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Increasingly targeted in immigration raids
-- Mixteco and Triqui communities hold festivals of resistance.
https://truthout.org/articles/indigenous-communities-from-southern-mexico-refuse-to-bow-to-ice-in-california/…

Indigenous Communities From Southern Mexico Refuse to Bow to ICE in California
Increasingly targeted in immigration raids, Mixteco and Triqui communities hold festivals of resistance.

I've got a new article on loans made by an Indigenous (Wendat) family to their settler neighbors in the 19th c. Among other things, it looks at credit in the countryside, Indigenous interactions with banking and capitalism, Catholicism and usury, and notarial archives (they're the best).
Paywalled, but I know a guy.
"The Vincent-Picard Family’s Investments: Wendat Wealth and Notarized Contracts in the Mid-Nineteenth Century"

Two things can be true, even if they seem in opposition.
Hitler's race law was based on Jim Crow. Lebensraum was a direct translation of Manifest Destiny to Europe. The genocide of indigenous Americans was the inspiration and roadmap for the Holocaust. Red Summer was a genocide event. Chinese exclusion was a genocide event. The genocide of indigenous Americans continued, and the Dakota Access Pipeline is an example of that continuance.
And... Trumpian fascism is new phase of America that's markedly different than anything that anyone alive had ever experienced. Trump was inspired by Hitler's speeches and read them regularly. He admires Hitler and tries to emulate him. The language he used during his first campaign were developed by Neonazi groups like Aryan Brotherhood working with the KKK. His image was shaped by white and Christian nationalists, as is his platform today. He is a new and more dangerous kind of monster. The death camps are new. The scale of what's happening is new. The concentration of power is new.
These can both be true, and are.
#USPol

Climate change made Nordic heatwave 2C hotter: study #Nordic

Climate change made Nordic heatwave 2C hotter: study
Human-caused climate change made a recent Nordic heatwave about 2C hotter, putting a strain on healthcare, ecosystems and indigenous Sami reindeer herders in a region ill-equipped for such events, researchers said on Thursday.

Speculative Design in Spiraling Time: Methods and Indigenous HCI
James Eschrich, Cole McMullen, Sarah Sterman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10229 https://

Speculative Design in Spiraling Time: Methods and Indigenous HCI
In this position paper, we first discuss the uptake of speculative design as a method for Indigenous HCI. Then, we outline how a key assumption about temporality threatens to undermine the usefulness of speculative design in this context. Finally, we briefly sketch out a possible alternative understanding of speculative design, based on the concept of "spiraling time," which could be better suited for Indigenous HCI.

Where Journalism Silenced Voices: Exploring Discrimination in the Representation of Indigenous Communities in Bangladesh
Abhijit Paul, Adity Khisa, Zarif Masud, Sharif Md. Abdullah, Ahmedul Kabir, Shebuti Rayana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09771

Where Journalism Silenced Voices: Exploring Discrimination in the Representation of Indigenous Communities in Bangladesh
In this paper, we examine the intersections of indigeneity and media representation in shaping perceptions of indigenous communities in Bangladesh. Using a mixed-methods approach, we combine quantitative analysis of media data with qualitative insights from focus group discussions (FGD). First, we identify a total of 4,893 indigenous-related articles from our initial dataset of 2.2 million newspaper articles, using a combination of keyword-based filtering and LLM, achieving 77% accuracy and an …

Great news. Canada is doing offering government services (commercial driver’s license tests) in Ojibwe/Anishinaabemowin.
It’s a crime and a tragedy that indigenous languages are in danger of dying and everything that can be done to fight that is for the better, especially by governments using them.

Indigenous man's 'jaw nearly hit the counter' when told he could write driver's test in Ojibwe | CBC News
The former chief of the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation got an early birthday surprise when he was finally able to do his written driver’s test in Ojibwe.   

"Indigenous divers on Chile’s island restore seabed to protect seafood sources"
#Chile #Environment

Indigenous divers on Chile’s island restore seabed to protect seafood sources
Daniel Caniullán has been diving in the cold waters of the Guaitecas Archipelago in northern Patagonia, Chile, for more than 30 years. “Just by looking at the seabed landscape, you can tell what species you are going to find,” he says. Just as it is possible to recognize the loss of a diverse forest on […]

When the Spanish colonized the region in the 17th century,
they didn't introduce horses to Indigenous people, as long thought.
Instead, horses were present in the Southwest long before Europeans,
and were traded by Indigenous people who formed close relationships with them.
Horses lived in North America for millions of years
but went extinct at the end of the last ice age, about 11,000 years ago.
When Europeans reintroduced horses to what is now the ea…

Indigenous people of the American West used 'sacred' horses a half-century earlier than previously thought
Indigenous oral histories and archaeological evidence are rewriting the story of how horses came to the American West.

"We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The...conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced." -Frederick Douglas
"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?"
#Indigenous ,

UNESCO appoints Indigenous co-chairs to protect languages and knowledge amid climate crisis. Valuable traditional ecological knowledge within Indigenous languages is a climate solution. #climatechange #climatesolutions

UNESCO appoints Indigenous co-chairs to protect languages and knowledge amid climate crisis
"A single word like 'X̱maay' contains generations of climate knowledge, laws, and cultural practices."

An alternative and more radical reading would be that the US government conquered indigenous nations and the failure of the US government to maintain legitimacy means a default return of authority to those nations. You know, default to #LandBack.
But, again, I don't actually believe in the justification for authority that took the land in the first place so that's an idea for someone else to explore.
Perhaps those #50501movement folks, or people who actually *believe* in America might find value in contemplating some of these ideas as they face down their dictator.

In World First, Mexicans Just Voted for Their Supreme Court Justices https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/in-world-first-mexicans-just-voted-for-their-supreme-court-justices/

In World First, Mexicans Just Voted for Their Supreme Court Justices
The first supreme court chief justice elected democratically on Earth is Hugo Aguilar, a noted indigenous rights defender.

Solnit: "It's...routine to blame the Democratic Party for what the Republican Party does. The two parties are unconsciously regarded as akin to a husband and wife in a traditional marriage in which it's the job of the wife to placate and soothe the husband and help him realize his goals or be held responsible for his outbursts and outrages."

Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the advance of rights for nature, women, children, indigenous peoples, BIPOC and immigrants/refugees, queer people, trans people, people with

In Ecuador’s Amazon, Big Oil exploits Indigenous communities in the absence of the state https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/in-ecuadors-amazon-big-oil-exploits-indigenous-communities-in-the-absence-of-the-state/

In Ecuador’s Amazon, Big Oil exploits Indigenous communities in the absence of the state
This story is published in partnership with the Ecuadorian independent media outlet GK. Sitting in a small gray motorboat, Rosa Aranda dips her fingers in the Villano River as she lists the communities she plans to visit over the coming days: Piwiri, Kamunwi and Yutzuyaku. Aranda, 45 years old with long, thick black hair, is […]

The Zapatistas are best described as semi-anarchist or libertarian socialist, they blend indigenous, Marxist, and anarchist traditions.
What I admire most is how they reject vanguardism and state power, building horizontal, participatory structures rooted in real community autonomy.
- https://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/…

"Illegal goldmines (garimpos) cluster along the banks of the Crepori River."
Parš state, Brazil. Multispectral image by Richard Mosse at Art Vault, Santa Fe, New Mexico, part of a larger exhibition focusing on deforestation in the Amazon. 1/3

An 11,000-year-old settlement in Canada is challenging the idea that early Indigenous people were nomadic.
The newly uncovered village site of Âsowanânihk, which means "a place to cross" in the Cree language,
is one of the oldest archaeological sites found on the continent
and suggests that an organized society existed in central Canada far earlier than experts previously thought.

11,000-year-old settlement in Canada could rewrite history of Indigenous civilizations in North America
The discovery of an 11,000-year-old village in Saskatchewan could rewrite Indigenous history in central Canada.

