#indigenouspeoples — Public Fediverse posts
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The Circle News: Planned Archives Closures Raise Alarm Over Tribal Records. “Tribal advocates argue that relocating these materials without consultation disregards the federal government’s trust responsibility and its nation-to-nation relationship with tribes. Some tribal governments and coalitions have requested greater transparency, while advocates are calling for congressional intervention […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/15/the-circle-news-planned-archives-closures-raise-alarm-over-tribal-records/ -
The Circle News: Planned Archives Closures Raise Alarm Over Tribal Records. “Tribal advocates argue that relocating these materials without consultation disregards the federal government’s trust responsibility and its nation-to-nation relationship with tribes. Some tribal governments and coalitions have requested greater transparency, while advocates are calling for congressional intervention […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/15/the-circle-news-planned-archives-closures-raise-alarm-over-tribal-records/ -
The Circle News: Planned Archives Closures Raise Alarm Over Tribal Records. “Tribal advocates argue that relocating these materials without consultation disregards the federal government’s trust responsibility and its nation-to-nation relationship with tribes. Some tribal governments and coalitions have requested greater transparency, while advocates are calling for congressional intervention […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/15/the-circle-news-planned-archives-closures-raise-alarm-over-tribal-records/ -
The Circle News: Planned Archives Closures Raise Alarm Over Tribal Records. “Tribal advocates argue that relocating these materials without consultation disregards the federal government’s trust responsibility and its nation-to-nation relationship with tribes. Some tribal governments and coalitions have requested greater transparency, while advocates are calling for congressional intervention […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/15/the-circle-news-planned-archives-closures-raise-alarm-over-tribal-records/ -
The Circle News: Planned Archives Closures Raise Alarm Over Tribal Records. “Tribal advocates argue that relocating these materials without consultation disregards the federal government’s trust responsibility and its nation-to-nation relationship with tribes. Some tribal governments and coalitions have requested greater transparency, while advocates are calling for congressional intervention […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/15/the-circle-news-planned-archives-closures-raise-alarm-over-tribal-records/ -
Government of Canada welcomes major new investment in sovereign AI infrastructure in Saskatchewan
New Canadian-led infrastructure project will help build secure and reliable computing capacity responsibly OTTAWA, ON, Sept. 14, 2026…
#Canada #BellCanada #digitalinfrastructure #energyproviders #GovernmentofCanada #Indigenouspeoples #infrastructure #Investment #ResponsibleDataCentreDevelopmentPrinciples #Saskatchewan
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‘The responsibility is real’: Council receives White Goose Flying report update at yearly Indigenous reconciliation-themed meeting
Ten years have passed since the City of Calgary vowed to take more concerted steps toward Truth and…
#Canada #Calgary #CalgaryCityHall #citycouncil #IndianResidentialSchool #Indigenouscommunity #Indigenousgroups #Indigenouspeoples #thecity #TruthandReconciliation
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‘Carbon fever’ threatens hard-won Indigenous rights in Bolivian Amazon
By Ruairí Casey, Lisa Mirella Corti, Maria Cristina Fraddosio and Abby Young-Powell. Photographs by Sara Aliaga TiconaLeaders in Pando region denounce opaque deals over carbon credits as government and companies rush to monetise Amazon rainforest after 2024 ruling
#Bolivia #Conservationandindigenouspeople #Carbonoffsetting #Greenhousegasemissions #Amazonrainforest #Indigenouspeoples #Americas #Environment #Worldnews #Globaldevelopment #Treesandforests #Ethicalandgreenliving #Conservation #TheGuardian #RuairCasey #LisaMirellaCorti #MariaCristinaFraddosio #AbbyYoungPowellPhotographsbySaraAliagaTicona
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‘Carbon fever’ threatens hard-won Indigenous rights in Bolivian Amazon
By Ruairí Casey, Lisa Mirella Corti, Maria Cristina Fraddosio and Abby Young-Powell. Photographs by Sara Aliaga TiconaLeaders in Pando region denounce opaque deals over carbon credits as government and companies rush to monetise Amazon rainforest after 2024 ruling
#Bolivia #Conservationandindigenouspeople #Carbonoffsetting #Greenhousegasemissions #Amazonrainforest #Indigenouspeoples #Americas #Environment #Worldnews #Globaldevelopment #Treesandforests #Ethicalandgreenliving #Conservation #TheGuardian #RuairCasey #LisaMirellaCorti #MariaCristinaFraddosio #AbbyYoungPowellPhotographsbySaraAliagaTicona
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‘Carbon fever’ threatens hard-won Indigenous rights in Bolivian Amazon
By Ruairí Casey, Lisa Mirella Corti, Maria Cristina Fraddosio and Abby Young-Powell. Photographs by Sara Aliaga TiconaLeaders in Pando region denounce opaque deals over carbon credits as government and companies rush to monetise Amazon rainforest after 2024 ruling
