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¿Y si la lengua también fuera territorio?

🎧 La lingüista, escritora y activista mixe.Yásnaya Aguilar habla de lenguas, poder, territorio y resistencia en este podcast. Una conversación para escuchar, cuestionar y mirar el mundo desde otros lugares.

▶️ https://rwm.macba.cat/es/podcasts/sonia-442-yasnaya-aguilar/

#podcast #IndigenousRights #escritura #linguistica #indigena

5 family dynasties signed half the treaties acquiring indigenous lands in Turtle Island, for the United State of America.
The counter revolution of 1776 was not about high ideals but a means for the few white landowners to continue making profit off of African bodies and stolen indigenous lands, according to these scholars of black and indigenous history.

https://penandmachete.substack.com/p/250-years-of-counterrevolution-new?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e75j0
#settlercolonialism
#antislavery
#usconstitution
#indigenousrights
#landback
#reparations

5 family dynasties signed half the treaties acquiring indigenous lands in Turtle Island, for the United State of America.
The counter revolution of 1776 was not about high ideals but a means for the few white landowners to continue making profit off of African bodies and stolen indigenous lands, according to these scholars of black and indigenous history.

https://penandmachete.substack.com/p/250-years-of-counterrevolution-new?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e75j0
#settlercolonialism
#antislavery
#usconstitution
#indigenousrights
#landback
#reparations

Nuevas #escenaseliminadas :heart_fire: Entre recuerdos de racismo cotidiano, silencios del mapudungún y sueños en lengua recuperada, Francisco Huichaqueo+la investigadora y activista mapuche Catalina Alvarado-Cañuta hilvanan relatos sobre restos humanos y “prendas de memoria” mapuches retenidas en museos europeos+norteamericanos, procesos de restitución+pequeños gestos de desobediencia institucional

https://rwm.macba.cat/es/podcasts/sonia-458-francisco-huichaqueo-escenas-eliminadas/

#pueblosindigenas #IndigenousRights #restitution #Art #podcast #mapuche

‘They take the water, the springs dry up’: fear as Guatemalan goldmine plan is revived https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/sep/01/guatemala-mining-gold-water-cyanide-fear-environment-pollution #Guatemala #Indigenous #GoldMine #WaterIsLife #UNDRIP #IndigenousRights #colonialism

Reconciliation or recolonization? What Canada can learn by looking abroad
#IndigenousPeoples #Reconciliation
#IndigenousRights #Recolonization #Canada #Politics #Colonialism #NewZealand #Māori #Argentina #Mapuche #FirstNations #IndigenousSovereignty #LandRights
https://the-14.com/reconciliation-or-recolonization-what-canada-can-learn-by-looking-abroad/

Philippines: Revised Guidelines Threaten Indigenous Rights https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/08/04/philippines-revised-guidelines-threaten-indigenous-rights #Phillipines #IndigenousRights #UNDRIP #FPIC

Fleeing by boat: Why the Namaygoosisagagun First Nation wildfire tragedy was so predictable
#Namaygoosisagagun #Indigenous #FirstNations #Ontario #Canada #Wildfire #Wildfires #IndigenousRights #Politics #Environment #EmergencyManagement #DisasterResponse
https://the-14.com/fleeing-by-boat-why-the-namaygoosisagagun-first-nation-wildfire-tragedy-was-so-predictable/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@TheBreach/116619760766314715

This needs to be reviewed by nsicop, and there needs to be a thorough analysis of stakes held by offshore & shell company investors as well.
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#mining #CriticalMinerals #canada #pentagon #minerals #security #mineria #military #environment #canadian #technology #ree #rareearths #natsec #followthemoney #ambiente #NativeLands #environnement #environmentalimpact #minerauxcritique #PMMC #investment #FastTracking #duediligence #indigenousrights

We all knew this could happen!!!

#Uranium Ore Truck Collision Endangered #Navajos near #Shonto on #NavajoNation

May 11, 2026, via @bsnorrell.blogspot.com

"A uranium ore haul truck traveling from a uranium mine in the Havasupai's homeland in the Grand Canyon, to a mill site in the White Mesa Ute's community in Utah, was struck by a vehicle, which exposes the danger from the #radioactive haul trucks covered only with tarps. The trucks travel from #EnergyFuels #PinyonPlain #UraniumMine in the #GrandCanyon, from #Havasupai ancestral land, through #Flagstaff, and across #Navajo and #Hopi lands before reaching Energy Fuels mill site on Ute ancestral land in #Utah." -- Censored News

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/05/uranium-ore-truck-collision-endangered.html

#USPol #NativeAmericanNews #PinyonPlainUraniumMine #NoUraniumMining #UraniumMilling #NuclearColonialism #TheLongFight #WhiteMesa #Ute #WhiteMesaUte #UraniumMilling #ProtectWhiteMesa #BlandingUtah #BluffUtah #EnvironmentalActivism
#PinyonPlain #IndigenousRights
#NoUranium #ProtectTheSacred
#WhiteMesaUte #WhiteMesaMill #WhiteMesaUraniumMill
#WaterIsLife #DontNukeTheFuture
#NoUraniumMining #NukingTheUte
#UteNation #NoNukes #FourCornersToFukushima #MotherEarth #ProtectMotherEarth
#DefendTheSacred #Environment
#EnvironmentalRacism

Canadian, US First Nations defend caribou habitat from Trump's Arctic oil plans
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #Yukon #Canada #Alaska #Trump #Gwichin #Caribou #Arctic #Wildlife #Colonialism #ClimateChange #IndigenousRights #FoodSecurity #OilAndGas
https://the-14.com/canadian-us-first-nations-defend-caribou-habitat-from-trumps-arctic-oil-plans/

In Canada, the histories of residential school survivors are being challenged by a surge of denialism. Dismantling Denialism confronts those attempts to rewrite history — and explores what it will take to defend truth and reconciliation.

