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4th Meeting, Second Intersessional Meeting on the Participation of Indigenous Peoples - UN Human Rights Council.
This intersessional meeting is the second of two mandated under paragraph 16 of resolution 54/12, in which the Council decided to "continue to discuss and develop further steps and measures necessary to enable and to facilitate the participation of Indigenous Peoples' representatives and institutions duly established by themselves in the work of the Human Rights Council." The first intersessional meeting was held on 18 and 19 July 2024.
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#indigenous#tribal groups#aboriginal#indigenous community media#plenary sessions#indigenous rights#un human rights council#right to participation#indigenous participation#participation#indigenous peoples representatives#indigenous peoples institutions
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story about a heist team doing a heist of colonial museums and returning unethically stolen sacred objects and objects of cultural patrimony to their original communities
but the story isn’t about them
the story is a legal thriller about the repatriation coordinator and the pro bono lawyer who get frantically called in by that community when an artifact goes missing from a museum and shows up unexpectedly at their doorstep and now they are in a shit ton of (potentially international) legal trouble because the heist team did not take the legal ramifications into account, and no one else believes them that they didn’t steal it, and The Law is saying they are legally obligated to return it to the museum and are also probably going to go to prison for this, and activists are protesting, and it’s rocking the repatriation world, and it’s turning into a huge Thing
#I enjoy the museum heist repatriation fantasy as much as the next person but there is a reason people don’t just do that#The theme can be the unfair prioritization of colonial laws over indigenous rights and the inherent ethical unbalance#Of making repatriation the choice of the institution to do or not do#But like. A museum heist would not end in a ‘oh sorry guess you have it now and we can’t do anything about it’#repatriation
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So long as the political and economic system remains intact, voter enfranchisement, though perhaps resisted by overt white supremacists, is still welcomed so long as nothing about the overall political arrangement fundamentally changes. The facade of political equality can occur under violent occupation, but liberation cannot be found in the occupier’s ballot box. In the context of settler colonialism voting is the “civic duty” of maintaining our own oppression. It is intrinsically bound to a strategy of extinguishing our cultural identities and autonomy.
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Since we cannot expect those selected to rule in this system to make decisions that benefit our lands and peoples, we have to do it ourselves. Direct action, or the unmediated expression of individual or collective desire, has always been the most effective means by which we change the conditions of our communities. What do we get out of voting that we cannot directly provide for ourselves and our people? What ways can we organize and make decisions that are in harmony with our diverse lifeways? What ways can the immense amount of material resources and energy focused on persuading people to vote be redirected into services and support that we actually need? What ways can we direct our energy, individually and collectively, into efforts that have immediate impact in our lives and the lives of those around us? This is not only a moral but a practical position and so we embrace our contradictions. We’re not rallying for a perfect prescription for “decolonization” or a multitude of Indigenous Nationalisms, but for a great undoing of the settler colonial project that comprises the United States of America so that we may restore healthy and just relations with Mother Earth and all her beings. Our tendency is towards autonomous anti-colonial struggles that intervene and attack the critical infrastructure that the U.S. and its institutions rest on. Interestingly enough, these are the areas of our homelands under greatest threat by resource colonialism. This is where the system is most prone to rupture, it’s the fragility of colonial power. Our enemies are only as powerful as the infrastructure that sustains them. The brutal result of forced assimilation is that we know our enemies better than they know themselves. What strategies and actions can we devise to make it impossible for this system to govern on stolen land? We aren’t advocating for a state-based solution, redwashed European politic, or some other colonial fantasy of “utopia.” In our rejection of the abstraction of settler colonialism, we don’t aim to seize colonial state power but to abolish it. We seek nothing but total liberation.
