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  1. #Biocultural families: Study centers #Indigenous priorities in connections to #environment

    by Seth Truscott, August 11, 2026

    "Washington State University horticulturist #JeffreyWall partnered with members of the #Mikmaq #FirstNations people of #Canada to create a new, #IndigenousCentered model of the connections that link humans with plants, animals and the environment.

    "Wall interviewed over a dozen traditional knowledge keepers in Unama'ki, the #CapeBreton Island homeland of the Eskasoni Mi'kmaq. He asked tribal elders and allies to describe #BioculturalConnectivity — the relationship between human cultures and local #ecosystems — as they see it. The findings were published in Environmental Science & Policy.

    " 'I wanted to show the connective forces that the Mi'kmaq prioritize,' Wall said. 'The goal was to be in tune with their deep #CulturalHeritage, traditions and the #indigenization of the future that they want to promote.'

    "With more than 66,000 registered members, the Mi'kmaq are a resilient people native to the U.S. Northeast and Canada's Atlantic provinces who are revitalizing their language and growing their landholdings. Wall's work can guide future mapping and inform the institute's land acquisition strategy.

    "The project reflects the concept of #TwoEyedSeeing — understanding the world from both #Indigenous and #Western approaches — introduced by Mi'kmaq elders Albert and Murdena Marshall.

    " 'There is a growing understanding that environmental conditions can improve if we bring more Indigenous ways of knowing and being into the conversation,' said Lisa Young, executive director of the Unama'ki Institute of Natural Resources. 'Maintaining a #reciprocal relationship with the land is in itself a way to protect and preserve it.' "

    Read more:
    phys.org/news/2026-08-biocultu

    #SolarPunkSunday #EnvironmentalAwareness #EnvironmentalStewardship #TraditionalKnowledge #Technology #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge

  2. #GreenColonialism, Rights of Women and Languages: Priorities of #Indigenous in Reports for #UnitedNations

    by #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews
    April 27, 2024

    NEW YORK -- "#FakeGreen projects, the removal of children from their homes, loss of languages, rise of hate speech, and war were among the top concerns cited in the reports by the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues as it closed its ten-day session on April 26, 2024.

    "The rights of women, the need to protect endangered languages and redress for victims of boarding and residential schools were also priorities in the Permanent Forum's reports prepared for the U.N. Economic and Social Council.

    "Some of their concerns:

    - #Inuit: Children Removed, Women Victims of Doctors

    - Green Colonialism: Immediate Moratorium

    - Loss of languages

    - Rights of Women

    The following are topics, "prepared by Censored News, from the draft documents prepared by the Permanent Forum for the U.N. Economic and Social Council." For full text of the draft documents, visit the link below.

    - Increasing Violence and #HateSpeech Toward #IndigenousPeoples

    - Free, Prior and Informed Consent

    - War and Displacement

    - #CrimeanTartar in Ukraine

    - Central and #SouthAmerica and #Caribbean: Hate Speech

    - #Australia: Harsh Incarceration and Suicides of Youths

    - #NewZealand: Harsh Measures Against #Maori

    - #US and #Canada #Line5

    - Rights of #RapaNui People and #Kanuk

    - #Honduras and #Indonesia

    - #WestPapua

    - #Bolivia

    - #Pacific: Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls

    - #Sami

    - #Africa

    - #BoardingSchools and #ResidentialSchools

    - The Protection of Indigenous #Women and #Girls

    - Indigenous young people

    - Right to Remain in #Isolation

    - #CriticalMinerals

    - Protection of #Languages

    - #IntellectualPropertyRights

    bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/04

    #NoLithiumMiningWithoutConsent #LithiumMining #CobaltMining #IndigenousPeoples #HumanRights #WaterIsLife #HumanRightsDefenders #IndigenousActivists #NoPipelines #NoDAPL #CorporateColonialism #RioTinto #SaveOakFlat #Genocide #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #ExtractiveMining #TraditionalLanguage #IndigenousLanguages #TraditionalKnowledge #IndigenousPeoplesDay