#Indigenous
I am reading the book “Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States”. It is mostly about the atrocities committed against indigenous people, African Americans, workers and those subjected to overseas wars by the US. I think it’s important to realize that so-called American exceptionalism is basically backwards in this respect. I’d like to say I still believe in American ideals but its right wing-ness gives me major pause.
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Saturday was the trip home... but before we really got on the road we stopped at the Cahokia Mounds.
Cahokia was the largest pre-Columbian city in the Mississippi basin. At its height around 1100 CE, it could have had as many as 40,000 people. (By contrast, Paris at that time had about 3,000 people and London had about 15,000.)
They built over 100 enourmous mounds, the largest of which is Monks Mound, the largest pre-Columbian earthwork north of Mexico.
Third Malón de la Paz: Argentina’s Indigenous women lead battle for land rights in Jujuy province | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/argentina-jujuy-province-indigenous-women-lithium-protests/
#Argentina
#Indigenous
#IndigenousWomen
#LandRights
#Jujuy
#BuenosAires
#PalaceOfJustice
#SupremeCourt
#Lithium
#LithiumTriangle
#WhiteGold
#Ecosystems
#EcosystemDamage
#Morales
#Kolla
#Yala
#Lozano
#Leon
#NataliaMachaca
#Purmamarca
#VeronicaChavez
#UN
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All that said, our Pixelfed instance and hopefully soon Peertube instance are self hosted. They are in a test mode, so to speak. I do hope to find masto.host level hosting for them eventually.
In the meantime, the docker containers and the upgrades, etc. are managed by their maintainers, so that takes a lot of the edge off me (I think).
But they do need to be hosted instead, and I'm sure the Fediverse will keep growing and that day will come.
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And so that is why TurtleIsland.social moved to masto.host, whom I consider the prime supplier of Mastodon hosting services.
I am extremely glad we did this, and I have 100% confidence that TurtleIsland.social is in the top echelon of server reliability.
I also have 100% confidence that TurtleIsland.social will be around for a very long time.
We can grow to any size, with any level of high demand or celebrity users. And we will grow.
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I also realized TurtleIsland.social wouldn't be likely to survive if I met my ancestors or had a catastrophic health issue unexpectedly.
At this point in my life, strengthening cultural and community ties, and passing them along with a healthy dose of whatever wisdom I have accumulated to my descendants and others are my primary driving forces.
It is critically important to me that @Tzipporah be able to take an increasingly dominant role in TurtleIsland.social.
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Initially, I really enjoyed the technical aspects of running a Mastodon instance. In time, making sure it was running continuously, upgraded to current versions and backed up locally and off-site did become a source of anxiety.
It was a great education though.
But I realized running servers and building community were two different things, neither served well by the combination of both for primarily one technical person.
CBC Indigenous: Soar program aims to lift Indigenous entrepreneurs to new heights https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/soar-indigenous-entrepreneurs-1.6974791?cmp=rss #FN #CBC #Indigenous #News/Business
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@wiletha There will be no impact, because pay equity in the #palmoil supply chain is non-existent. This is according to a 2021 report by Chain Reaction Research which shows 66%+ of the gross profit goes to large corporates such as Ferrero, Nestle, Unilever, Cargill and Mondelez and 0% or below flows back to farmers. #workersrights #landrights.
Most #indigenous farmers are forced from their land and made to work on it for almost nothing
Report here: https://chainreactionresearch.com/report/palm-oil-value-chain-deforestation/
HEY ALL - looking for newsfeed recommendations on here. Have finally cut the cord and ditched the other socials. And already feel healthier!
But another consequence is that I have lost a daily, tailored newsfeed.
Am looking for good accts to follow that offer news on
#oakland
#movements
#southamerica
#centralamerica
#mexico
international
Black radical tradition
#indigenous #sovereignty
#abolition
#anarchism
#antifascism
#anticapitalism
Etc.
Feel free to tag others who might have suggestions!
