#FirstPeoples
https://www.oxfam.org.au/what-we-do/indigenous-australia/voice-to-parliament/
“On Saturday October 14 you’ll be asked a simple question:
“A Proposed Law: to alter the #Constitution to recognise the #FirstPeoples of #Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Do you approve this proposed alteration?”
Here are 4 reasons we’ll be voting #YES to a #VoicetoParliament:”
"An extraordinary new #documentary, filmed on the ground in #WestPapua, exposes the #CrimesAgainstHumanity being committed by the #Indonesia|n military in the highlands of Kiwirok, #Papua, where chemical and other banned weapons have been used against the civilian population."
https://www.freewestpapua.org/2023/08/07/paradise-bombed/
#ColonialViolence #SettlerColonialism #HumanRights #colonialism #Indigenous #FirstPeoples #FreeWestPapua
The best of Aboriginal cinema on Mother Earth.
Dreamlike, realistic, striking: a cinema built in the heart of resilient cultures, a dive into the sacred and millenary universe of peoples whose survival defies the centuries.
The films of First Peoples’ Festival 2023.
https://presenceautochtone.ca/en/the-festival/program/films/
Indigenous groups and a growing body of studies emphasize the importance of Indigenous leadership, rights and land tenure for climate change mitigation.
“Indigenous peoples are forced to deal with the burdens of [extractive industry] development on their lands, so we as Indigenous peoples have knowledge about what happens and that needs to be more widely known,” said Kate Finn, of First Peoples Worldwide.
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/three-new-studies-on-indigenous-conservation-for-international-indigenous-peoples-day/ #indigenous #FirstPeoples #studies #ClimateEmergency
Truth telling
"Colonisation works by taking the precious and rendering it profane. Country, in all its sentient glory, became property to be parcelled up by the acre for all-comers.
In recent decades, the veritable explosion of Aboriginal art-making — a movement that rivals anything in the history of art — shows just how false the terra nullius deception is. In the outpouring of contemporary Aboriginal painting, the viewer comes face to face with a land known with incomparable intimacy by its people.
But No Stone Without a Name is not about that stunning modern work. Rather, it considers the landscape art of the period of European colonisation. It further confines its assessment to Western Australia. But there is enough art from that time and place to fill more than 450 sumptuously printed pages. And enough sorrow to fill an ocean."
The Tyee: How to Meet the Demand for First Nations’ Language Programs https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/07/27/Demand-For-First-Nations-Language-Programs/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @tyee@mstdn.ca #KirstenBaker-Williams,FirstNationsEducationSteeringCommittee #Kʷak̓ʷalaandLik̓ʷalabilingualkindergartentoGrade3program #B.C.DeclarationontheRightsofIndigenousPeoplesAct #B.C.'sFirstNationsEducationSteeringCommittee #FirstPeoples’CulturalCouncillanguagesurvey #DebraMartel,CampbellRiverSchoolDistrict72
"When NAGPRA was passed in 1990, Congress estimated that thousands of Native objects would be returned within a decade. But as of this year, the remains of more than 110,000 Native American, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Natives' ancestors still reside in institutional collections."
Fed Funding Incentivizes Institutions to Keep—Even Destroy—Native Remains: Report
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/federal-funding-has-incentivized-institutions-to-hold-on-to-and-even-destroy-native-remains-a-new-report-suggests-2340329 Artnet
Photo: Josh Ewing via Artnet
#NativeAmericans #AmericanIndians #FirstPeoples #FirstNations #Archeology
Wow.
Beautiful interactive globe showing Indigenous territories, treaties, and languages of the world, along with many more resources.
(So far globe does not show India, China, Middle East, but i think they are coming.)
"[T]he very first law that they write - the state legislature controlled by Southerners - is called the Act for the Protection and Government of the Indian, our very first law, and in that law California legalizes the forced indenture - the kidnap, captivity and sale - forced indenture of #California #NativeAmericans"
#JeanPfaelzer, author of #CaliforniaASlaveState
#Slavery #IndigenousPeoples #FirstPeoples #FirstNations #SettlerColonialism #EnslavedIndigenous #books
#Spiraea douglasii is in the #RoseFamily native to western North America AKA #hardhack & #DouglasSpirea & #Steeplebush & #RoseSpirea
#Indigenous #FirstPeoples used this #plant to make brooms & to hang seafood to cook.
It's used in #riparian #revegetation projects for hardiness/quick growth.