APTN Investigates: Dismantling Denialism | By Christopher Read

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Pv8-99Sp4&list=WL&index=1&pp=gAQBiAQB

#APTNInvestigates #APTN #ShortDocs #HotDocs #CDNpoli #KKKanada #Colonialism #Documentary #DocFilm #Racism #Indigenous #ResidentialSchool #TruthBeforeReconcilliation #ColonialAbuses #ColonialCrimes #Injustices #ChildAbuse #IndigenousGenocide #NativeCanada #TruthAndJustice #Whitewashing #CrimesAgainstHumanity #IndigenousRights #HumanRights #Denialism #SystematicAbuse #SystemicRacism #EthnicCleansing #DecolonizeYourMind #Decolonization #BelieveVictims #SupportVictims

@thenarwhal
I pull this #meme out often, regarding the government's partnership with ecocidal corporations to exploit more unceded Indigenous lands. It's how #Canada really puts the #RECON in #reconciliation.

#BCpol #CDNpoli #CSIS #Colonialism #Capitalism #WhitewashingThieves #GreenwashingThugs #BanCorporateLobbyists #StopCorporateWelfare #Ecocide #EcoJustice #IndigenousRights #UNDRIP #Landback #NativeLand #Unceded #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #Corruption #Bribery #DirtyDeals #BackroomBribes #PublicTransparency #PublicAccountability #PublicScrutiny #CrimesAgainstHumanity #RCMP #CIRG #FederalDomesticTerrorists #Inhumane #RemoveQualifiedImmunity #neoliberals #ColonizersLieCheatSteal #ColonialCriminals #StopTheWhitewash #KKKanada

Tim Thielmann is the Victoria-Beacon Hill Conservative bigot who paid lots of money for Indigenous residential school & genocide by Government of Canada disinformation ads on YouTube. He is claiming the genocide is fake.
Please report the harmful, racist ads, if/when you see them.

#YYJpoli #BCpoli #CDNpoli #ResidentialSchools #IndigenousRights #TruthBeforeReconcilliation #HumanRights #MapleMAGA #Racism #VictoriaBC

'#OnondagaLake in New York State: Seventeenth Century Origins of a Superfund Site' - an article in the #EnvironmentAndSociety Collection of The Rachel Carson Center and The White Horse Press on #ScienceOpen:

📑🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=65d6c9df-bfcb-4495-923e-a90ff95a5a95

#EnvironmentalHistory #Haudenosaunee #IndigenousRights #DecolonizeHistory #SacredLand

About 597 First Nations people have died in police 'custody' since the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. If these deaths were the result of terrorism the entire country would be hyperventilating. Instead, we have... crickets. #Australia #racism #FirstNations #Blak #IndigenousRights #deathsincustody https://www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/justice-for-kumanjayi-white?source=bluesky-share-button&share=ca6d6f97-eaca-4391-a664-47cc0e83ec9b

For decades, media painted Native people as silent, mystical, or violent — rarely human. These myths erased cultures & justified colonization. Still fighting for visibility. #BannedHistory #DecolonizeMedia #IndigenousRights #NativeRepresentation #ErasedVoices

*The #Saugeen #FirstPeoples won their lawsuit 👏 Appeals court dismissed #Ontario government's appeal. Justice was finally served.*

Ontario's top court has upheld a lower court's ruling that a strip of #SaubleBeach, a popular Ontario tourist spot, has always belonged to a local #FirstNation.

In a 121-page decision on Monday, the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed appeals brought by the Municipality of South #BrucePeninsula, the Ontario government, and several local families to the April 2023 ruling by Superior Court Justice Susan Vella.

"Justice was done today," said Saugeen First Nation Chief Conrad Ritchie in a statement, calling it a "powerful moment" for the Saugeen community.

In her 2023 decision, Vella ruled that "Chi-Cmiinh," a roughly two-kilometre strip of beach at the northern end of Saugeen Reserve No. 29, had always belonged to Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation, and that the federal government breached its treaty rights.

The Crown, Vella wrote, failed to protect and preserve the #treaty it signed in 1854, Treaty 72, in which the First Nation and neighbouring #Chippewas of Nawash surrendered Saugeen Peninsula, excluding five #Indigenous reserve territories. One would become #ReserveNo29.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7405601

#GoodNews #CDNpoli #ONpoli #FirstNationsJustice #JusticeServed #NativeCanada #IndigenousCanada #IndigenousRights #HumanRights #GovernmentOfCanada #HonourTheTreaties #FirstNations #Legal #CanadianLaw #TruthBeforeReconciliation #OntarioLaw #lawsuit #UNDRIP

A Vancouver Island First Nation whose people were the first to greet European explorers in the region almost 250 years ago is taking British Columbia to court, seeking title to their traditional territories and financial compensation.

Chief Mike Maquinna, a descendent of #ChiefMaquinna who met British explorer Capt. James Cook in 1776, says the claim in #BCSupremeCourt seeks to return decision-making, resource and ecological stewardship to the #Mowachaht / #Muchalalaht First Nation.

He says the province has been acting as the sole decision-making authority in the #GoldRiver / #Tahsis areas of northern #VancouverIsland especially with regards to the forest resource, without the consent of his nation.

Hereditary Chief Jerry Jack says the claim filed today seeks title to about 66,000 hectares of land from #FriendlyCove to Tahsis in the north and #ButtleLake in the east, and an undisclosed amount of financial compensation.

https://cheknews.ca/vancouver-island-first-nation-whose-ex-chief-met-capt-cook-files-claim-against-b-c-1228788/

#BCpoli #CDNpoli #IndigenousBC #BCFirstNations #NativeCanada #BCNDP #IndigenousCanada #IndigenousRights #HumanRights #GovernmentOfCanada #NoConsent #Landback #FirstNations #TruthBeforeReconciliation #Reparations #Decolonization #Colonialism #IndigenousJustice #UNDRIP #Legal #BCLaw #CanadianLaw #Lawsuit #Justice

Recommended decolonial educational resource.

The #TreatyMap.
#IndigenousPerspectives on #Treaties in #Canada

Covering every #Canadian #treaty from 1763 to the present, The Treaty #Map aims to challenge the commonly held view of treaties as land surrenders and offers a #comprehensive, #interactive #learning and #teaching tool, grounded in #Indigenous perspectives of #treaties.

https://treatymap.yellowheadinstitute.org/

#Decolonization #ReadAndLearn #Education #FirstNations #IndigenousCanada #NativeCanada #BrokenTreaties #Colonialism #IndianTrust #IndigenousRights #TruthBeforeReconciliation #NativeRights #FirstPeoples #NativeMastodon #HonourTheTreaties #DecolonizeYourMind #CanadianHistory #KKKanada #Landback #BIPOC

#RecommendedReading for #Decolonial #Education. #Free #OpenAccess report.