#Bolivia #Conservationandindigenouspeople #Carbonoffsetting #Greenhousegasemissions #Amazonrainforest #Indigenouspeoples #Americas #Environment #Worldnews #Globaldevelopment #Treesandforests #Ethicalandgreenliving #Conservation #TheGuardian #RuairCasey #LisaMirellaCorti #MariaCristinaFraddosio #AbbyYoungPowellPhotographsbySaraAliagaTicona
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‘Carbon fever’ threatens hard-won Indigenous rights in Bolivian Amazon
By Ruairí Casey, Lisa Mirella Corti, Maria Cristina Fraddosio and Abby Young-Powell. Photographs by Sara Aliaga TiconaLeaders in Pando region denounce opaque deals over carbon credits as government and companies rush to monetise Amazon rainforest after 2024 ruling
#Bolivia #Conservationandindigenouspeople #Carbonoffsetting #Greenhousegasemissions #Amazonrainforest #Indigenouspeoples #Americas #Environment #Worldnews #Globaldevelopment #Treesandforests #Ethicalandgreenliving #Conservation #TheGuardian #RuairCasey #LisaMirellaCorti #MariaCristinaFraddosio #AbbyYoungPowellPhotographsbySaraAliagaTicona
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TD LAUNCHES $150 BILLION FIVE-YEAR COMMITMENT TO ACCELERATE CANADA’S INVESTMENT SUPERCYCLE
TD will deploy its resources, capabilities and scale to boost key sectors of the Canadian economy, across energy,…
#Canada #EnablingIndigenous #financingactivities #Indigenouspeoples #sectorsoftheeconomy #TDBank #TDBankGroup #TDEconomics
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Denver Post: Mesa Verde National Park to return thousands of Native American artifacts and Indigenous remains to tribes. “Mesa Verde National Park plans to return more than 4,000 sacred Native American objects and the remains of 85 Indigenous people in its possession, marking the largest potential repatriation in the park’s recorded history.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/12/denver-post-mesa-verde-national-park-to-return-thousands-of-native-american-artifacts-and-indigenous-remains-to-tribes/ -
Denver Post: Mesa Verde National Park to return thousands of Native American artifacts and Indigenous remains to tribes. “Mesa Verde National Park plans to return more than 4,000 sacred Native American objects and the remains of 85 Indigenous people in its possession, marking the largest potential repatriation in the park’s recorded history.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/12/denver-post-mesa-verde-national-park-to-return-thousands-of-native-american-artifacts-and-indigenous-remains-to-tribes/ -
Denver Post: Mesa Verde National Park to return thousands of Native American artifacts and Indigenous remains to tribes. “Mesa Verde National Park plans to return more than 4,000 sacred Native American objects and the remains of 85 Indigenous people in its possession, marking the largest potential repatriation in the park’s recorded history.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/12/denver-post-mesa-verde-national-park-to-return-thousands-of-native-american-artifacts-and-indigenous-remains-to-tribes/ -
Denver Post: Mesa Verde National Park to return thousands of Native American artifacts and Indigenous remains to tribes. “Mesa Verde National Park plans to return more than 4,000 sacred Native American objects and the remains of 85 Indigenous people in its possession, marking the largest potential repatriation in the park’s recorded history.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/12/denver-post-mesa-verde-national-park-to-return-thousands-of-native-american-artifacts-and-indigenous-remains-to-tribes/ -
Denver Post: Mesa Verde National Park to return thousands of Native American artifacts and Indigenous remains to tribes. “Mesa Verde National Park plans to return more than 4,000 sacred Native American objects and the remains of 85 Indigenous people in its possession, marking the largest potential repatriation in the park’s recorded history.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/12/denver-post-mesa-verde-national-park-to-return-thousands-of-native-american-artifacts-and-indigenous-remains-to-tribes/ -
Peru: Chapra Nation denounces threats against president and environmental defender
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Peru: Chapra Nation denounces threats against president and environmental defender
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Peru: Chapra Nation denounces threats against president and environmental defender
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Peru: Chapra Nation denounces threats against president and environmental defender
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Peru: Chapra Nation denounces threats against president and environmental defender
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Seven First Nations Australians tell us their worries and hopes for future generations – video
By Reported by Douglas Smith . Shot, edited and produced by Sarah Smaje . Associate editor is Calla Wahlquist . Executive producers are Michael Kalenderian and Molly GlasseyEast Arnhem Land is one of the last strongholds of Aboriginal culture in Australia, home to the Yolngu people who maintain one of the oldest continuous cultures on Earth. The land is fully owned and managed by traditional owners under inalienable Aboriginal freehold title, which means it can never be bought or sold.