Voting Is Not Harm Reduction - An Indigenous Perspective
#indigenous action#2024 elections#voting#on one hand i think if one opponent is a mask off fascist white people have an obligation to vote against them As The Least We Can Do#but if that's all we're doing? that and bullying other people who see a futility in participating in a colonial institution of 'democracy'?#sorry but um. shut the fuck up#if we spent half as much energy on direct action to support each other in ways that help people REGARDLESS of who wins what election#as we did on yelling at Other Leftists about voting i think we would get a hell of a lot more actual shit done#and sure as hell help more actual real life people who we claim to be helping by yelling at other people to vote#i'm talking to me here like#our current blue harm reduction candidate actively supporting a genocide should make you feel like maybe this shit doesn't fucking work#because it doesn't <3#harm reduction as the least we can do needs to be a call to action via vote AND actual action or it's not a call to anything at all#the least we can do needs to be motivating AND convicting#it's the least we can do so fucking do it. it's the least we can do so if that's All you do sit the hell down or stand the fuck up#for people who the status quo serves it needs to be the ballot AND the bullet or our ballot means fuck all for real liberation
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2023 reads // twitter thread
To Shape A Dragon’s Breath
YA fantasy
a young Indigenous girl finds & bonds with a dragon hatchling - the first time in many generations for her people - and is required to go to the coloniser’s dragon academy in their mainland city, to learn how to raise her dragon and the science of its magic
historical inspired setting on the cusp of industrial revolution with steampunk vibes
bi polyamorous MC, Black lesbian SC, nonverbal autistic SC
#To Shape A Dragon’s Breath#aroaessidhe 2023 reads#this is really really good i loved it!#the chapter titles are all like snippets of a story. or like sentence fragments that match up. which is cool#it is definitely more about being indigenous in a coloniser institution than Dragon School - not Super dragon heavy if you want that#I suspect the subsequent books will get into that when she gets big enough to ride and stuff#t’s also def YA! i’ve seen a few ppl assume it’s adult and be like its very young :( but like. I mean its perfectly reasonable for a 15yo m#definitely a Lot of racism and colonialism which is not fun to read! though it's still through a YA lens. there was def a part of me that#was imagining consequences of the narrative as if it were an adult novel#on that line of thought - at the end a lot of it is kind of solved by them going to the king and he's is like. oh no racism is happening?#that's bad i'll deal with those people! which felt like. a little simplistic. but maybe the easiest way to end the narrative for book 1 -#I don't think the author ACTUALLY is going to portray the king as a Good Guy throughout the series - it just felt conveniently like -#a simple YA solution to some very big and complex elements? if that makes sense? (but again - it is YA so it's allowed I suppose!)#some of the worldbuilding (like all the science learning) is probably setup for next books - we don’t really see any practical application#the romances are also subtle and not Overbearing In Book One which i like - leave some space for the series!#also her getting fanmail from a 10yo mixed race girl who looks up to her 🥺#anyway. i really loved it!#oh also it reminded me a little of leviathan. i guess just the steampunk/time period/european culture....#To Shape A Dragon's Breath
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Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ. Tapestry Institute. https://tapestryinstitute.org/mitakuye-oyasin/. Referencing Sicungu Lakota Elder Albert White Hat.
Their website defines itself thusly: Tapestry Institute weaves Indigenous Knowledge to life through activities and publications that use Indigenous ways of knowing, learning about, and responding to the natural world. The particular post I am referencing is about the Lakota phrase ‘Mitakuye Oyasin’ (also spelled as Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ, mitákuye oyásʾį). “The Lakota phrase Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ describes Reality by addressing it as “All My Relations.” All humans, all animals, all plants, all the waters, the soil, the stones, the mountains, the grasslands, the winds, the clouds and storms, the sun and moon, stars and planets are our relations and are relations to one another. We are connected to each other in multiple and vital ways. When one is in pain, all are harmed. When there is justice for one, there is more justice for all.”
This quote is important as it confirms the idea that ‘Mitakyue Oyasin’ is more than merely a meaningful phrase, but is a way of describing Reality. It also helps describe the sheer scope of what the words mean. What is also important to recognize is the belief in pain and justice also being interconnected as this can be connected to feminist ideas expressed within much queer ecology. But, the post also emphasizes that even though ‘All our Relations’ is the most common translation of the words, “the phrase actually bears within it rich layers of additional meaning that cannot be easily translated into English. It’s important to point this out because words and ideas, stories and rituals, are bound together into a single reality that must be respected, not misappropriated”.