#NativePlants #VancouverIsland #PNW #PacificNorthwest #PlantID #CoastalBC #Wildflowers #BCnativePlants #PNWnativePlants #vanisle #Cowichan #PlantsOfPNW #Westcoast #florespondence #BloomScrolling
"Using historical and ethnographic sources, Poyer examines how Indigenous communities emerged from the trauma of the wartime era with social forms and cultural ideas that laid the foundations for their twenty-first-century emergence as players on the world’s political stage."
#LinPoyer discusses her book "#WarAtTheMargins: #Indigenous Experiences in #WorldWarII"
https://newbooksnetwork.com/war-at-the-margins
open access e-book: https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/dd68fa99-5d2e-4762-94a5-9686aa9979c8
@Neil1808
Which does nothing to compensate for your pedantic misrepresentation: "to name them the first inventors is so overhyped".
@Grandalf
#Auspol #FirstPeoples #Sophistry #Argumentation
@Grandalf
One pedantic interpretation of the series' title might be that Australia's first peoples invented everything. A more rational reading is that they were in Australia first (as in, before the British) and they invented some things.
@Neil1808
#Auspol #FirstPeoples #Sophistry #Argumentation
@Neil1808
Reciprocating your predilection for facile sophistry:
you imply that Australia's first peoples never invented anything. You can substantiate that, of course.
#Auspol #FirstPeoples #Sophistry #Argumentation
#GovernmentOfCanada promised to issue official #apology to #DakotaPeople of #Canada this month. #Dakota #TipiChief Dennis Pashe says it's a huge historic event for his people. He expects it to come from the #PrimeMinister in House of Commons.
Pashe notes date for event is June 19.
"It's important for the Dakota people to correct the history of this land,"
https://portageonline.com/articles/canada-to-issue-first-ever-official-apology-to-dakotas
#Indigenous #FirstNations #FirstPeoples #NativeRights #TurtleIsland #CanPoli
I don't celebrate #VictoriaDay anymore. Just another #colonizer created fake holiday. I don't engage in #colonial celebrations of unceded #NativeLandTheft as part of my #decolonization journey.
I see very little #landback or other #reparations actually happening for stealing & exploiting Indigenous lands & peoples & using #CulturalGenocide on #FirstPeoples (it's still happening). Shallow land acknowledgements are useless without aligning actions.
#IndigenousPeoples' Health and the Violence of False Solutions in Carbon-based Schemes
#UNPFII side event organized by the #IndigenousEnvironmentalNetwork (#IEN)
#extractivism #greenwashing #CarbonMarkets #CapAndTrade #EmissionTrading #CarbonOffsets #GreenCapitalism #GreenColonialism #ClimateChange
#FirstNations #FirstPeoples
"You see the power that Native women carry in everything that they do. Their work is driven by the love of our communities and the love of our land and our ways of life and our people. Having those examples my entire life, I just don’t see any other way to be."
Quannah Chasinghorse & Her Mother on Indigenous ID, Activism, Modeling
https://www.thecut.com/2023/04/model-quannah-chasinghorse-sustainability.html via The Cut
Image: Cut/Keri Oberly
#QuannahChasinghorse #JodyPottsJoseph #Indigenous #FirstPeoples #Climate #Modeling #Fashion #Activism
I'm so happy for the people of the Waccamaw Siouan Tribe, this is such an awesome find. I hope it helps them connect with their #heritage
#archaeology #indiginous #FirstPeoples
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/waccamaw-ancient-canoe-1.6815398
"The reservation economy today shows that no matter how ruinous the invisible hand may have been, economic countercultures can work against the clock."
Resisting Western Concepts of Time & Productivity, Lakota Maintain Task-Oriented Economy Based on Kinship & Relationships
https://daily.jstor.org/working-against-the-clock-time-colonialism-and-lakota-resistance/ via JSTOR Daily
Photo: AAA Native Arts online
#Lakota #FirstPeoples #Society #Economy #Colonialism #Time
It's #MammothModay 🦣💀 This is the Lindsay mammoth (MOR 604) found in an Eastern Montana ditch by a farmer moving a combine in July of 1966.
A nearly complete skeleton was excavated in 1967 by Leslie B. Davis and is now housed at the Museum of the Rockies (MOR) In Bozeman.