#Garmafestival #IndigenousAustralians #Indigenouspeoples #Australianpolitics #Australianews #TheGuardian #ReportedbyDouglasSmithShot #edited #producedbySarahSmajeAssociateeditorisCallaWahlquistExecutiveproducersareMichaelKalenderian #MollyGlassey
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Australia’s trade in human flesh: blackbirding - follow the money...
"Between 1860 and 1906 up to 62,000 Pacific Islanders were shipped to Australia to work primarily in sugar cane and cotton farming.."
"...The Pacific Islanders came, they died, they were buried like dogs and more were sent for.” >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/10/sydney-sugar-industry-slave-trade-pacific-islanders-ntwnfb
#slavery #Blackbirding #SouthSeaIslander #IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #PastoralIndustry #sugar #cotton #plantations #PALM #books -
Unseen Japan: Hokkaido University Apologizes for a Century of Ainu Remains Research. “On July 27, 2026, Hokkaido University issued its first-ever proper apology for a prewar research program. The medical school collected and studied more than 1,000 sets of Ainu remains. The university expressed that the work ‘deeply wounded the dignity of the Ainu people.'”
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Gangs taking villages on Brazil-Peru border ‘hostage’, say Indigenous leaders
By Jonathan WattsDelegation sent to Brasília after gunmen from organised crime group enter homes in western Amazon Forest
#Amazonrainforest #Americas #Indigenouspeoples #Brazil #Peru #Drugstrade #Loggingandlandclearing #Environmentalactivism #Worldnews #Deforestation #TheGuardian #JonathanWatts
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Monoculturalism and Project Invisibility
Silencing dissenting Indigenous voices"Project Invisibility is a sustained campaign to remove First Nations leaders from public boards and other senior government roles."
"We're going back to the [master] days, like you have your head bowed, you're too afraid to put your head up and speak your mind because you might be out the door."
"It means you'll have the same old Eurocentric version of the world in your policies, everything you're doing within government will be white, anglicised."
"They are eradicating, invisibilising us, and destroying our history and culture." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-20/langbroek-remains-silent-over-aboriginal-leadership-changes/106817420
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #IndigenousVoices #TruthTelling #invisibility #culture #monoculture #monoculturalism #SettlerSociety #EuropeanColonisation #governance -
How #Indigenous #FoodSovereignty can improve #FoodSecurity
Sustainable Bites: Food and Our Future What can we do to help make our food systems more sustainable? UBC researchers share small steps that can make a big collective impact.
March 24, 2025
"Indigenous households experience food insecurity at rates two to three times higher than non-Indigenous households in Canada. #Agroecologist Dr. #JenniferGrenz, an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Forestry and Faculty of Land and Food Systems, studies Indigenous food sovereignty and food systems, and how to revitalize them.
Did you know?
#Kwetlal, or #camas, a lily-like plant with a starchy bulb, was an important staple for #IndigenousPeoples along the #SalishSea.
Kwetlal was cultivated in Garry oak #ecosystems by #W̱SÁNEĆ and Quw’utsun Peoples, until #colonization nearly destroyed these unique food systems.What does Indigenous food sovereignty mean?
" 'Indigenous food sovereignty is the reclamation and revitalization of our food systems,' says Dr. Grenz, who is Nlaka’pamux of mixed ancestry, whose family comes from the #Lytton First Nation. She grew up and lives on the coast of BC.
