“I think we want to keep every game as close as we can and try and put some pressure on some of these top teams. And hopefully come out with some more wins.”
#firstnations
“I jumped up on her back before she did the same to me, and grabbed her by the shoulders, put my knee in her back, and took her down. We hit the ground hard, me on top of her. And that was that.”
Native American coastal village with shellwork mounds, Turner River, what-is-now Florida
@ajsadauskas Last year there were 65,000 people attending Yabun. In my estimate, this year had even more people.
Truly massive crowd.
Some more background about the festival from the organisers:
"Yabun, “music to a beat” in the Gadigal language, is one of the most significant cultural gatherings on the national calendar. As the largest and most powerful community-led celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture in Australia, Yabun brings First Nations people and allies together to honour history, acknowledge loss, and celebrate the ongoing survival, strength, and excellence of First Nations Peoples. The festival showcases the depth, diversity and vibrancy of First Nations Culture through a full day of traditional and contemporary music, dance, panel discussions, workshops, markets and community activations.
"Held annually on 26 January, Yabun offers a vital space for truth-telling, cultural expression and community connection. For many, it is a day of reflection and remembrance; for others, it is a powerful affirmation of endurance and cultural pride. For all who attend, it is an opportunity to stand in solidarity with the world’s oldest living culture.
"From its grassroots beginnings, the Yabun Festival has grown into a highly anticipated event that draws people from across Australia and beyond. Hosted in Victoria Park, Camperdown, the festival continues to expand both in scale and impact. In 2025, an estimated 65,000 people attended in person, filling the park from morning to evening, with thousands more tuning in via livestreams across the country and internationally.
"Founded in 2003 as a continuation of the early Survival Day events of the 1990s, Yabun remains 100% Aboriginal-owned and led through the Gadigal Information Service (GIS). Those early gatherings were built on a spirit of resilience and resistance, celebrating the survival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and cultures and honouring the Elders, activists and community members who fought and continue to fight for justice, equality and self-determination. Yabun carries that legacy forward, ensuring these stories, voices and histories remain central to the national conversation.
"Gadigal Information Service (GIS) is a prominent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts, media and cultural organisation based in Redfern, Sydney. Established in 1993, GIS is home to Koori Radio, which broadcasts 24/7 across Greater Sydney on 93.7FM, simulcasts on DAB+, and streams live globally. Through music, storytelling, news, language and community programming, GIS amplifies First Nations voices and perspectives every day."
https://yabun.org.au/
Some more info about GIS, and donation info here: https://www.gadigalinformation.com.au/
#auspol #Sydney #NSW #Australia #Aboriginal #SurvivalDay #FirstNations
Another massive turnout for the annual Yabun Festival Survival Day event in Sydney this year: https://yabun.org.au/
Over 65,000 attended last year, and the crowd was even bigger this year, in my estimate.
#firstNations #Aboriginal #Sydney #Australia
Over 65,000 attended last year, and the crowd was even bigger this year, in my estimate.
#firstNations #Aboriginal #Sydney #Australia
The Shillingsworth family, of the Budjiti and Murrawarri peoples, at the Hyde park rally.
Photograph: Audrey Richardson/Getty Images
i just get so irritated at this kind of journalism...
Today is January 26 – usually the time for a debate about celebrating Australia Day. Is it racist? Is Australia racist?
such morally-bankrupt both-sidesism is akin to writing comparable bullshit like
is climate-change real?
or
is the earth really not flat?
etc.
smh.com.au/politics/federal/ri…
#AusPol #TheVoice #iVotedYes #FsckenStrayaVotedNo #Racism #VotedNoGetKarmaComebackYouRedneckRacists #Misanthropy #FirstNations #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #InvasionDay
"#JulianBraveNoisecat’s debut memoir, #WeSurvivedTheNight [...] begins with an act of literary resistance in the face of colonial erasure. NoiseCat’s father was born and then abandoned as an infant at St Joseph’s Mission, an Indian boarding school in Canada now known to be the site of generations of systemic state violence against #Indigenous children and their families."