About Murder by Decree

Murder by Decree is an #uncensored #record of the planned #extermination of #IndigenousChildren in #Canada’s murderous Indian #ResidentialSchools. It is issued as a corrective #CounterReport to the miscarriage of #justice by Church and State known as the “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” #TRC. Based on eyewitness #testimonies and #archival #documentation deliberately suppressed or ignored by the TRC, Murder by Decree proves that the #genocide of #IndigenousPeople began as a religion-led campaign and continues to be a deliberate governmental policy in Canada. This Counter Report reveals these startling facts: – Over half of Indian residential school children began dying the very first year these church-run facilities were opened – This huge mortality rate continued unabated for over a half century because of deliberate practices of germ warfare according to a prescribed monthly “death quota” – Evidence of these crimes and their intentional nature has been continually destroyed by the RCMP and the #Catholic, #Anglican and #UnitedChurch since at least 1960 – The same genocide continues today, is aimed at indigenous women and children, and is driven by foreign corporate interests hungry for #NativeLands and resources Murder by Decree is issued by The International Tribunal for the Disappeared of Canada (ITDC), an international #coalition of #jurists and #HumanRights groups. The ITDC was formed in December, 2015 to investigate the disappearance of people in Canada, prosecute those responsible and prevent a further #whitewash by Canada of its #CrimesAgainstHumanity. This report is an answer to these #crimes and an urgent summons to the world and to all #Canadians to live no longer under #genocidal #regimes.

Published by the #ITDC Central Offices in #Brussels and #Toronto. For more information write to [email protected] .

http://murderbydecree.com/

#CDNpoli #IndigenousRights #ColonialViolence #CoverUp #KKKanada #FirstNations #NativeCanada #IndigenousCanada #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #NativeRights #UNDRIP #Injustices #ColonialCrimes #TruthBeforeReconciliation

From my now deleted Tiktok.
Memories of our camp #LandBack crew of #Indigenous & #POC women & #TwoSpirit comrades. #Activist family 💗

#PacheedahtTerritory #PortRenfrew #Environmentalists #IndigenousRights #VancouverIsland #SaveOldGrowth #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #PacificNorthwest #EcoJustice #VanIsle #Activism #WaterProtectors #ForestProtectors #StopClearcuts #WorthMoreStanding #Cascadia #ColonialResistance #Decolonize #VanIsle #PNW #RainbowNation #TurtleIsland #NativeResistance #Comrades

#IndigenousWomen from #Brazil: Calls for Action to Protect #Biodiversity, #IndigenousRights and #Climate

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, Oct. 24, 2024

'We are the Guardians of the Planet'

CALI, #Colombia -- "Indigenous women leaders from Brazil defending their rivers, forests and people, spoke with courage and the fire of their ancestors at the United Nations Biodiversity Convention.

"'We sing because when we sing together, we don't feel that we are alone,' said Deputy Célia Xakriabá, Federal Deputy in Brazilian Congress, and co-founder of the National Articulation of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestrality.

"'All of our lands, all of our rivers are being murdered,' Xakriaba said during the press conference today of Women's Earth and Climate Action Network.

"Now in Brazil they are trying to make it legal to #mine our lands, and #deforest our lands, but it is not legal, she said. All of this is making Indigenous women sick, and we need to protect Indigenous women. Seventy percent of our women have given up having children. This is why women must be protected.

"Now, we are trying to protect all of nature, because nature has rights. 'When we kill our women, we are also killing the Earth.'"

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/live-now-brazils-indigenous-women-at.html

#COP16 #Brasil #ClimateChange #Indigenous #UNBiodiversity #DefendNature #BiodiversityNecessityDefense #MotherNature #DefendMotherEarth #NoMiningWithoutConsent #CorporateColonialism #ProtectTheForests #WomensEarthAndClimateActionNetwork

Violence and Repression: #Indigenous from #Russia, #Algeria and #Nicaragua Appeal to the #UnitedNations

#CulturalSurvival: "#LatinAmerica is one of the most dangerous regions to be an #IndigenousRights and #environmental defender. Three out of four assassinations of environmental defenders take place in Latin America. Indigenous defenders face a double threat: defending rights and being Indigenous."

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews
July 17, 2024

GENEVA -- "The #coal and #GoldMining in Russia has driven #IndigenousPeoples from their homes and poisoned their rivers. In Nicaragua, the assassinations and imprisonment of #LandDefenders has fractured families and communities, presenters told the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

"In Algeria, the people have barely survived 3,000 years of violent #colonization and #genocide.
'Other people should not undergo what we have experienced – which is the case now in #Palestine,' said the representative from the Algeria Association, Learned Society of scientific research, religious and mystical bodies. Describing the genocide in Algeria, he said France has thousands of bones and craniums of the people in French museums.

"An Indigenous woman from #Khakassia Republic in Siberia described the coal and gold mining: 'Coal is mined, despite mass protests, the government used land, private property for this, and citizens were driven out of their homes.' Now, she said, the conditions are no longer good for livestock breeding, which is their way of life.

"'The government is only interested in the presence of natural resources -- but we are a resource ourselves,' she told the #UnitedNations.

"'Our language is disappearing, and we only have one school in the republic where the language is taught. We are #Khakas but we do not govern #Khakassia.'

"'Nothing has been done to protect our land. The main priority is the mining for materials.'

"'I also note the #Shors are suffering from gold mining, they have territory for traditional nature management created by the Republic of Khakassia, traditionally they are fishers and hunters and so on.'

"'However, companies are #polluting rivers, and this water should be used for vital needs. This water flows through villages, however it is polluted, but companies do not put an end to their activities."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/07/violence-and-repression-indigenous-from.html

#WaterIsLife #Indigenous #FirstPeoples #NativeRights
#HumanRights #Deforestation #GreedKills #StopEcocide
#StopIndigenousGenocide
#Environmental #ClimateCrisis
#StopKillingForests #IndigenousLand #NativeLand #EcoJustice #InformedConsent
#FirstNations #Colonialism
#CorporateColonialism
#Mining #CulturalGenocide
#IndigenousSovereignty
#LandBack #WaterIsLife
#Canada #LandDefenders
#sovereignty

Friend & fellow #environmental & #IndigenousRights #activist Logan Staats performing the #Mohawk #Haudenosaunee water song in #Langford - a year ago on one of his visits to #VancouverIsland.