"The lands across #BritishColumbia, Dr. Grenz explains, were purposefully shaped since time immemorial for foods, medicines and technologies by the Indigenous Peoples who lived there until colonial settlers dispossessed them of their lands, culture and traditions.
" 'Indigenous food sovereignty is also about #CulturalResurgence: being able to access those foods and medicines again and find new ones as we face a changing climate,' said Dr. Grenz. 'Heal the people, heal the land. Heal the land, heal the people. I think that’s really what food sovereignty is about.'
"Revitalizing Indigenous food systems can help diversify and localize food systems in ways that could buffer against #FoodInsecurity in a changing climate.
"Dr. Grenz’s research team is working alongside Indigenous communities impacted by the 2021 heat dome and wildfires to understand the effects on culturally important plants.
" 'If you think of land as just vegetation and an aesthetic notion of what belongs, you’re going to have very different approaches and different outcomes to recovery than if you see that land as a food system, not just for humans, but for our animal, bird, fish and insect relations,' says Dr. Grenz. 'We’re working alongside communities to develop those Indigenized processes around wildfire recovery that honour Indigenous food systems, sustainability and resiliency.”'
How can #Settlers support the revitalization of Indigenous food systems?"Learn about the histories of the lands you live on and what the traditional food systems were, what they are now and what they could be, says Dr. Grenz.
"Incorporating reciprocity into your relationship with the land is also important. 'Learn about the plants of those lands and find a way to invite them into your life. How can you take care of them, nurture them and steward them?' asks Dr. Grenz.
"One way might be to Indigenize your own back yard or community garden. Or learn about Indigenous food system protocols and the concept of '#HonourableHarvest.'
How can land-based learning support Indigenous food sovereignty?"Land-based learning is an opportunity to get students and people out on the land—and start taking steps to give back while they are learning.
"At #UBCFarm, Dr. Grenz and students are starting two different Indigenous food systems to work as part of the agrarian food system that exists there — 'essentially bridging two food systems, #decolonizing and #Indigenizing our understandings of what foods are and how those two systems work together to benefit both.'
"In one, they are establishing a Garry oak ecosystem and growing camas, which is a traditional food system of the W̱SÁNEĆ and Quw’utsun Peoples. Another type of #ForestGarden, similar to other Coast #Salish, #Tsimshian or #Haida food systems, will see the forest shaped by different plants like beaked #hazelnut, #elderberry, #salmonberry and #thimbleberry.The students will be able to practice how to care for plants ordinarily thought of as forest plants, and 'learn how to reclaim traditional #LandStewardship practices to actually increase the production of those berries.' "
Source [includes video links]:
https://beyond.ubc.ca/how-indigenous-food-sovereignty-can-improve-food-security/#SolarPunkSunday #FirstNations #Quwutsun #ClimateChange #Resilience #DecolonizeYourDiet #HonorIndigenousFoodSystems #LandBasedLearning #IndigenousFoodSovereignty #IndigenousFoods #BuildingCommunity #CommunityGardens #FoodForests
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Spirituality & Religious Studies @spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com@spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com ·St. Rose of Lima
She was born Isabel Flores de Oliva (April 20, 1586-August 24, 1617). She was a member of the Third Order of St. Dominic in Lima, Peru, Spanish Empire. She was known for her life of severe penance & her care of the poor of the city through her own private efforts.
Rose of Lima was born to a noble family & is the patroness saint of embroidery, gardening, cultivation of blooming flowers, florists, embroiderers, sewing lace, gardeners, people ridiculed or misunderstood for their piety, the resolution of family quarrels, against vanity, & the indigenous peoples of the Americas. She was the 1st person born in the Americas to be canonized as a saint.
As a saint, Rose of Lima has been designated as a co-patroness of the Philippines, along with Pudentiana. Both saints were moved to Second-class patronage in September 1942 by Pope Pius XII. But Rose remains the main patroness of Peru & the local people of Latin America. Her image was formerly featured on the highest denomination banknote of Peru.
Her nickname “Rose” comes from a story in her infancy: a servant claimed to have seen her face change into a rose. In 1597, Isabel was confirmed by the Archbishop of Lima, Toribio de Mogrovejo, who was also declared a saint. She then formally changed her name to Rose (Rosa in Spanish) at that time.
