SIGN THE PETITION. STOP THE WILLOW PROJECT.

https://chng.it/K6qBB58WjY  SIGN THE PETITION I do not care where you are from, please sign the petition. All you need is an email or phone number, no cost. The USA is trying to pass something that will allow them to release 3 billion metric tons of oil into Alaska which will produce 287 million metric tons of carbon dioxide over a period of 30 years. Willow project will make climate change nearly impossible to mend and cause animals that depend on glaciers for territory in Alaska immediate extinction. This project will also harm indigenous communities. Alaska has been warming up twice as fast as the rest of the USA. The Willow project will cause irreversible effects. The Willow project first started in the Trump Administration, but it is however starting to be supported by President Biden. They plan to commence the project for the money and the benefits so the rest of us may live conveniently. This is not okay. Not only that, but the money doesn’t even go to the natives; It goes to Alaska, but instead the people of the state who decide whether the Natives deserve it or not. This project will release absolute hellfire on our ecosystem. Sure, it will benefit us now. But in the near future, the planet will be DESTROYED.  Stop Willow Project, sign the petition, spread awareness. More information on the petition page.

I am not Palestinian, I am Indigenous American.

One hundred and forty six years ago my people were forced to move to Oklahoma, this event was known as the Ponca Trail of Tears. The land my people were forcibly moved to didn't have any proper shelter or food, so my people both froze and starved to the point we are a fraction of what we once were.

The government and schools don't talk about what America has done to my people, I only know because of my great-grandfather and his sister.

The American Government tried to take our identity away, our language is dying out. All because my people weren't living the same lifestyle the land stealers were living.

I stand with Palestine because I see Israel doing what America did to my people and the many Indigenous tribes. I know what it is like to have your identity and culture oppressed and to be dehumanized, and I refuse to let history repeat itself. I will continue to stand with Palestine even when I no longer walk the Earth.

CA Redwoods to Be First National Park Co-Managed with a Native American Tribe That Used to Own it https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ca-redwoods-to-be-the-first-national-park-co-managed-with-a-native-american-tribe-that-used-to-own-it/

questionable headline aside this is good news

The Yurok will be the first Tribal nation to co-manage land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding signed on Tuesday by the tribe, Redwood national and state parks, and the non-profit Save the Redwoods League, according to news reports.

The Yurok tribe has seen a wave of successes in recent years, successfully campaigning for the removal of a series of dams on the Klamath River, where salmon once ran up to their territory, and with the signing of a new memorandum of understanding, the Yurok are set to reclaim more of what was theirs.

"Ps/ this is not a permanent withdrawal or a ceasefire and the Israeli army can get back to the heart of the city in a minute as they did in Gaza city - Alshifa’a hospital massacre. This video is the first in a series showing khanyounis city after the destruction." from Bisan, 10/Apr/2024:

These are the humanitarian heroes of #Gaza. The indigenous and the unsung.

A huge ancient city has been found in the Amazon, hidden for thousands of years by lush vegetation.

The discovery changes what we know about the history of people living in the Amazon.

The houses and plazas in the Upano area in eastern Ecuador were connected by an astounding network of roads and canals.

The area lies in the shadow of a volcano that created rich local soils but also may have led to the destruction of the society.

While we knew about cities in the highlands of South America, like Machu Picchu in Peru, it was believed that people only lived nomadically or in tiny settlements in the Amazon.

"This is older than any other site we know in the Amazon. We have a Eurocentric view of civilisation, but this shows we have to change our idea about what is culture and civilisation," says Prof Stephen Rostain, director of investigation at the National Centre for Scientific Research in France, who led the research.

"It changes the way we see Amazonian cultures. Most people picture small groups, probably naked, living in huts and clearing land - this shows ancient people lived in complicated urban societies," says co-author Antoine Dorison.

The city was built around 2,500 years ago, and people lived there for up to 1,000 years, according to archaeologists.

It is difficult to accurately estimate how many people lived there at any one time, but scientists say it is certainly in the 10,000s if not 100,000s.

The archaeologists combined ground excavations with a survey of a 300 sq km (116 sq mile) area using laser sensors flown on a plane that could identify remains of the city beneath the dense plants and trees.

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"The road network is very sophisticated. It extends over a vast distance, everything is connected. And there are right angles, which is very impressive," he says, explaining that it is much harder to build a straight road than one that fits in with the landscape.

The scientists also identified causeways with ditches on either side which they believe were canals that helped manage the abundant water in the region.

There were signs of threats to the cities - some ditches blocked entrances to the settlements, and may be evidence of threats from nearby people.

Researchers first found evidence of a city in the 1970s, but this is the first time a comprehensive survey has been completed, after 25 years of research.

It reveals a large, complex society that appears to be even bigger than the well-known Mayan societies in Mexico and Central America.