Grandma Losa is standing beside him. #BCGreens MLA, Adam Olsen, is watching a few steps away. We went to support him at a #LangfordGreens event.

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/t5fhKTZduXs?si=UB8DwkIFtfudvf-X

via @arizonamirror

If #Hobbs is serious about protecting #groundwater, she must work to close the #mining loophole

by Russ McSpadden
February 12, 2024

"In her first State of the State address just over a year ago, Gov. #KatieHobbs was unequivocal about her commitment to tackling one of the state’s greatest challenges: our dwindling #water supply.

“Our groundwater should be used to support #Arizonans, not foreign business interests,” she said in that speech, referring to the Saudi Arabian conglomerate #Fondomonte. Over the past few years, Fondomonte has been pumping unlimited amounts of groundwater in La Paz County for alfalfa crops that it ships to feed cows on the other side of the earth.

"Though the Hobbs administration has already canceled one of Fondomonte’s four leases and says it won’t renew the others when they’re up this month, the problem doesn’t end with Saudi agriculture.

"It’s also mining companies that take advantage of loopholes in the state’s water laws to maximize profit at the expense of Arizonans — including mining giants #RioTinto and# BHP.

"Because of intense pressure from #lobbyists, when lawmakers adopted the much-heralded #ArizonaGroundwaterManagementAct in 1980 they exempted #mines from groundwater regulation, even when located in #ActiveManagement Areas — state-designated areas where groundwater pumping is controlled. That means that mines can pump unlimited amounts of water without paying the state a dime.

"This exemption was controversial in 1980. Today it’s existentially dangerous.

#ResolutionCopper, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto and BHP, is a perfect example. Their proposed mine at #OakFlat — about 70 miles east of #Phoenix in the #TontoNationalForest and within the Phoenix Active Management Area — would pump 250 billion gallons of desert groundwater over the life of the project.

"That’s 17 million gallons of water every day for four decades.

"Under current water prices, that equates to $404 million worth of groundwater that Resolution Copper will get for free. Arizona won’t see a cent for it. And it’s more than likely that the copper ore from Oak Flat will be exported to China for smelting, again depriving local communities of economic benefit.

"This limitless pumping would happen even as the #megadrought that has plagued the #AmericanSouthwest for the past two decades is likely to worsen, straining the #ColoradoRiver and #Gila rivers even more and making us all more reliant on groundwater aquifers.

"If left intact, the mining loophole will facilitate construction of Resolution’s massive mine. The extreme water pumping from the #EastSaltRiverValley will lead to groundwater depletion and subsidence, threatening to deplete wells and damage infrastructure.

"The #CenterForBiologicalDiversity, where I work, has been fighting for decades to stop this mine, and Canadian mining company Hudbay’s disastrous plan to mine for copper in the #SantaRita Mountains south of #Tucson (in the Tucson Active Management Area).

"Both projects would devastate surrounding fragile #ecosystems, pushing endangered species like the #MexicanSpottedOwl closer to the brink of #extinction. They would also destroy sacred #TribalLands and gulp down massive amounts of water when other users are being asked to conserve.

"Handing mines unlimited access to Arizona’s precious desert groundwater would be an injustice to Arizona’s #Tribes and every resident of this state.

"Fortunately, Hobbs has the vision and courage to fight for a secure water future for Arizona. It is time for her to work with legislators to close the mining loophole in Arizona water law and subject mines to the same groundwater pumping limits that apply to other entities within the state’s Active Management Areas.

"We’re hopeful she will work to block #ResolutionCopperMine and other terrible mining projects like #Hudbay’s. At the very least, it’s time for mining giants to pay for the water they use just like the rest of us."

https://azmirror.com/2024/02/12/if-hobbs-is-serious-about-protecting-groundwater-she-must-work-to-close-the-mining-loophole/

#WaterIsLife #HumanRightsViolations #CulturalGenocide #CopperMining #Mining #CorporateColonialism #EnvironmentalRacism #IndigenousNews #SaveOakFlat #IndigenousRights #Apache

GLOBAL INDIGENOUS 2023: The Year in Review

Highlights of news from around the world on #Indigenous Issues in 2023

by Deusdedit Ruhangariyo
Dec 27, 2023

Highs and lows: The year brought a wave of highs and lows for #IndigenousPeople around the globe on issues of land, #HumanRights, climate and the #environment, education, #CriminalJustice and health.

Recent victories

In #Brazil, a majority of the country's Supreme Court delivered an historic decision in September, rejecting an attempt to curtail the rights of Native peoples concerning protected reservations on their ancestral lands, Voice of America reported. The 9-2 ruling marks a significant triumph for Indigenous activists and advocates for #ClimateAction, VOA reported.

In #Ecuador, after more than 80 years of displacement because of war, the #Siekopai nation, an Indigenous community in the Ecuadorian #Amazon, secured legal victory in a court battle to reclaim ownership of their ancestral homelands. An Ecuadorian appeals court, in a ruling shared with CNN by the nonprofit organization Amazon Frontline, upheld the Siekopai nation's claim to #Pë’këya, a #biodiverse region situated in northeast Ecuador near the Peruvian border. The Siekopai people were originally displaced during the 1940s #PeruEcuadorWar.

In #Malaysia, #IndigenousActivists achieved two significant wins against timber giant #Samling in their longstanding efforts to protect #forests and territories in #Sarawak.

And in Canada, language revitalization got a boost with a decision by the University of Northern #BritishColumbia, which is now offering a groundbreaking bachelor’s degree in #Nisgaa language fluency. The program starts in September 2024.

Ongoing struggles

It has not all been cozy this year with the world’s Indigenous peoples, however. Native people continue to struggle with a host of issues that surface in communities around the globe.