When she was a young girl, she copied Catherine of Siena. She started praying 3x a week & performed severe penances in secret. She was admired for her beauty. She cut off her hair & rubbed peppers on her face, to distract from her beauty. She was upset that men were starting to notice her, & not for her spirituality. She turned away all of her suitors. Her family wasn’t having any of that.
Much to her parents’ chigrin, Rose spent a LOT of time thinking about the Blessed Sacrament, which she received daily. This is rare, & odd, for the time. She wanted to take a vow of virginity. But her parents didn’t want that! Out of frustration, her dad gave her a room to herself at the family home.
In addition to fasting, she permanently abstained from eating meat. She helped the sick & hungry around her community. She would bring them to the room, her dad built, to take care of the sick. To help her family financially, Rose would sell fine needlework she made. She would also take flowers to the market to sell as well.
To help the poor, she would make & sell lace & embroidery. This was in addition to all the prayer & she did penance in a small grotto she’d built. She was otherwise a recluse. She only left her room to go to church.
She attracted the attention of the friars of the Dominican Order. She wanted to become a nun. But her dad wasn’t hearing any of that noise. So instead, she entered the Third Order of St. Dominic, while she was living in her parents’ home.
When she was 20, she started wearing the habit of a tertiary & took a vow of perpetual virginity. A tertiary is a lay member of a religious order’s Third Order, who lives in the secular (worldly) world while they strive for Christian perfection by following the spiritual way of life associated with that particular order. The First Order is the clergy, the Second Order is the religious women in the community (official nuns).
She allowed herself only 2 hours a night of sleep, at most, so she could have more time to devote to prayer. She also wore a heavy metal crown made of silver, that had small spikes on the inside. This was to imitate the Crown of Thorns worn by Jesus.
For 11 years, she lived like this. Throughout this time, there would be periods of ecstasy. She passed away on August 24, 1617, at the age of 31. She had been battling a long illness. It’s said that she prophesied her death date.
Her funeral was held in the cathedral. It was attended by all the public authorities of Lima. August 23 is her feast day. It’s August 30th in the Traditional calendar.
Rose was beatified by Pope Clement IX on May 10, 1667. She was canonized on April 12, 1671 by Pope Clement I. She was the first Catholic in the Americas to be officially declared a saint.
Her shine is inside of the convent of St. Dominic in Lima. The Catholic Church says that many miracles happened after her death: she cured a leper; & at the time of her death, the city of Lima smelled like roses; roses started falling from the sky.
Rose’s skull, surmounted with a crown of roses, is on public display at the Basilica in Lima, Peru.
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#10May1667 #12April1671 #1597 #20April1586 #24August1617 #Americas #ArchbishopOfLima #August23 #August30 #Basilica #Beatified #BlessedSacrament #Canonized #Cathedral #CatherineOfSiena #Convent #CrownOfThorns #CultivationOfBloomingFlowers #DominicanOrder #Embroidery #Embroilerers #fasting #FeastDay #FineNeedlework #Florists #Gardeners #Gardening #IndigenousPeoples #IsabelFloresDeOliva #Lace #LatinAmerica #Leper #Lima #Miracles #Nun #PerpetualVirginity #Peru #Philippines #Piety #PopeClementIX #PopeClementX #PopePiusXII #Pudentiana #Recluse #ReligiousEcstasy #Rosa #Roses #Saint #September1942 #SewingLace #Shrine #Skull #Spanish #SpanishEmpire #StDominic #StRoseOfLima #Tertiary #ThirdOrderOfStDominic #ToribioDeMogrovejo #TraditionalCalender #Vanity #VowOfVirginity
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Mohawk Council of Kahnawake asserts sovereignty
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #Kanienkehaka #Kahnawake #MohawkCouncil #FirstNationsRights #IndigenousSovereignty #IndigenousGovernance #Quebec #Canada #MOU #SelfDetermination #NationToNation #Politics
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Forests, roads and mega fires
"More roads are associated with more fires""A problem arises when forest managers look at forests exclusively “through the lens of timber and dollar signs on trees."