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/julian-brave-noisecat-memoir-sugarcane-leila-nadir-interview/
#FirstNations #NativeAmericans #oralTraditions #coyoteStories #memoirs #books @bookstodon
![Tricksters and the Spirit World
Julian Brave NoiseCat discusses ‘We Survived the Night,’ his genre-bending revival of the ‘Coyote epic,’ with Leila Nadir.
By Leila NadirJanuary 24, 2026
[tags] CULTURAL STUDIES ENVIRONMENT
image: photo of author and cinéaste Julian Brave Noisecat](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/115/956/059/838/229/162/original/53b715f43e9d0615.png)
Damn the global pillage
so listening to Global village
#firstnations theme songs for long weekend / Jan 26th
https://www.pbsfm.org.au/program/global-village
Via #GlobalNews - Jan 23, 2026
A trio of #Alberta #FirstNations have applied 4 judicial review of decision by #ElectionsAlberta 2 approve a petition on the province’s #separation from #Canada
In an application filed in the Court of King’s Bench in #Edmonton Wednesday, the #Siksika Nation, #Piikani Nation and #BloodTribes r asking that the #CitizensPetitionAct, under which the province’s #ChiefElectoralOfficer allowed the petition 2 proceed, b declared #unconstitutional
Updates for the Survival Day Rally in #KaurnaYarta #adelaide #SouthAus please pass on to your networks and anyone who's planning to go, so we can best look after each other on the day!
Follow Natasha Wanganeen's official updates on the Facebook event: https://m.facebook.com/events/827847622938495/
#survivalday #invasionday #jan26 #Aboriginal #FirstNations #torresstraitislander #australiaday #decolonisation
(Note: Wiradjuri are known as the people of the three rivers: the Galari (the Lachlan River), Wambuul (the Macquarie River) and Marrambidya (the Murrumbidgee River)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-25/windradyne-troy-cassar-daley/106254264
fair-minded nations
we certainly are not of that description. how could we so completely self-delude, given we:
- continue to murder #FirstNations people fast via #DeathsInCustody, & slowly via ongoing structural racist bias against them
- voted against #TheVoice
- vote, election after election, for parties that run offshore murder & rape concentration camps
- support the genocidal criminal state of israel
- continue to allow dickswingers to rape &/or murder women at extraordinary rates, then continue to structurally fail DV & rape survivors
- continue to allow skyfairydelusionalism to prevail over the rights of #LGBTQIA people
- continue to structurally favour gross private-profiteering investors over housing rights for citizens
- vote, election after election, for parties that continue to support fossilfools over climate & biodiversity
- yada yada
it's pathetic... straya is pathetic... most strayans are pathetic.
#AusPol #WhyTheFuckIsLabor #HahahahaLiebs #NatsAreNuts #GreensYEAH #VoteGreens #VoteProgIndies #WeAreSelfishCruelBastards #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy
Travel advisory issued by AFN for those going to the U.S.
#Indigenous #FirstNations #travel
https://www.windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/travel-advisory-issued-afn-those-going-us
Aerial view of Pueblo Bonito, a ~12th century AD indigenous settlement in what-is-now New Mexico, USA
First Nations chiefs demand answers over Alberta pipeline deal that doesn't mention water
Some First Nations chiefs are demanding answers from Ottawa after the federal government signed a pipeline agreement with Alberta that failed to make any mention of water consumption.
#FirstNations #pipeline #government #water #Alberta
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/first-nations-water-oilsands-9.7057845?cmp=rss
Winnipeg emergency shelter's director reflects on Dr. Barry Lavallee's legacy
Jamil Mahmood, executive director of Winnipeg's Main Street Project, speaks about the impact Dr. Barry Lavallee had at the organization. Lavallee was known for his efforts to improve health care for First Nations and Métis people. His death was made public earlier this week.
#legacy #healthcare #FirstNations #Métis #Winnipeg
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7058938?cmp=rss
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