Land rights and displacement

In #Ethiopia, the designation of #BaleMountains National Park as a UNESCO World Heritage Site could lead to the eviction of more than 20,000 people from farming communities on what were once homelands for the #Oromo people.

In Canada, federal prosecutors filed charges against numerous Indigenous fishers, setting up a court fight over constitutional and treaty rights for #FirstNations people that could end up in Canada’s highest court. The move comes just three years after the initiation of a self-regulated lobster fishery by a First Nation in #NovaScotia.

Health issues

A surge in #HIV infections among Indigenous people in #Manitoba, Canada, is being blamed on “systemic anti-Indigenous racism” in the health care system. In #Saskatchewan, another Canadian province, however, disparities prompted the #Ahtahkakoop #Cree Nation to work on building its own 24-hour urgent care center to offer options to residents.

In #Australia, meanwhile, the life expectancy of Indigenous people has increased by about nine years in the last 20 years but still falls short of the wider population. According to the Australian government department of health, Aboriginal communities experience higher rates of chronic diseases and lower life expectancies due to limited access to healthcare services and disparities in health outcomes.

Education

In #Canada, many Indigenous children living in remote reserves lack access to quality education facilities, resulting in lower graduation rates and limited prospects for higher education.

In #China, authorities banned a book on the early #MongolianPeople, invoking "historical nihilism" to suppress divergent historical perspectives.

But there were gains in Australia, where the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria and the nonprofit Yalari organization launched a three-year partnership to help support educational opportunities for Indigenous children from regional and remote communities.

Climate change and the environment

A coalition of countries agreed to a five-year plan to disburse $1.7 billion to support the land rights of Indigenous and local communities, but those funds are largely bypassing the very communities they are designed to help. The funding expenditures were detailed in a report released at the United Nations’ recent climate conference, known as COP28, held in Dubai.

#Protests emerged throughout the world over various mining projects, which largely targeted Indigenous lands with work that threatened vast environmental damage. In #Panama, for example, mass protests erupted against a government deal with Central America's largest #CopperMine over concerns about sovereignty, environmental damage, and the impact on the #PanamaCanal. And in #Brazil, more than four years after the rupture of a tailings dam in #BrumadinhoValley, #Brazil, the Indigenous #Pataxó and Pataxó Hã-hã-hãe people still suffer from the lack of secure land, water, and food.

And in the #Arctic region, The Christian Science Monior reported how tough it is for Indigenous guardians to preserve their culture in a warming world, highlighting the fact that the harsh realities of #ClimateChange are affecting most Indigenous people around the world.

Human rights

#HumanRights violations continue to be problems throughout the world.

In Japan, more than 150 activists, lawmakers and advocates urged leaders to investigate the Chinese government’s human rights abuses against the #Uyghurs in #Xinjiang.

The #Kenyan government has begun widespread destruction of homes and property of Indigenous #Ogiek people living in #MauForest, despite a 2017 legal victor acknowledging ancestral land rights.

Western Australia’s parliament, however, issued an historic apology and agreed to reimburse #Aboriginal and #TorresStraitIslander workers who were exploited between 1936 and 1972 under a system that some leaders compared to “slavery.”

Language, culture preservation

Australia, which once boasted more than 300 Indigenous languages, is now facing one of the planet’s most severe rates of language decline. Fewer than 30 Indigenous languages remain as primary tongues today.

In New Zealand, efforts to revitalize the Māori language and culture is an ongoing struggle, as colonization led to a decline in the use of the Māori language and traditional practices.

Access to justice

The arrest of five environmental activists battling #WaterPollution and #mining in #ElSalvador are believed to have been politically motivated, sparking global condemnation amid controversial court proceedings.

The same issues emerged in Norway, where activists protesting against a [GIANT] #WindFarm that they say obstructs the rights of the #Sami people to raise #reindeer in central and Arctic #Norway were removed from the entrances to two government offices by Norwegian police.

In #NewZealand, a study found that incarcerated Māori people are nearly twice as likely to face housing instability when released from prison as non-#Māori prisoners. The study calls for officials to provide stable housing for individuals re-entering society.

Source:
https://ictnews.org/news/global-indigenous-2023-the-year-in-review
#IndigenousRights #IndigenousActivists #ClimateJustice #IndianCountryToday #ProtectTheForests #LandBack #CriminalizingDissent #WaterIsLife

A Secretive Network Is Fighting #IndigenousRights in #Australia and #Canada, Expert Says

It’s all part of a global playbook from the U.S.-based #AtlasNetwork to protect the profits of #FossilFuel and #mining companies, argues a Sydney researcher.

By Geoff Dembicki
Oct 10, 2023

"A campaign to deny #IndigenousPeoples a voice in Australia’s national Parliament is using tactics similar to an earlier conservative legal battle against #FirstNations communities in Canada, a new research paper argues. 

"That’s no coincidence, according to the paper’s author Jeremy Walker, because think tanks linked to these efforts in Canada and Australia belong to a secretive U.S. organization called the Atlas Network that’s received support from #oil, #gas and #coal companies and operates in nearly 100 countries. 

"'The coordinated opposition to Indigenous constitutional recognition by the Australian arm of the Atlas Network we can assume is motivated by the same intentions underlying the permanent Atlas campaign against climate policy [globally],' writes Walker, a senior lecturer in social and political sciences at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. 
'That is, to minimise the possibility of democratic government challenging the ever-expanding frontier of fossil fuel extraction,' he argues, a charge one conservative Australian advocacy group strongly denies. 

"On #October14, Australians will vote 'yes' or 'no' in a referendum that would amend the country’s constitution to create a permanent First Nations advisory body in the country’s Parliament. 

"'Most Australians understand that generations of Australian government policy have failed First Nations peoples,' UNSW Sydney professor Megan Davis, who is a Cobble Cobble woman of the Barunggam Nation, told the Guardian earlier this year. 'The voice referendum is an opportunity for all of us Australians to make the difference.'