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Finally, the video interview with Albert White Hat adds even more complexity: the wisdom in these words are not “merely a collection of historical ideas or words” but “ a system of powerful knowledge applicable to the lives and struggles of people right now”. This ultimately supports my thesis; that indigenous worldviews (in this case, Mitakuye Oyasin) can be in symbiosis/symbiopoesis with queer ecology--the concept is a tool (a much more besides) that can be applied to the struggle we face in healing our planet.
-- Symbiosis is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two biological organisms of different species
-- ‘Symbiopoesis’ or “how organisms can be intimately involved in each other’s development” (squid and light emitting bacteria, bees and pollination, acacia trees and ants, wasps and figs). (Rahder)
#queer ecology#tapestry institute#critical ecology#indigenous people#traditional ecological knowledge#mitakuye oyasin#symbiosis#symbiopoiesis#ecofeminism#queer theory#environmental politics#ecology#colonialism#Youtube
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Religious/spiritual bipoc youth who have to grapple with generational trauma, religious guilt, and on top of that their own peers giving them a hard time for being religious/spiritual because it makes them "the enemy" or whatever... yea
#I was having thoughts last night#Usually I don't like stating my details; it makes me feel like I'm trying to appeal to something when my words are too weak;#but I don't want to make it sound like I'm speaking from nowhere; I'm very much speaking from somewhere#I'm African American with an Indigenous Caribbean background and I grew up Catholic with various spiritual beliefs#Separating my beliefs from my race and culture is impossible; at least if I would like to preserve authenticity;#but it seems like not everyone is on the same page about this at all#I'm not saying people should be forced to be happy about religion and religious institutions; they have issues aplenty;#but I am very much saying that religion and spirituality as a whole plays a major role in culture#and that if you want to appeal to poc you need to be willing to at least be accepting of people who practice religion and spirituality#Open-mindedness and respect is very useful; I don't see enough open-mindedness and respect; but that's the old person in me talking#People are too quick to be mean and judgmental; funny enough that's where a lot of microagressions come from#Like I have news for all the people who attacked me as a religious person and not as a racial minority; metaphorically
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[The origin of the Belle Park totem pole in Kingston, Ontario, at least in part. Queen Elizabeth was visiting for the Kingston tercentenary, and this totem pole was one of a number made at that time by Indigenous inmates at Collin's Bay Penitentiary and Joyceville Institution, two medium security federal prisons in Kingston.
Who the carvers were, the inception of the project, whose idea was it, how it fits into the broader activities of the Native Brotherhood at Joyceville, all of that is still a little hazy to me - but the hard work of local researchers has resulted in a stupendous resource available here online: https://belleparkproject.com/the-place/totem-pole. It answers a lot of my questions and features the words of many of the carvers - a useful corrective to the Whig's slant here.
The Advance - the inmate newspaper at Joyceville - has a notice in June indicating OECA Channel 19 interviewed the totem pole carvers on May 18, for broadcast July 1 & 2 in Toronto. The Advance praises the tercentenary project as a "significant symbol of the role Native People have played in the evolvement of the Canadian people." Haven't read earlier issues yet to get a better feel.
In terms of outside newspaper coverage, there is this dramatic image from April 17 crediting MP Flora MacDonald for getting the wood shipping from BC. Which is all about how great the local Conservative MP is, not the carvers.
In terms of the broader context, Seth Adema's article “Native Brotherhoods and Decolonization in Ontario's Federal Prisons' is pretty crucial, and available for free online if you search. The totem pole is still on the Belle Park golf course, which has become during the pandemic a tent encampment for Kingston’s growing unhoused population. The city keeps trying to evict them all - presumably to re-open the golf course - while local solidarity activists try and stop it. Belle Island, where the park is partly located, is a site with great significance to the local First Nations, but was of course a garbage dump at one point because this is Canada...]