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https://grist.org/wildfires/wildfire-prevention-roads-trump-repeal-roadless-rule-usda-forest-service/Char Miller, "Burn Scars: A Documentary History of Fire Suppression, from Colonial Origins to the Resurgence of Cultural Burning" (Oregon State UP, 2024)
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https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/burn-scars
#LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #roads #bushfires #timber #extractivism #thinning #PrescribedBurns #FireSuppression #megafires #colonialism #CounterNarratives #IndigenousPeoples #CulturalBurning #ecology -
Short-term solutions to #foodsecurity don't address #climate or systemic issues undermining a just #food system. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nwt-mla-food-banks-now-what-1.7536375
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Short-term solutions to #foodsecurity don't address #climate or systemic issues undermining a just #food system. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nwt-mla-food-banks-now-what-1.7536375
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[Short film] Ma ŋaye ka Masaala a se ka Wɔmɛti
(From God To Man)Lansana Mansaray with Ibrahim Sorious Samura, and Samuel Kargbo (#Limba)
"On the day that Lansana Mansaray was born, a tree was planted in his name in his father’s Limba village. Now an Emmy and Peabody nominated filmmaker, Mansaray returns to the same village to better understand the essential relationship that Limbas share with the trees that define every aspect of community life.
"As the smooth highways of Freetown give way to vermillion dirt roads, the car becomes just one means of transport; there’s the scent of chuk chuk plums, a memory of the Matorma sound (a singular rhythm associated with sacred Limba rituals), as well as jokes and poignant moments of connection arising from Mansaray’s diligent efforts to speak Limba. For a 'city Limba man' like Mansaray, returning to his deceased father’s homeland becomes a journey of Indigenous reclamation.
Amidst celebratory, humorous, and quotidian moments of village life, Mansaray interweaves reflections from a community that has endured more than its share of hardship — colonization, a civil war, and growing threats to the forests that the Limbas treasure. As with pouring out a little palm wine for the ancestors, Ma ŋaye ka Masaala a se ka Wɔmɛti is an offering to those who came before and to those who are still here. But as Mansaray playfully lets the viewer know, some things should not be shared with the rest of the world."
https://www.reciprocity.org/films/ma-%C5%8Baye-ka-masaala-a-se-ka-w%C9%94m%C9%9Bti
#SolarPunkSunday #SierraLeone #IndigenousPeoples #Africa #IndigenousPeoplesOfAfrica #DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #LandDefenders #ReciprocityProject #Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers
#IndigenousWisdom #IndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousReclamation #Colonization #Colonialism #Nature #ProtectingNature -
Botanical names and the practices that pre-serve the legacies of empire
"Plant naming is a fractious area of botany, partly because most plants are named after white, western men. Acknowledgement of female and Indigenous plant collectors is often absent from plant names and also from the botanical database records."
"While in Australia, English botanist Joseph Banks (1743-1820) collected 1,400 plants over his seven-week trip. No Aboriginal plant names were recorded. Plants were then returned to Britain and Europe to meet the growing hunger for rare natural collections. These collections became the major European museums and herbaria we know today, such as Kew Gardens in London."
"Subramaniam’s book views colonialism as a genocide, an ecocide and an epistemicide where Indigenous knowledges were mostly lost but also partly appropriated."
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https://theconversation.com/sex-plants-and-colonisation-reclaiming-botany-from-the-tendrils-of-empire-234679Botanists vote to remove racist reference from plants’ scientific names
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/20/botanists-remove-racist-references-plants-scientific-namesRestoring Indigenous names in taxonomy
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7584613/Botany of Empire, Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism, Banu Subramaniam, 2024
https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295752457/botany-of-empire/
#botany #biology #nomenclature #taxonomy #ScientificNames #epistemicide #DB #databases #PlantSciences #Plants #terminology #ecology #conservation #restoration #colonialism #empire #IndigenousPeoples #women #Book #PlantHumanities -
New #book to enjoy #reading & #learning from!
Held by the Land: A Guide to Indigenous Plants for Wellness
By Leigh Joseph.Author Leigh Joseph, an #ethnobotanist, member of the #SquamishNation & founder of #SkwalwenBotanicals, provides a beautifully illustrated essential introduction to #Indigenous #PlantKnowledge.
#Plants can be a great source of #healing as well as #nourishment & the practice of growing & harvesting from trees, flowering herbs & other plants is a powerful way to become more connected to the land.
The #IndigenousPeoples of #NorthAmerica have long traditions of using #NativePlants as #medicine as well as for #food. Held by the Land honors & shares some of these traditions, offering a guide to:
Harvesting herbs & other plants & using them topically.
North American plants that can treat common ailments, add nutrition to your diet, become part of your beauty regime & more.