The animal, a 45-year-old male, was radiocarbon-dated to ~12300 years BP. Cut marks were discovered on the rib and calcaneus bones. 🔪 🦴
#Pleistocene #Mammuthuscolumbi #tusk #firstpeoples #citizenscience #mammoth
MOR Image
Acuña & Tafur were 2 of 401 #HumanRights #defenders #killed in 2022, according to a new #report from #FrontlineDefenders - international human rights org. According to #researchers - approx. 48% of those killed were #protecting #land , environmental & #IndigenousPeoplesRights - 22% of ppl killed were #Indigenous . The report also found #environmental & #IndigenousRights defenders were most #targeted ..
https://grist.org/global-indigenous-affairs-desk/2022-was-a-particularly-deadly-year-for-land-and-environmental-activists
#NativeLand #WaterProtectors #FirstPeoples #StopEcocide #NativeRights
#TerramazProject seeks to promote #sustainable practices in order to fight #deforestation . These ideas, however, do not resonate with some inhabitants.... where there is #UrgentNeed for basic infrastructure/services: 82% of #Indigenous there live in extreme #poverty
#Undefined status of the western limits of the #YasuníNationalPark & lack of #LandTitles for #native inhabitants have provoked #conflicts - affected by #oil drilling.
#FirstPeoples' #knowledge of 'mysterious fairy circles' in #Australian #deserts has upended a long-standing #science debate https://theconversation.com/first-peoples-knowledge-of-mysterious-fairy-circles-in-australian-deserts-has-upended-a-long-standing-science-debate-202956
"Ten year old Talon Jerome, who lives on the Turtle Mountain Reservation, identifies with her new book. 'Our hair is the source of our strength and power and memories,' he says."
Picture Book 'My Powerful Hair' Exults in Native Culture
Photo: Abrams Books
#MyBeautifulHair #CaroleLindstrom #StephLittlebird #NativeAmerican #FirstPeoples #AmericanIndian #Hair
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"......this is a fairly nascent movement in the #US, especially outside of areas without significant #Native populations. #Renaming place names is especially needed in states that are eliminating or trying to eliminate critical race theory [#CRT] in the #classrooms."
https://bioneers.org/bioneers-…
#decolonize #indigenize #reclamation #FirstPeoples #IndigenousLed #EducationForSettlers
#NativeAmericans
#Academics from across the country travel on the #Amundsen every year to conduct #research on a wide range of #ocean related topics. Pamak and Saunders's research on the trip is part of #Nunatsiavut attempt to establish a #MarinePlan for its #waters . This plan would #manage Nunatsiavut's ocean space & #balance the #demand for human activities w/ the need for #environmental #protection 👍
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nunatsiavut-amundsen-1.6771930
#Indigenous #FirstNations #Science #NativeKnowledge #FirstPeoples #Canada #Labrador
@HistoPol This is a good article to read to understand why renaming street/place names is an important component of decolonization. It refers to US examples but it's same decolonization efforts that First Nations communities are working on in Canada.
https://bioneers.org/bioneers-decolonization-series-why-we-should-indigenize-place-names
#decolonize #indigenize #reclamation #FirstPeoples #IndigenousLed #EducationForSettlers
#Inuit have lived off the land for centuries. The bond between people & their natural surroundings, #knowledge & #understanding of wildlife & #WeatherPatterns & #SeasonalChanges plays an #ImportantRole in #InuitCultures ; this needs to be #respected & #amplified the same way other #Canadian perspectives are. Though Inuit have their own governing bodies and policies, they are still affected by federal decision making.
For years, #Gitxsan #artist #MichelleStoney has #created #art inspired by her #culture & #heritage , including jewelry, drums, graphic design, paintings and murals.
Now, she's #released a #DeckOfCards featuring Gitxsan imagery.
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6782395
#Canada #IndigenousArt #FirstNations #NorthernBC #NativeArt #BritishColumbia #CoastalBC #FirstPeoples #Indigenous #FirstNationsArt #CulturalArt #TraditionalInspired #PlayingCards #NativeArtists #NativeCanadian #PNW #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia
[ #Repatriation Process of #Naga #Ancestral Remains, he impressed upon that it's a good #initiative while reiterating that “we, Nagas, deeply #care for the bodies of the #dead .”
