountain rams, javalina. They hold burial places. Medicines grow there. In the evening they are especially beautiful, bathed in crimson.
"The Tak’Va’Vak range also forms one border of the Tohono O’odham Nation. The boundary runs along the ridge line and separates the reservation from the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a United States national park to the west.
"The border with the #NationalMonument is one of three that divide Tohono O’odham Nation from the #UnitedStates; the reservation’s southern border is with #Mexico. It is this border that dominates the others—both in its real effects and in media representations—and with good reason, especially in the last decades, and acutely in the present moment. It separates the Tohono O’odham in Sonora from those in Arizona, dividing the people; and its securitization has brought violence and destruction to O’odham lands on both sides in different ways. Yet these two borders—one between nation states and one between reservation and national park—work together: they are part of the same process of colonialism and dispossession that have been constricting O’odham life for hundreds of years. The construction of the US-Mexico border is intertwined with the expropriation of #IndigenousLand and the subsequent creation of #NativeAmerican reservations as much as it is with United States expansionism and policies of exclusion. More than that, the US-Mexico border, and the many weapons, technologies of surveillance, and #BorderPatrol officers that comprise it, is an extension of the United States’ ongoing, violent, and racialized campaign to contain and assimilate Indigenous peoples—it is a settler colonial border. But as Salt River Pima-Maricopa scholar #FantasiaPainter reminds us, the #borderlands are not yet settled, and they are unsettled: this is because of the refusal of Tohono O’odham and other #IndigenousPeoples to see and accept their lands as not their own."
Read more:
https://urbannext.net/significant-impact-contesting-surveillance/#SettlerColonialism #SurveillanceState #USPol #CulturalGenocide
#NoBorderWall #TrumpsBorderWall
#ProtectTheSacred #EnvironmentalProtectionAct
#RespectTheTreaties #AbolishICE #DefundDHS #MurderPatrol #BorderPatrol #IndigenousSacredSites
#DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity