#first nations people

[kemetic-dreams]

Is it normal to be Mexican and not know Spanish?

Mexican is not a race, nor ethnicity. Spanish is a Western European Language regardless what countless anti-Iberian/Spanish trolls say Spanish is actually very related to Modern English with lots of Spanish words coming from Germanic origins. See my previous post to get the list.

There are hundreds of thousands out not millions of Native American Mexican that don’t speak Spanish.

Nahuatl population is 2,445,969 with Native Non Spanish Speakers at 1,659,029

Yucatec Mayan population 1,475,575 with Native Non Spanish Speakers at 892,723

Zapotec (Binizaa) population 777,253 with Native Non Spanish Speakers at 505,992

European Mexicans with Mennonites, German and Mormon speaking people in the hundreds of thousands that don’t speak Spanish as a Native Language.

In summation Just because you are Mexican and don’t speak Spanish doesn’t make you any less Mexican this is equivalent to being a Cherokee and not speaking Iroquoian from birth or Mennonite not Speaking low German. You are American there is no one can take that away from you or them. So in summation There are several million people within Mexico itself that don’t speak Spanish so if you don’t it won’t make a difference because you are not the only one.

[petejj]

‘Doctrines of Discovery’

postcolonial decolonisation

brooding looting

binding dying

terra nullious

subjugate confiscate

repudiation no reconciliation

proclamations of Christian’s rights

displacements entangle decrees

The Crown.

underlining tytles

dispel

first nations sovereignty

Dignity.

1492-1788

[brokendeerteeth]

BUGS!!

Throughout this year I’ve really gotten into bug collecting and caretaking. my yard is filled with a verity of plants and flowers that attract a large array of interesting arthropods.

These are bagworms (female top, male bottom) and are a common sight across the east and south of Australia. They cover themselves in a cocoon to protect themselves as they age, the female never leaves it but the males come in a verity of amazing colours. This one will be bright orange and black.(though will only live for 2 days)

they are very easy to take care of, only needing leaves. They’re caterpillar lifespan is up to 1 to 2 years before they undergo metamorphosis.

the caterpillar on the right is some sort of looper but I’m unable to find the species,I found them outside eating one of my rose bushes while they made a silk runway as they went.

the chrysalis on the left is from a budworm that I found munching on my flowers, they’re seen as a pest but I really don’t mind them as they’re native. hopefully they will hatch soon.

a blue swallow tail, losaria coon club tail, and an impressive whip scorpion. All a gift I got for Christmas much to my delight!

And my current collection. All of the insects were found in my garden. and I make sure not to over-collect as some of the butterfly’s and beetles are under decline. I think it’s important to get people interested in the world around them. Wether it be by conservation or just general enjoyment. Especially as fracking continues to affect many Australian states killing native wildlife and destroying native land.

[oceaniatropics]

[official-nature-posts]

Official nature post

You know what the most frustrating thing about the vegans throwing a fit over my “Humans aren’t Parasites” post is?  I really wasn’t trying to make a point about animal agriculture. Honestly, the example about subsistence hunting isn’t the main point. That post was actually inspired by thoughts I’ve been having about the National Park system and environmentalist groups.

See, I LOVE the National Parks. I always have a pass. I got to multiple parks a year. I LOVE them, and always viewed them as this unambiguously GOOD thing. Like, the best thing America has done. 

BUT, I just finished reading this book called “I am the Grand Canyon” all about the native Havasupai people and their fight to gain back their rights to the lands above the canyon rim. Historically, they spent the summer months farming in the canyon, and then the winter months hunter-gathering up above the rim. When their reservation was made though, they lost basically all rights to the rim land (They had limited grazing rights to some of it, but it was renewed year to year and always threatened, and it was a whole thing), leading to a century long fight to get it back. 

And in that book there are a couple of really poignant anecdotes- one man talks about how park rangers would come harass them if they tried to collect pinon nuts too close to park land- worried that they would take too many pinon nuts that the squirrels wanted. Despite the fact that the Havasupai had harvested pinon nuts for thousands and thousands of years without ever…like…starving the squirrels. 

There’s another anecdote of them seeing the park rangers hauling away the bodies of dozens of deer- killed in the park because of overpopulation- while the Havasupai had been banned from hunting. (Making them more and more reliant on government aid just to survive the winter months.) 

They talk about how they would traditionally carve out these natural cisterns above the rim to catch rainwater, and how all the animals benefitted from this, but it was difficult to maintain those cisterns when their “ownership” of the land was so disputed. 

So here you have examples of when people are forcibly separated from their ecosystem and how it hurts both those people and the ecosystem. 

And then when the Havasupai finally got legislation before Congress to give them ownership of the rim land back- their biggest opponent was the Parks system and the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club (a big conservation group here in the US) ran a huge smear campaign against these people on the belief that any humans owning this land other than the park system (which aims at conservation, even while developing for recreation) was unacceptable. 

And it all got me thinking about how, as much as I love the National Parks, there are times when its insistence that nature be left “untouched” (except, ya know, for recreation) can actually harm both the native people who have traditionally been part of those ecosystems AND potentially the ecosystems themselves. And I just think there’s a lot of nuance there about recognizing that there are ways for us to be in balance with nature, and that our environmentalism should respect that and push for sustainability over preserving “pristine” human-less landscapes. Removing ourselves from nature isn’t the answer. 

But apparently the idea that subsistence hunting might actually not be a moral catastrophe really set the vegans off.  Woopie. 

[reasonsforhope]

"In a historic “first-of-its-kind” agreement the government of British Colombia has acknowledged the aboriginal ownership of 200 islands off the west coast of Canada.

The owners are the Haida nation, and rather than the Canadian government giving something to a First Nation, the agreement admits that the “Xhaaidlagha Gwaayaai” or the “islands at the end of world,” always belonged to them, a subtle yet powerful difference in the wording of First Nations negotiating.

BC Premier David Eby called the treaty “long overdue” and once signed, will clear the way for half a million hectares (1.3 million acres) of land to be managed by the Haida.

Postal service, shipping lanes, school and community services, private property rights, and local government jurisdiction, will all be unaffected by the agreement, which will essentially outline that the Haida decide what to do with the 200 or so islands and islets.

“We could be facing each other in a courtroom, we could have been fighting each other for years and years, but we chose a different path,” said Minister of Indigenous Relations of BC, Murray Rankin at the signing ceremony, who added that it took creativity and courage to “create a better world for our children.”

Indeed, making the agreement outside the courts of the formal treaty process reflects a vastly different way of negotiating than has been the norm for Canada.

“This agreement won’t only raise all boats here on Haida Gwaii – increase opportunity and prosperity for the Haida people and for the whole community and for the whole province – but it will also be an example and another way for nations – not just in British Columbia, but right across Canada – to have their title recognized,” said Eby.

In other words, by deciding this outside court, Eby and the province of BC hope to set a new standard for how such land title agreements are struck."

-via Good News Network, April 18, 2024

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Of the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept 11 attacks:

15 were from Saudi Arabia (a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

2 were from the United Arab Emirates (also a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

1 was from Egypt, 1 from Lebanon.

None of the hijackers were from Iraq.

None of the Sept 11 hijackers were Iraqi.

None of the 9/11 hijackers were from Iraq.

[indizombie]

Megan Krakouer, a Menang woman who helps run the National Suicide Prevention and Trauma Recovery Project, says her team has also seen a serious spike in reports of "racism and comments of hate". Ms Krakouer had initially argued against the Voice, believing it did not go far enough because the advisory body will have no veto power over MPs. But she recently changed her position following a spate of suicides in her local community in Western Australia. Her hope now is that the body - though not "perfect", she says - will shift the dial on "the stark issues killing and hurting First Nations people". Publicly, Yes campaigners are still projecting confidence despite the recent drop in polling. But Mr Mayo worries about the scars the debate itself may inflict, win or lose. "People are going to suffer throughout this campaign. I think the most shameful thing is what the opposition has done to this conversation, and history will reflect that," he says. "This takes nothing away from anybody other than the burdens of our colonial past. It is hopeful and unifying, and they've made it a divisive political issue when it's really a basic, modest reform."

Hannah Ritchie, ‘Voice referendum: Lies fuel racism ahead of Australia's Indigenous vote’, BBC

[kemetic-dreams]

Why was America so racist against Asians during the mid-1800s to mid-1900s?

Because they were Asians , so.. Stranger Danger, and because most poor white men believed that their jobs were threatened , these were used by politicians to further their own selfish cause and power grabs, ( so glad us sophisticated moderns have moved beyond that old ploy) the fact is America have this haze the new guy phase, where they hazed most immigrants that are sufficiently different, in due time they got used to them being around, First Nations people not so much, remove them, isolate them forget about them, Asians are sufficiently different to remain suspect always ,Italians, Irish., Jews, Catholics, Latins if they promised not be too brown or speak the language of their parents and grandparents, all had a tough time of it, but Africans and African descendants, this group will have the hardest time of it outside first Nation people, because of the long history of entanglement.

But the tendency is to recycle the hate every few generations, sometimes by even the immediate descendants of the first generation of immigrants, who were more than willing to shut the door behind them.

[petejj]

Keep winning!

More power to ya!

… "Lidia really embodies what the modern-day warrior actually is about … never wavering from those issues on treaty, truth-telling, but more importantly, sovereignty and self-determination … ↘︎

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….. “You committed genocide against our people. Give us our land back. Give us what you stole from us — our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people," she directed at the stage, where the royals sat next to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese ….

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The monarchy has left a complex legacy for some First Nations people. King Charles's direct ancestors include King Edward VII and King George V

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“What Senator Thorpe has done is really brought home a message to the commonwealth that we remain an unceded, sovereign people…”

[bixels]

I watched Starship Troopers tonight.

[soxiyy]

From Levantine_gay on insta

[wachinyeya]

Joel Jackson, the president of the Organized Village of Kake, a tribal community, has lived within the Tongass National Forest in Alaska his entire life. His community relies on the land for hunting deer and fishing salmon that swim in streams kept cold by the old-growth forest.

But the 66-year-old worried about damage to that land - the largest national forest in the US - after former President Donald Trump rescinded a measure blocking logging and road-building on nine million acres of land in the Tongass in 2020.

"The forest is key to our survival as a people, to our way of life … for thousands of years," Mr Jackson said.

Last week marked a long-awaited victory for Mr Jackson and other tribes and environmental groups who petitioned the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to reinstate the protections for the forest.

The agency announced last Wednesday it would once again ban logging and the construction of roads for cutting timber in over half of the Tongass.

[explore-blog]

When the American government set out to erase indigenous culture, one woman set out to save tribal music, traveling far and wide with her cylinder phonograph, trousers, and bow tie. This is her story.

[reasonsforhope]

"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 [March 19, 2024] 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.

Save the Redwoods League bought a property containing these remarkable trees in 2013, and began working with the tribe to restore it, planting 50,000 native plants in the process. The location was within lands the Yurok once owned but were taken during the Gold Rush period.

Centuries passed, and by the time it was purchased it had been used as a lumber operation for 50 years, and the nearby Prairie Creek where the Yurok once harvested salmon had been buried.

Currently located on the fringe of Redwoods National and State Parks which receive over 1 million visitors every year and is a UNESCO Natural Heritage Site, the property has been renamed ‘O Rew, a Yurok word for the area.

“Today we acknowledge and celebrate the opportunity to return Indigenous guardianship to ‘O Rew and reimagine how millions of visitors from around the world experience the redwoods,” said Sam Hodder, president and CEO of Save the Redwoods League.

Having restored Prarie Creek and filled it with chinook and coho salmon, red-legged frogs, northwestern salamanders, waterfowl, and other species, the tribe has said they will build a traditional village site to showcase their culture, including redwood-plank huts, a sweat house, and a museum to contain many of the tribal artifacts they’ve recovered from museum collections.

Believing the giant trees sacred, they only use fallen trees to build their lodges.

“As the original stewards of this land, we look forward to working together with the Redwood national and state parks to manage it,” said Rosie Clayburn, the tribe’s cultural resources director.

It will add an additional mile of trails to the park system, and connect them with popular redwood groves as well as new interactive exhibits.

“This is a first-of-its-kind arrangement, where Tribal land is co-stewarded with a national park as its gateway to millions of visitors. This action will deepen the relationship between Tribes and the National Park Service,” said Redwoods National Park Superintendent Steve Mietz, adding that it would “heal the land while healing the relationships among all the people who inhabit this magnificent forest.”"

-via Good News Network, March 25, 2024

[thehealingsystem]

hey this thanksgiving I ask people to please please please please don't forget about indigenous americans. celebrate all you want, eat turkey, spend time with family, idc, but please do so in respect to the actual meaning behind the holiday and the atrocities committed against natives. your day of thankfulness for all that you have, the things you only have because of colonialism, is a day of mourning for us