Beni Sumer Yanthan (#Yanbeni ) feels that “the ongoing repatriation of the Naga human remains is an #essential and #important way of addressing and engaging with the threads of the past that we consider our #history .”]
https://morungexpress.com/naga-repatriation-nagas-have-always-cared-for-dead
#Indigenous #AsianMastodon #SriLanka #India #Aboriginal #FirstPeoples #tribe
I seriously think she should be visiting #FirstNations communities across #Canada instead of using our #TaxDollars to fly across the world to talk to other #Indigenous ppl! We have tons of wisdoms available from #Native elders, matriarchs, youths & activists - right here, in Canada. If she can't help domestic #FirstPeoples - zero faith she'll do much to help any others globally either.
https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/politics/2023/3/18/1_6318904.amp.html
#CharityStartsAtHome #WasteOfMoney #Whitewashed #UselessTravel #PhotoOps
#Researchers for the #archaeological #project are working with ten different #Indigenous communities & corporations to gain a deeper #understanding of the connections.
The #study will cover an area spanning from #Exmouth through the #Pilbara region and right out to the Western Desert.
https://amp.abc.net.au/article/102089628
#Australia #Aborignal #NativeNews #FirstPeoples #science #archaeology
After a year of deliberation, the #Netherlands has #returned the remains of nine #Indigenous people to #SintEustatius , a small #Dutch #Caribbean island also known as #Statia . #Archaeologists found these #BoneFragments three decades ago at a dig site at the island's FD Roosevelt Airport; some of the objects date back as far as the 5th century.
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/03/16/netherlands-returns-indigenous-remains-caribbean-island
"We're delighted to sign this formal #sporting #treaty … with the full support of the traditional owners of South-East #Queensland , where we stand, the #KabiKabi , #Jinibara , #Turrbal , #Yugambeh , #Quandamooka & #Yuggera peoples."
The #AIFC represents more than 100 #Aboriginal & #TorresStrait Islander communities. It has no links to #FootballAustralia
https://amp.abc.net.au/article/102108200
#Australia #FirstPeoples #Football #Precedent #Sports #decolonization #IndigenousLed #NativeAustralia #Indigenous
The Tyee: A First Nation’s Quest to Know Why Their Cemetery Was Flooded (in News) https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/03/06/First-Nation-Quest-To-Know-Why-Cemetery-Flooded/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @tyee@mstdn.ca #FirstNationsLandManagementResourceCentre #FirstPeoples’CulturalCouncil #CurtisFullertonKwikwetlem #GeorgeChaffeeKwikwetlem #KwikwetlemFirstNation #Unangax̂FirstNation #FraserBasinCouncil #KristenBarnettUBC #AleutianIslands #CoquitlamRiver #hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ #CoquitlamB.C. #CoquitlamLake
This #TotemPole is laying on ground because it has a #broken #thunderbird #wing that needs to be put back on. The colours are very vivid in the rain.
#NamgisTerritory #NamgisNation #UmistaCulturalCentre #totem #IndigenousArt #NativeArt #IndigenousCulture #AlertBay #CormorantIsland #BCCoast #BCFirstNations #FirstPeoples #Westcoast #BritishColumbia #Canada #PNW #PacificNorthwest
#NamgisNation #NamgisTerritory #Umista #longhouse - on grounds of #FirstNations #Cultural centre.
#AlertBay #CormorantIsland #Namgis #TotemPoles #NativeArt #NativeCulture #IndigenousCulture #IndigenousSovereignty #culture #IndigenousArt #RespectAncestors #FirstPeoples #BritishColumbia #Canada #PNW #PacificNorthwest #BCCoast #GalentinesWeek #RoadTrip
#BLAKLOVE rolls down the tracks!
The #Melbourne #ArtTrams have been rolling around the largest tram network in the world in 2022, with six trams featuring designs by #FirstPeoples artists.
The collected works each respond to the theme “Unapologetically Blak”.
And more than three decades later a design by acclaimed artist, painter and sculptor Lin Onus (#YortaYorta) hits the tracks for the first time since 1991—a harmonious symbol of balanced opposites: circles and diamonds, day and night, black and white cockatoos.
2022 ARTISTS :
* Lin Onus (Yorta Yorta)
* Louise Moore (Wamba)
* Patricia Mckean (Gunditjmara/Kirrae Wurrong)
* Dr Paola Balla (Wemba-Wemba/Gunditjmara)
* Tegan Murdock (Burapa)
* Darcy McConnell / Enoki (Yorta Yorta/Dja Dja Wurrung)
I’ll share various web sourced pictures here… and I hope to do some #tramspotting on my return to the big smoke next week.
Here’s the #LinOnus original (first #indigenous painted #tram), from 1991.
