#onondaga — Public Fediverse posts
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Hype for the Future 251E: Onondaga County, New York
Overview Onondaga County is a notable county in Central New York home to the Greater Syracuse area in the State with major infrastructure located throughout the area of the county. Major highways include Interstates 81, 481 (Veterans Memorial Highway), 90 (New York State Thruway), and 690 and Routes 11, 20, 5, 31, 41, 92, 481 (Veterans Memorial Highway), and 690. Beyond the City of Syracuse, the county is also home to the Villages of Solvay, East Syracuse, Camillus, Baldwinsville, North […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/07/09/hype-for-the-future-251e-onondaga-county-new-york/
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#Onondaga Nation just secured 1K acres in a historic #landback win, but they need our support to protect it! Their volunteer fire department is raising $230k to get the equipment they need to keep these lands safe.
Want to help? Join us 11/20 in NYC. https://givebutter.com/ONVFD-benefit
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#USA : #Landgrab / #breachofcontract / #colonialism / #history / #nativeamerican / #justice / #LegalProceedings
„The #Onondaga have asked an international commission to find that the United States violated a treaty guaranteeing the nation 2.5 million acres of land.“
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Grateful to be attending the Religious Origins of White Supremacy conference this weekend at Syracuse University. #syracuse #onondaga #ReligiousTrauma #racism #WhiteChristianNationalism #humanism #growth
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How to #decolonize your #Thanksgiving dinner in observance of #NationalDayofMourning
Meredith Clark
Wed, November 22, 2023"Thanksgiving is almost upon us, a time when many #Americans gather together to eat turkey and talk about what they’re most thankful for. Growing up in the #UnitedStates, almost everyone can recall the 'First Thanksgiving' story they were told in elementary school: how the local #Wampanoag #NativeAmericans sat down with the #pilgrims of #Plymouth Colony in 1621, in what is now present-day #Massachusetts, for a celebratory feast.
"However, this story is far from the truth - which is why many people opt out of celebrating the controversial holiday.
"For many #Indigenous communities throughout the US, Thanksgiving remains a National Day of Mourning - a reminder of the devastating #genocide and #displacement that occurred at the hands of European #colonisers following their arrival in the Americas.
"Every year since 1970, #IndigenousPeople and their allies have even gathered near #PlymouthRock to commemorate a National #DayOfMourning on the day of Thanksgiving. 'Thanksgiving Day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands, and the erasure of Native cultures,' states the official website for the United American Indians of New England. 'Participants in National Day of Mourning honour Indigenous #ancestors and Native resilience. It is a day of #remembrance and #spiritual connection, as well as a #protest against the #racism and #oppression that Indigenous people continue to experience #worldwide.'
"This year, the 54th annual National Day of Mourning takes place on 23 November - the same day as Thanksgiving. While not everyone can support the event in person, there are still many ways people can raise awareness toward issues affecting Indigenous communities from wherever they are - by '#decolonising' their Thanksgiving dinner.
"#Decolonisation can be defined as the active resistance against #settlerColonialism and a shifting of power towards Indigenous sovereignty. Of course, it’s difficult to define decolonisation without putting it into practice, writes Eve Tuck and K Wayne Yang in their essay, #Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor. Rather, one of the most radical and necessary moves toward decolonisation requires imagining and enacting a future for Indigenous peoples - a future based on terms of their own making.
"Matt Hooley is an assistant professor in the department of Native American and Indigenous Studies at Dartmouth College, where he teaches about US colonial powers and Indigenous cultural production. 'Decolonisation is a beautiful and difficult political horizon that should guide our actions everyday, including during holidays like Thanksgiving,' he tells The Independent. 'Of course, Thanksgiving is a particularly relevant holiday to think about decolonisation because the way many people celebrate it involves connecting ‘the family’ to a colonial myth in which colonialism is inaccurately imagined as a peaceful event in the past.'
"By decolonising our Thanksgiving, we can celebrate the holiday with new traditions that honour a future in which Indigenous people are celebrated. This year, we can start by understanding the real history behind Thanksgiving as told by actual Indigenous communities.
"While Americans mainly dedicate one day a year to give thanks, Indigenous communities express gratitude every day with the #Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address - often called: 'The words that come before all else.' The Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address is the central prayer and invocation for the #HaudenosauneeConfederacy, which comprises the #SixNations - #Mohawk, #Oneida, #Onondaga, #Cayuga, #Seneca, and #Tuscarora. When one recites the Thanksgiving Address, they’re giving thanks for all life and the natural world around them.