/// Captions for top images: "Chips are flying," Kingston Whig-Standard. June 8, 1973. Page 4. ---- Indian inmates at Joyceville Institution are busy these days in an effort to finish a giant totem pole before the Queen's visit on June 27. When finished, the carved pole will be given to the city and placed at the new municipal golf course where the Queen and Prince Philip will be staying in their private railway car.
(Photo by William O'Neill)
"To overlook the municipal golf course," Kingston Whig-Standard. June 8, 1973. Page 4. ---- When completed and presented to Kingston, the totem pole on the left will be set up by the parks and recreation department on the spot marked with an X in the above picture. The Chalet willhouse the dressing rooms and office building for the city's new municipal golf course, built over at former dump site.
(Photo by Bill Baird)
Captions for middle image: "Putting some art into it," Kingston Whig-Standard. April 17, 1973. Page 1. === Turning a four-ton 40-foot log into a work of art in a monumental task. However working on the adage that a journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step Flora MacDonald MP for Kingston and the Islands helps Indian inmates at Joyceville Institution with their first cut. The Indians as a Tercentenary project have agreed to carve a totem pole for Kingston. The giant log was shipped by CNR to the institution from British Columbia free of charge, through the efforts of Miss MacDonald and CNR president MacMillan.
#kingston ontario#totem pole#tercentenary#joyceville institution#prisoners#indigenous prisoners#first nations#indigenous people#canadian history#native brotherhood#belle park#indigenous history#royal visit#life inside#history of crime and punishment in canada#crime and punishment in canada
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Fucking hell.
An entire indigenous community is having to fight for a search in landfill for the bodies of missing women, despite one *already being found*.
#institutional racism#systemic racism#racism#indigenous people#first nations#misogyny#intersectional racism and misogyny
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They're uncovering unmarked indigenous graves on my campus and in communication they call it "archeological work" and "activities". You literally have to read the whole email to understand they're talking about genocidal graves.
#anti indigenous violence#racism cw#genocide cw#cowards.#archeological work are you fucking kidding me this is at most 100 years old#but calling it archeological means 1. people who just read the subject of the email wont clock it#2. it sounds old and it puts distance between the current institution and what happened#when there is very little in fact
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This is one of my big hang ups with getting help in the behavorial health field; there are mostly neurotypical people pathologizing traits like “caring strongly about social justice issues/ unfairness” and they still somehow spin it as a bad thing. Not trying to derail the cluster b discussion - my experience is mostly with ADHD/Autism/Depression/Anxiety/CPTSD, but I have been told I might have a personality disorder because of how disregulated I presented at the office where I was actively getting more Trauma TM. It is just so baffling how stigmatizing this is toward everyone with so called “abnormal” brains / behaviors. Countering ableism and behavorial health stigma isn’t just about destigmitizing the socially acceptable/ “nice” disorders, but also the ones that aren’t as understood / accepted by society at large - especially when so much of the fear mongering comes from within the field itself.
I think people would armchair diagnose bad people with cluster B disorders much less if psychiatric disorders hadn't all been given names by ableists who of course picked the traits most unberarable to "sane" people to name them rather than, you know, the ways it affects the people that have them. It's like, when doctors are all "this disorder gives you extremely low self esteem. and it's called the Selfish Fucking Asshole Disorder" or "this disorder makes you want to die so bad. and it's called the Hysteric Bitch Disorder" or "this disorder disconnects you from your peers. and it's called the Insane Evil Cunt Disorder" and so on and so forth, so of course you have people going "oh, this person is a selfish fucking asshole, they MUST have Selfish Fucking Asshole Disorder! this further proves that all people with this disorder are like that in the first place!" Do You See It
#mental health history is disturbing#this type of stuff has been used historically to imprison “problematic people#including queer folks-women-Black-Indigenous-People-of-Color#anyone who disputed the status quo#behavorial health and medical institutions have MAJOR systemic issues akin to those in the police force
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3rd Meeting, Second Intersessional Meeting on the Participation of Indigenous Peoples - Human Rights Council.
