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Tag: Indigenous Thought

  • A locally grown solution for period poverty

    The award for the most comically dissonant image goes to: …visual juxtaposition aside. This is really promising. Sisal is an invasive plant in rural Kenya, where it is often planted as livestock fencing and feedstock. It doesn’t require fertilizer, and its leaves can be harvested all year long over a five- to seven-year span. Odundo…

  • Today the family marched to protect the Treaty…

    … gonna be a long 3 years. 1st day or parliament and first protest. National Māori Action Day – Te Pāti Māori protests in pictures https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/503939/national-maori-action-day-te-pati-maori-protests-in-pictures ✊🏻✊🏾 For the record: we’re white AF.

  • The Park Where Conservation and Indigenous Rights Go Hand in Hand

    National parks have historically been portrayed — and managed — as pristine, unpeopled landscapes. Peru’s Cordillera Azul offers another way.

  • Tribes in Maine Spent Decades Fighting to Rebury Ancestral Remains. Harvard Resisted Them at Nearly Every Turn.

    The Wabanaki tribal nations — an alliance of the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet and Mi’kmaq — wanted to rebury the ancestral remains. But Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology said, as it had in past years, that the tribes didn’t have enough evidence to show that they could be tied, through culture or lineage, to…

  • A culture war? Te ao Māori is ready

    If the new government and its supporters think winning an election is enough, they haven’t watched politics for the last few decades. Winning an election is the price one pays to play. Maintaining the electorate’s trust, confidence, and support is entirely different and discomforting. Complexity and inexplicability increase, and intractability and paradox play into every…