It’s lovely :firstnations
❤️💛🖤
#melbourne #victoria #australia #yarratrams #ptv #makesmehappy
@Windspeaker Exciting launch & *so* excited to learn of #UNESCO's International Decade of #Indigenous #Languages 2022-2032 (how'd I miss that it was happening?!) ~ WOW! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Thank you for sharing this wonderfully #GoodNews ~ & these #photos of radiant humans 💖🙏🏽🙌🏽🙏🏽💖
#UN #FirstNations #FirstPeoples #FirstPeople #language #heritage #Paris #culture #cultural #wisdom #advocacy
ishokode (fire), 2021
Rebecca Belmore, Anishinaabe, resides in Vancouver CA.
A figure wrapped in a sleeping bag surrounded by a protective barrier of bullet casings.
Belmore: "The work carries an emptiness. But at the same time, because it's a standing figure, I'm hoping that the work contains some positive aspects of the idea that we need to try to deal with violence. We are makers, who destroy and make again."
Maslow—the one from the hierarchy of needs—spent time with the Blackfoot tribe, where he found astounding levels of cooperation, minimal inequality, restorative justice, full bellies, and high levels of life satisfaction. Self-actualization was the norm.
80–90% of the Blackfoot tribe had a quality of self-esteem that was only found in 5–10% of his own population.
He never published his findings out of fear of losing academic standing...
https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/12/blackfoot-wisdom-inspired-maslow-guide-us-now/
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
A powerful story of kin and land rights for today, and every day.
Time to tackle those neglected dishes. While I do that, here's another @indigenousauthors book.
Song Spirals: sharing women's wisdom of Country through songlines (2019) by Gay'wu group of women.
#Indigenous #Yolnu #ArnhemLand #AboriginalSonglines #IndigenousKnowledges #FirstPeoples
@indigenousauthors
Today I'm sharing Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, edited by Margo Ngawa Neale.
Prof Neale is Head of Indigenous Knowledge Curatorial Centre, National Museum of Australia. This large format book is based on a past exhibition of the same name. I was fortunate to have seen this exhibition a few years ago.
Martu, Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantatjara and Yankunytjatjara peoples participated in this expansive art, storytelling and knowledge project.
First Peoples around the globe hold knowledges and stories of the Pleiades constellation. For many, they're the Seven Sisters. Stories connect us.
Find out more about the exhibition, see some of the artwork, and watch the interactive multimedia here > https://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/songlines
After touring Australia from 2017, it headed to Europe. Was in Berlin this year, and France in 2023.
#Martu #Anangu #IndigenousKnowledges #AboriginalSonglines #FirstPeoples #FirstStorytellers #AboriginalArt
Have you read The White Girl (2019) by Tony Birch?
I love this cover. The newly released UK version has a drawing of a bath on the cover.
The White Girl is a story of a grandmother who protects her grandchild from a cruel, racist cop; who wants to remove her using systematically racist laws that deprived #Aboriginal people of human rights pre-1970s.
In the background, as the narrative moves from country to city, is the historical activism and resistance that led to improved human rights for #FirstPeoples in so-called Australia.
@indigenousauthors
@auslit
@bookstodon
#LitStudies #AmReading
Are you #AmWriting and identify as #Indigenous / #FirstNations / #Aboriginal / #FirstPeoples Are you creating books, poetry, short stories, illustrations for books, or other types of storytelling?
Follow this guppe group I set up > @indigenousauthors and lets network, share, and lift each other up.
How? Enter @ IndigenousAuthor@a.gup.pe in your search box (without that gap), follow the group, and posts will appear in your Home Feed. You can also set notifications.
To use this group to boost your posts, just tag it.
Note: If you are not Indigenous, then feel free to share your favourite works authored by Indigenous writers or poets, and book illustrators. Please do not use this @ to boost posts about non Indigenous authors or academics. This is not a space for centring whiteness
#introduction post.
Hi, I'm tooting from South Australia.
I'm a Martu descendant (Peoples of the Pilbara region, WA). I post about #FirstNationsRights #LandBack #StolenGenerations #BlakBooks #TruthTelling #IndigenousJustice
And support other #Indigenous #FirstNations #FirstPeoples from around the globe.
About me: I'm an author who supplements my income with freelance work.
What I like: writing, sharing good books, mangoes, Summer, walking with my dog (and sometimes cats).
What I dislike: racists, white supremacists, TERFs, and all varieties of bigots. Also dislike the tone-police, pearl-clutchers, gatekeepers, and racist apologists. Broccoli is ok, though, especially with cheese sauce.
Edit: I am finding it hard to keep up with follow notifications. But I won't follow-back people who have auspol in their bio, or any words I view as red flags