“Such small settlement as took place at first was for trade and not for political expansion or genuine colonisation of a new country. This was the case even in America with the London and Plymouth Companies, the Massachusetts Bay Company, and the Hudson's Bay Company,”
From Imperialism: A Study by John A. Hobson
Still going through this book and thought the mention of “Hudson’s Bay” was interesting.
📖 **The Jew Who Would Be King: A True Story of Shipwreck, Survival, and Scandal in Victorian Africa**
🔗 https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/adam-laurence-rovner/the-jew-who-would-be-king/.
#BookReview #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon #History #Biography #Colonisation #Colonization #Empire #Imperialism #Africa #Slavery @bookstodon
#Arizona - Skoden Coffee & Tea combines traditional #NativeAmericanCuisine with #activism
by Anna Ehrick, April 22, 2025
PHOENIX – "For Indigenous small business owner Natasha John, the road to owning a coffee shop has been long. About 300 miles, in fact.
"John first opened Skoden Coffee & Tea as a pop-up in Window Rock, the capital of the Navajo Nation, traveling to areas throughout the vast community in northeast Arizona.
"When people suggested she should move the business 300 miles south to Phoenix, John recalled she doubted the idea.
" 'I was really against it because I thought I wanted to be like a food hub on the reservation because it’s such a food desert,' John said. 'But I had the reassurance from my partner and colleagues that were helping me with pop-ups.'
"When an opportunity came in December 2023 to move the enterprise to a vacant spot inside For The People, an uptown #PhoenixAZ furniture store on Central Avenue, she jumped at the chance.
" 'Fortunately, we had a lot of success with that first location,' she said. 'When business owners say location means everything, it really does.'
"Skoden Coffee & Tea has now settled in its most recent home inside #CentralRecords, a record store on Central Avenue south of Roosevelt Street. It’s inspired by Japanese-style coffee shops referred to as 'kissa.'
"That’s a shortened version of 'kissaten,' roughly translated to 'tea drinking shop.' In Japan, a kissa is a spot where people can listen to music, usually jazz, while enjoying their tea.
"At Skoden, a variety of beverages and pastries are inspired by Indigenous cuisine, with ingredients like blue corn and oat milk alongside coffees and espressos. Among the most popular offerings are the Diné Matcha Latte, Honey Lavender Lez Love, Peach and Pecan Latte as well as blue corn donuts and croissants.
"For John and co-owner Jo Manuelito, it’s important to include elements of nostalgia from growing up on the reservation.
"This includes beverages that use Navajo tea, an ancient herbal tea using the dried leaves of Greenthread, also known as Thelesperma. The herb, with its thread-like leaves, contains anti-inflammatory elements, which is why the tea has been used for hundreds of years as tribal medicine.
" 'We do research into trying to restore a lot of things that were lost during #colonization in our diets,' John said.
'One thing that a lot of Navajo people are trying to revive is the use of #sumac. It’s used in a lot of #MiddleEastern communities, but our ancestors used to harvest it as well.'
"The use of ancestral ingredients is what John believes will help the #Navajo community not only nourish themselves but stay connected to their culture.
"Being #Indigenous and #LGBTQ+, John said she recognizes some of the difficulties she has faced as a business owner.
" 'I feel like there’s a lot of judgment and high expectations,' she said. 'People are constantly projecting onto us, always watching us and judging. This whole experience has taught me that we really need to grow thicker skin.'
"John said they want all customers to feel safe and welcomed, and said it helps that the shop is surrounded by other supportive small businesses like Greater Good and Last Laugh Tattoo.
"Skoden has a growing Instagram presence, with more than 15,000 followers. It hosts fundraising events for diverse communities and music festivals featuring small bands.
" 'Everybody does a good job of uplifting each other, and we get a lot of people in the area that come in and support local business owners,' John said. 'The shop can take credit for being a #SafeSpace where people can share the same values and ideas on social issues.'
"Charlie Amáyá Scott, a Native American scholar and transgender advocate, has visited Skoden and said her favorite drink is the Navajo lavender-infused honey tea.
" 'I adore Skoden Coffee,' said Scott, who also works as a social media influencer.
"She has taken to Instagram to support the shop, encouraging others who live near the area to check it out. She also has spoken out about the shop’s role in #activism and support of certain movements like #BearsEars, which involves a coalition of five Indigenous communities who want to protect the #BearsEarsNationalMonument.
"John said she wants customers to leave Skoden feeling supported and renewed.