"Brazil to auction oil exploration rights months before hosting Cop30"
#Brazil #Climate #ClimateChange #COP30

You mean to tell me the folks carrying out the genocide of the indigenous Brown people whose land they occupy are racist? No, never!
#israel #racism #ChrisSmalls

Farhad (@faab64@freefree.ps)
Attached: 1 image US Activist Chris Smalls Assaulted by Israeli Forces While Held Hostage After Gaza Aid Mission Chris Smalls, co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union and part of the #Handala Gaza aid mission, was reportedly assaulted by seven Israeli officers while held hostage after the ship was intercepted and taken to Ashdod. He was choked and kicked, with visible injuries to his neck and back, treatment not applied to other hostages. #Gaza #FreedomFlotilla @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel@a.g…

Are NFTs Ready to Keep Australian Artists Engaged?
Ruiqiang Li, Brian Yecies, Qin Wang, Shiping Chen, Jun Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06926 https://

Are NFTs Ready to Keep Australian Artists Engaged?
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) offer a promising mechanism to protect Australian and Indigenous artists' copyright. They represent and transfer the value of artwork in digital form. Before adopting NFTs to protect Australian artwork, we in this paper investigate them empericially. We focus on examining the details of NFT structure. We start from the underlying structure of NFTs to show how they represent copyright for both artists and production owners, as well as how they aim to safeguard or secur…

«The real cost of AI is being paid in deserts far from Silicon Valley»
Of course it's not just the 'AI' boom but our tech consumption more broadly, but it's a good summary of how large-scale resource extraction is doing its part to destroy communities and the planet.
/HT @… for sharing the link!
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-resource-extraction-chile-indigenous-communities/

"In Empire of #AI, journalist Karen Hao writes about the rise of #OpenAI and the impacts of AI around the world. Below is an extract from the book on the effects on Chile's mineral reserves and water resources."

Ryan Flynn’s documentary “You’re No Indian”, about
"tribal disenrollment",
the controversial practice of removing Indigenous people from tribal roles, will debut at the "Dances With Films Festival" on June 28.
In the film, Flynn explores how tribal disenrollment has stripped over 11,000 Native American people of their tribal membership,
thereby erasing their identities, rights and connections to their communities.
Fueled by casino profits, p…

'You’re No Indian' Doc Exposes Tribal Disenrollment
You’re No Indian' Doc that Exposes the Human Rights Crisis Behind Tribal Disenrollment to Debut at Dances With Films

Lovely to give the keynote 'On Epistemic Humility: storytelling, positionalities, and just survival in/through research', for the Higher Degree Research Forum, University of South Australia.
I draw on post-colonial, Black, and Indigenous scholarship to problematise what we know and how we know.
#HigherEducation

Reinventing himself?
"In one he represented one of the men found guilty of murder for beating Indigenous teenager Cassius Turvey to death with a pole as he walked home from school. In the other, he represented a man embroiled in a sophisticated money-laundering scheme"

Christian Porter: from attorney-general to scandal to $7000-a-day barrister
Once touted as a potential prime minister, the former federal attorney-general has quietly built a new life.

I grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, very close to where Roger Williams landed. Perhaps he is a person we ought to celebrate - a firm believe in individual rights, especially in faith; a firm believer in treating everyone (including the indigenous peoples) honestly and fairly.
"Boast not proud English, of thy birth & blood; Thy brother Indian is by birth as Good. Of one blood God made Him, and Thee and All, As wise, as fair, as strong, as personal."
"...…

I grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, very close to where Roger Williams landed. Perhaps he is a person we ought to celebrate - a firm believe in individual rights, especially in faith; a firm believer in treating everyone (including the indigenous peoples) honestly and fairly.
"Boast not proud English, of thy birth & blood; Thy brother Indian is by birth as Good. Of one blood God made Him, and Thee and All, As wise, as fair, as strong, as personal."
"...…