"According to Hooley, one of the most straightforward actions people can take to decolonise their Thanksgiving includes supporting Indigenous land acknowledgments and land back movements. #LandBack is an ongoing Indigenous-led movement which seeks to return ancestral lands to Indigenous people and the recognition of Indigenous #sovereignty. While the movement is nowhere near new, it received international attention in 2016 during protests against the #DakotaAccesSPipeline - which continues to disrupt land and #water sources belonging to the #StandingRockSioux Tribe.
"This year, sit down with family and friends to discuss an action plan and highlight the concrete steps you plan on taking to support Indigenous communities. 'Another, even simpler way would be to begin participating in what’s called a ‘Voluntary Land Tax,’ whereby non-Indigenous people contribute a recurring tax to the tribal communities whose land you occupy,' said Hooley.
"Food is perhaps the most important part of the Thanksgiving holiday, with turkey, stuffing, and mashed potatoes taking center stage. However, there are many ways we can make sure our dinner tables honour Indigenous futurisms too. Donald A Grinde, Jr is a professor emeritus in the department of Africana and American Studies at the University at Buffalo. Grinde - who is a member of the #YamasseeNation - tells The Independent that crops such as #corn, #beans, #squash, #tomatoes, and #potatoes are central to #IndigenousHistory and future.
"'A good thing is to be thankful for the abundance in the fall and note that Native people created over 60 percent of modern #agricultural #crops,' he said. 'People can be thankful for the crops that Native people created, #medicines created, and traditions about #democracy, #WomensRights and #environmental rights.'
"Rather than buying food from major corporations this year, Hooly also recommended people consciously source their Thanksgiving dinner from Indigenous producers. 'Industrial agriculture is one of the most devastating contributors to the destruction of land and water everywhere, including on Indigenous land,' he said. 'Instead of buying food grown or made by colonial corporations, people could buy their food from Indigenous producers, or even simply make a greater effort to buy locally grown food or not to buy meat harvested from industrial farms.'
"Thanksgiving is just a day away. While it’s important that we’re actively working toward highlighting Indigenous communities on this special holiday, decolonisation efforts are something that should be done year-round.
"'People can also learn about political priorities of the Indigenous communities near them and support those priorities by speaking to their representatives, participating in a protest, or by making sure that their local school and library boards are including Indigenous texts in local community education,' Hooley said."
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/decolonize-thanksgiving-dinner-observance-national-213225020.html
#Decolonization #CorporateColonialism #LandTheft #CulturalGenocide #CulturalPreservation
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Lacrosse is a colonial version of a Native American game of different names (depending on the tribe). The French condemned it as too violent and too embedded in the indigenous religions they sought to eradicate.
Fun fact: the Ojibwas once staged a match, invited British troops, then secretly invaded their fort at their backs.
More on its history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lacrosse#Indigenous #NativeAmerican #Lacrosse #Colonization #History #Onondaga #Ojibwa
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Explore the origins of anarchism and the rise of anti-Trans legislation in the US on Episode 3 of A Radical Podcast.
https://www.radical-guide.com/a-radical-podcast-ep-3-anarchism-origins-trans-rights/#Anarchism #LGBTQRights #AntiTransBills #FloridaLegislation #RadicalPodcast #History #SocialJustice #PoliticalMovements #QueerCommunity #Haudenosaunee #Mohawk, #Oneida, #Onondaga, #Cayuga, #Seneca, #tuscarora #aradicalguide
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If you haven't already read Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, today is a good day to request it from the library or buy your own copy. Read the Words that Come Before All Else. Or read it on this site https://danceforallpeople.com/haudenosaunee-thanksgiving-address/, where the slide by slide set-up gives us the chance to pause and reflect, one thought at a time. These words are meant to be shared and a number of versions are out there. #EarthDay #EarthDayEveryDay #Onondaga #Haudenosaunee #GiveThanks #MotherEarth
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Happy #Thanksgiving, US folks.
Don't forget to acknowledge the land you're standing on, and the people here before we came stomping in.
This is a day of thanks an reflection, and I will keep the #Onondaga nation and the #Haudenosaunee alliance in mind today, whose ancestral lands are where I call home.
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Off campus parties late last week linked to 13 new #covid19 cases at #Syracuse #University. The overall number of #coronavirus cases is now 25
Students are asked to shelter in place and not attend classes if they atended the gatherings
Total #virus cases in #Onondaga County is 4,593 with 182 deaths