This intersessional meeting is the second of two mandated under paragraph 16 of resolution 54/12, in which the Council decided to "continue to discuss and develop further steps and measures necessary to enable and to facilitate the participation of Indigenous Peoples' representatives and institutions duly established by themselves in the work of the Human Rights Council." The first intersessional meeting was held on 18 and 19 July 2024
Watch the 3rd Meeting, Second Intersessional Meeting on the Participation of Indigenous Peoples - Human Rights Council!
#steps and measures necessary#indigenous#indigenous rights#right to participation#indigenous participation#participation#tribal groups#indigenous communities#intersessional meeting#indigenous peoples representatives#indigenous peoples institutions#palais des nations#un human rights council
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lord give me strength not to type a certain folk singer-songwriter former sesame street castmember and certified grade A premium Liar's name into the search bar on this website.
#im still so mad about the revelation n of course people on this website were being dumb asfuck about it the last time i looked#'its blood quantum to say she's not-' cope.#'the cbc is a colonial institution you can't trust-' it was brought to their attention by an actual indigenous person so again. cope-ery#the adoption im not gonna touch with a ten foot pole bc im not cree ive no business talking about their customs#but the current chief of her 'nation' asked her to do a dna test to 'clear it up' and has she :) no:)#she lied for SIXTY YEARS!!!!! and now i cant even listen to her anymore bc so much of her music is built upon the LIE#bluffy ain't cree
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IN JULY 1980, just outside Bakersfield, California, the body of a woman who had been stabbed 27 times was found dumped in an almond orchard. She carried no identification, and Kern County detectives could not match her fingerprints with anyone, though they thought she might be Native American. The autopsy showed she had previously given birth and that she’d been sexually assaulted before her death. She had two tattoos: a rose surrounded by the words “Mother I love you,” and a heart with the words “Seattle” and “Shirley.” This particular “Jane Doe” was part of a horrific pattern: Throughout North America, Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit, trans and queer people are being murdered and disappearing altogether. According to a 2016 study funded by the National Institute of Justice, four in five American Indian and Alaska Native women in the U.S. have experienced violence. In Canada, Indigenous women and girls are 12 times more likely to experience violence than non-Indigenous women.
Canada held a three-year federally mandated investigation, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG). The final report, from 2019, acknowledged that “there is not an empirically reliable estimate of the number of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada” but concluded that it constituted a “genocide”. Advocates estimate that the number of cases is on the order of 4,000; meanwhile, a count in 2014 by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) — one of Canada’s largest policing agencies — tallied only 1,181 cases during a 32-year span.
Even with the RCMP’s lower estimate, Indigenous people account for 25% of Canada’s homicide victims between 2015-2020, despite comprising only about 5% of the country’s population. These statistics, already a decade old, appear to be the most recent of their kind reported by RCMP.
The National Inquiry was clear about the root causes of the epidemic: colonial structures, including the Indian Act; the removal of Indigenous children from their homes; forced attendance at residential schools and breaches of Indigenous rights, all of which directly resulted in increased rates of violence, death and suicide in Indigenous communities.
Of the 1,181 cases that the RCMP acknowledged, 225 remained unsolved as of 2013. For family members, the response is slow and disappointing. In Canada, 91% of homicides involving non-Indigenous women are likely to be solved, compared to just 77% for Indigenous women. The crisis is similar in the U.S. According to the FBI’s National Crime Information Center, more than 5,700 American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls were reported missing in 2016, and advocates believe the number could be even higher, given that authorities sometimes think victims are Latina or white.
A 2008 study funded by the U.S. Department of Justice found that women on some reservations are killed at a rate more than 10 times the national average. The U.S Department of the Interior told HCN that they did not have any additional information about the percentage of cases solved relating to Indigenous women and girls.
