#Alaska Natives

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

So my post on Oklahoma making it legal to take indigenous children from their parents without tribal consent is blowing up, and I'm glad people are horrified. But what I need people to know is that this might happen on a national level.

The Supreme Court is debating overturning the Indian Child Welfare Act.

What this act does is give Native American and Alaska Native tribes and nations control over the foster and adoption placement of their children. To overturn it would be to say tribes and nations aren't sovereign, and it would also allow the U.S. government to forcibly assimilate indigenous children into other cultures.

Please:

Spread the word about what is happening.

Read online news articles about this; the more traffic on those articles, the more likely the press is to write more articles.

If there are protests in your area, join them.

If there are indigenous nations or tribes in your area, ask them how you can help.

Donate to indigenous rights organizations like Native American Rights Fund.

Write to your representatives.

If ICWA falls, keep all of the above up. Don't just shrug and think it's over.

[wachinyeya]

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“the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the State of Alaska’s bid to fast-track the legal process, overrule the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and gain approval for the Pebble Mine — slated to extract enormous amounts of copper, gold, and molybdenum from the pristine and sensitive ecosystem known as Bristol Bay.

A diverse coalition led by Alaska Natives has consistently fought against the proposed mine for more than two decades. It eventually gained support from the EPA, which ultimately blocked the mine proposal in January 2023 over concerns it would threaten an aquatic ecosystem supporting the world’s most prolific sockeye salmon fishery.

This decision is significant, particularly considering the current High Court’s tendency to support states’ rights, limits on regulation — especially of the environmental variety — and corporate concerns. Alaska’s request, filed in June, was unusual in that it sought to skip lower appeals courts to challenge the EPA’s decision on the basis that it violated Alaska’s state sovereignty.

Under the law, alleged violations of state sovereignty are one of the few categories of cases that grant the Supreme Court original jurisdiction — meaning a state can bypass the usual state/federal court appeals process and file straight with the High Court. The justices could easily have decided to hear the case and decide in favor of the mining company, which has shown no qualms about engaging in some shady business practices over the years.

As the single most productive sockeye salmon fishery in the world, Bristol Bay contains biodiversity and abundant wild fish populations which present a stark contrast to many other fisheries in the Pacific Northwest (and worldwide). Most have experienced severe depletion over the last few decades. Sockeye salmon — like all Pacific Salmon — are a keystone species, vital to the health of an entire ecosystem. Of course, salmon also provide a sacred food source for Indigenous communities up and down the West Coast.”

-from the Lakota People’s Law Project

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"On Monday, March 13th, 2023, the Biden Administration approved the controversial Willow Project, the largest fossil fuel project the United States has reckoned with in decades. An $8 billion initiative of ConocoPhillips, Alaska’s largest crude oil producer, the project will nearly double existing oil production in the state."

"Long story short, over 30 years, Willow will release 260 million metric tons of carbon emissions into the atmosphere. That’s not good, especially given a United Nations climate report saying global carbon emissions rose in 2022. Also, Alaska Natives are sharply divided on this project. The blog explores the long history of extractive capitalism in Alaska, and how that has essentially put impoverished Indigenous people at the end of the barrel of a gun when it comes to fossil fuel projects like Willow."

The Lakota Law Project has another petition going around against a massive oil drilling project in Alaska. First link is the petition, second is their blog post about it with more information. Signing the petition is super easy. Just add your name and email.

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[tilbageidanmark]

Another shameful chapter, part of the centuries long genocide of Native Americans: The mass abductions of generation of Indian children and forced conversion to Christianity.

[americanredragger]

New Department of Interior opinion promises to recognize expanded tribal jurisdiction in Alaska

This is big fucking news.

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[rabbottsworld]

Hey there - If you’re interested in a future without climate change and investment in American communities, I would keep reading.

The Biden administration is one step away from approving project Willow, an oil drilling operation in the Alaskan Arctic. Its estimated that when burned the oil will introduce 280 million metric tons of greenhouse gases and other climate pollutants into the atmosphere in the next thirty years. To avoid the worst effects of climate change its estimated that global carbon neutrality should be achieved by 2050.

The Alaskan economy is increasingly reliant upon profits from private oil companies. The subsidies from projects such as Willow are used to build schools and roads. However, Climate change in Alaska has caused the collapse of the permafrost, leading to the decay of slope villages and disruptions to thousands of years old practices by native Alaskans, who use hunting and fishing to feed their families. Not to mention that an oil leak in the area would pollute these waters and lands, it would also be near impossible to repair under Arctic conditions. Instead of providing government support to Alaskan communities, the Biden administration is risking more damage to native communities and the environment.

To learn more and get involved visit:

You can also sign the change.org petition here:

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

As people in America are watching the Superbowl this weekend, there may be articles pointing out the racist history of the Kansas football team's name. Before you dismiss this as harmless, please remember that Native American and Alaska Native communities are currently in a legal fight to prevent the overturn of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA).

This act was created to stop cultural genocide. Until the late 1900s, Native American and Alaska Native children were routinely kidnapped and placed in residential schools and white families, where they faced abuse, forced assimilation, and sometimes murder. ICWA was passed in 1978 to stop this by allowing tribes to control the foster and adoption placement of Native American and Alaska Native children.

If overturned and the government is allowed to resume taking kids from Native families, it will be violating tribal sovereignty and be nothing less than cultural genocide.

Now, no, the football team's name is not nearly on the level of this. But when people say, "Oh, I don't care about this issue. I just want to watch football." They are ignoring how it plays in to the bigger context. They are dismissing the calls from Native American and Alaska Natives to get rid of the name, placing their nostalgia about a team name over the wishes of the people they are appropriating it from. They are normalizing the disregard of Native voices, culture, etc. They are promoting the idea that White people have supremacy over the use of other cultures as they see fit.

And you'll find this attitude in the opponents if ICWA. They'll say it doesn't matter what Indigenous people want, that what matters is that children are raised in a good home...thereby implying that a) Indigenous people are less caring of their children than white people, and b) it doesn't matter what sovereign nations want; the U.S. should be able to ignore them and take their children.

[asiawhy]

Possible Interview

If any of my mutuals or anyone that sees this is Native American or Alaska Native. Would you be down to be interviewed for a graphic design project?

Sorry if this is weird or out of nowhere.

[portland-sunshine]

Quick pushback/clarification here, as someone who lived in a town that was majority Alaska natives.

Most Arctic peoples are not Inuit, and the terms are not interchangeable. The Inuit are a specific people, and a lot of other tribes find it pretty insulting to get lumped in as one bit group under that name. It's like calling all Europeans Swedes.

The people I lived around were mostly Yupik and Tlingit, with a few Aleut folks. They actually preferred "Eskimo" as a broad term over Inuit, but their ideal would be their actual names.

If you want to refer to the natives of the Arctic and surrounding areas as a group, Arctic peoples is better. If they're specifically from Alaska, you can instead go with Alaska natives (and yes, it's Alaska, not Alaskan).

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[kingstonjael]

[pomporri]

different post but this was my take on the brazilian miku trend

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[cherryblossomshadow]

[Image ID: A black and white picture of a woman with a quote overlaid, reading:

Asking you to give me equal rights implies that they are yours to give. Instead, I must demand that you stop trying to deny me the rights all people deserve.

Smaller text at the bottom identifies the quoted woman as

Elizabeth Peratrovich Born: 1911 Equal rights advocate for Alaska Natives Helped pass first anti-discrimination law in the US

/end ID]

Elizabeth Peratrovich was an American civil rights activist, Grand President of the Alaska Native Sisterhood, and member of the Tlingit nation who worked for equality on behalf of Alaska Natives…