"Earlier this spring national support for the 'yes' position was over 60 percent but by September it had collapsed to 40 percent or less, polling cited by Walker suggests.
Walker attributes that largely to the efforts of a #conservative advocacy group called #Advance, which has led an extensive media campaign urging people to vote 'No' in the referendum. 'The ‘Indigenous Voice to Parliament’ will wreck our Constitution, rewire our democracy, and divide Australians by race. It’s divisive, it’s dangerous, it’s expensive and it’s not fair,' reads a website created by Advance.  
The campaign’s main spokespeople are Indigenous – Warren Mundine and Australian Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price – and they have been interviewed frequently in the country’s mainstream media. Yet few Australians are aware of Mundine and Price’s connections to the wider Atlas Network, Walker argues.  

"Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is another ‘No’ campaigner with Atlas ties.
Both 'No' campaigners are long-time contributors to the Centre for Independent Studies, Walker’s paper explains, a conservative think tank founded in 1976 with grants from resource extraction companies such as #Shell, #RioTinto and #WesternMiningCorporation. 
The Center for Independent Studies is in turn a member of the Atlas Network, a Virginia-based organization whose members include hundreds of conservative think tanks and organizations across the world, many of whom are active spreaders of doubt about the severity of climate change.  
One of the Center for Independent Studies’ first board members, Maurice Newman, was revealed as an early backer of the organization Advance in 2018, which is now leading efforts against the Indigenous referendum. And Advance’s lead 'No' campaigner Mundine is chairman of LibertyWorks, a conservative group also associated with the Atlas Network.

"Despite these connections, Advance strongly disputes any association with Atlas. 
'We have never heard of the Atlas Network and absolutely reject the incorrect assertion we have any connection to them at all,' a spokesperson for Advance wrote in an email to DeSmog. 'The idea that our referendum campaign is being conducted or coordinated by ‘fossil-fuel corporations and their allies’ or the Atlas Network is wrong and frankly bizarre.'

"In addition to Australia and dozens of other countries, several Atlas Network members are based in Canada. And they too have led efforts attempting to undermine greater recognition of Indigenous legal rights. An Ottawa-based think tank and Atlas member called the MacDonald Laurier Institute spent years advocating against Canada’s federal government adopting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, otherwise known as #UNDRIP.

"That’s because UNDRIP contained clauses that could potentially give Canada’s Indigenous peoples greater say over fossil fuel and natural resource projects on their territories. 'It is difficult to overstate the legal and economic disruptions that may have followed from such a step,' read documents produced by the Atlas Network and the Macdonald Laurier Institute that were obtained by DeSmog. 

"The think tank has actively cultivated #ProIndustry Indigenous representatives as the face of its advocacy efforts on this and other natural resources issues in order to provide 'a shield against opponents that is hard to undermine,' according to the documents. First Nations critics refer to such strategies as '#redwashing.'

"'It’s a way of [industry] making their claims about their relationship with Indigenous peoples sound better than they actually are in reality,' Kris Statnyk, a #Gwichin First Nation lawyer based in British Columbia, told Drilled this summer.

"Walker sees a parallel between those tactics, and the current effort in Australia to prevent First Nations from having greater representation in that country’s Parliament. The 'No' campaign led by the group Advance prominently features Indigenous Australians arguing against the referendum, despite polling commissioned by advocates suggesting that 80 percent or more of First Nations people in the country support the initiative. 
Like in Canada, some Australian fossil fuel and mining projects are located in or adjacent to the traditional territories of First Nations.

"Several Indigenous communities have led legal challenges against gas and coal expansion. 'Should an Indigenous Voice be constitutionalised in Parliament, First Nations representatives might raise objections to such fossil and mining projects,' Walker writes.
He argues that this is what’s at stake in the upcoming referendum vote.   

"'The effort to deny Aboriginal Australians a voice is part of a global playbook from Atlas and its allies,' Walker told DeSmog. 'They’ve also used it in Canada and likely anywhere else that greater Indigenous rights could impact fossil fuel and mining profits.'"

https://www.desmog.com/2023/10/10/a-secretive-network-is-fighting-indigenous-rights-in-australia-and-canada-expert-says/

#VoteYes #Yes23 #VoteYesAustralia

@ViolaB @HistoPol This #KKKanada government is shit. Same as our #BCgovernment who sends #RCMP #CIRG #CorporateMercenaries to #ResistanceCamps to assault/arrest us on unceded lands. While claiming to respect #IndigenousRights - I've been trying to fight alongside #NativeLandDefenders for over 30 yrs here. We've been in & out of courts for decades.

@ViolaB @HistoPol This #KKKanada government is shit. Same as our #BCgovernment who sends #RCMP #CIRG #CorporateMercenaries to #ResistanceCamps to assault/arrest us on unceded lands. While claiming to respect #IndigenousRights - I've been trying to fight alongside #NativeLandDefenders for over 30 yrs here. We've been in & out of courts for decades.

@ViolaB @HistoPol This #KKKanada government is shit. Same as our #BCgovernment who sends #RCMP #CIRG #CorporateMercenaries to #ResistanceCamps to assault/arrest us on unceded lands. While claiming to respect #IndigenousRights - I've been trying to fight alongside #NativeLandDefenders for over 30 yrs here. We've been in & out of courts for decades.

@ViolaB @HistoPol This #KKKanada government is shit. Same as our #BCgovernment who sends #RCMP #CIRG #CorporateMercenaries to #ResistanceCamps to assault/arrest us on unceded lands. While claiming to respect #IndigenousRights - I've been trying to fight alongside #NativeLandDefenders for over 30 yrs here. We've been in & out of courts for decades.

Global News BC: λugʷaləs becomes first baby in B.C. to have his Indigenous name on birth certificate https://globalnews.ca/news/9587949/indigenous-name-bc-birth-certificate/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #IndigenousChildren #BirthCertificate #indigenousrights #Indigenousnames #VancouverIsland #VitalStatistics #Perspectives #BcRegistrar #BabyNames #Kwak’wala #Canada

#LithiumAmericas Receives Favorable Ruling on Record of Decision for #ThackerPass

"The Federal Court rejected arguments that the Project will cause unnecessary and undue degradation to the local sage grouse population and habitat, groundwater aquifers and air quality; that the BLM [Bureau of Land Management] failed to adequately assess the Project’s impacts on air quality, wildlife and groundwater; that the BLM failed to adequately consider the Project’s impacts to culturally or religiously significant areas; and that BLM acted unreasonably or in bad faith in identifying tribes for consultation before approving the Project."
#NativeAmericans #Indigenous #IndigenousRights #LandBack #EnvironmentalRacism

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/lithium-americas-receives-favorable-ruling-113000989.html

Lithium Americas meets with Fort McDermitt Paiute Shoshone

They are beginning to destroy the land. The legality of this is questionable, but they are doing it anyway. And BLM (Bureau of Land Management) is allowing them to do it.

by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Feb 9 2023

"While some Fort McDermitt #Paiute and #Shoshone are meeting with #LithiumAmericas, promising benefits today -- #Winnemucca elderly and disabled are living at Motel 6. Grandmothers evicted with their grandchildren said they have been evicted from their homes to make way for #lithium mine housing."