For those interested in learning or hearing #indigenous words and phrases, firstvoices.com is a good site. It’s limited to Canada and prioritizes languages in what is now BC. I like how it has sound so you can listen and practice. Iiyus yuxuy’tl’thut, siyeyu (Happy Fall, friends). #language #Fall #
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While I mainly focus on digital art I have dabbled in other art forms including beading. This was an old jacket I had that was revitalized, with an beading arrangement I designed and a patch from ntvs. #art #beading #indigenousart #indigenous #firstnations
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Saabe Dream by Mishiikenh Kwe at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery
AND Mishiikenh Kwe!
#IndigenousCreatives #InstanceBack
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@ChokfiMoon Welcome to TurtleIsland.social !!!
Welcome back to #NativeMastodon #IndigenousMastodon !!!
@ChokfiMoon does amazing #Beadwork, be sure to follow them. #IndigenousCreatives
I did find some #indigenous lyrics, but they were from the POV of the POC. I can't use those either.
I wonder if there are any (well-written and -fitting) lyrics to "This Land Is Your Land" from the POV of #colonial descendents acknowledging that
I've been enjoying #folk #guitar so thought I'd transcribe some more. I like "This Land Is Your Land" and it has some skill-expanding techniques (fast D->D7), so great choice
But boy, these lyrics.
I mean, the overall concept that white people are telling each other how much they own this land is bad enough. But also "a voice was calling: this land was made for you and me"
Manifest Destiny: The Song
I see there are #indigenous versions out there. Maybe I can swap out the lyrics
I’ve seen chupacabra movies before, but never one that used the imaginary bloodsucker as a patriotic symbol.
#Indigenous #MovieReview #Horror #Film
https://ninetypercentcrapmoviereviews.wordpress.com/2023/09/23/indigenous/
Jamie Yazzie would have turned 36 on Sept. 13, but instead of throwing a birthday party, her family found themselves watching the federal trial of her boyfriend and man accused of killing her, Tre C. James.
#navajonation #mmiw #arizona #indigenous
https://news.yahoo.com/jamie-yazzies-family-relives-her-131511302.html
Having thoughts about the stigmatised shaming vs reintegrative shaming thing from restorative justice and the whole online cancel culture/consequences/call-out call-in thing with regards to the latest discourse happening here.
#Criminology #CriminalJustice #Indigenous #Aboriginal #Decolonise #KillTheCopInsideYourHead
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#Brazil Supreme Court rules in favor of #indigenous land rights, rejecting effort of agribusiness corporation to limit them https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/21/brazil-supreme-court-indigenous-land-rights-win
CBC Indigenous: Aboriginal and Indigenous Law is complicated. A new website hopes to change that https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/aboriginal-and-indigenous-law-is-complicated-a-new-website-hopes-to-change-that-1.6975807?cmp=rss #FN #CBC #Indigenous #News/Canada/NovaScotia
CBC Indigenous: Caldwell First Nation calls for resignation of provincial Indigenous minister https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/caldwell-duckwroth-rickford-resignation-call-1.6975919?cmp=rss #FN #CBC #Indigenous #News/Canada/Windsor
"Mr Kotierk characterised the alleged fraud as "another form of colonisation" and part of a wider trend of non-indigenous Canadians claiming indigenous heritage.
"You've wanted to take our language away from us," he said. "You've wanted to take our culture away from us. Now you're trying to claim our identity? It's just flabbergasting.""
CBC Indigenous: Indigenous Services should be spared from spending cuts, say New Democrat MPs https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/ndp-indigenous-services-cuts-1.6975165?cmp=rss #FN #CBC #Indigenous #News/Indigenous
I love this so much. It is officially part of our group gnosis now that the #Teteo (and especially #Tlaloc) like offerings of friendship bracelets. 🥰
#chicano #ChicanoSpirituality #Teotecayotl #Mexicayotl #Indigenous #polytheism #pagan #swifties
#Brazil's top court boosts #indigenous rights in landmark ruling
Good #News: In #Sarawak, two years after timber giant #Samling filed a defamation lawsuit against #Indigenous grassroots organization SAVE Rivers — the logging company has dropped the case due to intense international pressure from #campaigners #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @bmfonds https://www.bmf.ch/en/news/timber-giant-samling-withdraws-lawsuit-against-indigenous-forest-defenders-237
CBC Indigenous: How Elisapie gave new meaning to 10 pop and rock classics by translating them into Inuktitut https://www.cbc.ca/arts/q/elisapie-on-her-new-album-inuktitut-1.6971863?cmp=rss #FN #CBC #Indigenous #Arts/Q
Jayli Wolf - Child Of The Government
Song from Canada but it could easily be from Australia or Aotearoa, telling of #StolenGeneration, of babies and children #Uplifted, take from #indigenous families or single mothers.