In response to families’ demand for justice and attention to the crisis, Canada and the U.S. have developed initiatives both within and across their own borders. In the U.S. in 2021, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) announced the creation of the Missing and Murdered Unit (MMU) inside the Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Justice Services to address MMIWG cases and strengthen law enforcement’s resources. According to the Department of the Interior, the initiative’s funding level has grown from $5.5 million to $16.5 million over fiscal year 2020 through 2022. The fiscal year 2023 Omnibus Appropriations bill maintained Bureau of Indian Affairs MMIP funding at $16.5 million.
In Canada, the response to MMIWG cases has been fragmented. The Tyee reported in 2021 that the RCMP, Canada’s national police force, lacked a coordinated strategy, while the regular police force does not separately track MMIWG cases. A few months later, Canada launched a national action plan to address MMIWG cases.
Throughout North America, families have waited decades for information. “Every family that we heard from was waiting, waiting for an answer,” said Marion Buller, who is Cree and a member of Mistawasis First Nation as well as the chief commissioner of Canada's National Inquiry. “They were prepared for bad news and good news.
“A loved one was murdered or went missing 20, 30 or 40 years ago, and they were still waiting for something,” she continued. “They have not given up hope.”
According to Buller, people are not generally concerned with issues of privacy when they have been waiting so long; at this point, they're simply desperate to find their loved ones. “Some families would very willingly provide samples of their own DNA if that would somehow identify a lost loved one’s remains or provide a lead to locating their lost loved one,” Buller said, adding that she had heard from families who had made this offer to law enforcement and been turned down.
— New DNA technique could bring closure for families of missing and murdered Indigenous people
#martha troian#hilary beaumont#new dna technique could bring closure for families of missing and murdered indigenous people#history#current events#racism#colonialism#misogyny#feminism#crime#law enforcement#police#child welfare#genetics#national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls#indian act#first nations#native americans#cree#mistawasis nêhiyawak#canada#usa#alaska#shirley soosay#deb haaland#marion buller#united states department of justice#national institute of justice#bureau of indian affairs#missing and murdered indigenous women and girls
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The idea that people are separate from the Earth has it's roots in colonialism, colonial exploitation, and the Enlightenment. Western science originated in this period and, because nothing exists in a vacuum, was influenced by the ideas of racial/cultural superiority, the idea that the land and those that lived on it were an extractive resource, and the idea that Western, mostly upper-class society were the default and superior, and therefore above the resources (land/people/animals/ect.) they sought to exploit. All these became justifications of colonial power and blended into early western science's development, and even now, there in an insistence in science, especially the hard sciences, that the researcher is an unbiased force, when in reality, everything from what is studied, the way a study is conducted, to the conclusions the researcher draws are all influenced by the culture the researcher lives in.
The persistent idea that any part of this country was uninhabited or had an unmanaged landscape is directly a result of colonial powers trying to strip the legitimacy of indigenous peoples from their sovereignty and open that land up to colonial settlement and/or resource exploitation. Most of the National Parks were formed in this way. But the western mindset of nature and the land being separate is at the basis of a lot of how western environmental movements operate, which then immediately comes into contention with indigenous communities who point out that that has never been the case and who are trying to reassert their land and resource rights.