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Some of the findings are "unique" for South America, he explains, pointing to the octagonal and rectangular platforms arranged together.

The societies were clearly well-organised and interconnected, he says, highlighting the long sunken roads between settlements.

Not a huge amount is known about the people who lived there and what their societies were like.

Pits and hearths were found in the platforms, as well as jars, stones to grind plants and burnt seeds.

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Prof Rostain says he was warned against this research at the start of his career because scientists believed no ancient groups had lived in the Amazon.

Ahh, all this renewed Stardew Valley hype is reminding me that the first time I played I was also reading To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose. I'd thought that chub was a made-up type of fish until I read her protagonist catching and cooking one.

And like idk, it made me think that a Stardew-like game could work great for representing traditional or pre-colonial indigenous daily life, I feel like. The scenes of Blackgoose's protagonist's home life were colorful in an ordinary-life kind of way, illuminating to me as an outsider to that culture and (hopefully) comforting to a reader who belongs to that culture, or similar. A novel can represent life experiences to a depth that other mediums can't. At the same time though, there's a breadth of experience that could maybe be better illustrated by a more interactive medium.

It could be really good if you got a team with good writers, game designers, and deep indigenous cultural understanding on it. Foraging and fishing and hunting; native wildlife. Indigenous agricultural practices. Holidays and events and such. NPCs representing social roles and Types of Guy that the folklore tells stories about. A unique time mechanic that reflects an Indigenous understanding of timekeeping, rather than a modern Western one. And so on. Each time you play the game you engage with that history, culture, lifestyle in a new way.

You could get so specific, so in-depth, into the particular lifestyle of a specific culture in a specific time and place like this. You could create a whole series of games that showcase various indigenous lifestyles across the globe and history, in a range of tones from the light and comfortable to the more serious side.

i wish i could articulate my frustration with the knuckles series/scu's handling of knuckles' heritage. i just hope that people recognized that stupid 'joke' where wade couldn't pronounce pachacamac's name as the anti-Indigenous racism it was

Again, not LGBT, but this important.

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And another thing! Literally any queer story that takes place during the colonial age would have a huge gaping hole in it if it didn't have anticolonialism as a theme. Especially one that centers indigenous people. Like the reason that every culture had their own concepts of gender until something happened and then suddenly the gender binary was ubiquitous is because western European colonial powers made their view of gender the only acceptable one as part of christianizing and colonizing the world. You're not gonna have a show set in 1717 in the Caribbean where the love interest is a gay Maori man and the main deuteragonist is a non-binary mestizo catholic and just skip over colonialism. Like these are exactly the people who western gender roles are being forced on at fucking gun point during this era. Jim and Ed are both mixed race characters who's gender and sexual identities are in active defiance of the colonial powers that be. And this is the fucking Stede Ed and Jim show.

And there's something to be said for the fact that Stede's toxic masculinity plot line is internalized and Ed's struggle with toxic masculinity is largely external in the form a white guy who rubs elbows with the British Navy when Ed doesn't behave to his standard of masculinity. That choice didn't come out of nowhere and it shows a deep understanding of where homophobia comes from. That's not to say that precolonial communities of color were paradise for people that we today would consider queer but the rich tapestry of sexual and gender expressions that existed in those communities were erased in the name of colonialism. That's going to affect literally any queer person at the time when OFMD is set. These two things are inextricably linked.

Like when David Jenkins says a lot of what we're taught about being men is wrong, motherfucker who taught us what a man was. Who taught Ed what a man was? Who taught Stede what a man was for that matter? It's the white dad with the English accent who is violent (derogatory) and overbearing.

Like you get what I'm saying right? Like it's a silly little rom com but also it must necessarily be that deep because of who these characters are and when and where they exist.

"It might be hard to believe that this video was taken today after 155 days of genocide and war and continuous death and bombing even though Gaza still astonishes me because every single day I walk to a new place I find places that are full of beauty and life, its like the land itself is resisting to be killed to be demolished and to be wiped from the planet earth, long live Palestine and for God’s sake ceasefirenow🇵🇸"

from Hossam Wail, 16/Mar/2024:

Janet Golder Kngwarreye b.1973 Australian First Nations (Anmatyerre) Artist "Women's Dreaming" Acrylic on canvas 200 x 130 cm

* * * * “An Indigenous person is a member of a community retaining memories of life lived sustainably on a land base, as part of that land base.” 

― Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

help a mixed indigenous/native queer two spirit trans system get a service dog!!!!

hey y'all, since it's September, it's Service Dog Month so in that case, just a reminder that we have a multipurpose psychiatric service dog gfm that's in desperate need of a donation! any support is appreciated!

One day I truly wanna just get sooo deep into the different cultures that kind of exist in Ninjago but in the weird Ninjago fashion of taking bits and pieces and horribly misrepresenting them.