Haida Nation Gets Land Back in Historic Agreement
An historic moment was marked on Monday in British Columbia as the Big Tide Haida Title Lands Agreement was officially signed. This agreement is huge, and precedent setting, as it formally recognizes that the H
https://thetypescript.com/haida-nation-gets-land-back-in-historic-agreement/
#Commentary #FirstPerson #IndigenousAffairs #canada #CanadianPolitics #FirstNations #HaidaGwaii #HaidaNation #indigenous #IndigenousNations #JustinTrudeau

[Video] #AskomiwKsanaqak (Forever Dangerous) – #IndigenousNations Resist #NuclearColonialism

Nov 20, 2024

"Indigenous nations and communities continue to express their opposition to nuclear energy and radioactive waste. The Passamaquoddy Recognition Group (PRGI) and the CEDAR project at St. Thomas University in New Brunswick, Canada, co-produced a report and this video to amplify these Indigenous voices. Featuring Chief #HughAkagi, Chief #RonTremblay and Councillor #PeytonPitawanakwat."

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i7XtIGFqyY

The report is available here: https://cedar-project.org/indigenous
#NuclearWaste #NuclearWasteStorage #NoNukes #WaterIsLife #LandIsLife #WolastoqGrandCouncil #NuclearPowerPlants #NoNukes #PeskotomuhkatiNation #PassamaquoddyNation #CEDARProject #Radioactivity #Pollution #RadioactivePollutionKills
#IndigenousNationsResistNuclearColonialism

Event: Religion and Democratic Ideals: Rematriation, Land, and Healing

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2024, 6 – 7:30PM
This event is free and open to the public.
A liberal democracy should produce societies that are inclusive, equitable, dynamic, and responsive to the needs of citizens. This se

https://husseinrashid.com/2024/10/event-religion-and-democratic-ideals-rematriation-land-and-healing.html

#Events #Politics #Religion #democracy #FirstNations #indigeneity #IndigenousNations #politics

#Texas county sidelines #librarians, reclassifies book on abuse of #NativeAmericans as "fiction"

Judd Legum
Oct 14, 2024

"A Texas county has mandated public libraries move a well-regarded children's book documenting the mistreatment of Native Americans in #NewEngland — #Colonization and the #Wampanoag Story — from the 'non-fiction' section to 'fiction.' The decision was made after the government of #MontgomeryCountyTexas, under pressure from #RightWing activists, removed librarians from the process of reviewing #ChildrensBooks and replaced them with a 'Citizens Review Committee.' Colonization and the Wampanoag Story was 'challenged' by an unknown person on September 10, 2024. The Committee responded by ordering that the book be moved to the fiction section of public libraries in Montgomery County by October 17, 2024, according to public records obtained by the #TexasFreedomToReadProject shared with Popular Information.

"The author of Colonization and the Wampanoag Story is #LindaCoombs, a 'historian from the #WampanoagTribe.' Coombs spent three decades working at the #WampanoagIndigenousProgram, an initiative to preserve the history of the Wampanoag people. The book is published by Penguin Random House, which describes the book as '[t]he true story of the #IndigenousNations of the American Northeast, including the Wampanoag nation and others, and their history up to present day."

"Colonization and the Wampanoag Story tells the real story of the brutalization of the Wampanoag people by #EuropeanSettlers. An excerpt:

"'[C]ertain ship captain began kidnapping Wampanoag men and those of other tribal nations along the coast. Sailors invited them aboard their ships under the pretense of trading, then lifted anchor and sailed away. The men were prisoners, stolen from their families and homes.

"'They were taken to #England and #Spain to be sold into slavery and paraded through the streets as "novelties," something for the people of Europe to gawk at as curiosities — not as human beings. Imagine how these men must of felt when they realized their situation: they would never see their children, parents, wives, relatives or communities and homelands again. What a terrible shock for all their families when they realized their men were gone — just disappeared forever.'

"This is fact, not fiction."