If you want to read more, "As Long as Grass Grows" by Dina Gilio-Whitaker is a really accessible and in depth look at a lot of this
#These are all problems that we're currently working through in my fields#but thankfully there has been a lot of progress made over the last ~10 years#and more than half the students in my indigenous science class are from ecology or biology#so the tide is turning#most of the problem is the rigidity of academia as in institution#the sociopolitical and economic forces the prevent a lot of indigenous peoples from being represented in the sciences#and of course that we live in a Neoliberal Hellscape
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People & countries mentioned in the thread:
DR Congo - M23, Cobalt
Darfur, Sudan - International Criminal Court, CNN, BBC (Overview); Twitter Explanation on Sudan
Tigray - Human Rights Watch (Ethnic Cleansing Report)
the Sámi people - IWGIA, Euronews
Hawai'i - IWGIA
Syria - Amnesty International
Kashmir- Amnesty Summary (PDF), Wikipedia (Jammu and Kashmir), Human Rights Watch (2022)
Iran - Human Rights Watch, Morality Police (Mahsa/Jina Amini - Al Jazeera, Wikipedia)
Uyghurs - Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) Q&A, Wikipedia, Al Jazeera, UN Report
Tibetans - SaveTibet.org, United Nations
Yazidi people - Wikipedia, United Nations
West Papua - Free West Papua, Genocide Watch
Yemen - Human Rights Watch (Saudi border guards kill migrants), Carrd
Sri Lanka (Tamils) - Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch
Afghans in Pakistan - Al Jazeera, NPR
Ongoing Edits: more from the notes / me
Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh/Azerbaijan (Artsakh) - Global Conflict Tracker ("Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict"), Council on Foreign Relations, Human Rights Watch (Azerbaijan overview), Armenian Food Bank
Baháʼís in Iran - Bahá'í International Community, Amnesty, Wikipedia, Minority Rights Group International
Kafala System in the Middle East - Council on Foreign Relations, Migrant Rights
Rohingya - Human Rights Watch, UNHCR, Al Jazeera, UNICEF
Montagnards (Vietnam Highlands) - World Without Genocide, Montagnard Human Rights Organization (MHRO), VOA News
Ukraine - Human Rights Watch (April 2022), Support Ukraine Now (SUN), Ukraine Website, Schools & Education (HRW), Dnieper River advancement (Nov. 15, 2023 - Ap News)
Reblogs with Links / From Others
Indigenous Ppl of Canada, Cambodia, Mexico, Colombia
Libya
Armenia Reblog 1, Armenia Reblog 2
Armenia, Ukraine, Central African Republic, Indigenous Americans, Black ppl (US)
Rohingya (Myanmar)
More Hawai'i Links from @sageisnazty - Ka Lahui Hawaii, Nation of Hawai'i on Soverignty, Rejected Apology Resolution
From @rodeodeparis: Assyrian Policy Institute, Free Yezidi
From @is-this-a-cool-url: North American Manipur Tribal Association (NAMTA)
From @dougielombax & compiled by @azhdakha: Assyrians & Yazidis
West Sahara conflict
Last Updated: Feb. 19th, 2024 (If I missed smth before this, feel free to @ me to add it)
#resources#important#congo#sudan#tigray#sámi#hawai'i#syria#kashmir#iran#uyghurs#china#tibetans#yazidi#west papua#yemen#sri lanka#afghans in pakistan#pakistan#human rights#palestine#twitter#lmk if there's a better reource or I linked smth wrong. I am very tired#my posts#genocide#social justice#nagorno karabakh#Bahá'í#kafala system#qatar
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“Eight Indian Pupils Found After Quest,” Toronto Globe. October 26, 1932. Page 2. ---- Brantford, Oct. 25. - After wandering about the Six Nations Reserve, near here, since last night, four girls and four boys, ranging in ages from 14 to 15, returned back tonight to the Indian Institute from which they were missing.
Rev. H. W. Snell, in charge of the Institute, reported last night that seven girls and four boys, all dressed in the institute’s uniform, were missing. Search parties were organized to hunt for them, but during last night and today eight of the runways had either been found or had returned of their own accord.
Mr. Snell stated tonight that he knew where the three girls who are still missing could be located.
[AL: Make no mistake, though the story is trying to avoid this, but these young men and women were running away - escaping - from a residential school, a genocidal part of the Canadian settler state.]
#brantford#residential school#indian residential schools#escape from custody#prison break#escaped prisoners#indian institute#haudenosaunee#first nations#indigenous people#great depression in canada#settler colonialism in canada#crime and punishment in canada#history of crime and punishment in canada#teenage runaways#mohawk institute residential school#six nations of the grand river
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