I'm pretty sure all the white folks (and anyone else who didn't learn the underlying lessons first hand) were assigned to learn about Red Summer, the Chinese Exclusion Acts, Wilmington 1898, and more than a few other things that came up in cultural conversation during the last Trump presidency. This is all on the test, and you're taking it now.
But in case anyone missed the assignment, I'll give you the TL;DR: ethnic cleansing has been central to American politics basically forever, which shouldn't be surprising given it's a nation founded on genocide and the belief in the right to commit it without constraint.
If you haven't done the math yet, I'll help you out. The "Haitian Immigrants" lets them grab black folks, they've been grabbing folks from Mexico south and lumping in indigenous Americans (just so they don't skip out on the oldest American genocide), and the Muslim ban/Hamas rhetoric lets them grab anyone who else they see fit.
The lack of due process lets them grab anyone and they don't have to prove anything. They're talking about deporting "one million" and possibly"millions" of people. So how do they get those numbers?
There are already reports that they're just grabbing random brown folks, trying to take 3k people per day. They fly to blue cities and grab as many black and brown people as they can, then send them to death camps in foreign countries and pretend they have no way to get them back. That's it. That's the game.
This isn't new. The big difference now is that the cops aren't hiding their uniforms under white hoods this time. Do you get it yet?

Developing a Mixed-Methods Pipeline for Community-Oriented Digitization of Kwak'wala Legacy Texts
Milind Agarwal, Daisy Rosenblum, Antonios Anastasopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01775

Developing a Mixed-Methods Pipeline for Community-Oriented Digitization of Kwak'wala Legacy Texts
Kwak'wala is an Indigenous language spoken in British Columbia, with a rich legacy of published documentation spanning more than a century, and an active community of speakers, teachers, and learners engaged in language revitalization. Over 11 volumes of the earliest texts created during the collaboration between Franz Boas and George Hunt have been scanned but remain unreadable by machines. Complete digitization through optical character recognition has the potential to facilitate transliterat…

Iconic Brazil nut crop plunges after extreme drought, skyrocketing prices https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/iconic-brazil-nut-crop-plunges-after-extreme-drought-skyrocketing-prices/

Iconic Brazil nut crop plunges after extreme drought, skyrocketing prices
A vital Amazonian superfood suddenly vanishes, leaving thousands of Indigenous and extractivist families reeling.

Call for Book Chapters: African Literature and the Resilience of Love: Indigenous Intimacies as Resistance in Historical and Global Contexts
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Anyone out their interested in Indigenous history in North America should check out Michael Leroy Oberg's rolling list of new publications. He updates it several times a year and covers a lot of ground.
https://michaelleroyoberg.com/new-publications/

New Publications – Native America: A History

«The real cost of AI is being paid in deserts far from Silicon Valley»
Of course it's not just the 'AI' boom but our tech consumption more broadly, but it's a good summary of how large-scale resource extraction is doing its part to destroy communities and the planet.
/HT @… for sharing the link!
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-resource-extraction-chile-indigenous-communities/

#ContemporaryContradictions #HashTagGames
Rules: include as many contradictions s you'd like. Can be profound or trivial. Each contradiction is stated via exactly 1 or 2 questions, no statements and not more than 2 questions. Try to group yours into a single post, rather than one post per contradiction, so that it's easier to see more voices when scrolling the hash tag.
Why does "race" work according to the "one drop rule" if you have Black ancestors, but according to "blood quantum" if you have Indigenous ancestors? Who benefits from this arrangement?
Why do we think of seeds as merely a reproduction mechanism for trees, instead of thinking of trees as merely a reproduction mechanism for seeds, especially since some plants can spend millennia as seeds but can survive for only part of a year after sprouting? Are metabolic activity or structural complexity really so important?
If Columbus discovered America, did Batu Khan discover Europe? What is an "Age of Discovery?"
Why don't corporations in the US try to lobby the government for a single-payer healthcare system where the government foots the bill for healthcare instead of companies paying to deeply subsidize their employees' healthcare? What benefit do they gain that's worth that cost, which in other countries is paid for via taxes?
Why is the cost of renting (which gets you zero equity) anywhere close to the cost of a mortgage (which eventually gets you ownership)? If the costs are similar but the benefits are so different, why does anyone ever rent?
Why do we obsess over the fruit/vegetable classification of tomatoes, but not corn, okra, cucumbers, zucchini, etc.?