Stories & traditions about native plants from the author's #Squamish culture.
Using plant knowledge to strengthen your #ConnectionToTheLand you live on.
Early chapters will introduce you to responsible ways to identify & harvest plants in your area & teach you how to grow a deeper connection with the land you live on through plants.In the plant profiles section, common plants are introduced with illustrations & information on their characteristics, range, how to grow & harvest them & how to use them topically & as food.
Special features offer recipes for food & beauty products along with stories & traditions around the plants.
This beautiful, full-color guide to #IndigenousPlants will give you new insights into the power of everyday plants.
https://skwalwen.com/products/held-by-the-land-a-guide-to-indigenous-plants-for-wellness
#Bookstodon #IndigenousAuthors #IndigenousBooks #decolonization #IndigenousPlantEducation #Educational #BritishColumbia #Cascadia #CoastSalish #PacificNorthwest #PNW #NativePlantsEducation #NativeWriters #NativePlantsGuide #FirstNations #NonFiction #NatureBooks #PlantsBook #NatureGuide
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More than 300 #HumanRights activists were killed in 2019, report reveals
#Colombia was the bloodiest nation with 103 murders and the #Philippines was second, followed by #Brazil, #Honduras and #Mexico
by Nina Lakhani, 14 Jan, 2020
"More than 300 human rights defenders working to protect the #environment, #FreeSpeech, #LGBTQ+ rights and #IndigenousLand in 31 countries were killed in 2019, a new report reveals.
"Two-thirds of the total killings took place in #LatinAmerica where impunity from prosecution is the norm.
"Colombia, where targeted violence against community leaders opposing environmentally destructive #megaprojects has spiraled since the 2016 peace accords, was the bloodiest nation with 106 murders in 2019. The Philippines was the second deadliest country with 43 killings, followed by Honduras, Brazil and Mexico.
"2019 was characterized by waves of social uprisings demanding political and economic changes across the globe from Iraq and Lebanon in the Middle East to Hong Kong and India in Asia and Chile in the Americas.
"The report by #FrontLineDefenders (#FLD) details the physical assaults, defamation campaigns, digital security threats, judicial harassment, and gender-based attacks faced by human rights defenders across the world, who were on the frontline of protests against deep seated #inequalities, #corruption and #authoritarianism.
"In the cases for which the data is available, the report found:
• 85% of those killed last year had previously been threatened either individually or as part of the community or group in which they worked.
• 13% of those reported killed were women.
• 40% of those killed worked on land, #IndigenousPeoples and environmental issues."In nearly all countries that experienced mass protests last year, human rights defenders – who mobilized #marches, documented police and military abuses, and helped citizens who were injured or arrested – were specifically targeted.
"For instance, in #Chile, in the biggest anti-government protests since the end of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, at least 23 people were killed and 2,300 injured, with scores blinded by non-lethal projectiles.
"In #Iraq, where #Anticorruption protests during October and November left more than 300 people dead, Saba Al Mahdawi was abducted and held for nearly two weeks by unidentified militants. She was most likely targeted as a result of her work providing food, water and medical aid to injured protesters.
"#Honduras, a key geopolitical US ally, has been one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a woman, lawyer, journalist and land or environmental defender since the 2009 military-backed coup unleashed a wave of unchecked violence. Last year, targeted killings in the Central American country increased fourfold compared to 2018, as tens of thousands of people fled a toxic mix of violence, poverty and corruption, and journeyed overland through Mexico to the US southern border in search of security.
Yet despite difficult and frightening circumstances, human rights activists have continued to spearhead positive social changes."For instance, #Mexican #reproductiverights defenders celebrated the legalisation of abortion in the state of Oaxaca – following in the footsteps of Mexico City 12 years earlier. While in Jordan, lawmakers withdrew the cybercrime bill, which proposed restrictions to the freedom of speech and the right to privacy, after a high-profile campaign by civil society groups.
"Andrew Anderson, executive director of FLD, said: 'In 2019, we saw human rights defenders on the frontlines defending and advancing rights in Hong Kong, Chile, Iraq, Algeria, Zimbabwe, Spain and many other cities and towns around the world. And despite repression, they continue to advance visions of their societies and the world that put to shame not only their own governments and leaders, but also the international community.'"
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/jan/14/300-human-rights-activists-killed-2019-report
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