Why am I including this in
#JukeboxFridayNight
#HaveASay
#ShowOfHands ?
Because the right to your own identity is political.
CW for comments with this song.
https://youtu.be/H5gqZV7OsCM
Meal a naideachd. Gu 50 bliadhna eile.
Scotland's #Gaelic college is 50. Go there, do a course, learn the living langauge of the Scots.
#Gàidhlig #MastoDaoine #languages #Skye #SabhalMorOstaig #Indigenous
Indigenous people in Brazil shed tears of joy as the Supreme Court enshrines their land rights
> The justices had been evaluating a lawsuit brought by Santa Catarina state, backed by farmers, seeking to block an Indigenous group from expanding the size of its territorial claim. Nearly all of the high court's justices voted to support the #Indigenous group, which has far-reaching implications for territories nationwide.
https://www.moosejawtoday.com/indigenous/indigenous-people-in-brazil-shed-tears-of-joy-as-the-supreme-court-enshrines-their-land-rights-7583320 #Brazil #Brasil
Martin Scorsese’s new epic – which is released next month – is thrilling in sweep and timely in subject matter: a revisiting of real events in Osage County, Oklahoma, during the 1920s, where land rights and oil reserves made the Osage the wealthiest per capita population in the world, and the focus of murderous attention by the white inhabitants.
#IndigenousCreatives #Native #Indigenous #NDN #LandBack #InstanceBack #TurtleIslandSocial #TurtleIslandArt #TurtleIslandBlog
"Protocols for Native American Archival Materials"
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Lily Gladstone, the amazing Indigenous star of the 'Killers of the Flower Moon' movie, featured with Eighth Generation blanket on October 2023 issue of British Vogue cover and article.
Article:
https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/leonardo-dicaprio-lily-gladstone-british-vogue-interview
Blanket:
https://eighthgeneration.com/collections/blankets/products/salish-pattern-blanket
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🥥 Edited a couple of times.
First to remove the term "spirit animal," as related to #Cats when it was pointed out to me how that phrase is appropriation of #Indigenous people's culture.
Then to insert "Fursona," regarding cats as an almost purrfect word to capture what eye was trying to say. 🥥
FYI, effective immediately accounts at the TurtleIsland.art Pixelfed instance are available to users of the TurtleIsland.social AND Indg.club Indigenous/Native Mastodon instances
DM me if you're an Indigenous/Native artist/creative and would like a Pixelfed account at https://TurtleIsland.art
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The video was promtped by user FosenTicker, who also runs this counter showing the days that have passed since Supreme Court's ruling in favor of the #Indigenous Sámi - days where the Government of #Norway has done nothing of substance to follow it up.
We are closing in on two years: October 11th.
Can #AI empower #Indigenous people?
This short video about the #Fosen case was generated by ai.invideo.io after prompts by a Sámi user, who also fact-checked the content of the script before publication.
AI quickly gave this #landback issue in #Norway a pretty well-formulated text, an Old White Professor-type voice to present it, and some stock photos to illustrate it.
What are the benefits? What are the drawbacks? What do you think?
Oy vey iz mir, AI fake Native Americans... stolen from somewhere else.
#AI #Native #Indigenous #NDN #LandBack #InstanceBack #TurtleIslandSocial #TurtleIslandArt #TurtleIslandBlog
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In years the only time I have seen scams it was non-Natives or non-Native orgs acting like they were Native or associated with Native Nations or reservations. It was never Native Indigenous people scamming.