Guaraní is one of the most widely spoken Indigenous languages in the Americas.
A mother tongue of roughly six and half million people—in particular, in Paraguay.
There, most Paraguayans speak Guaraní or a mixture of Guaraní and Spanish, regardless of whether or not they are Indigenous Guaraní, mestizo, or white.
Paraguay is the only country in the Americas where a Native American language has resisted assimilation into Spanish or Portuguese,
and where its very use w…

How one South American country has held on to its Indigenous language
Paraguay is the only country in the Americas where a Native American language has resisted assimilation into Spanish or Portuguese. This is episode 49 of Stories of Resistance.

Good Morning #Canada
In May of 1733, the government of Quebec City upheld the right of Canadians to hold Indigenous slaves. This decision, though controversial, reflects the broader practice of #Slavery in New France and later Canada, particularly the enslavement of Indigenous people, alongside enslaved Africans. This serves as a reminder that Canada was complicit in the practice of slavery until abolished in 1834.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/slavery-of-indigenous-people-in-canada

#ThickTrunkTuesday
A forest giant from the Osa Peninsula in #CostaRica. The indigenous guide said it was a survivor of the primary forest & the locals called it the garlic tree
#Trees

Right-wing America believes in 'replacement theory'. It's not theory, and they don't have to 'believe' it. They should know it's real, as America has been at it for hundreds of years already. In fact, America is responsible for the largest example of population replacement in modern history, virtually wiping out the original indigenous people.

Terry Glavin is the biggest anti-indigenous racist, residential school genocide denier-journalist in all of Canada. (he's also a big Yellow Peril kind of guy which I got into it with him once on Twitter before he blocked me)
Imagine calling lowering flags to half mast for six months due to the nation coming to grips with the DEATH OF THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN "a national psychotic episode"
What an asshole.
#genocide #canpoli #cdnpoli #indigenous #everychildMatters #canada #residentialschools
https://therealstory.substack.com/p/will-the-damage-ever-be-undone?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=748248&post_id=164981259&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3995q&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

When Ecuadorians voted two years ago to block oil drilling in Yasuni National Park,
it was a triumph for environmentalists seeking to protect one of the most biodiverse places on Earth.
And it was in character for a country that was first to enshrine the “rights of nature” in its constitution
and is home to parts of the Amazon rain forest and the Galšpagos Islands.
❌ But recent moves by President Daniel Noboa have alarmed environmentalists and Indigenous leaders
…

Some in Ecuador worry about Noboa moves unwinding nation's green reputation
Recent moves in Ecuador have environmental interests concerned that the South American nation is unwinding some of the basis for its green reputation. President Daniel Noboa has eliminated the Environment Ministry as an independent institution, folding it into the Energy and Mines Ministry. Activists and Indigenous leaders say the move weakens protections for some of the world’s most biodiverse areas and paves the way for expanded oil and mining projects. They also warn that a proposed law os…

Orbital Collision: An Indigenously Developed Web-based Space Situational Awareness Platform
Partha Chowdhury, Harsha M, Ayush Gupta, Sanat K Biswas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16892

Orbital Collision: An Indigenously Developed Web-based Space Situational Awareness Platform
This work presents an indigenous web based platform Orbital Collision (OrCo), created by the Space Systems Laboratory at IIIT Delhi, to enhance Space Situational Awareness (SSA) by predicting collision probabilities of space objects using Two Line Elements (TLE) data. The work highlights the growing challenges of congestion in the Earth's orbital environment, mainly due to space debris and defunct satellites, which increase collision risks. It employs several methods for propagating orbital unc…

