#natives

[political-us]

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Who knows Charli Linn ?? She is 🔥 asf!! HMU

[thenuclearmallard]

[postcard-from-the-past]

Natives on the Janitzio island near Pátzcuaro, Mexico

Mexican vintage postcard

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

ARIZONA Highways, magazine, Vol. LI No. 5, Arizona Department of Transportation, May 1975

[ourrace-sexraceandculture]

We Were Everywhere Before Anyone Was Anywhere!

The Dani are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Baliem valley in the central highlands of West Papua (the Indonesian province of New Guinea). Found only in 1938 by the American aviator and explorer Richard Archbold, they remained until then technically still in the stone age. This discovery is still one of the last contact in the history of the planet between the Western civilization and another unknown and independently evolved. Their horticulture advanced technique suggests a long stay in the valley while other hypothesis suggest that the transition from hunting and gathering to the cultivation age have taken place in the last two centuries. The basis of their diet is made up of sweet potato. Pig breeding is very widespread but its meat is consumed infrequently and mainly during very important ceremonies. Hunting is little practiced. Dani men wear a penis sheath called "Koteka" obtained by emptying and drying a pumpkin. During the ceremonies or in war it is customary to adorn the body with colorful feathers, fur hats and bracelets. The women wear short skirts made of vegetable fiber and they often use one or more nets spread around the head and ornaments hanging to the neck as a protection from the spirits. There are only few working tools used by Dani and all of them are built using stone, bone and bamboo. The introduction of the metal, due to the influence of the West, took place only a few decades ago. The weapons used by Dani are spears, bows and arrows. Dani family is usually made up of a man with one or two wives and children. Polygamy is permitted but in general it is also limited due to the high cost of weddings. Particular importance is attributed to the spirits of the dead, able according to their beliefs to attack the living individuals. To date, they surveyed just over 300 Dani tribe, including some made by now by a few individuals.

[thewatcher0nthewall]

Who do you think send the winds, if not the gods?

Osha, Rickon and Shaggy

[eagle-of-siwa]

I think I might’ve found Connor’s modern day descendant (other than Desmond)

[global-musings]

Girl from Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - Eric Lafforgue

[naxalbari1967]

The Earth Does Not Need White Saviors. It Needs the Settler Gone.

The lie at the root of every liberal climate summit, every fake green corporation, every Euro-American environmental NGO and carbon credit scam is that all humans are equally to blame for climate collapse. That it’s just an issue of “population” or “modern life” or “overconsumption by everyone.” They will look a Maasai herder in the face, or a Quechua farmer, or a Yanomami child covered in river mud and leeches from fishing with their hands, and tell them that they are equally complicit in the destruction of the planet as the white men who built the World Bank and ExxonMobil. They will lump a Bengali shrimp fisher into the same moral category as a Dutch rubber baron or a Texan oil CEO. This isn’t ignorance. It is propaganda. The global ruling class needs to erase the difference between colonizer and colonized because the truth is lethal to their power. The truth is this: the vast majority of ecological destruction was, and still is, committed by settler colonies and the capitalist powers that prop them up. The native is not the problem. The settler is.

It was settler colonies that turned the earth into property. It was settlers who surveyed forests into square plots, who fenced rivers, who divided the skies into no-fly zones and the oceans into exclusive economic zones. It was not the Amazonian who drew borderlines across jungles. It was the Portuguese. It was not the Navajo who dammed the Colorado River and turned it into an energy source for Las Vegas. It was the Bureau of Reclamation. It was not the Adivasi who strip-mined the forests of Jharkhand. It was the Indian state acting as a comprador for Canadian and British corporations. Every major extinction event of the past five centuries is tied to settler expansion. North America saw its megafauna annihilated by white settlers’ agriculture, its bison herds wiped out by deliberate settler policy, not overhunting by the Plains tribes. Australia saw entire ecosystems collapsed under the boot of English sheep farming, its indigenous fire regimes suppressed, its rivers redirected. The settler did not just conquer people. He conquered the land, tortured it, and renamed his violation “development.”

Capitalism is settler logic extended globally. It sees land as dead material to be bought, owned, and turned into money. That is not the view of the original peoples. The Warlpiri see land as alive. The Lakota see it as sacred. The Munda see the forest as kin. These are not primitive metaphors. These are materialist truths developed over millennia. Indigenous land management created sustainable ecologies, fire farming in California preserved oak groves for thousands of years, Andean terrace farming built soil instead of depleting it. Compare that to the English and Dutch who turned fertile Bengal into famine land, who flooded rice paddies for jute, who cut forests to build plantation roads, who left nothing but cash crops and desert. Compare that to the Americans who drove pipelines through native lands in the Dakotas and bombed Vietnamese forests with Agent Orange. Compare that to Canada whose tar sands are the largest industrial project on Earth, ripping open boreal forests, poisoning entire Indigenous communities with cancer, and exporting death as liquid oil to the US military.

