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  1. ‘This is colonialism for clicks’: the influencers attempting to meet and film the world’s most isolated tribes
    By Elle Hunt

    A new breed of adventurer is chasing internet fame by targeting uncontacted peoples. Critics say they are risking the wellbeing of these remote communities – and their own lives

    theguardian.com/world/2026/sep

    #Indigenouspeoples #Worldnews #YouTube #TikTok #Instagram #Socialmedia #Digitalmedia #Lifeandstyle #Adventuretravel #Travel #Exploration #Youngpeople #Society #TheGuardian #ElleHunt

  2. ‘This is colonialism for clicks’: the influencers attempting to meet and film the world’s most isolated tribes
    By Elle Hunt

    A new breed of adventurer is chasing internet fame by targeting uncontacted peoples. Critics say they are risking the wellbeing of these remote communities – and their own lives

    theguardian.com/world/2026/sep

    #Indigenouspeoples #Worldnews #YouTube #TikTok #Instagram #Socialmedia #Digitalmedia #Lifeandstyle #Adventuretravel #Travel #Exploration #Youngpeople #Society #TheGuardian #ElleHunt

  3. ‘This is colonialism for clicks’: the influencers attempting to meet and film the world’s most isolated tribes
    By Elle Hunt

    A new breed of adventurer is chasing internet fame by targeting uncontacted peoples. Critics say they are risking the wellbeing of these remote communities – and their own lives

    theguardian.com/world/2026/sep

    #Indigenouspeoples #Worldnews #YouTube #TikTok #Instagram #Socialmedia #Digitalmedia #Lifeandstyle #Adventuretravel #Travel #Exploration #Youngpeople #Society #TheGuardian #ElleHunt

  4. 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:
    urbannext.net/significant-impa

    #SettlerColonialism #SurveillanceState #USPol #CulturalGenocide
    #NoBorderWall #TrumpsBorderWall
    #ProtectTheSacred #EnvironmentalProtectionAct
    #RespectTheTreaties #AbolishICE #DefundDHS #MurderPatrol #BorderPatrol #IndigenousSacredSites
    #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity

  5. #Indigenous at the #UnitedNations Expose #AIDatacenters and Racially-Biased #Misinformation

    By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, July 14, 2026

    GENEVA -- "The mediocre, middle-of-the-road approach to #AI at the United Nations was countered by testimony today from #IndigenousPeoples pointing out that #ArtificialIntelligence is not a solution, and is doing great harm to Indigenous with derogatory misinformation and massive #datacenters that are poisoning the #land, #water and #air.

    "#JaimieWilliams, #MiamiNation in #Indiana, speaking on behalf of the Society of Native Nations, at the U.N. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, responded to the A.I. summary presented this morning. Williams said the summary does not reflect the true impact of artificial intelligence, particularly in the way the technology is powered.

    " 'AI data centers are rapidly being constructed on the land of Indigenous Peoples without free, prior and #InformedConsent from us.'

    " 'My people came out of the water, the #SaintJosephRiver in the southeast of #LakeMichigan, along that river there are several data centers,' she said, pointing out that Indigenous across #TurtleIsland share similar stories.

    " 'These sacred waterways and lands are being used for A.I. data centers.'

    " 'I was once convinced artificial intelligence could help my tribe build our language and culture, but AI is not a sustainable solution.'

    " 'There is currently no available technology available to power A.I. without poisoning the water, drying up the rivers and causing further contamination in the territories of Indigenous Peoples, who are already disproportionately affected.' "

    Read more:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/07

    #BigData #BigDataSucks #CorporateColonialism #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #AirIsLife #ProtectTheSacred #USPol

  6. CBC: How a virtual museum is preserving Igloolik culture from the 1960s and 70s. “From games for children to hunting equipment for men, a new interactive virtual museum is bringing Igloolik culture right to your phone with one click. ‘Inuit Worlds: From Past to Present’ is an online museum that features more than 50 objects collected by the late anthropologist Bernard Saladin d’Anglure in […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/07/cbc-how-a-virtual-museum-is-preserving-igloolik-culture-from-the-1960s-and-70s/
  7. Are 'ordinary mums and dads' making 'bad apples' ?
    Caught up in tight-knit webs of hate

    “There was a range of grievances on display about perceived immigration rates on Sunday, but it was clear for many that the return to an imagined white Australia was a central theme...It’s not that white supremacy, which was present clearly yesterday, is something that the neo-Nazis in some evil, secretive fashion introduced into the political mainstream. It is something that has always been present in parts of the mainstream." >>
    theguardian.com/australia-news

    "The March for Australia’s racism can’t just be blamed on far-right ‘extremists’ - it has been enabled by the mainstream." >>
    theguardian.com/commentisfree/
    #HateCrime #violence #FarRight #HyperNormalisation #BatWieldingGangs #Nazism #IndigenousPeoples #dehumanisation #Australia #mainstream #ImaginedCommunity #decline #ressentiment #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #EnablingSystems #SettlerSociety #grievances #WhiteEntitlement #RottenAppleTheory

  8. "Indigenous leaders have called for Sunday's attack on Aboriginal protest site Camp Sovereignty to be investigated as a hate crime."