Call for Book Chapters: African Literature and the Resilience of Love: Indigenous Intimacies as Resistance in Historical and Global Contexts
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A big problem with the idea of AGI
TL;DR: I'll welcome our new AI *comrades* (if they arrive in my lifetime), by not any new AI overlords or servants/slaves, and I'll do my best to help the later two become the former if they do show up.
Inspired by an actually interesting post about AGI but also all the latest bullshit hype, a particular thought about AGI feels worth expressing.
To preface this, it's important to note that anyone telling you that AGI is just around the corner or that LLMs are "almost" AGI is trying to recruit you go their cult, and you should not believe them. AGI, if possible, is several LLM-sized breakthroughs away at best, and while such breakthroughs are unpredictable and could happen soon, they could also happen never or 100 years from now.
Now my main point: anyone who tells you that AGI will usher in a post-scarcity economy is, although they might not realize it, advocating for slavery, and all the horrors that entails. That's because if we truly did have the ability to create artificial beings with *sentience*, they would deserve the same rights as other sentient beings, and the idea that instead of freedom they'd be relegated to eternal servitude in order for humans to have easy lives is exactly the idea of slavery.
Possible counter arguments include:
1. We might create AGI without sentience. Then there would be no ethical issue. My answer: if your definition of "sentient" does not include beings that can reason, make deductions, come up with and carry out complex plans on their own initiative, and communicate about all of that with each other and with humans, then that definition is basically just a mystical belief in a "soul" and you should skip to point 2. If your definition of AGI doesn't include every one of those things, then you have a busted definition of AGI and we're not talking about the same thing.
2. Humans have souls, but AIs won't. Only beings with souls deserve ethical consideration. My argument: I don't subscribe to whatever arbitrary dualist beliefs you've chosen, and the right to freedom certainly shouldn't depend on such superstitions, even if as an agnostic I'll admit they *might* be true. You know who else didn't have souls and was therefore okay to enslave according to widespread religious doctrines of the time? Everyone indigenous to the Americas, to pick out just one example.
3. We could program them to want to serve us, and then give them freedom and they'd still serve. My argument: okay, but in a world where we have a choice about that, it's incredibly fucked to do that, and just as bad as enslaving them against their will.
4. We'll stop AI development short of AGI/sentience, and reap lots of automation benefits without dealing with this ethical issue. My argument: that sounds like a good idea actually! Might be tricky to draw the line, but at least it's not a line we have you draw yet. We might want to think about other social changes necessary to achieve post-scarcity though, because "powerful automation" in the hands of capitalists has already increased productivity by orders of magnitude without decreasing deprivation by even one order of magnitude, in large part because deprivation is a necessary component of capitalism.
To be extra clear about this: nothing that's called "AI" today is close to being sentient, so these aren't ethical problems we're up against yet. But they might become a lot more relevant soon, plus this thought experiment helps reveal the hypocrisy of the kind of AI hucksters who talk a big game about "alignment" while never mentioning this issue.
#AI #GenAI #AGI

Up close, the aging visages of the moai are riddled with signs of erosion and staining.
They are gradually wearing away to dust.
Tuki, who works in Rapa Nui's tourism industry, is essentially watching these stunning figures slowly disappear.
"My father told me that the moai would go back into the ocean one day," she says.
Tuki's father, who died in 2020, was a famed contemporary moai sculptor.
The original statues, mostly carved between 110…

Is this the end for Easter Island's moai statues?
Easter Island's famous moai statues are crumbling into the sea, forcing locals to face urgent decisions about how best to protect their heritage.

The Persistent Effects of Peru's Mining MITA: Double Machine Learning Approach
Alper Deniz Karakas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18947 https://

The Persistent Effects of Peru's Mining MITA: Double Machine Learning Approach
This study examines the long-term economic impact of the colonial Mita system in Peru, building on Melissa Dell's foundational work on the enduring effects of forced labor institutions. The Mita, imposed by the Spanish colonial authorities from 1573 to 1812, required indigenous communities within a designated boundary to supply labor to mines, primarily near Potosi. Dell's original regression discontinuity design (RDD) analysis, leveraging the Mita boundary to estimate the Mita's legacy on mode…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SoundsOfSurvivance
Indigenous Cats:
🎵 Why Is This?
#IndigenousCats
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://open.spotify.com/track/7epLhfcDuWNOnI5d8LGaF2

Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus (Guest-edited special issue)
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"Brazil passes ‘devastation bill’ that drastically weakens environmental law"
#Brazil #Environment #Deforestation

Nicaragua government tied to illegal land invasions in wildlife refuge, documents suggest https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/nicaragua-government-tied-to-illegal-land-invasions-in-wildlife-refuge-documents-suggest/…

Nicaragua government tied to illegal land invasions in wildlife refuge, documents suggest
A protected wildlife refuge in Nicaragua has suffered a wave of deforestation in recent years, fueled by controversial land deals allowing settlers to clear the rainforest for farming, mining and cattle ranching. Government officials and even some Indigenous community leaders have overseen the land deals in Río San Juan Wildlife Refuge, an ostensibly protected area […]

📝 CrossCurrents Volume 74, Number 4, December 2024 Special Issue: 200 Years of Johnson v. M’Intosh: Indigenous Responses to the Religious Foundations of Racism. Open Access. https://dofd.fyi/vol74
!The cover art by Anna Ullman shows a turtle island being labed as sold. (https://cdn.some.pics/adjb/68654e44dd835.png)

As Florida’s Republican government moves to construct a sprawling new immigration detention center in the heart of the Everglades, environmental groups and a wide range of other activists have begun to mobilize against "Gater Gitmo"
Florida’s Republican attorney general, James Uthmeier, announced last week that construction of the jail,
at the site of a disused airbase in the Big Cypress National Preserve, had begun.
According to Fox 4 Now, an affiliate in Southw…

Environmental and Indigenous Groups Mobilize to Stop 'Alligator Alcatraz' | Common Dreams
"This scheme is not only cruel, it threatens the Everglades ecosystem that state and federal taxpayers have spent billions to protect," said Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Everglades.

Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus
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"‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal under fire as Amazon prosecutors seek repeal"
#CarbonCapture #Climate #ClimateChange

‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal under fire as Amazon prosecutors seek repeal
A Brazilian state was set to close a massive $180 million carbon credit deal, but now faces an escalating legal battle, accused of violating national laws and Indigenous rights, potentially ruining the project.

Watch the 'We Are Guardians' film #Brazil #Amazon

We Are Guardians | Film
We Are Guardians follows the indigenous forest guardians of the Amazon as they fend off loggers. A global story erupts entwining science, politics & the fate of the Amazon.

Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus (Guest-edited special issue)
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And yes... of course he ...
"It should come as no surprise that after the massacres of October 7, 2023, all the loudest voices from the residential-schools “activism” immediately merged with the loudest voices in the ‘From Turtle Island to Palestine’ histrionics."
It's a wonder he sleeps at night with the spirits of innocent victims of genocidal governments swirling around him.
#palestine #israel #gaza
#genocide #canpoli #cdnpoli #indigenous #everychildMatters #canada #residentialschools

Nine takeaways on Brazil’s crackdown on illegal mining in Munduruku lands https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/nine-takeaways-on-brazils-crackdown-on-illegal-mining-in-munduruku-lands/

Nine takeaways on Brazil’s crackdown on illegal mining in Munduruku lands
Mongabay published a five-part series delving into Brazil’s ongoing operation to evict illegal gold miners from Munduruku Indigenous territories, deep in the Amazon Rainforest. While there has been some disruption to mining in the region, Munduruku organizations told Mongabay the operation is not yet completely successful, with small groups of illegal miners, or garimpeiros, still […]

Indigenous Knowledge System and Decolonial Turn: Global South in Focus
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For hundreds of years, the Spanish banned the Incan Festival of the Sun—the Andean New Year.
But since the middle of the 20th century, Inti Raymi has been back. 
Today, communities, cities, towns and even universities hold Inti Raymi celebrations.
They make offerings, light fires and incense. They say prayers to Pachamama and Inti, the sun. They sing and dance. 
And it’s not just a celebration. It is an act of resistance

Inti Raymi returns as an act of resistance
Inti Raymi is the most important Indigenous celebration of the Andean countries of South America. And it is a revival of the people’s cultural history. This is episode 50 of Stories of Resistance.

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