An Indigenous woman from the Inga community in the Condagua reservation in Putumayo, Colombia, is leading the struggle against a Canadian mining company that plans to mine the community’s sacred mountains for copper and molybdenum.
Within Soraida Chindoy’s territory is the Doña Juana-Chimayoy páramo, where eight rivers have their source and where there are 56 lagoons. The site, where the Amazon rainforest and the Andes meet, is sacred to the Indigenous population.
Her campaign against mining was borne of tragedy. In 2017, she and her family were among the almost 22,000 people affected by the landslide in Mocoa, when Mother Earth provided a stark warning as to why it is so important to take care of her.
Why Are Indigenous Women Disappearing Across Canada?
The formation of 'residential schools' in Canada was and remains a cultural genocide. Canada -a current white settler nation -has a responsibility to take accountability for the continued disproportionate amount of violence that Indigenous women face in this country, as Indigenous women are 4 times more likely, compared to the national average in Canada, to be victims of violence.
Since 1980, thousands of Native women have gone missing and have been murdered, and their cases have been either entirely dismissed or under-investigated. I have spoken about this on my page before, and although this short piece by Vice does not delve into the history of the RCMP -there is rampant anti-Indigenous racism in their ranks.
These issues are ongoing and epidemic, and we must always keep raising awareness about and talking about MMIW. This is only one of many videos on some of these issues, but I wanted to share this today.
Bolivia’s Indigenous Quechua and Aymara women, known derogatorily as “cholitas,” were marginalized and ostracized from society. Distinguished by their long braids, wide skirts, and bowler hats—an amalgamation of styles resulting from Spanish colonizers forcing Indigenous people to adopt European styles during the Inquisition—the style evolved into a symbol-rich, empowered look.
So is @staff going to do anything about the MASSIVE community of people who share non consensually shared, private images and creep shots on Tumblr? Is @staff going to do anything about the way many of the women being violated and put in danger are Native women and are being sexualized for their race, which contributes to them having a 10x higher murder rate than the general US population?
Alina Surquislla Gomez, a third-generation alpaquera (alpaca-farmer), cradles a baby alpaca on the way to her family’s summer pastures, in Oropesa, Peru. The climate crisis is forcing herders, many of whom are women, to search for new pastures, often in difficult terrain.
I know that a lot of us are experiencing MCU fatigue but I think we owe it to Alaqua Cox and all the Natives working on Echo to really hype up this show since they couldn't do it because of the strikes.
We're going to have a Native woman as a superhero.
They went out and found an actress perfect for Maya.
Whenever I catch Drew Afaulo on tiktok, she has me rollin 🤣
Edit: misogynists, conspiracy theorists/reality deniers, gender role enthusiasts (i.e. femininity = being a woman), and other derogatory believers, this is not for you
Edit 2: homophobes (i.e. those who believe in "genital fetishing") and those who agree with sexual conversion therapy tactics and beliefs (i.e. that gay men can learn to love vagina, that lesbians can learn to love penis) this is not for you, either
goldie jaminson conklin (1892-1974) or ah-weh-eyu (pretty flower) was a seneca woman of the heron Clan. she lived on the allegany Reservation, in south western new york. cattaraugus cutlery company of little valley, new york hired her as a model for postcard advertisements because it was very common for companies to hire native americans to sell this stereotype of “aggressive” or to display a princess, which didn’t exist.
It’s International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples! Learn from Cordillera Peoples Alliance, Illuminative, Lakota People's Law Project, Native American Rights Fund, Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC), NDN Collective, and PINGO’s Forum how to defend Indigenous rights!