" 'We have to remind each other what we’re doing this for and go back to those values of why we started this business,' she said. 'For us, it’s not about making money but trying to create change through serving coffee and providing a space where people can just heal.' "
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2025/04/22/indigenous-coffee-shop-offers-safe-space/
#IndigenousOwnedBusinesses #IndigenousFood #Decolonize #SupportLocalBusinesses #Arizona #NativeAmericanFood #CommunitySpaces #Healing
'While the US Declaration of Independence is mute about #conquest and #colonization, Venezuela’s independence manifesto acknowledges that the new nation was built on stolen land, conquered through bloodshed. The word “society” appears 15 times in the Venezuelan Constitution, Grandin notes, while the US Constitution doesn’t mention it once.'
review of #GregGrandin's #AmericaAmérica: A New #History of the New World
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-dialectic-lurking-behind-the-brutality/
This is what colonisation look like;
"Rafah has also been the site of several documented massacres, including the first responders massacre in the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood in late March, when the Israeli army opened fire on and executed 15 paramedics and rescue workers from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society and the Gaza Civil Defense."
#TareqSHajjaj, 2025
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Today I was reminded that many of the beauty standards in the West are rooted in racism and pedophilia 😞 #beauty #health #racism #psychology #history #colonization #psychiatry #BlackMastodon #RepresentationMatters
Some humans dream of starting human colonies on other planets, but what if those distant worlds have native life? Big Think's Ethan Siegel looks at the ethics of such colonization, laws that would apply in space as much as on Earth, the relevance of the "Star Trek" universe's "prime directive," and more. "Our ignorance is so great — and there are so many who value both fundamental knowledge and the personal safety of themselves and others so cheaply — that I frequently fear that it will be the most reckless among us, rather than those among us who carefully consider and scrupulously reckon with these issues, who will ultimately be the first to engage in genuine colonization efforts," he cautions.
#Philosophy #Ethics #Colonization #Space #SpaceTravel #StarTrek
National Park Origins—Part 2:
National Parks in the U.S. originated in the context of Manifest Destiny. They became symbols of national progress, reinforced by art depicting western expansion, but their history is also marked by conquest and exclusion of Native Americans, displacing them from #sacred lands.
#NationalParks #ManifestDestiny #NativeAmericans #racism #Christianity #Animism #colonization #artists #ThomasMoran #JohnGast #Yellowstone
France demanded to pay slavery reparations to Haiti — MercoPress
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/04/18/france-demanded-to-pay-slavery-reparations-to-haiti
There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Following the Equator, ch. 21 (1897)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/twain-mark/3920/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #brutality #colonization #cruelty #delusion #humanity #race #racism #savage #savagery #selfawareness
#Capitalist #Colonial societies are built upon ever-growing mountains of death, blood & ash.
#Disabled #Indigenous #Latina family raising to survive death imposed by the very #colonization those with luxuries benefit from.
Prior to eviction, #SabiLewSounds, who's disabled, could take commissions, work on album, two #YT channels, #Twitch, radio streams, freelance, blogging, #advocacy for #Disability & #MentalHealth.
Sabi, elderly mom & ESA bun are disabled Latina family, sheltering in hotel
They're exposed to threats of death imposed by #colonization that those with luxuries benefit from
The road to hell is paved with apathy & inaction
$190 Past Due Hotel
$1024 Covers all Bills
$1274 All Needs
Kofi/PP SabiLewSounds
CA/VM toadlyturtle [Note: Sabi]
#VoicesOfDecolonization - #Wabanaki #Sustenance and #SelfDetermination
by Jillian Kerr, 7 November 2024
"Before #colonization, the Wabanaki region was rich in food; Wabanaki Tribes had excellent knowledge of their environment and knew where to find each resource, when it was abundant, and in what quantities. They utilized natural resources and foods respectfully, creating little or no waste. This sustainable approach to food and natural resources made the Wabanaki among the healthiest people in the world. However, the arrival of Europeans disrupted this harmony, forcing the Wabanaki out of their homelands. Europeans imposed a different understanding of nature and harvesting, which led to unhealthy and unsustainable practices. The Wabanaki continue to strive for the restoration of their traditional foodways as a way to practice #FoodSovereignty.
"To develop food sovereignty and economic stability, the #Mikmaq Nation in Aroostook County constructed an indoor fish hatchery on the site of Micmac Farms in Caribou, Maine. This farm, which previously only grew and sold fresh or preserved fruits and vegetables, now receives Nesowadnehunk Brook Trout eggs from the Maine State Hatchery in Enfield, Maine. The grown fish are then sold back to Maine’s Soil and Water Conservation District for public consumption throughout the state. In addition, they generously donate food to the local food bank and provide discounts for Tribal members, demonstrating a sustainable model for food sovereignty for the Mi’kmaq Nation.