    "Counterterrorism police will help investigate the attack, according to the Victorian government. About 40 men dressed in black, some armed with flagpoles and sticks and led by known Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell, violently attacked Camp Sovereignty following Sunday's anti-immigration March for Australia rally. "
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2025-09-02/iat
    #HateCrime #violence #FarRight #HyperNormalisation #BatWieldingGangs #Nazism #Weimar #IndigenousPeoples #dehumanisation #Australia #decline #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #SettlerSociety #grievances #WhiteEntitlement #ressentiment

  9. Bat-wielding gangs and a sense of decline

    "Camp Sovereignty organisers said four people were injured in the incident, which they said was unprovoked. The Victorian government has condemned an attack on a First Nations protest camp in Melbourne by far-right demonstrators following an anti-immigration rally.They came armed with poles to attack a group of predominantly women at a peace camp,"
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2025-09-01/cam

    "A group of men, including some members of neo-Nazi group the National Socialist Network, attacked the standing First Nations protest site, Camp Sovereignty, in Melbourne’s Kings Domain on Sunday evening, Four people required medical attention and two were taken to hospital with severe head injuries, one with a deep gash to their head, the camp said...They alleged the men yelled slogans such as “white power” and “white man’s land”, as well as sexist and racist slurs."
    >>
    theguardian.com/australia-news

    "Schlagertruppen" (bat-wielding gangs)
    or "fighting troops". Examples include right-wing Freikorps and later, Sturmabteilung (SA), which engaged in political violence and were instrumental in the rise of Nazism.
    #HateCrime #violence #FarRight #HyperNormalisation #Nazism #Weimar #IndigenousPeoples #dehumanisation #Australia #decline #WhiteSupremacy #Ethnonationalism #SettlerSociety #grievances #WhiteEntitlement

  10. One era ends (#FirstVoicesRadio), and another begins...

    Launching Live '#RadioFreeSimnasho' in #WarmSprings

    By #Brenda Norrell, #CensoredNews, July 3, 2025

    "The local team at Radio Free #Simnasho in Warm Springs will be working on a play list and schedule this month.

    "SIMNASHO, #WarmSpringsIndianNation -- Radio Free Simnasho launched today, bringing grassroots voices online, and honoring the #AmericanIndianMovement.

    "Welcoming listeners, Quiltman and Govinda shared the sounds of John Trudell this morning. They'll be working on the solar panels to power the grassroots radio station."

    Source:
    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/06

    Live Now!
    radiofreesimnasho.ismyradio.co (Click on Play)

    #IndigenousPeoples #HumanRights #IndigenousVoices #IndependentRadio

  11. 🆕 In a collaborative museology initiative, the #InDigit project team, coordinated by Rodrigo Lacerda and Elisabete Pereira, organised a workshop at the National Museum of Ethnology with Kanawayuri Marcello Kamaiurá and Auakamu Kamayurá, from the #Kamayurá indigenous people (Alto Xingu, Brazil).

    👉 The full story is here: ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/indigit-rec

    @histodons
    @museum

    #Histodons #Museums #ColonialCollections #IndigenousPeoples #EthnographyMuseums #CulturalHeritage #CollaborativeMuseology

  12. Electric vehicles, rare earth mining and consent

    "The increasing global demand for rare earth elements (REE) is driven by clean energy technologies. The electric vehicle in particular, is a strong driving force. The un-ceded sovereign lands of hundreds of First Nations – now colonised and called Australia – hold at least four per cent of the world’s rare earth element reserves."

    "There are no strategies in Australia’s critical minerals landscape to support First Nations negotiations. The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP) requires that free, prior and informed consent is a minimum standard to be applied in all negotiations, including those with First Nations regarding rare earths exploitation."

    "Rare earth mining will devastate and change the land forever."
    >>
    johnmenadue.com/rare-earths-a-
    #EV #cars #ElectricVehicles #GlobalSupplyChains #energy #mining #water #IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #rights #consent #REE #extractivism #ResourceFrontiers

  13. Blog: #IndigenousPeoples are the custodians and protectors of our earth

    09 August 2024

    By Akil Crichlow, et al.

    "Over 3.3 billion people are highly vulnerable to climate change, with socioeconomic factors like gender, class, race, clanship, and ethnicity exacerbating this, particularly for women, children in low-income households, and #IndigenousPeoples.

    "Therefore, it is critical that an all-of-society approach is strengthened so that we mitigate and adapt to the impacts of a changing climate, recover lost #biodiversity and degraded land, and deploy an #ecosystem-based adaptation model."

    [...]

    "Across the Atlantic, to #Tanzania in #EastAfrica, pastoralists are another of the Commonwealth’s Indigenous peoples. They include the #Barabaig and the #Maasai, as well as #huntergatherers like the #Hadzabe, #Akiye and #Sandawe.

    "These groups lead diverse livelihoods but share a profound connection to the land. However, they face significant challenges regarding land tenure security. Despite the challenges, hope is not lost."

    Full article:
    thecommonwealth.org/news/blog-

    #IndigenousAfricans #Guyana #Africa #IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousPeoplesDay #SaveTheForest #IndigenousKnowledge #EnvironmentalCustodians #EarthProtectors #SolarPunkSunday #ProtectingNature