These aren’t historical abstractions. This is happening right now. Indigenous lands make up just 20 percent of the Earth’s surface but contain over 80 percent of the planet’s remaining biodiversity. Wherever colonizers have not yet paved over the Earth, it is because the native resisted. It is because forest dwellers burned British tea plantations. Because Mi’kmaq and Mohawk blockades stopped fracking. Because the Zapatistas defended the Lacandon jungle with rifles and collective farms. Every tree still standing owes its life to a bullet fired at a settler. Every river still flowing freely owes its strength to a protest camp, a blockade, a sabotage team, a line of women refusing to move.

Climate change is not a universal failure. It is a class war. The richest 10 percent of the world emit more than half of global carbon. The poorest 50 percent emit barely 10 percent. And when you break it down by state, the divide becomes even clearer. The United States, with less than 5 percent of the world’s population, is responsible for over 25 percent of historical carbon emissions. Canada has the highest per capita emissions of any G7 country. Australia continues to subsidize coal. These are not “developing nations.” These are settler colonies whose entire wealth was built on genocide and environmental plunder. And when climate disaster hits, they blame the Global South. They tell Bangladeshis to stop having children. They tell Congolese miners to recycle. They lecture the Saami for hunting reindeer while flying private jets to COP summits. They hoard vaccines. They hoard water. They hoard food. And they build walls when the climate refugees come.

Settler colonialism is not a past event. It is an ongoing system. The US and Canada are still occupying native land. Australia is still built on aboriginal genocide. Palestine is still being stolen and paved over. The Israeli state uproots olive trees, poisons wells, dumps waste in Bedouin villages. The West Bank is being turned into a settler suburb. Gaza is bombed so often that its aquifer has collapsed. That is settler ecology. Wherever the settler goes, the land dies.

There is no green capitalism. There is no eco-friendly settlerism. Every lithium mine, every hydro dam, every wind turbine built on Indigenous land without consent is still settler plunder. Climate solutions that do not center decolonization are greenwashed genocide. This is why Indigenous nations from Turtle Island to Abya Yala to Africa to Southeast Asia have said again and again: no climate justice without land back. No just transition without the destruction of settler capitalism. This is not a metaphor. It is the only path forward. The Earth does not need more white saviors with NGOs. It needs the end of private property. It needs the return of stolen land. It needs the death of the settler state.

If you want to save the planet, pick a side. You can’t stand with the Earth and with Exxon. You can’t stand with biodiversity and with the police who guard the pipelines. You can’t claim to love nature while treating its defenders as criminals. Because they are being hunted. Indigenous environmental defenders are being assassinated in record numbers. In the Philippines. In Colombia. In Brazil. In Honduras. Killed for saying no to the settler. And the same people who cry over melting ice caps say nothing. The same people who perform liberal concern about the climate fund the NGOs that sell out the jungle to carbon offset companies. There is no neutral ground. There is no middle path. The Earth is burning. And the settler poured the gasoline.

This is the reality. The planet’s destruction is not a shared human project. It is a system imposed by a violent few onto the rest of us. It is a system enforced by bombs, banks, and borders. The solution is not moderation. The solution is not electric cars. The solution is not more technocrats with green ties. The solution is revolution. Land back. Water back. Forest back. Dismantle the settler colony. Abolish the system that rapes the Earth. The native is not the enemy. The native is the last defense. The settler must go.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Members of an Indigenous advisory committee at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet say they're cutting ties with the organization after seven years. The Indigenous advisory circle — comprising lawyer Danielle Morrison, two-spirit elder Albert McLeod and University of Winnipeg professor Kevin Lamoureaux — resigned en masse along with a board member via letter on Friday afternoon. The advisory circle, formed in 2018, was intended to make Canada's oldest ballet company "a more equitable, diverse and inclusive organization," the ballet's website says.

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[sussybakaboiwonder]

Fine ass Onycha bro🔥🔥 half Spanish & half Apache… she got the tiggo bitties !!! I don’t mind she look like Wiz Khalifa too LOL

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[humanrightsconnected]

It’s Indigenous People's Day! As we honor this significant day, learn about 14 influential Native American figures 👇!