#NativeAmericans #Indigenous #IndigenousRights #LandBack #EnvironmentalRacism

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/02/now-lithium-americas-meeting-with-fort.html#more

Eyewitness Story: The Last Village by Dr Setia Budhi

A lone Dayak village in Borneo surrounded by palm oil plantations has held out for 14 years and resisted
corporate infiltration by global palm oil giants. My name is Dr Setia Budhi, I am a Dayak ethnographer and human rights advocate. I visited this village recently to see how they were going.

Pictured: The Barito River, the largest river in South Kalimantan Borneo by Aditya Perdana, Getty Images

“#Dayaks DO NOT want their lands turned to #palmoil. 1. They depend on rainforests for food/weaving. 2. They don’t want their roaming area disturbed 3. They don’t want to lose their land.” Dr Setia Budhi #Boycottpalmoil 🤬🌴🚫 https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/11/02/eyewitness-story-by-dr-setia-budhi-the-last-village/ @palmoildetect.bsky.social

“In #Indonesia and #Malaysia’s media, people can’t distinguish #fact from #fiction. A positive narrative about #Dayaks and #palmoil is #greenwashing. This is NOT the lived reality for #Dayak people” @Setiabudhi18 #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🩸🧐⛔️ @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2022/11/02/eyewitness-story-by-dr-setia-budhi-the-last-village/

Recently, I stayed a Ngaju Dayak village for 15 days

During my visit I wrote a lot, chatted with villagers and visited palm oil farmers.

This remote village is 125 km from downtown Banjarmasin. It’s a distance of about two hours by motorbike to arrive in a neighboring village and from then there, three hours by boat.

Located on the banks of the Barito river, the people who live here are the Ngaju Dayak.

Pictured: Dayak long house in Kalimantan, PxFuel.

The first time I visited this village was 14 years ago in 2008

Since then, I’ve always followed its development by reading the news. Especially interesting is the development that the villagers have refused the presence of palm oil plantations. They have refused to give up their lands to global corporate palm oil companies.

Fourteen years ago, I thought that this village would eventually be besieged by the expansion of oil palm plantations. My suspicions were based on what happened in neighbouring villages. They had given up and accepted the omnipresence of palm oil. Many residents sold their land to the plantations.

In these other towns, some residents work with palm oil companies in a cooperative way. Their land is planted with palm oil and they, as owners, work for the company for wages. Their activities include land-clearing, planting palm oil, along with fertilising and liming the soil.

So these people work on their own land. At that time, their daily wages are around 50,000 rupiahs ($3.30 USD) per day.

There are three reasons why the villagers do not want their ancestral lands to become a palm oil plantation:

1. They depend on the rainforest and peatlands for natural resources such as fisheries, agriculture and rattan weaving.

2. They don’t want their roaming area to be disturbed.

3. They don’t want to lose their land.

By roaming area‟ you probably think of a suburban area near you. For Dayaks, their roaming area is vastly different.

Clockwise: The Barito River: The largest river in South Kalimantan Borneo by Aditya Perdana Getty Images; Wooden Dayak village – Long Iram on the riverbank Mahakam river East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Getty Images; Nature in Annah Rais Sarawak, Malaysia by Nyiragongo Getty Images; Barito River -The largest river in South Kalimantan, Indonesia by Aditya Perdana Getty Images; Borneo’s spectacular rivers and rainforests; Getty Images; A group of beautiful Dayak Fruit Bats Dyacopterus spadiceus perched inside a hut at the Way Kambas National Park in Sumatra via Getty Images Signature collection.

The Dayak people need a roaming area for hunting, fishing and foraging for herbs, building materials and medicines

The palm oil industry is an unstoppable global corporate juggernaut that has become increasingly greedy for land in the past ten years.

When you hear about even a tiny piece of land that is about to be sold, global palm oil companies immediately and aggressively go after the land as buyers. They bargain and negotiate, driving the price down that they pay for the land – so the traditional landowners do not get paid what the land is really worth.

Pictured: Plasma Poverty, a joint investigation by Gecko Project and the BBC into major supermarket brands like Mondelez and Nestle (RSPO members) who are stripping smallholder farmers of their share of profit for palm oil.

To read the news in Indonesia and Malaysia is to read brazen lies and greenwashing about palm oil

Reading news about palm oil is an astonishing experience that will fill you with confusion and incredulity. Your newsfeed will be brimming with stories about the greatness of oil palm and the welfare of farmers.

Palm oil is considered “good” in a neoliberal sense of the financial and economic growth that it brings here as a country. Also palm oil is considered “good” as an environmentally-friendly and healthy ingredient for all to buy and consume.

There is a flood of greenwashing news across all media channels: TV, online media, and social media channels celebrating the virtues of this enormously destructive ingredient. This false narrative emphasises palm oil as a method of “care for the environment‟.

For this reason, nowadays I choose to distance myself from social media, as this content is dishonest about what palm oil is in reality.

Fake news and greenwashing example: Dayak indigenous palm oil smallholders

“Many of us grow rice, fruits and vegetables on our indigenous lands for survival and depend on the cash sales from oil palm fruits to buy what we cannot grow. Our oil palm trees empower us as indigenous peoples.”

‘Discrimination against palm oil is an injustice against indigenous people’, Borneo Today, 2018.

The reality of palm oil is vastly different for Dayak peoples

Reports carried out by news media in Borneo simulate the facts about the real events and the detrimental impact of palm oil on Dayak communities.

We as the audience must remain constantly vigilant and aware that this is bad news.