"The Houlton Band of #Maliseet Indians launched a food sovereignty initiative to increase access to nutritious food, improve food sovereignty, and strengthen connections to Wabanaki culture by sharing traditional food production, storage, and preparation approaches. The lessons learned add to current knowledge about developing, implementing, and evaluating a model rooted in the principles of food sovereignty. Opportunities to learn and share knowledge about traditional storage and recipes are provided to community members, and existing partnerships have been leveraged to develop a sustainable model. Additional community gardens were also created to increase food production capacity, increasing food sovereignty for the Maliseet.
"One way the #Passamaquoddy Tribe fights for food sovereignty is by restoring the watershed of the Skutik River, which was renamed the St. Croix River by colonists. The Skutik River is at the heart of the ancestral home of the Passamaquoddy Tribe.. This crucial watershed is the natural spawning ground and ancient homeland for many species of sea-run fish, including Atlantic salmon and sea-run alewife (river herring), a vital food source. Historically, the number of fish swimming up the Skutik River was massive and sustained the Passamaquoddy for thousands of years. Yet now, the alewife population is too small to feed or sustain the Tribe.
"The large amount of pollution produced by colonization upset the productivity and natural balance of the Skutik River and the life cycles of the native fishery, straining the river’s ecosystem. For many years, Maine law blocked sea-run alewives from accessing their natural and ancient spawning ground in the Skutik watershed, which diminished this important traditional sustenance food source and disturbed the cultural practices of Passamaquoddy Tribal members. The Passamaquoddy established the Skutik Watershed Strategic Sea-run Fish and River Restoration Plan to mitigate the damage and find a better way forward. They developed a collaborative of Skutik stewards, also known as the Skutik River Keepers, who work with various agencies to give the river the best chance at restoring the watershed, thereby giving the Passamaquoddy more access to traditional foods and strengthening their food sovereignty.
"The #PenobscotNation fights for food sovereignty in various ways, including rebuilding outlets on Tribal trust lands. The Penobscot ancestral homeland is located within the drainage area of the Penobscot River and its many tributaries, lakes, and ponds. The area was the fishing place for spearing and netting fish, like salmon and alewives. It was a primary nourishing source of food, medicine, connection, joy, and spirituality for the Penobscot during spring and early summer. The mills and mill dams built by colonizers upset the river's natural ecosystem, cutting off fish from places required to complete their life cycle. As a result, the river no longer contained the fish that had historically fed the Penobscot Tribe. The Penobscot successfully rebuilt outlets on Tribal trust lands in Mattamiscontis Stream, and they have completed many stream connectivity projects. This resulted in growing populations of alewives and blueback herring in the newly restored system, making more fish available as a food source for the Tribe.
"The land is a cornerstone of Native life. Before colonization, Wabanaki Tribes had developed an environmentally friendly and communal food system to protect the land and environment, using natural resources without harming the environment that provided bountiful food sources. However, centuries of colonization have separated the Wabanaki and other Native communities from their homelands and traditional foods. Natives were physically, culturally, and spiritually tied to their homelands, and forced relocation into unknown lands made it impossible to access traditional foods and harvest adequate nutrition from the land for survival. The lack of knowledge of unknown lands led to a dependence on government-issued rations and commodities. These rations and commodities consisted of dairy, processed wheat, sugars, etc., all foreign to the Native diet. The government's aim in providing these rations and commodities to Natives was not to provide nutrition but to prevent starvation.
"#ForcedRelocation and other federal policies devastated many Tribes’ food systems, disrupting their hunting, fishing, farming, and harvesting traditions. The disruption continues today as the federal government still decides what foods they will distribute to Native communities. The government also makes agreements with the producers, a system that favors large-scale vendors, leading to missed opportunities for Native farmers. Problems with food quality also still exist; many traditional foods are still unavailable, and it is not uncommon for produce to travel long distances and arrive spoiled. Despite this upheaval, the Wabanaki have shown remarkable resilience and are determined to restore their traditional food practices and reclaim their food sovereignty."