Read more:
https://popular.info/p/texas-county-sidelines-librarians

#IndigenousPeoplesDay #Colonization #Censorship #Fascism #IndigenousHistory #TruthAndReconciliation vs #LiesAndDenial

Join our next #UNIGISTalk on 15 Feb 2024, online. We will take a look at #AMAZONGISNET and how #GIS is used by #indigenousnations in Latin America - with Richard Resl and Leo Zurita from UNIGIS América Latina.

Register here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6471385029067182167?source=mastodon

#geoinformation #geoinformatics #gis #communidadsig #indigenousnations #amazon #amazonas

Just Released: "Mining the Sacred: #IndigenousNations Fight #Lithium Gold Rush at #ThackerPass

Watch now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLO7ClVtlBA

"#Cree Journalist Brandi Morin said, 'We are taking back the narrative and this story about North America’s largest lithium mine being constructed while violating sacred Indigenous territories is told from the Native perspective. The 'green' energy revolution isn’t what you think it is!'

IndigiNews Media and The Real News, September 12, 2023

Go watch! @IndigiNewsMedia @TheRealNews @ricochet_en

"Follow Native journalist Brandi Morin, who came from Canada, and covered this powerful story.

"In Nevada’s remote Thacker Pass, a fight for our future is playing out between local #Indigenous tribes and powerful state and #corporate entities hellbent on mining the lithium beneath their land. Vancouver-based Lithium Americas is developing a massive lithium mine at Thacker Pass, but for more than two years several local tribes and #environmental organizations have tried to block or delay the mine in the courts and through direct action.

"The Thacker Pass Project is backed by the Biden administration, and companies like General Motors have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the project, looking to capitalize on the transition to a 'green energy economy,' for which lithium is essential. While it is a vital component in the manufacturing of electric vehicles and batteries, though, there’s nothing “green” about mining lithium. Ending our addiction to fossil fuels is urgently necessary, but the struggle of the local tribes around Thacker Pass reveals the dark side of a 'green revolution' that prioritizes profit and consumption over everything (and everyone) else."

-- Mining the Sacred

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/09/just-released-mining-sacred-indigenous.html

#IndigenousNews #LithiumMining #IndigenousRights #Greenwashing #Pauite #ProtectThackerPass #EnvironmentalRacism

“As we replace #FossilFuels with #RenewableEnergy , we have a big question to answer: will we show respect for #IndigenousNations by honoring their authority to determine what happens to their #SacredLands , or will we permit the same tactics the #FossilFuelIndustry has employed for generations to sully our transition to lithium-based green technology?”

— Lakota Law #StandingRock Organizer Phyllis Young

4/20

PROTECT THACKER PASS

#ThackerPass, or Peehee mu'huh, the site of the largest #lithium deposit in the #UnitedStates, anticipated to produce 25 percent of global lithium in the near term.

We stand at a #crossroads. As we press forward to replace #FossilFuels with #RenewableEnergy, we must answer a question: will we show respect for #IndigenousNations by honoring their right to self-determination and #land possession,

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#Gilakasla - #Welcome 🦅
#AlertBay has a boardwalk along #waterfront with 5 #roofed #lookouts - called #awakwas - each has a #painted #carving overhead that represents a #Namgis ancestor.

#Kwakwaakaawakw #NamgisNation #NamgisTerritory #BCCoast #PNW #CormorantIsland #BCFirstNations #IndigenousEducation #IndigenousNations #IndigenousSovereignty #NativeLanguages #BCNorthIslands

#DayOfMourning live now. #ThanksTaking not #ThanksGiving Fight #Racism Fight #SettlerColonialism #IndigenousNations lead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VZpy2GhNxc

#StoryOfLand: #IndigenousNations and #ChildrensRights orgs say overturning #ICWA leads to the loss of future generations of Native children to #PredatoryAdoption and abusive social work practices by the adoption industry and their #RightWing allies. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/icwa-supreme-court-libretti-custody-case/

Interesting piece on the emptiness of the claims to British sovereignty over New Zealand. So many gaps in the story. Similar arguments can be made in Australia. #auslaw #lawtoots #IndigenousNations

https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/claire-charters-the-myth-of-sovereignty/