"He’d been talking to Bay Area students about Alcatraz for months. It was once Ohlone land, but it was also a symbol: The U.S. didn’t just take the land. They put a prison on it."
Jason Fagone and Julie Johnson tell the largely untold story of #NativeAmerican activist Richard Oakes: https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2023/richard-oakes-killing/
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I got to appear on The Lead, a #journalism podcast produced by the University of #Georgia. Journalist and host Jacqueline GaNun had some great questions about #Indigenous affairs reporting, freelancing, and lamprey. Listen here:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4D8adiEZ7VGLE9qCqfD6Mj?si=3613eb55225e40a8&nd=1
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lead/id1430153249?i=1000628547552
Judge dismisses #pipeline #protest charges against 3 #Native women
Kirsti Marohn
Brainerd, #Minnesota
September 18, 2023 3:45 PM
"Opponents of the #Line3 oil pipeline are celebrating an Aitkin County judge’s decision to dismiss charges against three Native women related to a 2021 protest.
"Activists #WinonaLaDuke, #TaniaAubid and #DawnGoodwin helped lead rallies as #Enbridge began work on a new #OilPipeline across northern Minnesota more than two years ago.
"The charges against them stemmed from a rally on Jan. 9, 2021, when a large group gathered at a pipeline construction site near the #MississippiRiver in Aitkin County.
"The opponents, who called themselves #WaterProtectors carried signs and walked down a county road. Some Native women danced in jingle dresses, a healing tradition.
"Some group members later moved to another Aitkin County location, where they walked along U.S. Highway 169 and refused to leave a Line 3 construction site.
"LaDuke, Goodwin and Aubid were not arrested on Jan. 9. Authorities charged them weeks later by summons after identifying them in social media posts. They faced gross misdemeanor charges of trespassing and harassment, as well as misdemeanor unlawful assembly and public nuisance.
"A jury trial was scheduled to begin this week. But in a forceful opinion filed Sept. 14, District Court Judge Leslie Metzen dismissed all the charges.
"Metzen’s order noted the government’s historical mistreatment of #Indigenous people.
"'In the last 20 years I have come to a broader understanding of what we, the now dominant culture, did to try to eradicate our indigenous neighbors,' she wrote. 'We moved them by force and power and violence off the land where they lived for thousands of years. To make peace, we signed treaties with them that promised many things they never received.'
"Metzen wrote that she finds it 'within the furtherance of justice' to protect the defendants who were peacefully protesting to protect the land addressed in those treaties.
"She wrote that as respected members of #Anishinaabe tribes, LaDuke, Aubid and Goodwin were exercising their #FreeSpeech rights and #spiritual beliefs, including 'their heartfelt belief that the waters of Minnesota need to be protected from damage that could result from the #pipeline.'
'To criminalize their behavior would be the crime,' she added."
#IndigenousNews #LaDuke #StopEnbridge #NoLine3 #Proestors #ClimateActivists #Fascism #WaterIsLife #RespectTheTreaties
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For the latest episode of my podcast for @Flipboard, I interviewed Philbrook Assistant Curator of Native Art Kalyn Fay Barnoski.
Kalyn opines about #art, #creativity and #curation from an #Indigenous perspective, including so many wonderful artists to check out.
This Storyboard has the episode plus links to everything and everyone Kalyn recommended.
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The film Tautuktavuk (What We See) has won the Amplify Voices Award at #TIFF.
The film is co-directed by Carol Kunnuk and Lucy Tulugarjuk, who also play the leads.
It’s about domestic violence in Igloolik, #Nunavut, healing in #Montreal, and being far away from #family by necessity.
The jury said the directors “powerfully capture truth in its most unadorned form” and reflected “a rare purity” in their #filmmaking approach.
#Native #Indigenous #Beadwork is highly undervalued.
When I was younger it was all about expensive flash, diamonds, big diamonds, gold, platinum... but really beadwork art has so much more soul. It's way cooler, and it doesn't hurt you can have a pile of it for the price of a pair of diamond studs...
One of my ex's family were diamond wholesalers and most of her jewelry, she couldn't even wear, too dangerous.
What good is losing your life for a mortgage sized clear rock?