Source [includes references]:
https://www.wabanakireach.org/wabanaki_sustenance_and_self_determination_by_jillian_kerr
#WabanakiConfederacy #MaineFirstNations #LandBack #sovereignty #Wabanakik #WabanakiAlliance #Decolonize
I didn't get the advance Signal but, to the point: Why the F is the US committing bombing atrocities in #Yemen?! #abrahamAccord. It's the strategic weapons alliance responsible for the ongoing #holocaust and the blunting of any and all action to stop it. It is the US/Saudi/Israeli/Emirates, its lead-up to sparking #nuclearWar to crush Iran, for each alliance member's own reasons. The entire #genocide in occupied #Palestine and its neighbors; the "clearing" of all that strategic annoyance with all its ancient civilizations and stuff is proof-of-concept, world-rebuilding by the empire. It needs to be stopped. Start the stopping.
#gaza #war #colonization #decolonize #ZionismIsAntisemitism #warCrimes #crimesAgainstHumanity #ICC #romeStatute
https://scheerpost.com/2025/04/14/six-reported-killed-by-us-bombing-of-factory-in-yemens-sanaa/
Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, 7) by James S. A. Corey (EPUB)
Author: Goodreads Best Books of the Month 2017
File Type: EPUB
Download at https://sci-books.com/persepolis-rising-the-expanse-7-732e8f2b2f/
#Colonization, #GoodreadsBestBooksoftheMonth2017|JamesS.A.Corey
i love this
"I hope the folks Down Under will come to understand that Kriol is one of their national treasures just as Black English is one of ours."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/opinion/language-kriol-australia.html
#language #linguistics #colonization #english #evolution #ebonics #kriol #australia #unitedstates
Eritrea, located on the Red Sea coast of the Horn of Africa, was the ‘firstborn’ colony of Italy. #History #Africa #Colonization #Eritrea #HornOfAfrica #ItalianEritrea #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2695-en/
I made more #zine copies for tonight’s #BIPOC #LGBTQ arts event.
If you want to buy one and support my local LGBTQ Youth org go here:
https://www.brownreclusezinedistro.com/shop/p/ancestors-of-the-rainbow
If you want the free PDF go here:
https://shotgunseamstress.blogspot.com
“Ancestors of the Rainbow: A Spectrum of Gender Before Colonization”
#zines #ZinesByOsa #nonbinary #twospirit #LGBTQ2S #gender #trans #transgender #decolonize #colonization
Inside El Salvador's Prisons, Where Trump Is Sending Deported Migrants
Exposé of Trump & Rubio's #ElSalvador #torture #prison to which random US-residents of Nicaraguan heritage were sent after being kidnapped by Kristi Noem's #ICE thugs, making every citizen of the US and the world FAR less safe & secure by eliminating due process and implementing summary, extralegal/wrongful #imprisonment. Documented by Noah Bullock, Executive Director of #Cristosal, a #humanRights organization based in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
#authoritarianism #colonization #humanTrafficking #slavery #crimesAgainstHumanity #habeuscorpus #DHS #stateTerror #romeStatute #constitution #ICC #humanSecurity #prisonState #rendition #kidnapping #Sturmabteilung #deportations #refugees #roundups
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/20/trump-deportations-el-salvador-prisons-bukele-human-rights/
I have spent the last 2 years focusing on waste management, especially that of Electronic Waste—from the mining of the resources to the discarding of the commodities, and while we are well aware of the pattern of disparity between the over-consumption in the Global North and overproduction in the Global Majority parts of the world, the problems largely still exists. Who to blame, somebody is surely making profits from this trade deal.
Anthropocene is a (Poubelle)ocene.
Certain headlines, like the one below, always make me feel disgusted, knowing that the patterns of dreadful and atrocious colonial practices are still prevalent. I am so perplexed as to what design thinking hat to put on or what circular economy principles to explain the exporting of trash to their previous colonies.
Not only that, but in a recent survey commissioned by the Repair Campaign (https://repaircampaign.org/), more than 2,000 people in the UK found that 85% did not know that more than 3 million people had been forcibly shipped from Africa to the Caribbean by British enslavers. It also found 89% were unaware British merchants had enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years.
As Dr. Shashi Tharoor has mentioned various times, "And LOOT, a Hindi word which the Britishers took into their dictionaries as well as their habit" (Link below of the talk of Dr. Shashi Tharoor - Looking Back at the British Raj in India at the University of Edinburgh)
Sources -
1. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c14jy2dd8jeo
2. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/25/most-britons-do-not-know-scale-of-uks-involvement-in-slavery-survey-finds?utm_source=instagram&utm_campaign=ig_gu
3. https://youtu.be/OB5ykS-_-CI?si=iczPAnaOR5j6E-K-&t=224
#anthropocene #recycling #hoax #india #brits #britain #british #Waste #trash #WasteManagement #colonial #colonialism #colonisation #colonization #loot #sustainable