“An assistant manager came to my home. On that day my oldest son had fever. He said to my husband, “Your five hectares of land here is gone and two hectares here is gone. Go to the company and get your money.” My husband told them he doesn’t want to sell. Months later, while I was at my mother’s new house [in the plantation] and my husband was away in Malaysia, we heard a loud noise and could see smoke. I went to see, and it was crazy. My house was already burned. Everything was in there, my son’s bicycle, clothes, and all the wood we planned to build a house, all was gone.”

~ Francesca, a 28-year-old Iban Dayak mother of two, told Human Rights Watch about how she and her husband refused relocation. She said that company representatives torched her home, rendering them homeless. Story via Human Rights Watch

Pictured: Rainforest on fire, Getty Images

The difficulty of addressing and resolving oil palm conflicts is due not only to the inadequacies of Indonesia’s legal framework regarding land and plantations but also to the way in which Indonesia’s informalized state institutions foster collusion between local power holders and palm oil companies. This collusion enables companies to evade regulation, suppress community protests and avoid engaging in constructive efforts to resolve conflicts. Furthermore, this collusion has made the available conflict resolution mechanisms largely ineffective.

Anti-Corporate Activism and Collusion: The Contentious Politics of Palm Oil Expansion in Indonesia, (2022). Ward Berenschot, et. al., Geoforum, Volume 131, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.03.002

With the palm oil narrative in Indonesia – many people can no longer distinguish the real from the fake, the fact from the simulation

The media presents a seemingly diverse chorus of voices that all seem to be singing from the same songbook – all of them praising palm oil.

Interviews with field officers, researchers, seminar recordings, podcasts, PR and advertising campaigns are backed financially by the palm oil industry to glaze over and greenwash the immense environmental and social impact of palm oil.

Instead we are presented with a positive narrative about palm oil that offers improved living conditions for farmers. This is not the lived reality for Dayak people. We are told that palm oil is a lucrative crop that benefits the farmers. This is not the lived reality for Dayak people.

The greenwashing of palm oil deforestation intensifies as time goes on

News articles and reports talk about how this country is preparing to deal with climate change, so as not to damage forests and also to save forests from deforestation.

The news about child labour, child slavery and women working on oil palm plantations in horrific conditions gets little attention in media.

News about customary Dayak lands that are seized for palm oil illegally or by force is online only momentarily and quickly disappears. These violations human rights are rendered invisible by the media in here.

In our news hungry and busy world, most people don’t read beyond the headlines. The messy, corrupt and invisible world of massive land-clearing for palm oil goes on without the world knowing about it through the media. In the meantime, tropical rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia are silently disappearing.

The current era of fake news was predicted by Jean Baudrillard several decades ago

When we can no longer distinguish the truth, the facts and the real from a news. This is Hyperreality.

“The real has died and been replaced by Simulation”

~ Jean Baudrillard.

This is what Jean Baudrillard called the era of Simulacra, Simulation, and Hyperreality. When the news plays with symbols, and the public who consume or read the news only see and know about the simulation, we are existing in Hyperreality, in a Simulacra.

People who consume the news only know the simulation/ hyperreality in a Simulacra – Jean Baudrillard

A Simulacra is a combination of values, facts, signs, images and codes. In this reality we no longer find references or representations except the simulacra itself.

Image, originally tweeted by lookcaitlin (@lookcaitlin) on September 17, 2022.

Greenwashing and denialism in the media about the environmental impact of palm oil

A recent report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) found that the palm oil industry used the same aggressive tactics for greenwashing akin to the tobacco and alcohol industries. Read more

https://vimeo.com/735353691

https://vimeo.com/737272288

Research studies of SE Asian media reporting on palm oil show a denialist and greenwashing narrative that is similar to climate change denialism i.e. climate change greenwashing.

“We found that media reporting of the denialist narrative is more prevalent than that of the peer-reviewed science consensus-view that palm oil plantations on tropical peat could cause excessive greenhouse gas emissions and enhance the risk of fires.
“Our article alerts to the continuation of unsustainable practices as justified by the media to the public, and that the prevalence of these denialist narratives constitute a significant obstacle in resolving pressing issues such as transboundary haze, biodiversity loss, and land-use change related greenhouse gas emissions in Southeast Asia.”

~ Liu, Felicia & Ganesan, Vignaa & Smith, Thomas. (2020). Contrasting communications of sustainability science in the media coverage of palm oil agriculture on tropical peatlands in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Environmental Science & Policy. 114. 162-169. 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.07.004.

Impact of the media Simulacrum on Dayak people

Media coverage about the “goodness of palm oil” has a deep psychological impact on Dayak communities. In the news, this is where the simulation or simulacra begins to occur.

Some people cannot sort and distinguish the truth of the news content from the actual facts. Meanwhile, the village that I visited is still holding on to their traditional way of life – not to palm oil. This is the Last Village.

Dayak people in the neighbouring village tell them how they have lost their fishing resources. That now, because of the palm oil run-off and pollution there are no more fish to catch. Their roaming area has become too narrow.

They say: “Oh you are right! Keep on resisting the palm oil siege! For we are now labourers toiling for little money on our ancestral land.”

Dr Setia Budhi, Barito River, 25, July 2022

Further reading

Liu, Felicia & Ganesan, Vignaa & Smith, Thomas. (2020). Contrasting communications of sustainability science in the media coverage of palm oil agriculture on tropical peatlands in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Environmental Science & Policy. 114. 162-169. 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.07.004.

Manzo, Kate & Padfield, Rory. (2016). Palm oil not polar bears: Climate change and development in Malaysian media. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 41. 10.1111/tran.12129.

Morris J. Simulacra in the Age of Social Media: Baudrillard as the Prophet of Fake
News. Journal of Communication Inquiry. 2021;45(4):319-336. doi:10.1177/0196859920977154

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (1998). Under the Shadows of the Queen of Diamonds: The Process of Marginalization in Isolated Communities. Indonesian Torch Foundation, Jakarta.

“The Forest is the father, land is the mother and rivers are blood

“That’s the spirituality of most Dayak people in Kalimantan. They understand the interdependent nature of everything in nature.”

~ Dr Setia Budhi : Dayak Ethnographer

Pictured: Untouched rainforest, Sumatra. Craig Jones Wildlife Photography

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